September 30, 2010 issue

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to reduce size by attrition

by Ciaran O’Connor THE CHRONICLE

After discussing the state of America’s allvolunteer military force, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates implored Duke students to “earn their freedom” Wednesday night.

Speaking to a packed Page Auditorium, Gates reflected on both the benefits and consequences of maintaining voluntary service in wartime, arguing that although the system has improved military performance, it has also come at an unsustainable price and placed extraordinary strain on a small sliver of society. The secretary also stressed the degree to which many Americans have become disconnected from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and asked young people to consider how they can give back to their country.

“Even after 9/11, in the absence of a draft, for a growing number of Americans, service in the military, no matter how laudable, has become something for other people to do,” he said. “Think about what you can do to earn your freedom— freedom paid for by those whose names are... in veterans’ cemeteries across this country and across the world.”

Gates, the only secretary of defense to be retained by a newly-elected president, spoke for about half an hour before taking several questions from an audience of students, faculty, media and Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets from Duke and nearby schools.

Gates’ presence resonated with the military community. Prior to delivering the Ambassador S. Davis Phillips Family

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

gle Institute for Security Studies, the Office of Global Strategy and Programs and Duke’s “A World Together” initiative.

“To us, he talked about the challenges that would face us as leaders,

Arts and Sciences will extend last year’s faculty retirement incentive offer in its attempt to reduce faculty size.

The Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is looking to further shrink the size of its faculty to combat projected budgetary deficits for fiscal years 20112012 and 2012-2013, Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and dean of Trinity College, announced at the Arts and Sciences Council Alvin Crumbliss meeting Sept. 16.

The University will supplement retirement packages of professors who commit to retire by June 30, 2012 with money from the University’s central fund. Professors who meet the Rule of 75—their age and years of work sum to 75—are eligible to individually negotiate retirement packages with academic deans.

Provost Peter Lange said this year will “almost certainly” be the last Duke offers these incentives, though it is unclear when faculty members must decide

See gates on page 6

See faculty on page 6

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke in Page Auditorium Wednesday about a growing sense of separation between most American citizens and military service.

International Lecture, Gates spoke to the ROTC units separately in the Bryan Center, said Peter Feaver, professor of political science.

The American Grand Strategy Program, for which Feaver serves as director, sponsored the event along with the Trian-

House model to Conversations canceled for the year level field for independents

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

by Maggie Love THE CHRONICLE

With the transition to the house model on West Campus set for Fall 2012, administrators have announced additional details concerning the way the system will affect residence life.

The new housing model seeks to accommodate students who are not members of fraternities or selective living groups in order to offer independents the same privileges other groups currently have. The house model will replace the University’s current quad model.

The houses will contain 40 to 120 people, said Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education. Under the new model, students will have the option to return to the same community their junior and senior years, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said.

See housing on page 6

Scientists publish theory on cell division, Page 3

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Administrators canceled Duke Conversations this year, after the expensive program did not fulfill its goals last academic year.

After a series of reforms that took place last year, one University program has been silenced for the academic year.

Duke Conversations, a program that began in 2005, allowed students to bring guest speakers to campus to host dinners and lead discussions on a chosen topic.

But the program was not fulfilling all of its original goals last year, which led administrators to cancel the program, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education.

The future of the program is unknown, he added.

“It was a lot of money; it just wasn’t doing what it was hoped to originally accomplish,” Nowicki said. “It was an experiment that wasn’t working the way we wanted it to.”

Nowicki said he consulted President Richard Brodhead— who helped start the program—and Chris Roby, director of the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, in deciding to cancel the program.

This is not the first time administrators have called for a change to the Duke Conversations program.

In 2008, Nowicki convened a review committee to examine the program, which found that a small number of

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“The same people get called on over and over again and some freshmen can’t speak.”

­—DSG VP for Student Affairs Gurdane Bhutani. See story page 4

See conversationson page 5

Freshmen negotiate the switch to college life, Page 3

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“The overwhelming excitement in the Chicago Bears’ last-second victory over the Packers on Monday night overshadowed one of the biggest milestones in the history of Duke football’s alumni. 13-year NFL veteran Patrick Mannelly, a sixth-round pick in 1997, performed long snapping duties in his record-setting 192nd game in a Bears uniform. Mannelly eclipsed Steve McMichael’s record of 191, set in 1993. ’” — From The Chronicle’s Sports Blog sports.chronicleblogs.com

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Correction

Yesterday’s article “Group discusses attendance policy, upcoming events” incorrectly stated that Kenny Carr and the Tigers was a folk international band that will perform Oct. 8. The band is actually a high-energy shout band, and will open for the Brooklyn-based band Dirty Projectors Oct. 5. The Chronicle regrets the error.

US Postal Service to announce large losses

Obama signs sanctions against Iranian officials

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans can still send and receive mail, but the U.S. Postal Service might not have much left in the bank after this week, as it’s set to announce billions of dollars in losses as early as Thursday.

It’s also waiting for postal regulators to announce Thursday whether they approve of a proposed 5.6 percent postage-rate increase, to start in January. The proposed increase faces stiff resistance from business groups and lawmakers, who say that the USPS should instead make deeper spending cuts to meet its financial obligations.

GOP opposition kept Congress from permitting the Postal Service to postpone paying $5.5 billion required by law to prefund retiree health benefits. A temporary spending measure to fund most federal programs through early December didn’t mention the Postal Service.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new executive order signed by President Barack Obama imposes sanctions on eight Iranian officials deemed responsible for serious human rights abuses, including the killing, torture, beating and rape of Iranian citizens since the country’s disputed 2009 presidential election, administration officials said Wednesday.

Obama signed the order Tuesday, using a new legal tool that allows for individual sanctions on Iranian officials involved in human rights abuses, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. The Iran Sanctions Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010 “permits us to impose financial sanctions and deny U.S. visas to specific Iranian officials where there is credible evidence against them,” she told reporters.

The move marks the first time that the Obama administration has levied sanctions against Iran for human rights abuses.

Correction

The story “Event examines Jewish views on sex during Sukkot holiday” incorrectly reported that the Sukkah originates in the Talmud. Sukkah actually comes from the Torah. The article also should have clarified in addressing premarital sex that all sex outside of marriage is explicitly forbidden. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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Freshmen face different levels Study identifies of adjustment to college life switch to begin

by Xuan Duong THE CHRONICLE

As students finish the first month of the school year, upperclassmen might begin to reflect on what the return to Duke means to them. For more than one-fourth of the undergraduate population, however, the first month of college marks an adjustment period to an unfamiliar environment.

Many University resources, including the Student Affairs office, are focused on ensuring that freshmen transition smoothly into college life. Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said she has seen through her experiences working with freshmen that many students in recent years have found adjusting to the social scene to be the most challenging. She added that part of the concern voiced is related to the college drinking culture and the pressures it places on students.

“Students that come to Duke fairly well-grounded in their values and the ethical part of their lives come here and find that they’re somewhat influenced to shift away from their values by peer pressure,” Wasiolek said.

While some first-years admit that a few peers go to extremes when faced with their sudden liberation, many freshmen said they did not feel this was a class-specific issue.

“It’s not a question of whether you’re a freshman or an upperclassman, but just a basis of how much self-control you have,” said freshman Wahab Sheikh. “Self-control won’t grow substantially in four years.”

Gary Glass, assistant director for outreach and developmental programming for the Counseling and Psychological Services office, said one of the most common issues CAPS counselors encounter is students striving to find their niche in a social group after the shuffle at the beginning of the year.

“I often hear the comparison to the game ‘musical chairs,’ with the sense that the groups have already been formed at a certain point in the Fall semester,” he said.

“Also, early in the Spring semester, a lot of women students seem to struggle with a sense of rejection and loss of confidence related to their experience in Panhellenic recruitment.”

See freshmen on page 5

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Many freshmen have trouble adjusting to the freedom and responsibility of living away from home on a college campus.

cell division

by Melissa Dalis THE CHRONICLE

A team of scientists, including several from Duke, published a research article Sept. 21 in the Public Library of Science Biology about the control of cell division in mammals, which could have significant impacts on future cancer research.

Overall, scientists agree and mostly understand the science behind the five stages of mitosis, which is the process of cellular DNA replication and cell division, but the force driving the actual cell separation has been mostly unknown.

Until now, two conflicting theories have stood out in answering this question. The transition probability model argues cells and their behaviors are identical, and each cell has an equal probability of beginning its cell cycle at any given moment, explained lead researcher Lingchong You, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The growth control model claims that although cells are genetically identical, they each hold intrinsic differences in cell cycle starting points and rates of growth while in the cycle.

Through stochastic modeling—which incorporates random variation in cell cycle entry­—and detailed experimental tests, You and his team of researchers arrived at a conclusion that integrates both contending theories. This new mechanistically based mathematical model could potentially be useful in the future for explaining consequences of different types of genetic mutations, You said.

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Senate looks to improve, speed up legislative process

by Chinmayi Sharma THE CHRONICLE

In its meeting Wednesday night, the Duke Student Government Senate addressed several issues aimed at facilitating its duties for the rest of the year.

Among the Senate’s main concerns were changing house rules to increase legislative efficiency and discussing important issues to be covered in this year’s agenda.

To remedy the slow lawmaking process, the Senate approved a motion which makes Monday the legislative deadline to give senators ample time to question proposed laws—an integral part of the process—and offer friendly amendments prior to the Wednesday debate.

In the past, Senate agendas were distributed Wednesday afternoon, not leaving senators much time to review the documents.

Executive Vice President Pete Schork, a junior, also noted that the limits on presentations and on question and friendly amendment time will be more strictly enforced.

The Senate, however, was divided about an amendment regarding removing the precedence of seniority during debate discussion.

“The same people get called on over and over again and some freshmen can’t speak,” said Vice President for Student Affairs Gurdane Bhutani, a sophomore. “You are all senators representing your respective groups in student government, so one should not have priority over the other.”

Because of disagreement, the Senate voted to discard the amendment concerning limiting seniority. The body approved all other changes to the senatorial rules.

Most senators agreed that the inefficiency in handling resolutions is a pressing concern.

After the meeting, Isabella Dreyfuss, a newly-elected freshman senator, expressed frustration regarding the Senate’s efficiency.

“I am the kind of person that likes to take action and have things be done quickly and implemented effectively,” Dreyfuss said. “I don’t like sitting around listening to useless debate if nothing is getting done.”

The Senate proceeded to review and approve the agenda for the coming year.

Schork said the Senate must encourage more individual involvement in committees.

“You have to sit down with your vice president and chart a course for yourself for the year and adhere to evaluations,” Schork said. “The committee heads should check in on their senators as often as possible.”

The vice presidents each elaborated on their overarching goals for this year. These topics included transportation resources, dining, sustainability, fair treatment among students and education about off-campus housing.

“We hope to expand student opportunities and diversify their interests,” Bhutani said regarding the need for universal awareness of student issues.

In other business: The Senate also confirmed the at-large senators, who are now members of the body.

It also approved a budget request from the International Association for Foodfest, an event that will take place Oct. 29 that had its inception in response to the Hurricane Katrina crisis. The event is projected to have about 3,000 attendees and will be serving multicultural food with a live band.

The International Association received more than $1,700 in funding for the event.

The Senate also heard Bhutani’s presentation about the Student Health Advisory Committee Report from last academic year.

The discussion outlined changes to Student Health, especially the fact that Student Health moved under the Office of Student Affairs and that free sexually transmitted infection testing was cut over the summer. The Senate has made it its goal to bring back free testing because it has implications on the sexual health of the student body, Bhutani said.

“These are the kinds of problems DSG tackles,” said DSG President Mike Lefevre, a senior, in response to complaints from new senators about DSG’s purpose. “This is why we exist as a body.”

cell cycle from page 3 “Precise control of cell growth is critical to normal function of the human body,” Guang Yao, a member of You’s team and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbology, wrote in an e-mail. “The decision for a cell to grow or divide is controlled by an Rb-E2F gene circuit that functions as a bistable switch, as shown in our earlier paper.”

The Rb-E2F switch is a combination of a key tumor suppressor gene, Rb, and E2F, which is a transcription factor that governs the expression of genes important for cell growth.

The Rb-E2F switch pathway determines if the cell is strong enough to enter the cell cycle. When the bistable switch is turned off, the cells are not dividing, and conversely when it is on, the cell is free to begin dividing again, You said.

“These studies are central to cancer research given the role of the regulation

of the cell cycle as fundamental to normal cell proliferation,” Joseph Nevins, another member of You’s research team and director of Duke’s Center for Applied Genomics, wrote in an e-mail. “Disruption of this control is seen in virtually all human cancers.”

As a continuation to You and his team’s previous paper on bistable switches, the newly published paper took about two years for them to write, You said, adding that he will continue working on this project, but with a different team of available graduate students and postdocs.

In the future, their research will focus on “linking this Rb-E2F switch to other critical signaling pathways in the cell, and through the integrated analysis at the system level to identify potential cancer therapeutic strategies,” You said.

Duke will facilitate subsequent research projects, which will utilize and build upon these stochastic models for cell response to internal and environmental factors, particularly relating to cancer development, he added.

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Vice President for Student Affairs Gurdane Bhutani, a sophomore, argued to remove the precedence of seniority during debate at Duke Student Government’s meeting Wednesday.

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For most freshmen, their first year at Duke is also their first experience with independence. Several freshmen said their newfound self-responsibility was the hardest part of the transition to life at Duke.

“You have so much freedom,” said freshman Elizabeth Turner. “It’s hard to actually allot time for school and focus, just because there are so many activities. There’s always something to distract you.”

It can also be difficult for new college students to remember to sleep enough and eat right, said freshman Sean Miller, though he added that in accepting this responsibility, “you feel more like a real person.”

Achieving a sense of belonging at Duke is one of the most individualistic aspects of the adjustment to freshman year.

Some freshmen already feel completely acclimated to their new setting, some felt they were still in the process and others said it still had not dawned on them that they were at Duke.

“These feelings are quite normal,” Wasiolek said.

“Almost every student goes through some period of doubt that they made the right decision: ‘Is this the right place for me?’ One thing I would like to remind students of is that there are many people who are here to help them work through that. That’s one of the main goals of Student Affairs.”

But as midterms and Fall Break approach, freshmen are continuing to feel more established at Duke.

“Trying to establish that this is where I’m living, this is my home... that hasn’t really settled in yet, finding that sense of belonging,” freshman Eileen Adams said. “But I think that will come with time.”

students were inviting a large number of guests. The committee also found that students were sometimes abusing the system by inviting recent graduates.

As a result, the selection process was made more rigorous—a selection committee to review applications was created and the qualifications for applications were made more stringent, Nowicki said. “[Increasing the selectivity] proved to be really cumbersome. The number of students submitting applications was way too low,” he said. “The bar was too low, now the bar was too high.”

Although Duke Conversations cost the University about $100,000 last year—a decrease from its $150,000 cost two years ago—Nowicki said the program’s hiatus was due to its weaknesses, not because of budget cuts.

“This was definitely not a cost-cutting measure,” he said. “Did it save money? Yes, but it’s marginal savings.”

The number of conversations held last year was also down from previous years. A total of 11 conversations were held last year—six in the Fall and five in the Spring, said Deborah Hackney, OSAF assistant director for student organizations and leadership.

Two years ago, 85 conversations were held, and 40 conversations were expected to be held last academic year, The Chronicle reported last November.

Hackney noted, however, that the selection committee approved more than the 11 conversations which took place last year.

“I think when you raise the stature of who these people are, they are more busy,” Hackney said.

Hackney used Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, as an example.

Gupta’s conversation was approved last November, but orchestrating his conversation was challenging because Gupta was covering the earthquake in Haiti, Hackney said.

Hackney added that attendance at last year’s conversations was also low—especially in the Fall—with at most 15 students attending a Duke Conversations event. Attendance at Spring events increased slightly.

For senior Brooke Kingsland, who has hosted two conversations and served on last year’s selection committee, the Duke Conversations program was important because of her interest in social change. Increased publicity could have improved past conversations, she said.

“It’s a really valuable program, in terms of not just the experience of coordinating an event like that but being able to speak with people on that level,” Kingsland said.

Moving forward, Nowicki said he will involve students in the discussion of Duke Conversations’ future. He noted that he has not heard a lot of student outcry about the elimination of the program for the year.

Michael Gustafson, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who served on the selection committee last year, said taking time to evaluate the program was a good idea, adding that changing the name of the program may be a good way to reform it.

“I think the reform [last year] was a good one,” he said. “I understand the reasons for the hiatus and I think the folks that were involved in this are really trying to make the best environment for Duke students possible.”

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The new K4 dormitory, which is scheduled to open in Spring 2012, has been reserved exclusively for two houses of 40 to 120 students under the new house model that is being put in place.

housing from page 1 “We, right now, are in a state where housing is very unequal, so we have to do something,” Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki said.

Since discussions about the changes began last Spring, a number of spots on West Campus have been reserved to support the new model. K4, the addition to Keohane Quadrangle set to open in Spring 2012, has been set aside exclusively for two houses, Moneta said.

Houses will essentially be clusters of students within pre-existing structures, although new dorms may be built to accommodate the new model, he added.

Fraternities and selective living groups in good standing will not lose their spaces on West Campus, however. Lisker said that “healthy and currently existing” groups will still have guaranteed housing on West, but the groups’ current locations are not guaranteed.

In an effort to create space for houses, however, no new selective living groups will be added to West, Nowicki said.

gates from page 1 specifically in the Army and the Air Force,” said sophomore Evan Halton, an Army ROTC cadet.

Gates was introduced by President Richard Brodhead, whom he knows from his days as president of Texas A&M University.

Indeed, Gates began his remarks in Page by jokingly comparing his current post to his previous one in academia, but he soon turned serious about the young people for whom he has long been responsible.

“Instead of wearing J. Crew, they wear body armor. Instead of carrying book bags, they carry assault rifles,” he said. “And a number of them—far too many of them— will not come home to their parents.”

Although he stressed that the volunteer force is more experienced than past forces built through conscription, Gates noted that it makes up less than 1 percent of the American population.

He added that this small segment is comprised of individuals who dispropor-

The offices of Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs are overseeing the conversion to the house model. Lisker said the transition committee—which she co-chairs with Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of residence life—has met twice so far this Fall.

Campus Council President Stephen Temple and Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, both seniors, and Campus Council Treasurer Leslie Andriani, a junior, serve as student representatives on the committee. Temple said the committee is expected to add more students.

“In Campus Council, our mission is to foster community within the residential campus, so I’m excited about this because this will give Duke students the opportunity for relationships to flourish in residence halls,” Temple said.

In an effort to build communities of independents on West, the individual houses will have themes. The specific themes have not yet been chosen, however.

“We don’t want to devise a narrow characterization such that every house is supposed to be the same—we’ll fail if we do that,” Moneta said.

tionately hail from military families and rural areas, especially in the South and Mountain West.

“There is a risk over time of developing a cadre of military leaders that politically, culturally and geographically have less and less in common with the people they have sworn to defend,” he said.

Gates went on to commend Duke for maintaining its ROTC program when other elite universities banned it in protest of the Vietnam War and the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Students at schools like Duke have a special responsibility, he added.

“Will the wise and honest here at Duke come help us do the public business of America?” he asked in closing. “Because, if America’s best and brightest young people will not step forward, who then can we count on to protect and sustain the greatness of this country in the 21st century?”

The appeal came as a surprise to sophomore Hannah Colton.

“I wasn’t expecting it to be as much of a direct plea,” she said.

whether to commit to retire.

“Each faculty member has different needs and ideas about what they want to accomplish before retiring and what they want to do in retirement,” Crumbliss said.

He noted that incentives could include slowly phasing out of teaching or providing opportunities to finish research or a book before retirement.

It is currently unclear how many professors may retire, as faculty members can discuss retirement options with various administrators, including a departmental chair or divisional dean, Crumbliss said.

Last year, 14 professors accepted the faculty retirement incentive and 44 other professors entered individual agreements with the University to retire in the future.

Trinity currently has 645 tenured, tenure-track and non-tenured faculty—the most in history. At the Academic Council meeting Sept. 23, Lange said Trinity has acquired 88 new faculty in the last six years, increasing about 3 percent annually—growth that Crumbliss has said is unsustainable.

Reductions to Arts and Sciences faculty size are largely the product of reduced endowment income, less predictable gift income, a decreased rate of faculty departures and retirements and a cap on undergraduate enrollment, Crumbliss said.

For the next few years, departing professors must outnumber incoming fac-

ulty, Crumbliss said, and Lange told the Academic Council that Trinity needs to see attrition of 20 to 30 positions.

For academic year 2010-2011, Trinity has hired about 12 new professors, compared to 26 new hires for 2009-2010 and 32 the year before. Next year, the college plans to add fewer than 20 faculty members, Crumbliss said.

A “reduced faculty search plan” for next academic year prioritizes assistant professor searches over senior searches; allocates searches to “assure renewal opprtunities across departments;” allows for faculty additions in departments consistent with developmental plans; responds to teaching needs and resumes pending searches from last year.

Lange said the University is prioritizing assistant professor searches to balance the number of senior faculty that have recently been hired—a shift that allows for a short-term budgetary advantage.

“So now we need to readjust by hiring junior faculty as well,” he said. “We would have had to have this anyway—the tenure and median age are higher than they were.”

Budgetary incentives were not the only criteria for this decision, Crumbliss said, noting that he expects to add about two senior faculty members next year.

The 2010-2011 budget does not include the salaries and fringe benefits for about 35 faculty members funded through the provost’s strategic funds, Crumbliss said in his address at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting. These costs will gradually be worked into Trinity’s budget in the next three to five years.

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theSANDBOX. It isn’t the LSD. Or the terrible writing.

It isn’t even that this book is essentially a collection of soft-core porn occurring under the influence of a mythical “ram spirit.” It is, however, the sick and twisted blend of these features that make Wild Animus one of the absolute worst and most horrific books I’ve ever come across.

I acquired this interesting piece of work one night after a club swimming practice.

Hiking to the bus stop from Wilson Gym, two people (students? random men? ramlovers?) forced a paperback copy of this literary gem in to my hands. And, it being past eight, and, being a freshmen, I got to enjoy 15 minutes of the C-2 all the way back to East Campus: 15 minutes more than I ever needed to spend with Wild Animus.

Fact one: the front cover may or may not depict the shadow of a man riding a ram. Fact two: the back of the book is titled “A Bliss Beyond Fear.” Fact three: the book is about Sam, who becomes “Ramson” after realizing his “deepening identification with the mountain ram” while tripping on acid and having all-too-descriptive sex-

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editor’s note. capades with his girlfriend in the Alaskan wilderness. Oh, and did I mention Ramson believes his girlfriend is a pack of wild wolves trying to kill him? Yup. So after being completely weirded out, I decided to google “Wild Animus” and figure out who was crazy enough to publish such an absolute insult to the literary world. (And also, why was it being handed out on campus?!)

Apparently, author Rich Shapero wanted his book published so badly that he founded his own publishing house and proceeded to spend half a million dollars on printing 50,000 copies, funding a national book tour and—wait for it—creating a dance ensemble for promotional purposes. Sorry, I forgot to mention that, as delineated by the back cover, Wild Animus is “part of a larger storytelling experiment that includes three music CDs.” The most horrifiying thing about this entire experience is that Rich Shapero has a degree in English Literature from UCBerkley. What is the world coming to?

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For some reason, it caught on, was excepted much earlier in books and movies.

Violence. Vulgarity. Not so much sex, because as everyone knows, sex is drugs is rock and roll.

But even today, I feel myself spending far more mental energy justifying why I listen to “obscene music” than why I watch obscene movies or read obscene books, and I think society’s similarly stratified.

What made me think of this most recently is an album I’ve been onto by an 18-yearold kid from SoCal who goes by Tyler, the Creator. The record’s called Bastard. The lyrical content, layered over unbelievably rendered, thick, abrasive homemade beats and delivered in an almost too-deep sneer of a flow, mostly covers fantasies of patricide and drugs, misogyny and self-doubt.

Remarkably self-effacing and raw to the point of exposure, Tyler almost dares the listener to buy into the extremes of his behavior.

But let’s face it, you can’t. He’s a kid who skateboards; he’s younger than I am. Yet, here he is, leading a crew of kids like him who go by Odd Future Wolf Gang, a seemingly inexplicable concentration of precocity that features the talented Earl Sweatshirt, Domo Genesis and Hodgy Beats alongside Tyler, among many others.

Does it make it worse that he’s young?

Better? I don’t know, but I think this trait helps tap into why others are suspicious of contextually dangerous music to begin with: they see lyrical music as child’s play—the medium of self-destructive youths and socalled rebels, whether it’s anarchists and punk or drug-dealers and rap or stoners and psych-rock.

To really nail down the discrepancy, you have to think about it in compari-

sons. My favorite novel, The Tunnel by William H. Gass, is narrated by one of the most depraved and flawed characters ever created, and at the same time, it’s an impossibly beautiful, triumphant attempt to confront humanity in its own constant debasement, more reflective of life than any other art I’ve seen to date.

One of my favorite films, Blue Velvet by David Lynch, has sex scenes shocking in their cruelty and visceral almost beyond belief, but the film is commonly recognized as a masterpiece and its maker an auteur.

Few would balk at either of these choices, though those who have read The Tunnel and reacted in disgust, as some reviewers did, might take up their critical cross against me.

And it’s important to draw a line here: I’m not talking about pornography, or snuff, or artless carnage; I can’t watch Saw or Hostel or torture-porn, and I’m pretty easily freaked out.

It’s something about hearing words, just words and music, stark and naked in their sharpness, that allows them to hit with an emotional bluntness more acute than any message augmented by visuals or needing to be pulled from a page. And they pervade.

Society can slap an R on a gross movie, but somehow nothing can dam up the trickle of music.

I could probably write a book on this subject, and there’s a bunch of other sub-topics I wish I could cover in the span of this Editor’s Note. There are elements of racism in the emotion I’m confronting, and ageism and class bias and the most basic simple fear, the fear of words so forcefully delivered into one’s head, the fear of their power. But it’s art, and art’s scary.

—Kevin Lincoln

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Nasher exhibits work of WWI-era Vorticists

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Art movements often seem to be deliberately named to confuse students, with arbitrary blanket terms attempting to catchphrase something ineffable—impressionism? Suprematism? And “Dada?”

But a rare few, fortunately, remain comfortably literal.

The Nasher Museum of Art’s new exhibition—The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918—showcases the paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculptures of 13 artists in a movement marked and inspired by the symbolism of a vortex.

Dissatisfied with the sterility of the U.K. art scene before World War I, a group of British and American artists assembled in London to create a new, revitalizing cultural force. Declaiming themselves apart from the concurrent movements of cubism and futurism­—while simultaneously borrowing much from them—the vorticists were “a concentration of energies and imaginations, the gravitation of a group of artists together with similar world views,” said Mark Antliff, co-curator and professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke. The exhibition is also curated by Vivien Greene, curator of 19th and early 20th century art at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The curators drew inspiration from their own research interests and from Antliff’s graduate school studies in vorticism.

Painter and author Wyndham Lewis founded the movement along with expatriate poets such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound—who were both published in the vorticist literary magazine BLAST. In it, Pound wrote, “The vortex is the point of maximum energy. It represents, in mechanics, the greatest efficiency.” In this way, vorticism shared the futurist ethos of celebrating the dynamic forces of industry and technology.

Thus, the movement appropriated the vortex as a prominent motif. In David Bomberg’s painting “The Mud Bath,” bright angles and polygons are cast radially from a central pillar. From a head buried in torso, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s sculpture “Red Stone Dancer” unwinds to a jaunty crouch. Alvin Langdon Coburn inserted a camera lens within a triangular tube of mirrors to capture kaleidoscopic patterns, producing “vortographs”—some of the first abstract photography.

Not only casting their works with the symbolism of vortices, the artists also saw the movement as a vortex of culture. The exhibition emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of vorticism with its many mediums, and the movement certainly was a watershed moment for the modern literary form.

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The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918 brings together the work—including paintings, photographs and sculptures—of the major artists in a European movement centered around the idea of the vortex. After the Nasher, The Vorticists will go to Venice and London. seph Donahue, lecturer in the Department of English at Duke. “Vorticists and futurists made the idiom that we start with.”

Since the movement was so short-lived, there were only three vorticist exhibitions at the time—two in London and one in New York. The works displayed in the Nasher were selected to represent all three showings and to “make the argument that the movement was something that could unite the literary and artistic avant-garde in New York with that of London,” Antliff said.

Additionally, assembling the exhibition “was a process of creative discovery,” said Wendy Livingston, manager of marketing and communications at the Nasher.

During the selection process, previously unknown pencil compositions by Helen Saunders—one of the few women vorticists—were found. With this exhibition, they will be shown for the first time in almost 100 years.

For the exhibition, the Nasher is partnering with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Tate Britain in London.

“This high level of collaboration certainly shows the growing professional reputation of the museum,” Livingston said.

The exhibition will be on display in the Nasher until Jan. 2, 2011. It will then move to Venice (Jan. 29 through May

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For a form that had such impact in the artistic realm, vorticism was relatively short-lived, spanning only a few years.

As Antliff emphasized, the movement was marked by an ultimate naivete toward the future and the role of progress. In 1913, sculptor Jacob Epstein mounted a humanoid machine, pregnant with child, atop a three-legged rock drill to herald a new age of humanity’s integration with technology.

As World War I—once predicted to be a swift, painless triumph of high militarism and human industry—devolved into mechanized carnage, he removed the sculpture’s drill and amputated its limbs to express his disillusionment with the machine aesthetic. War claimed too many of the movement’s central figures, and as the fighting ended, so did vorticism.

“Torso in Metal from the ‘Rock Drill’” is displayed at the exhibition’s entrance.

The Vorticists will be on display at the Nasher Museum of Art until Jan. 2, 2011. There will be an opening reception tonight at 7 p.m. featuring talks by Antliff and Greene. The Nasher is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.

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by Asher Brown-Pinsky THE CHRONICLE

In recent years Durham has risen from its status as a junior partner in the Triangle music scene to a thriving music community that is home to indie bands with national followings. The Bull City has lacked a mid-sized, dedicated concert venue for some time, however.

Although the Duke Coffeehouse, the Pinhook and the Layabout (courtesy of Craig Powell) have catered to local and touring bands alike, their capacities are decidedly modest. The Durham Performing Arts Center and Duke Performances are bigger organizations, but they skew toward older, more established acts. Bands falling outside these categories had to turn to clubs outside Durham like Raleigh’s Lincoln Theater, Local 506 in Chapel Hill and the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, if they had even considered the Bull City at all.

Two recently opened clubs hope to change that. Motorco Music Hall, located at 723 Rigsbee Avenue, and Casbah

at 1007 West Main Street are dedicated concert venues and full-service bars with an ambitious goal of filling this void.

Motorco, located in the Durham Athletic Park neighborhood, boasts a 3400-square-foot floor space and a 450+ person capacity. This location is out of the way for most Duke students and beyond the downtown orbit. But following the August opening of Fullsteam Brewery’s Tavern across the street and the reopening of King’s Sandwich Shop a block away, the former business district seems to be undergoing a rebirth of sorts.

Jeremy Roth, along with Chris Tamplin and Mike and Candy Webster, conceived of Motorco as providing a venue for local bands and drawing national and regional touring acts. Carrboro’s vaunted Cat’s Cradle looms large in the imaginations of the bar’s owners and staff. Roth sees his club as the Durham equivalent, and the design of the space speaks to that. Motorco is very much a concert hall with a bar rather than a bar with a stage—the cavernous room framed by black, wooden bleachers and exposed

piping in the ceiling suggest a newer, more sophisticated Cradle.

Tamplin will keep bar and book, taking on his former role at Raleigh’s Tir Na Nog, where he oversaw the Irish pub’s transformation into a live music venue with the successful “Local Band, Local Beer” series.

Roth sees the club open at least six nights a week, with plans for ping-pong and four-square nights in the future.

Located in the former Wells-Floyd Florist, Casbah is more modest in scale, with a capacity of just under 300.

The club’s exterior is unassuming, aside from the prominently painted logo on either side of the building. The interior, however, has been extensively remodeled and takes on a Middle-Eastern aesthetic with murals, arched doorways and a hand-crafted wooden bar. Owned by Fergus Bradley, co-owner of Alivia’s, The James Joyce and The Federal, and his wife Jana, Casbah is more firmly rooted in Duke’s social scene and has been rented out for Greek events already. They have announced weekly DJ nights

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We keep bar hours so we aren’t going to kick you out the show, like at the Cradle,” Williams said. eve Gardner, formerly of Yep Roc and Sugar Hill Reand current WXDU DJ, has been hired as booking ager at Casbah. He sees “the club as an eclectic, comble listening room,” with a modern PA system and the sphere of a house show. though the openings of both clubs in such close sucon might raise red flags, Gardener doesn’t consider the enues competing. He said that the owners and staff of wo clubs, as well as those of the Pinhook, are friends. he way we see it, we are all filling a niche,” Gardner “We’re trying to make Durham a vibrant live music e, and no one club is going to do it by itself.”

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No Age could’ve dropped bags of bricks onto the heads of their audience to a fair amount of success and critical acclaim. The group has a rapid fan base at a time when that means something—a time when there is money to be made during tours and at festivals, but not by selling records.

But then, Nouns was practically a punch to the guts anyway. It was capital “I” intense, a reeling sublimation of euphoria and anger into an economical, 30-minute album.

Everything in Between, the band’s third record, is going to make you work harder than that, and No Age makes this clear from the lead, starting with the jangly mid-tempo “Life Prowler,” which is certainly more emotionally ambiguous than “Miner” on Nouns.

On Everything in Between, lyrics are pushed noticeably to the fore, which has its pros and cons. The band is, after all, “punk,” meaning their songwriting is not-too-evocative of anything more than a generally defiant, pissedoff attitude. But the lyrics are also replete with triumphant moments of aphorism, like, “When I reach into/ Myself my self comes true.”

Beginning with “Glitter,” Everything in Between plays like a singles compilation, with No Age pulling out every tool in their arsenal and hitting pop pay-dirt. What starts out as inscrutable, over the course of several listens, reveals itself as meticulous music meant to be obsessed over and probably blasted at dangerous decibel rates over car stereo speakers.

It is an essential goal in all two-pieces to sound bigger than the sum of their parts, and No Age’s muscular, dynamic guitar-anddrums rhythmic interplay is up to the task. Even the band’s proclivity for more abstracted instrumental pieces is perfected here, showing a better incorporation of noise and tunefulness on songs like “Dusted,” which is reminiscent of the Sonic Youth albums that don’t make me want to put my head in a microwave.

Really, Everything in Between could have come out any time within the past 20 years, and retroism sounds pretty triumphant in 2010.

—Brian Contratto

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Before his most recent stretch in prison, Gucci Mane made a name for himself with his blase twist on gangsta rap. And although Gucci promises new beginnings in The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted, his first album since his release, the 15 tracks are gratifying in an all-too-familiar way.

Fans of Gucci’s earlier albums and mixtapes should be pleased to find his signature lilt intact. But cliche lyrics, such as “We go together like hamburgers and French fries,” and safe beats do little to showcase the artist’s voice. Not to mention, the record is riddled with his inexplicable “Burr!” exclamations, which were made laughable in the Internet sensation “Shawt Bus Shawty.” These tired staples are magnified in the most hyped song on the album, “Gucci Time,” in which recordskipping effects, background yelling and those incessant “Burrs!” are piled onto a siren-like techno beat, creating a sonic strobe light effect that overwhelms.

Not only is Gucci’s style the same, but much of his content has also remained unchanged since his last time behind bars. After opening the album with the refrain, “Wave bye to the bad guy/ Gucci is the bad guy,” he slips easily into the second track, “Trap Talk,” with no new angle on his rhymes about drug dealing.

But The Appeal has its redemptive elements. Among its featured artists are Pharrell and Nicki Minaj, who on “Haterade” lend the album that icy “Lemonade” cool not recaptured elsewhere. The guitar riffs and chorus line in “ODog” (featuring Wyclef) provide the perfect harmonic backdrop for meaningful lyrics like, “If you come from the ghetto and you feel like a champion/Let me see you put your hands up.”

Not until the closing track, “Grown Man,” does it become clear that there is a new side to Gucci after all.

In a word-spinning technique that is at once clever and revealing, the rapper tells us, “My best friend probably gonna die in jail... Probably cry like hell/ If I dwell/On him, ‘cause he got 80 years.” Estelle’s soulful chorus intensifies the song’s message of atonement.

Here’s hoping Gucci can tap into this matured outlook for his next record and avoid another case of deja vu.

—Maggie Love

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Playmakers wanders the woods of As You Like It

by Ashley Copeland THE CHRONICLE

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As You Like It, one of William Shakespeare’s comedies, tells the story of Rosalind, played by Marianne Miller, and Orlando, playbed by Derrick Ledbetter, as the lovers wander through the woods.

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If all the world’s a stage, PlayMakers’ actors make good use of the cliche.

PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill opened its Mainstage season Sept. 25 with William Shakespeare’s classic comedy As You Like It, directed by PlayMakers’ Producing Artistic Director Joseph Haj. The comedic love story unfolds as the two protagonists, Marianne Miller’s quick-witted Rosalind and Derrick Ledbetter’s romantically inclined Orlando, meander their way through a mystical forest to find each other and love. The actors’ facial expressions as well as strategic timing portray the humorous elements, despite speaking completely in Shakespeare’s original Early Modern English.

Jimmy Kieffer genuinely owns his role as court jester Touchstone by pushing the entertaining edge to another level. Kieffer’s keen use of dialogue and wit compensates for any lack of comprehension the dense Shakespearean verse may cause. His intimate and deliberate interactions with the other actors lend greater insight into their characters.

Haj’s version includes live music, which further reinforces the play’s lighthearted qualities. The music not only emphasizes the story­, but also helps provide adequate relief to a few turbulent scenes.

The unorthodox setting and costumes give a welcome update to an otherwise traditional version. Sure, we have all heard of modern twists to classics, but a wardrobe flashback to the fifties? The characters don above-the-ankle aline dresses and long tweed trousers, which enhance Haj’s creative liberty while still staying true to Shakespeare’s initial concept.

The stage is refreshingly different as well. Because of the circular stage construction of the Paul Green Theatre, the actors are turned away from the audience during certain parts of the performance. Despite this intentional challenge, they are still able to connect with the viewers.

The circular stage serves to engage the audience right in the action during many pivotal scenes, including the epic fight between Orlando and the court wrestler Charles.

The performance ends on a merry note with all the couples reunited, singing and prancing around the stage, without any of the blood and gore that is typically associated with Shakespearean works­. Clocking in at just over two hours, As You Like It offers a faithful, jovial rendition of the original.

As You Like It will run through Oct. 10 at PlayMakers’ Paul Green Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Dirty Projectors bring Bitte Orca to Duke

by Kevin Lincoln THE CHRONICLE

In a Duke Performances season devoted to music that characterizes “A Nation Made New,” no act might fit this epithet better than Dirty Projectors.

Led by the elastic-voiced Dave Longstreth, Dirty Projectors is an indie-rock group from Brooklyn known for their fusing of seemingly disparate genres. Though Longstreth released the first Dirty Projectors album in 2003, last year’s Bitte Orca gained the band a wider following and substantial acclaim as one of the most adventurous acts working in a contemporary pop medium.

“The music is to me exhilarating, really thrilling,” said Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald. “What’s thrilling about it is the musical mind and precision behind it. There seems to be a swallowing or a digestion of impulses from Afropop to electronica to minimalism to Philadelphia soul harmonies. There’s just a willingness to put all of those things to service to make music that is effective, and affecting.”

Prior to Bitte Orca, albums like The Getty Address, which was recorded using chopped-up digital versions of orchestral and choral performances, and Rise Above— a from-memory cover of songs by hardcore legends Black Flag—had gained the group a reputation for difficulty, but their latest release served to largely change this notion.

“I think that Bitte Orca is a really magnificent album, and it seems to me that in many ways it’s not gimmicky, or saccharine, that it’s pretty directed,” Greenwald said.

“It’s pretty intentional; there’s sort of an

intentionality about the whole thing that I really appreciate. It puts you on edge, too, especially the way it deals with meter and those close harmonies. I like the way it puts you on edge—I think that good music does that.”

Co-sponsored by the Duke University Union, Dirty Projectors’ appearance at Duke is a part of Duke Performances’ “Inventors” series and comes in the midst of their touring behind Bitte Orca. Their other shows on the tour have included some of the most significant American rock venues, including Madison Square Garden and Terminal 5 in New York City and the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. The success of Bitte Orca has had practical applications beyond the more conventional advantages of wider recognition.

“What’s exciting, I think, is that although this band has been around for a while, from the reviews that I’ve read, only now are they commanding enough money for performances where [Longstreth] can assemble a working band that could produce something akin to what’s on those records, specifically what’s on the last record,” Greenwald said.

Another singular aspect of the band’s show Tuesday in Page Auditorium is that it’s the first proper collaboration between Duke Performances and DUU, Major Attractions Director Karen Chen said. There were two instances of one group promoting the other last year.

“Aaron Greenwald actually approached us with the idea of co-presenting the show, and already had Dirty Projectors booked,” Chen said. “For Major Attractions, we’re always trying to reach as many different musical tastes as we can, and since we have the

resources and in this case the opportunity to promote a more independent group, I think this was a really good chance for us to do so.”

In addition to the virtures of Dirty Projectors, Chen is hoping to use DUU’s brand to help advertise Duke Performances.

“It’s sort of putting our brand onto this show,” Chen said. “I think because we are part of the student body, by word of mouth we’re able to reach more students and make the show more accessible.”

Regardless of the circumstances behind the actual performance, Greenwald emphasized the importance of Dirty Projectors to Duke Performances’ season and how integrally they fit in with other fea-

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“To many audiences, [Dirty Projectors] are a pop band, but to me it was important they be put next to these other innovators,” Greenwald said. “I felt like they had something to say next to those other artists when perhaps the great majority of pop artists have nothing to say.”

Dirty Projectors will be performing in Page Auditorium Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m., with Kenny Carr & the Tigers opening. Tickets are $26, $22 and $15 general admission and $5 for Duke students, and they can be purchased at the Duke University Box Office or online at tickets. duke.edu.

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Rare works from a short-lived but pivotal modernist art movement during World War I. The Vorticist style combines machine-age forms, vibrant colors and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex.

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Catfish has nothing to do with fish and everything to do with identity: It is a documentary about a New York City photographer’s relationship with a rural Michigan family.

One day Nev, the photographer, receives an unsolicited painting of one of his photos from an 8-year-old named Abby. He begins to form a rapport with her through Facebook, and as the weeks and months go on, he also gets to know her mother, Angela, and forms a romantic relationship with Abby’s sister, Megan. At some point, Nev and his friends begin to realize that something is a bit off with this family. On the way back from a dance festival, the filmmakers decide to make an impromptu stop in Michigan to investigate. What they find is fairly disturbing.

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The Maryland Terrapins are off to a 3-1 start this season, but not many people, on a national or local level, seem to be taking an interest. The Terrapins haven’t received any votes in the AP poll, and last week’s contest against Florida International in College Park drew just 33,254 fans to Byrd Stadium (capacity 54,000). It was the smallest home crowd at any Maryland home football game since head coach Ralph Friedgen took over at his alma mater 10 years ago. Wide receiv-

er Torrey Smith told The Washington Post: “It stunk.”

While not many Maryland fans were in the stands a week ago, the Duke coaching staff has certainly had a close eye on the Terrapins.

“My hat’s off to Maryland,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “They had a tough year a year ago, they’ve worked themselves right out of it.... They have a lot of weapons on both sides of the ball.”

The weapons on offense are led by the explosive Smith, whose 355 receiving yards

rank him 18th among FBS wide receivers—even though Maryland has yet to find a solution at quarterback this season. Add in five touchdown catches in the team’s last three games, and it’s clear that Duke’s frequently leaky secondary will have to key in on Smith.

The running back corps provides more armament for offensive coordinator James Franklin’s offense. Junior Davin Meggett hasn’t gotten more than nine carries in any game thus far, but he has still racked up 268 yards on his 33 attempts, good for an 8.1 yards-per-carry average.

His two rushing touchdowns are second on the team to redshirt senior Da’Rel Scott, who rushed for 1,133 yards and eight scores in 2008 before missing five games due to a broken wrist and seeing his production drop in 2009. Scott has been handed the ball 37 times this season, scoring three times and averaging 5.6 yards per carry for a 209 yard total.

Fortunately for Duke, two more of Maryland’s big guns—the team’s best offensive lineman Justin Gilbert and highly-rated tight end Lansford Watson—are on the bench for the season rehabbing torn ACLs. The one place Maryland doesn’t have an established threat on offense is at quarterback, but the team nonetheless possesses dangerous talent at the

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The Blue Devils will face a potent rushing attack and a stingy red zone defense when they travel to Maryland.

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With the graduation of Aussie Alison Whitaker last May, Duke lost not just a vocal team leader, but also it’s only foreign flair. Once again this year, head coach Dan Brooks has reloaded his team with international talent, debuting two of the top freshmen in the country two weeks ago in the NCAA Fall Preview. Although freshmen Laetitia Beck and Alejandra Cangrejo may be new faces at college events in the United States, they both dominated the international amateur scene before making the decision to take their talents to Durham.

Now with two tournaments under their belts, Beck and Cangrejo are hoping to quickly adjust to the rigors of college golf and help the Blue Devils return to the top of the national heap.

Cangrejo, of Bogota, Colombia, is one of the most decorated golfers to ever come from her country. Ranked the fourth-best freshman in the country by Golfweek, Cangrejo dominated tournaments across South America and the United States as a junior golfer, winning 18 times since 2007, includ-

ing once against professional golfers in the Fay Crocker International in Argentina.

Though Cangrejo was a natural as a child, the game originally came to her by accident. At a young age, Cangrejo fell off a horse and suffered a severe injury to her right arm and only picked up a set of clubs as a part of rehab. After deciding that tennis and swimming weren’t for her, Cangrejo began to go to weekend tournaments at local clubs— and immediately saw results.

“I started going to tournaments just to do some exercise, and I started winning little tournaments. I had a lot of fun, and I started building a passion for it,” Cangrejo said.

Cangrejo’s profile grew from there, to the point that college coaches were counting down the days to talk to her. NCAA rules mandate that coaches are allowed to contact prospective players at the beginning of their junior year, and

Earning the extension Recently, Duke’s campus has begun to focus its unwavering eye on the upcoming basketball season. And while both the men’s and women’s programs have important questions to address, one thing is for certain: Get used to women’s head coach Joanne P. McCallie pacing the hardwood.

Last Friday afternoon, lost amid the football coverage, Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White announced that McCallie’s contract would be extended three years, through the 2016-17 season.

But with four years remaining on Chris her original deal, the extension appears premature, considering Coach P has yet to enter a campaign without a team comprising—at least in part­ —Gail Goestenkors’s recruits.

According to McCallie, the new deal is all about preserving her edge on the recruiting trail.

“In recruiting, entering your fourth year is dangerous,” McCallie said. “When you hit your fourth year, which I have at Duke, you’ve got to reassess. Otherwise, people will use it against you.”

If McCallie should be considered an expert in anything, it’s recruiting. Between stops at Auburn, Maine and Michigan State, she has pulled in class after class of top prep schoolers, often stealing the cream of the crop from the country’s best programs.

This year, McCallie welcomes a class of freshmen ranked No. 1 nationally by ESPN’s Hoopgurlz. White cited this as a major reason why the extension was offered.

“Given the tremendous recruiting success Joanne and her staff have enjoyed, the excitement for Duke Women’s Basketball is at an all-time high,” White said in a press

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Cangrejo was receiving correspondence from day one.

“That very day [September 1st, 2008], Coach Brooks contacted me. I didn’t know what were the good universities here…. I’m from Colombia, you know,” Cangrejo said.

“I started to learn a little about all the colleges, and then I came here… and loved the place.”

Beck had a much different journey to Durham, one that started in Europe. Born in Belgium, Beck moved to Israel when she was 6 and started playing golf three years later, to the pleasure of her golfer parents. Despite the limited golf infrastructure in Israel, Beck lived at one of two clubs in her hometown of Caesarea and picked up the game quickly, winning her first Israel Ladies Championship at the tender age of 12.

Two years later, Beck moved to Florida to attend the IMG Golf Academy, one of the nation’s premier golf prep schools where student-athletes learn from renowned golf instructors hand selected by teaching legend David Leadbetter. A historical hotbed for golfing stars, the IMG Academy prepares golfers to succeed at the professional level, but it doesn’t prepare students to be thrust into team golf—a format that’s completely new for Beck.

“I have to think differently from last year when it was just about me,” Beck said. “I don’t think there’s more pressure. I think you have to get used to [being on a] team.”

Beck will have little time to accustom herself to the team atmosphere, as she has been selected to compete for Israel in the World Amateur Team Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 16-23. Beck will compete against 54 other countries in the biennial competition, and will face off against former Blue Devil Whitaker, who is a member of the Australian team.

“I’m excited to represent Israel, it’s the first time we have a team,” Beck said. “But it’s like every other tournament; I just do the best I can. I try to never put too much pressure on myself.”

Both Beck and Cangrejo have had solid outings in Duke’s first two tournaments, which have both been held at difficult golf courses. While it will take time to mesh with their new teammates and adapt to the college environment, the two freshmen have exceeded the expectations of their coach, who admits that it can often be difficult for golfers to make the college transition.

“They haven’t experienced this whole team thing. That can feel a little heavy on you,” Brooks said. “Anybody who’s played in a Ryder Cup can tell you how much harder it is to play for a team.”

Along with the three Blue Devil sophomores—Lindy Duncan, Courtney Ellenbogen and Stacey Kim—the play of the two freshmen indicates that the future is bright for Duke golf. Brooks, however, insists that the time is now for his squad.

“We’re not holding out for next year or the year after,” Brooks said. “We’re going to get it done this year.”

position.

The Terrapin coaching staff spent much of the spring excited about returning starter Jamarr Robinson, who led the team during the latter part of its dismal 2-10 season last year.

Robinson, however, opened the season with a thud against Navy, as he attempted five passes and completed just two of them for 11 yards and an interception. He did rush for 92 yards, though, showing off his strong running ability.

He was relieved early in the next game as Maryland ran away with a 62-3 victory over Morgan State. His replacement, redshirt-freshman Danny O’Brien, wasted no time making a name for himself: Three of his first four passes went for touchdowns.

Robinson came back strong the following week against West Virginia, tossing 13 completions for 227 yards and two touchdowns, but he hurt his shoulder in the game. O’Brien, who was recruited by Cutcliffe and received a scholarship offer from Duke, relieved him and promptly suffered a high ankle sprain.

With both signal callers ailing, the Terrapin coaching staff waited until just before kickoff to announce the starter against Florida International last week, and O’Brien became the first freshman to start for Maryland since 1999. He responded by garnering ACC Rookie of the Week honors for his performance: 18-for-27 for 250 yards with two touchdowns.

The Maryland coaches have yet to announce their starter against the Blue Devils.

“I think they’ll both play,” Franklin told the AP. “Now who starts, I don’t know. We’ll see. A lot of it is going to depend on just how Jamarr feels.”

On defense, the Terrapins work from a bend-butdon’t-break philosophy. Led by linebackers Alex Wujciak—who Cutcliffe called “one of the better linebackers

coach p from page 7 release. “Under her outstanding leadership, Duke is positioned to be one of the elite programs in the country.”

But is having a contract guaranteed partly because of the athletic careers of her recruits right? Yes, Coach P has done an excellent job of recruting this year, but couldn’t the extension have waited until we see what the new players do on the hardwood?

While beating out women’s coaching legends Geno Auriemma and Pat Summitt for the nation’s top recruits is certainly nothing to ignore, it’s an indicator best met with caution.

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in the country”—and Adrian Moten, they rank 80th out of 120 schools in the FBS with 377.8 yards allowed per game.

However, Maryland has only allowed 10 scores out of 18 opponent trips to the red zone, the second-best red zone efficiency rating in the nation. The Blue Devils, by comparison, have allowed an identical 18 red zone chances, and yielded 16 scores.

While Duke’s main focus will be on the field, Maryland is counting on a bigger crowd in Byrd Stadium to help them avoid its second defeat. “[The fans will] come out,” defensive lineman A.J. Francis said to The Post. “No one around here likes Duke.”

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Duke held Terrapins’ running back Davin Meggett to 38 yards on the ground last season as the the Blue Devils defeated Maryland 17-13.

Over the last two years, Connecticut has won 78 straight games and two national titles with 2008 and 2009 classes ranked second and 49th, respectively.

Stanford, the Huskies’ main competition over that span, pulled in the sixth and tenth-ranked recruiting classes over that same period.

True, a team is not as good as its freshmen and sophomores. But the fact remains that a single No. 1 recruiting class won’t necessarily be enough to push the Blue Devils into national championship contention.

And that is the resounding expectation of the athletic department.

“We have a rich history; but as of late, we haven’t competed at that level,” White said in an email. “All indications suggest that we are heading back in that direction, wherein we will win a championship. Then another one, etc.”

A more developed body of work, though, is required to know if the indicators that White talked about do exist.

The knowledge that Coach P can be a consistent ACC contender is required. Maybe she does have the tools to send Duke to Final Fours and national championships. But we still have never seen a team comprised just of her recruits.

Maybe McCallie will prove to be a consistently great recruiter and coach. But we haven’t seen her coach enough yet.

And considering the recent classes of Connecticut and Stanford, it seems premature to extend the contract of a coach whose main strength, recruting, has yet to translate into the program success envisioned by the athletic department.

The final results won’t be in for several more years, a period that will define McCallie’s legacy, for better or for worse. Unfortunately for Duke, it has already paid to see what those results will be.

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Duke’s newest initiative, A Although current stuWorld Together, a program dents are well-informed on designed to reach out to the many facets of Duke’s alumni to inform them of internationalization efforts, Duke’s latest many of which global-focused emerged from editorial projects.

A President World Together began with Brodhead’s 2006 strategic a panel of faculty and alumni plan, “Making a Difference,” involved in international en- alumni may not have such a deavors, and the highlight of clear picture of Duke’s sucthe program will take place cesses in this area. Only a this February when the Duke few decades ago, Duke was In Depth weekend focuses its working toward becoming programming on Duke and a national university, so a global development. broadened focus on interThis initiative does well nationalism is surely a new in reaching out to alumni development of which many in an organized, intellectual alumni may not be aware. A way. Duke is constantly evolv- World Together provides a ing as a university, and its constructive forum through commitment to being glob- which to reconnect Duke ally active is one of the most with its alumni—especially

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Last Saturday on West Morgan Street, the collec- if you win your district, you get to be a congresstive pressure of a surging crowd of students, alumni man. And it’s the same with state races. Similarly, and visitors from West Point were crushing me be- Obama had to win a majority of the Electoral tween the club’s brick wall and the off-duty cop’s College to become president (and what a fun bicep (a rock and a hard place?). In job that has been). Americans my asphyxiated state, I asked the selike our seemingly simpler syscurity guard, and I paraphrase, “Why tem: it’s easy to count to two. If don’t you guys indicate where peosomething like the, uh, economy, ple should line up with, like, a rope is not working well, the American or something? This is a safety issue.” people blame the majority party According to him, he’s been telling (hello, Midterms 2010).

Shooters’ management to do so for Most countries don’t operate two years, but to no avail. this way. Case in point: Israel. It’s samantha From what I can deduce of said basically impossible for any one management, they have other priorparty to gain a majority based on lachman ities—for example, dental hygiene. proportional representation. If field notes An anecdote: I spotted one man who you look at the list of parties in works there standing on the bar, the Knesset (parliament), there holding a clear drink in his hand. are five with significant numbers He takes out his dentures, deposits them into his of seats. To form a coalition, the prime minister drink, takes a sip, then PUTS HIS DENTURES has to bring in diverse groups with usually conBACK IN. If you’re 21, I suggest ordering that at tradictory interests. the bar sometime.

Here’s the deal: I’m not going to indict any one Saturday night’s debacle illustrates, on its group. Columnists who do that receive anthrax via most simplistic level, the potentially disastrous post, and I like sophomore year so far. The point effects of factional tensions. You would assume I want to make is that the settlement-construction that two parties responsible for running one issue is a deal breaker for these peace talks. business would have overlapping concerns. Yet, Although it has defined the news coverage so the heaving crowd will make it into Shooters far, it’s only the tip of the iceberg. eventually, handing over their five dollars and There are even tougher issues to resolve, such as joining in the debauchery. Security is concerned the status of Jerusalem, the division of the West Bank, about our safety, but management’s top priority the right of return, the participants in the talks and is the bottom line. the identity of the two states. Yet, for certain religiousYou might not think that I can construct an ly affiliated parties in Israel, the end of settlement argument about factions within organizations construction will mean the end of their participation by using Shooters and Israeli domestic politics in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition. as my two examples... we’ll see if it works.

Here, we reach an impasse in which factionAlthough governments have different responsi- alism is the be-all-end-all blocking the solution. bilities than businesses, they face the same issues Not to deny that negotiations must and hopefully inherent to factionalism. We can (and do) blame will continue, but you can’t negotiate without a the entire “Shooters” entity for its faults, and we government. Coalitions are messy, inefficient do the same with countries like Israel. The recent and sometimes infuriating. It’s hard to find soluanalysis about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace tions that satisfy not only the smaller domestic talks lacks an understanding of how Israeli domes- parties but also the Palestinian Authority. Toss tic politics are affected by problems of faction.

Hamas, which is against holding direct talks, into Commentators on the process often blame all the mix and you get the largest migraine a diploof Israel’s government, just like we blame “Shoot- mat could have. ers” for problems that could be streamlined. In I don’t have a prescription for the madness. (I both instances, rather than blaming the people did for Shooters…but then again, why have lines trying to work together, we need to recognize when you can have mosh pits?). But before we atthe problems that continually conspire to divide tempt to analyze the Israelis’ situation from afar, we them. Indeed, the Sept. 26 expiration of the mor- need to understand the motivations of all parties atorium on settlement construction in the West involved, including Likud, Kadima, Yisrael Beitanu, Bank, just one example of these many problems, Avoda and Shas. sparked the most recent commotion.

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roubling pieces of legislation like Arizona’s SB are almost constantly guilty of reactionary rhetoric that 1070 immigration bill, France’s proposed ban has little to do with solving problems. For evidence of on wearing face-covering veils in public and last factionalist conceits, look to President Obama’s infayear’s Swiss law banning the construction mous campaign remark about broadly of minarets may seem like simple acts of stereotyped working-class voters who bigotry. True enough, but there’s also “cling to guns or religion” or any screed something more far-reaching at play. that uses the word “liberal” accusatorily.

It’s safe to assume that you’ve heard Clichéd terminology like “partisanall about Arizona’s law, some of the more ship” and “culture wars” aside, the truth extreme provisions of which are currently is that Madison had it even more right delayed by a stay issued in federal court. than we usually give him credit for. FacAlso widely reported was Switzerland’s connor southard tionalism doesn’t have to flirt with active referendum, in late 2009, which made bigotry (like the three laws discussed eardead poet it unconstitutional for minarets—towers lier) to be dangerous to the functioning sometimes attached to mosques—to be of a democracy. All that’s needed is for built in the country. people to group up and begin nursing disdain and misFrench legislators didn’t receive quite the same informed resentment of other people. amount of press a few weeks ago when they passed a How do you tell an ardent factionalist apart from bill that would make it illegal for Muslim women (or someone who simply happens to be part of a group, anyone) to publicly wear a veil or any other garment political or otherwise? Simple: Listen and see who is that covers the entire face. The proposal will become bent on imagining some enemies into existence. The law in France if the Constitutional Council approves it. damaging kinds of factionalist thought require that you It’s well known that democracies exist under constant view the human race as a series of factions, all of which threat of “the tyranny of the majority.” You’ve probably are either allies or enemies of your faction. Needless read Federalist No. 10, in which James Madison warns to say, that’s not a mindset that leads to any particular against factionalism: “When a majority is included in flowering of reason or noble impulses. a faction, the form of popular government… enables In the case of the United States, the problem is it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the not that our political culture features strong disagreepublic good and the rights of other citizens.” ments—that’s healthy. The problem is that unnecessarThe French veil-ban, SB 1070 and the Swiss anti- ily divisive factionalism is ever-present in our political minaret amendment all involve certain factions—badly rhetoric. We stand on a slippery slope when we indulge misguided French senators or pandering Arizona legis- factionalist posturing, which employs factual, if exlators or a reactionary Swiss voting public—conspiring tremely broad categories—native-born vs. immigrant, to create laws that target specific racial, ethnic or reli- Christian vs. Muslim—and more ephemeral ones— gious groups and restrict their liberties in ways not oth- liberal vs. conservative—to emphasize demographic erwise foisted upon citizens belonging to other groups. distinctions.

In other words, powerful majority factions and/or their This kind of rabid distinction-drawing can lead to a representatives have, in the United States, France and total breakdown of communication and sympathy. It’s Switzerland, been guilty of tyranny against particular all too easy to start to believe that we are as different, minority factions. and therefore as naturally opposed to one another, as So, we have yet another set of reminders of the dan- peddlers of divisive factionalist rhetoric would lead us gers of factionalism, and the difficulty of keeping de- to believe. In reality, we’re all just citizens, with plenty mocracies—with their usual implicit pledges of equal of problems in common. Minarets aren’t one of them. rights for all, etc.—in good health. Madison was right Only out of a morass of factionalism could otherwise in Federalist No. 10, and woe be to us if we ever start to healthy democracies dredge up laws as maliciously diviignore him. Let’s do whatever we can to fight and block sive as the three idiocies on display in Arizona, France and repeal these stupid laws and all like them. and Switzerland. Let’s hope that we at Duke—as a facAgreed. But as it turns out, however, the fight against tion, if you will—are learning to avoid such groupthink. corrosive factionalism isn’t always as straightforward or Mindlessness may not be literally anti-democratic, but as satisfying as the struggle against individually deplor- it might as well be. able pieces of legislation.

In America, for instance, both extremes of the leftConnor Southard is a Trinity junior. He is studying in right political spectrum—and everyone in between— New York for the semester. His column runs every Thursday.

lettertotheeditor Participate in Fire Prevention Week 2010 The Duke University Occupational Environmental Safety Office Fire Safety Division strives to provide education about fire prevention not only to the Duke community, but also to any avenue in which we can educate someone. The week of Oct. 3–9, 2010, is designated by the National Fire Protection Association as Fire Prevention Week 2010.

The theme for this year is, “Beep! Beep! Beep!

Smoke Alarms: A sound you can live with.” According to the National Archives and Records Administration’s Library Information Center, Fire Prevention Week is the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. The President of the United States has signed a proclamation proclaim-

ing a national observance during that week every year since 1925.

Fire safety has come a long way since the storied Mrs. O’Leary’s cow tipped over a lantern on Oct. 9, 1871 in a Chicago barn. But we still have a long ways to go. Tragically, around eight people die in home fires every day and a functional smoke alarm would cut that number in half. Participation in this campaign is an important awareness step that may save the life of someone who reads The Chronicle, next week.

Jason B. Shepherd Fire Protection Specialist Occupational & Environmental Safety Office, Fire Safety Division

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The magic school bus (system) It is easy for anyone to be a Debbie Downer and complain about one of the most widely used systems on campus. That being said, it is amazing how far ahead our bus system is with regard to other universities. Parking and Transportation was able to locate and return my phone back to me within five business days! (Note: if you find a lost phone, call the last person on it. It takes about one minute and saves that person quite a bit of hassle.) Said phones will come in handy once these GPS’s on buses start to work and hopefully will be jeremy steinman a part of the mobile Duke einsteinman app. But how would they be able to make the system even better? Money might help, but you’d have to go to the third derivative to find anything positive about our economy right now.

That being said, how many departments at Duke can say that they actually became better over the past year by cutting back? I’m really a fan of most of P&T’s changes. The biggest one was the elimination of the C-3. I know I loved to line up at the bus stop at 9:38 a.m. to get to Science Drive on time with all my science and math friends alike. I made legitimate friends on the C-3, and we all enjoyed the jovial Irish driver who would never stop the bus but always proclaim that he was “airing the bus out by opening the doors.” When I had to move on from him, I died a little inside, but I moved on quicker than Kim Kardashian did after breaking up with Reggie Bush. (Heads up: Now that she’s broken up with her next boyfriend, I’m going to reuse this joke in a few weeks. Hooray for being green.) Getting over that loss wasn’t hard as they now have the C-1 Class Change, which serves essentially the same purpose, but doesn’t run uselessly the other 90 percent of the time.

Another major change was the expansion of the C-2 and the simultaneous elimination of the C-4 route and C-1 late-night route. This is akin to trading bench depth at wideout for a starting RB—a windfall any way you look at it. Consequently, juniors on Central Campus can go to East Campus easily to study and freshmen, conversely, can figure out that Central exists without drunkenly stumbling onto a C-4. I think the best part of this by far is the need for only one driver per night for late Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Just think—would you want to drive a bus on a night you should be spending with your family, only to have to deal with, for the most part, ungrateful drunk students? Seriously, thank the bus driver and the guy that works at Pauly Dogs until 2 a.m. because those are some rough shifts (say that five times fast).

The last major change I’ve seen is the great increase in the day-to-day efficiency of the bus system. It was always fun to be waiting 20 minutes for a C-1 just to see four buses in a row pull up at once, only one of which actually had people in it. That’s happened a lot less this year, so kudos to whoever is responsible for assisting with that situation.

They probably did this because they heard caravanning greatly increases the chances of you getting dysentery or having to ford a river with your moose, and we all know how that turns out.

Parking and Transportation, however, doesn’t deserve all the credit: The Bull City Connector is a City of Durham invention, albeit with some help from Duke friends. The Connector made “The Social Network” screening, offered only downtown, a lot more appealing to those that did not have a car. This has gleefully eliminated the annoying texts I get from people that only talk to me for my car to go downtown. Another route elimination, the C-6, has gone largely unnoticed, partially because it was like Rosie O’Donnell—not really useful in the first place and eliminated when people figured out she was outdated (but the C-6 did not give us “Harriet the Spy”).

Thank whoever made these spectacular changes. Now we can all ride the bus with less stress and be more receptive to hearing more Duke anecdotes like, “Which of the three pluralizations of Octopus is your favorite?”

Jeremy Steinman is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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