February 10, 2011 issue

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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Smith scores 34 to lead Duke to comeback win

by Andy Moore THE CHRONICLE

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In a game that will go down in the Duke-North Carolina rivalry history books, senior Nolan Smith scored a career-high 34 points to lead the Blue Devils to a comeback win after trailing by 16.

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Two hours before tip-off last night, Nolan Smith warmed up in a nearly empty Cameron Indoor Stadium. As he shot jumpers, the speakers suddenly came on— Jay Z’s “A Star Is Born.”

If you’re inclined to believe in that sort of thing, it may just have been prophetic.

In a thrilling come-from-behind win, Smith scored a career-high 34 points to lead No. 5 Duke (22-2, 9-1 in the ACC), which trailed by as much as 16 and didn’t lead the game until there were only nine minutes left, to a 79-73 win over No. 20 North Carolina. Smith had 22 of his 34 in the contest’s crucial second half. He was helped by Seth Curry, who had a season-high 22 points including several huge shots to help push the Blue Devils to their first lead.

“You talk about vintage Duke and North Carolina games, that was one of them,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said afterward.

“The championship was great, but if someone asks me what was the biggest game of my career, I’m going to say my last home game against Carolina, this comeback win,” Smith said. “I don’t think anything can be better than this.”

It seemed initially, though, that the Tar Heels (17-6, 7-2) would spoil Smith’s last home matchup with his team’s most hated rival.

North Carolina scored eight unanswered points to open the game, and its lead grew to 14 at halftime. John Henson and Tyler Zeller looked unstoppable, going a combined 10-for-15 from the floor in the first half en route to 23 points. The Tar Heels manhandled the Blue Devil frontcourt, outrebounding Duke’s bigs by nine and scoring 16 more points in the paint than they could muster.

“They were just so fast in that first half I thought they knocked us back,” Krzyzewski said. “We seemed scattered.”

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Saaem brings background of Getson focuses on integration grad student representation of academics and student life

by Maggie Spini

by Tong Xiang

In his time at the University, Ali Saaem has seen many sides of Duke and Durham.

As he plans to graduate in the Spring, the fifth-year graduate student in biomedical engineering would like to “give back to the Duke family” as a graduate Young Trustee.

“It would be an incredible honor,” Saaem said. “If I can get into the right conversation I can impact 12,000 peoples’ lives.”

Saaem came to Duke in 2006 after getting his masters of computer engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

He was attracted to Duke because he wanted to work with people who were on the cutting edge of research, he said. Since arriving on campus, Saaem said Duke has been a place of transformation for him.

Senior Ben Getson hopes to maximize academic life on campus as Young Trustee.

A member of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees and a former academic affairs senator for Duke Student Government, Getson believes in integrating non-academic resources into the classroom experience.

“At a research university, our academics are at the heart of what we provide,” Getson said. “Duke can be special with our focus in [interdisciplinary initiatives] and civic engagement.”

The senior will graduate with a degree in computer science as well as a certificate in information science and

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Biomedical engineering graduate student Ali Saaem hopes to use his experience defending students’ interests to give back to the University as Young Trustee.

ONTHERECORD

“It is the government forces now that are harassing journalists. You have to watch your step.”

­—Washington Post Correspondent Craig Whitlock on Egypt. See story page 3

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Fraternities and SLGs net new class of members, Page 5

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A co-founder of the selective living group Ubuntu, senior Ben Getson aims to promote interdisciplinarity and civic engagement in the classroom.

Brodhead announces honorary degree recipients, Page 3

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“Dick Vitale is out meeting with the student section now—he crowd surfed, and wore a Crazies hat as well as blue frat sunglasses. Good to see he’s still up to the same stuff... Just to give you an idea of the type of conditions reporters sitting on press row go through for this game, I’m currently writing this as specks of blue paint fall on my keyboard. Blue paint, it turns out, does not dry immediately. ’” — From The Chronicle Sports Blog sports.chronicleblogs.com

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Federal union plans to Pro-Mubarak coverage campaign against job cuts beginning to change WASHINGTON D.C. — The federal government’s largest union is launching a $1 million-plus campaign across the country to fight looming cuts to the workforce.

“We’re acknowledging that it’s our union that has to carry the story of federal workers,” John Gage, the outspoken president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said Wednesday as the union’s four-day legislative conference wrapped up here.

“We’re going to energize and activate 2 million federal employees and their families,” Gage said, “to let their representatives know these attacks will destroy [federal] agencies.”AFGE has joined forces with other federal unions to fend off the targeted cuts.

“We have more people in congressional districts than even the congressmen are aware of,” Gage said. “The idea is to say,‘I’m the nurse at the VA hospital down the street. I’m not a faceless bureaucrat.’”

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CAIRO — Over the past few days, journalists working for Egyptian state media have orchestrated a remarkable uprising of their own: They have begun reporting news that casts the embattled government in a negative light.

Whether the change is a sign of a weakened regime that is losing control or the result of a decision by the government to loosen its grip on information remains unclear. But the shift has been hard to miss.

State-run television and newspapers such as the iconic al-Ahram initially dismissed the mass demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak as nonevents. As the crisis has unfolded since Jan. 25, most people have relied on Arabic satellite channels such as al-Jazeera and news accounts from independent Egyptian dailies and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to keep up with events.

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Duke to give Journalists target of violence in Egypt 7 honorary degrees in May

by Caroline Fairchild THE CHRONICLE

Washington Post correspondent and Duke alumnus Craig Whitlock is trying to write a story—a story with no sequence of events, no confirmed setting and no semblance of certainty. And he is doing so under a constant cloud of impending danger.

Stationed in Cairo as one of three correspondents for the Washington Post, Whitlock’s job is to follow the ever-evolving antigovernment protests that began Jan. 25.

Between filing numerous daily updates for the Post’s website and preparing stories for the next day’s paper, the former editor of The Chronicle described his 16-to-18 hour days as busy and unpredictable. With jour-

nalists falling victim to targeted violence by pro-government forces each day, he said he never really knows what to expect when he steps into the field.

“You don’t know what situation you are going to walk into,” said Whitlock, Trinity ’90. “You don’t know what pro-[President Hosni] Mubarak thugs are coming and out of what corner so you have to prepare yourself for every possibility. It is better this week than last, but it is unpredictable.”

In an attempt to suppress the flow of information coming across Egyptian borders, forces in favor of Mubarak have implemented a targeted campaign of violence and harassment against foreign journalists that has drawn the censure of the

U.S. government. CNN correspondents like Anderson Cooper and Christiane Amanpour, as well as journalists from other networks like Al Jazeera and BBC, have experienced acts of violence and harassment. In total, the Committee to Protect Journalists has recorded 140 direct attacks against corespondents since Jan. 30.

Sahar Amer, professor of Arabic studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a native Egyptian, said these acts of violence are inexcusable and must stop.

“I think it is terrible and absolutely unacceptable under any circumstance to show

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Members of the Duke and Durham communities gathered Tuesday for a candlelight vigil in honor of the anti-government protests in Egypt.

ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF VICE PRESIDENT FOR DURHAM AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS Regular reviews of senior administrators of the University are conducted by a committee that completes a performance review and submits a confidential report to the President. Such a committee has been appointed by President Brodhead to review the Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs, Dr. Phail Wynn, Jr., who has served in his post since 2007. Dennis Clements, Professor of Pediatrics, will serve as committee chair. Other members of the committee include: Lee Baker and Ed Gomes (Trinity College); Kyle Cavanaugh (Human Resources); David Malone (Service Learning Program); Lynne O’Brien (Perkins Library); Scott Selig (Capital Assets); and Jo Bailey Wells (Anglican Studies).

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Seven distinguished individuals will receive honorary degrees at commencement in May, President Richard Brodhead announced Wednesday.

Recipients include John Chambers, the chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems who will speak at commencement; Rita Dove, an author and former U.S. poet laureate; James Hunt, former governor of North Carolina and an advocatae for public education; Alan Page, an NFL Hall of Fame member, judge and education activist; Lisa Randall, a professor of theoretical physics and a leading expert on particle physics and cosmology; Eric Shinseki, secretary if the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Graduate ’76; and Tan Chorh Chuan, president of the National University of Singapore.

“I’m delighted that these distinguished individuals will be joining our graduates for their commencement,” Brodhead said in a Duke news release yesterday. “In the range of their accomplishments, they give an inspiring example of the great lives that men and women can give to the world. They will send our students off with the message: Now it’s your turn to live up to your highest potential.”

Commencement exercises will take place in Wallace Wade Stadium at 10 a.m.

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DukeCarolinasoundoff Amid sparks and smoke, Cameron Crazies swarmed the Main West Quadrangle last night after the men’s basketball team defeated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For the second consecutive year, students burned benches in the traditional bonfire celebration. Here’s what they had to say—besides “Go to hell Carolina, go to hell!” of course.

—compiled by The Chronicle’s Nicole Kyle, Julian Spector, Sanette Tanaka and Tong Xiang “I will marry Nolan and Ryan Kelly.”

—Jaimie Woo, sophomore margie truwit/The Chronicle

“It’s somewhere in between commandeering an enemy vessel and finding buried treasure.”

—Tanner Schmidt, a junior who was dressed as a pirate, commenting on how he felt about the win. He was adamant that he be referred to as Captain Hookshot.

“I left at halftime because I thought we were going to lose. I guess that was the good luck charm we needed. This was more exciting than doing my laundry.”

—Taylor Steindel, junior “It was a hard fought battle.”

—Cary Politzer, sophomore “Harrison Barnes is kicking himself— again.”

—Kelsey Woodford, sophomore “The feeling on campus is electric right now.”

—Bonnie Fishel, sophomore

“Oh Jesus. Oh Jesus. Go to hell, Carolina!”

—Kyle Ord, sophomore “It just feels so good to be a Blue Devil right now.”

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“It was incredibly loud in there. It made my ears burst.”

—Stephan Lambert, sophomore “Well I’m pretty excited. It’s pure raw excitement, and that’s all you need.”

—Maddy Haller, sophomore “I feel ecstatic right now. At halftime all of Duke was silent, but we came back in a big way. It’s the best feeling ever.”

—Tyler Bray, sophomore “We have a lot of UNC friends, and at half time we started to see all their Facebook statuses. But we were thinking, ‘Just you wait.’”

—Meghan Dwyer, junior “As a senior, it was the best basketball game at Duke ever. I’ve never heard Cameron so loud. It was incredible.”

—Max Kligerman, senior.

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“This is the most excited I’ve felt since the National Championship. I’m so happy. [In Cameron], we felt almost the exact same way as we did then.”

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Fraternity and SLG rush see large turnouts

by Joanna Lichter and Sony Rao

IFC rush by the numbers

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The 15 IFC fraternities gained 244 pledges this year. The Chronicle breaks down the number of new brothers headed to each fraternity.

20

Alpha Epsilon Pi

16

Delta Tau Delta

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Psi Upsilon

25

Alpha Tau Omega

12

10

Chi Psi

6

Kappa Alpha

18

13

Delta Kappa Epsilon

Phi Delta Theta

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

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Delta Sigma Phi

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Pi Kappa Alpha

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Sigma Nu

Pi Kappa Phi

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Sigma Phi Epsilon

SLG rush by the numbers The 12 campus Selective Living Groups extended a reported 174 total bids this year. This number does not include InCube, Jam! and Prism, whose presidents could not be reached for confirmation of the number of bids given.The Chronicle breaks down the number of bids each group extended. Numbers for accepted bids is not currently available.

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Ubuntu

After several weeks of rush, members of Duke’s Interfraternity Council fraternities and selective living groups have extended bids to new members.

The 15 IFC fraternities extended 372 bids to 291 rushees, IFC President Erskine Love, a senior, wrote in an e-mail Sunday. Of those offered bids, 244 students chose to join IFC chapters while 47 decided not to join.

Selective living groups also had a large turnout, said senior Lauren Powers, a member of the Selective House Council.

Not including InCube, Jam! and Prism— whose presidents could not be reached— Duke’s selective living groups extended a total of 174 bids, according to figures provided by Powers and the groups’ presidents. The number of students who accepted those bids has not yet been finalized, Powers added.

“I think [fraternities] have greater visibility than they have in the past,” Love said, pointing to the first annual meet and greet events that occurred in the Fall. “Sessions helped the process and gave potential new members the chance to see all 15 of our chapters [before rush].”

The 244 mark for fraternities represents an increase of 10 recruits over last year’s numbers. As of the deadline for formal Greek bid acceptances, Alpha Tau Omega received the highest number of accepted bids at 25, said ATO President Michael Mandl, a junior. Phi Delta Theta had the smallest pledge class, with six members.

Delta Kappa Epsilon saw a substantial increase in recruitment numbers. The

fraternity received 10 new members compared to just one last year.

“As always, I’m very proud of the men we’ve picked up,” DKE President Tucker Howard, a junior, wrote in a Wednesday e-mail. “This year has a great spread of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and even a senior.... I’m excited to see how a pledge class with such variety in ages comes together.”

With 13 new members, Chi Psi more than doubled its class from last year.

“We’re thrilled. This is the largest pledge class we’ve had in at least five years—probably longer,” Chi Psi President Daniel Simpson, a senior, wrote in a Wednesday e-mail.

“All of the guys are excellent, social gentlemen, and we believe that each of them will be able to contribute immensely to Chi Psi in the next few years.”

Among selective living groups, Ubuntu, Langdorm and Wayne Manor extended the highest number of bids—25 each.

Brownstone and Arts Theme House each extended bids to 10 new members.

For a number of the selective living groups, there were far more students interested in joining than available beds.

Senior Catalina Hidalgo, rush coordinator for Roundtable, said that the SLG received nearly 200 applications this year and extended 22 bids. Brownstone placed 10 people on a wait list because the group has limited bed space.

“This is definitely the smallest class in memory that I know of,” Brownstone President Brett Schroeder, a junior, said. “But it always oscillates, and hopefully next year it will be bigger.”

Presidents of InCube, Jam! and Prism and could not be reached for comment.

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egypt from page 3 any sort of violence or any attempt to silence the media,” she said. “If the government in Egypt has done that, it specifically speaks toward the fear they have concerning the power of the media and the huge impact they have and the responsibility they have to tell the rest of the world what is going on.”

Leila Elmergawi, who is half Egyptian and treasurer for Duke’s Muslim Student Organization, agrees. In an effort to express allegiance with the protesters in Cairo, she organized a peaceful vigil in front of the Chapel Tuesday and wrote a petition in support of media freedom in Egypt. Elmergawi, who is pursing a masters degree in arts and liberal studies, said local journalists in Egypt have been operating under these conditions for a long time. Egypt has been under a “state of emergency,” which allows the government to arrest citizens without charge, hold prisoners indefinitely and restrict freedom of expression, since 1981.

“The local media in Egypt had been oppressed for years,” Elmergawi wrote in an e-mail. “Journalists lost the morality of their trade in order to put food on the table in fear of losing their lives. Egyptians now are not afraid anymore, and all those journalists and reporters are going out in the streets trying to present the truth that they always had to hide.”

Her petition received 43 signatures, but Abdullah Antepli, Duke’s Muslim chaplain, said their campaign will not stop at the Chapel steps.

“The violence is inhumane—it’s despicable and it is completely unacceptable,” he said. “We would really like to get this petition to go to the United States government through local representatives because a significant part of the problem is our foreign policy.”

Sophomore Max Kagan said he views the violence as nothing but a transparent ploy for Mubarak to cling to power. An Arabic major, Kagan was in Egypt last summer for DukeEngage and noted how difficult it must be for reporters to work under such repressive conditions.

“The media is always an interesting force in Egypt,” he said. “I think Al Jazeera has done a really good job of reporting, especially considering how hard it is to report and how many places they aren’t allowed into.”

Despite the obstacles reporters face, Whitlock said the violence has not negatively affected the flow of information.

In fact, he said, the violence has been counterproductive

to pro-government forces’ efforts to quiet foreign reporters and helped bring more attention to the situation in Egypt.

Whitlock added that as the protests have continued, the Egyptian military has become more active, working to suppress pro-Mubarak civilian violence but also detaining journalists and taking away their equipment. Although Whitlock himself has not experienced any military interference, he said two of his colleagues were detained for security purposes. Ironically, he said, he feels most unsafe when he sees security forces.

“On Tahrir Square [the epicenter of the protests], you feel pretty safe,” Whitlock said. “The demonstrators against Mubarak are very friendly and engaging and they want their story to be told. But when you see the police and military around, you don’t know how they will react. It is the government forces now that are harassing journalists. You have to watch your step.”

Phil Bennett, Eugene C. Patterson professor of the practice of journalism and public policy and former managing

editor of The Washington Post, said such governmental tactics are nothing new. But what makes the situation in Egypt unique, he said, is the wide spectrum of media sources now reporting and changing the way information is received.

“Vicious attacks on the press like those in Egypt make reporting hard and hazardous, but they don’t silence the story anymore,” Bennett said. “What seems new in Egypt is a broad band of media, involving foreign journalists and Egyptian citizens, pushing news and information through too many channels for the state to control the ‘off’ switch.”

Whitlock too refuses to be turned off. He said even though he may be susceptible to violence, he finds it exciting to watch the fast-paced political story he is trying to tell unfold right before his eyes.

“There is absolutely nothing scripted about this,” Whitlock said. “It is incredible for journalists who get to cover news like that.”

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Anti-Mubarak protesters hold food and chant after the army prohibited food from being brought inside Tahrir Square. This photo ran Feb. 6 with a story in The Washington Post written by Craig Whitlock, a Duke alumnus, and Griff Witte.

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getson from page 1 information studies. He has not yet finalized his post-graduation plans, but he intends to work with new technologies.

Getson said he enrolled in the ISIS certificate program—which combines computer science, English, visual studies and engineering—to fully capitalize on Duke’s interdisciplinary resources. If elected, he hopes to increase the visibility and enrollment of similar programs.

“We should [assess] our interdisciplinary offerings and see how they could be incorporated more strongly into the course curriculum,” he said. “At that point, when a Duke student graduates with their diploma, they’re not just really accomplished in their field, but they’re also collaborative students.”

Getson also has experience integrating community involvement into student life as a founder of the serviceoriented selective living group Ubuntu.

Senior Alex Reese, a fellow founder of the group, has known Getson since their freshman year and attests to his dedication to the University.

“Ben talks about ideas for Duke all the time with anyone that he can,” Reese said.

“He dedicates a lot of time to give back as much as he can and I think he sees Young Trustee as an opportunity to keep at it.”

soundoff from page 4 “Coming up from behind makes it seem so much more legit.”

—Claire Lockerby, junior “The person behind me had a lightsaber

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Getson served as a senator on DSG in his first two years at Duke, and during his junior year he worked to bring the course syllabus archive and CourseRank to the Duke student body. Currently, Getson is collaborating on a new end-of-course evaluation system intended to provide more comprehensive information to students and serves as senior policy advisor to DSG President Mike Lefevre.

Getson said the long-range thinking he exercised in DSG and the Board of Trustees’ Academic Affairs Committee qualifies him for the position of Young Trustee.

“I had to learn how to share my unique perspective in that faculty discussion. I had to make hard decisions about something I wouldn’t be able to see,” Getson said of working with the Trustees. “As Young Trustee, I’ll have to make decisions to make and direct Duke even though as an alumnus I really wouldn’t see the fruits.”

Suzanne Shanahan, associate director for the Kenan Institute for Ethics, helped to select Getson as the undergraduate representative on the committee to select the new dean for the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.

“Simply put, Ben is wise—wise in a way that I think every member of the committee, comprised of faculty and deans from across the University, came to truly admire,” Shanahan wrote in an e-mail Tuesday.

and was using the force, so that probably helped.”

—Kellynoel Waldorf, freshman “That was the most insane game I’ve ever been to. The amount of stress probably made everyone want to vomit, but we showed we are fighters and can come back

saaem from page 1 “Duke took me in as an international student [and] trained me as a scientist,” he said. Duke has also been a place of personal growth for Saaem—he met his fiance at the University.

Saaem already has experience with the Board of Trustees, serving as a student representative on the Business and Finance Committee for the past four years. Given the bad economic situation, Saaem said his work involved “playing a lot of defense for students.” The committee, which administers funds to different University programs, is elected by the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s general assembly.

“Anything money-related going through Duke will come to that table,” he said. “Things like financial aid and tuition increases will come across that committee’s purview.”

Additionally, Saaem has spent the past four years as a GPSC executive, which has allowed him to listen to the concerns of many different departments. Currently, he is serving as a GPSC representative to the Alumni Association.

“Finding the commonality between everybody’s problems and presenting that as a little, digestible message to the Trustees is important,” Saaem said.

Saaem’s work with GPSC has also result-

ed in better professional development opportunities for graduate and professional students, said Jacqueline Looney, senior associate dean for graduate programs, who also serves as one of Saaem’s deans.

“He’s very thoughtful and researches his issues and brings them to the administration in the Graduate School, and we listen,” she said.

In addition to his experience, Saaem feels he would bring a unique perspective to the Trustees as he will be graduating in May and said he can relate to many students’ concerns about the job market. If elected to the position, Saaem would also like to focus on financial aid for students, make Duke aware of the voices of minorities and maintain stronger ties with Durham.

“Something that I would like to see is Duke doing more entrepreneurship activities, civic engagement and also hightech entrepreneurship,” he said. “If Duke can really get a good footing in the community, that would be an awesome thing to be doing.”

James McDonald, a current graduate Young Trustee who knows Saaem through GPSC, said Saaem is qualified because of his vast understanding of campus issues.

“He comes with more knowledge of the University than most people I’ve heard of running for this position,” McDonald said.

when we need to.”

—Michael Habashi, sophomore

“I’m a good luck charm.”

—Tim Hsu, junior

“It doesn’t get any better than that.... To say it was loud in there would be the understatement of the year.”

—Chris Brown, sophomore and vice president for athletics and campus services

“It was so exciting. I didn’t think we’d win, but we did. And I love Seth Curry. I thought he was a scrub, but he’s an antiscrub.”

—Mike Chuang, junior

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In 2nd half, Duke finally stops Henson

by Jeff Scholl THE CHRONICLE

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In the second half, Seth Curry and Nolan Smith combined for 40 points.

They shot 73 percent from the floor and were largely responsible for Duke’s comeback from 14 down at the beginning of the period.

30 CAROLINA STUMBLES While Smith and Curry combined for 40 in the second, the entire North Carolina team could only muster 30 points. Harrison Barnes [pictured] didn’t get anything going, shooting 1-for-4 from the field in the half.

16 COMEBACK=SUCCESS The Blue Devils fell behind 8-0 to start the game, were behind by 16 at one point and didn’t own the lead until there were nine minutes left in the game. Nevertheless, they pulled off the comeback, winning 79-73.

Standing at a svelte 6-foot-10 and 210 pounds, North Carolina forward John Henson does not possess the burly physique of fellow ACC big men such as Miami’s Reggie Johnson, N.C. State’s Tracy Smith and Maryland’s Jordan Williams.

But Henson had no need for bulk in the first half of Wednesday’s rivalry game, playing with much more strength than his trim frame would suggest.

The sophomore dominated the paint with frontcourt mate Tyler Zeller in the opening 20 minutes, Game helping the Tar Heels Analysis jump out to an early lead that they maintained until midway through the second half. Only after the Blue Devils found a way to contain North Carolina’s threat down low were they able to turn the tide of the contest and pull out a comeback victory.

Duke, however, could not contain Henson and Zeller in the game’s early stages. They accounted for 16 of the Tar Heels’ first 25 points, scoring easily against the Plumlee brothers and Ryan Kelly with a variety of layups, tip-ins and short jumpers. Point guard Kendall Marshall’s court vision in transition helped set up many of the duo’s easy baskets, as the Blue Devils were caught off-guard by the freshman’s precise passes in addition to Henson and Zeller’s quickness on the break.

“Their bigs run so well,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I think Henson’s as good a big guy as there is in the country. That kid is so unique and talented....

I don’t think there’s a more unique guy than him, and Zeller gives them that steadiness inside.”

Starting at the 16:47 mark of the first half, the pair of big men scored 14 consecutive points for the Tar Heels in a span of around three and a half minutes. Henson began the stretch with a tough leaner that just rolled over the rim and down into the cylinder. Zeller took over from there, putting in two easy layups—the direct result of Marshall’s deep penetration into the lane—and nailing a midrange jump shot after Nolan Smith had cut North Carolina’s lead to two points.

Henson and Zeller came close to matching the first-half scoring and rebounding output of the entire Duke squad, posting a combined 23 points and 15 boards on accurate 10-for-15 shooting.

Yet, Henson’s tepid play coming out of halftime signalled a drastic shift in the Blue Devils’ resolve on the defensive end of the floor. The sophomore turned the ball over on the Tar Heels’ first possession of the second period, losing the ball out of bounds while backing down Kelly in the post. Henson’s next touch resulted in a traveling violation as he attempted to establish position down low.

“We went into halftime and looked at the statistics, and that’s got to be a motivator—they were dominating us,” Kelly said. “That’s part of the game, you have to be able to flush something, flush

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In the first half, John Henson was an offensive and defensive force, but the Blue Devils stopped him in the second. the first half. We played really hard the second half, and our bigs weren’t necessarily putting the ball in the basket, but defensively and with rebounding they did a really good job.”

Not only did Duke tighten up its defense both in the post and on the perimeter, but the Blue Devils asserted themselves on the offensive glass as well, creating second chances that led to open shots for the hot hands of Smith and Seth Curry.

Duke collected six offensive rebounds within five minutes at the start of the second half, while North Carolina failed to grab a single one over the same time period. Those boards led to 11 points and enabled the Blue Devils to narrow their 14-point halftime deficit, climbing back within six points of the Tar Heels with 14:54 remaining in the game.

The sharpshooting of Smith and Curry also prevented North Carolina from pushing the tempo in transition as it had done successfully for the first 20 minutes of play.

“They didn’t get the fast breaks in the second half that they got in the first half, and part of it is because our shots were better and our shots were going in,” Krzyzewski said.

Duke’s big men held Henson to four second-half points but still struggled to limit Zeller’s scoring: The 7-footer finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds. The Blue Devils, however, overcame Zeller’s output­ with the production of Smith— the same way they withstood stellar post performances from Miami’s Johnson and Maryland’s Williams in victories over the Hurricanes at home and the Terrapins on the road earlier this season.

And Smith was more than willing to carry the team when Duke needed a spark.

“The second-half adjustment I made was just to be aggressive,” Smith said. “When I started doing that, then things opened up a lot easier for me to either penetrate or hit an open three. I just wanted to... do whatever it took not to let us lose.”

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punk rock has a new standard-bearer

CDS exhibit curated by country singer Marty Stuart

blues wimmin

Duke professor presents original dance and video

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theSANDBOX. I’m 21 years old, a senior with nothing to do, so I go to bars. I’m not necessarily saying I drink much at these bars, I’m not necessarily saying I don’t. Sati’s, Devine’s, Alivia’s, these are all bars I know. These are bars most Dukies know, where you’ll find them Wednesday through Saturday, celebrating and mourning their last months of college (or, for those lucky ones, junior year).

Fullsteam, Motorco, Whiskey­—these are also bars I go to. They have that “hey, this is our place” vibe that is just screaming trendy, and that might be why I love them, apart from the normal Duke haunts.

Tuesday nights at Motorco you can go and hang out with local artist King Kenney while playing board games and Nintendo. Last time I went I learned that I might be better at Jenga than computer science, major or no major.

Any night at Fullsteam you can buy a

beer that’s brewed literally 15 feet away.

Combine that with a ping-pong table and a jukebox for an instant good time.

And any night at Whiskey I’d be lying if I told you about, as it’s 23 and up, so really this one isn’t our place at all. But that just makes me want to go there even more, of course. I went once, but I got kicked out for being of legal age to drink instead of legal age to be good enough for Whiskey. That said, my two minutes there were two of my most glorious before the security IDed me. (Note: I said security, not bouncer—places this classy don’t have bouncers).

If you want to call Shooters your bar, that’s cool; if you want to play a legendary game of Connect 4 while providing a stimulus package for the brewery you can literally see, that just might be a little better.

—DJ Sharkey

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If I could just somehow transcribe, convey in words, the guitar riffs and solo from “Ball and Biscuit,” then I would. That’s all this column would be. Those bluesy, cascading parts, the stop-start bedrock holding patterns and, above all, the hollering solos, bursting out of mossy effects and then slowing right back down again.

But I can’t. Instead, it is worth considering the band behind that fretwork, the White Stripes, which a week ago announced its dissolution. The Stripes were something of a force, to put it mildly.

Jack White seemed always to be in Robert Johnson-level throes of possession, Meg White’s bare automaton drumming only enhanced the band’s weird chemistry and there was that myth about them being siblings, when they were actually a divorced couple. Also, the red, white and black. And, oh, that guitar.

The Stripes were a force of both God— some sort of God, anyway—and history.

Their fourth record, Elephant, was the first legitimate album I ever purchased. I remember hearing “Seven Nation Army” on the radio, driving home with my dad, and needing to find out what that song was, because it sounded different than anything I’d ever heard on contemporary radio. It sounded like classic rock, but new, and— restrained. It was that cool restraint.

And then I picked up Elephant, and I looped “The Air Near My Fingers,” and I used quotes from the tracks in my AIM away messages, because Jack White’s lyrics hung in your head like birds and you’d think about them and wonder how they worked, why they worked so well.

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As I got progressively more into music, I got progressively more into the Stripes. The White Stripes gave me as good an education as a white suburban kid might hope to get in the blues before pressing the issue on his own. De Stijl exploded and crawled and gloated all at once (good example: “Hello Operator”). White Blood Cells remains a stellar collection of pop songs in rock-and-roll clothing. And with Get Behind Me Satan, I was old enough to start proselytizing, and I got my dad into the Stripes, and any son remembers the first time he gets his dad to listen to his music and actually enjoy it.

Reading Jack White’s announcement of the end was more disheartening than heartbreaking. It’s been three years since Icky Thump, which was solid but hardly revolutionary, and it’s not like Jack’s been stagnant lately. He’s producing, he’s got a label, he’s even in two bands, the Dead Weather and the Raconteurs—though neither comes close in craft or execution to his old duo.

But as long as the band continued, there remained hope that we’d get another lethal batch of songs, one that would push the blues farther to the foreground of contemporary rock.

So, the industry will wait for White’s next act, which, at the very least, should be a nice surprise. And with the Strokes releasing a new album in March, it’ll be hard for me to forget about the White Stripes too soon; both bands played a similar role in my development as a consumer of music, along with the Hives and Modest Mouse. Out of those four, the only one that’s now defunct is the Stripes, though the Hives and Modest Mouse might as well be. More pressure on the Strokes, then.

—Kevin Lincoln

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Baths coasts into Coffeehouse on recent LP

by Jeff Shi

THE CHRONICLE

Perhaps all Will Weisenfeld needed was a new moniker. Under the pseudonym Baths, his 2010 debut LP, Cerulean, garnered critical acclaim for its blissful, ethereal electro-pop, drawing comparisons to artists as diverse as chillwaver Toro Y Moi and fellow southern Californian producer Flying Lotus. Tonight, Wiesenfeld brings his Baths project to Duke Coffeehouse, along with Canadian experimental rock outfit Braids.

Wiesenfeld has been recording music for nearly a decade as Geotic and [Postfoetus]—the latter of which dealt in the same propulsive, syncopated rhythms as Cerulean. And although popularity remained elusive until recently, each act provided a unique font for Wiesenfeld.

“Baths, and to a lesser extent, [Post-foetus], is more beat-oriented than anything else I’ve done,” he said. “Geotic was kind of self-indulgent, ambient stuff that I really made... to fall asleep to—it was meant for passive listening.”

Regardless of the project, Wiesenfeld has maintained a passion for and dedication to electronic music as an art form.

“When I heard Bjork for the first time in seventh grade, I was 100 percent sure I wanted to make and record music for the rest of my life,” he said. “I’ve worked toward that exclusively since then.”

Despite having recorded for so long, Baths’ widespread success has been a totally new experience.

“Before last year, I was on a plateau— everything was very small-scale, spread and shared by friends. But after Cerulean, everything’s gone exponential,” Weisenfeld said.

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Baths, Will Wiesenfeld’s latest project, drew great acclaim for recent LP Cerulean. He will play the Coffeehouse tonight with Canadian experimental rock act Braids.

In part, the album’s popularity has prompted Weisenfeld to consider a return to the studio—and the direction of Cerulean’s successor.

“I never intended or wanted Cerulean to be my defining artistic statement. I’m looking forward to building on that and making a name for myself with music I’m personally more comfortable with,” he said. “The next one’s going to be a lot darker, almost antithetical to Cerulean.”

Wiesenfeld is supported by Braids, who released their debut full-length, Native Speaker, last month to a chorus of positive reviews. The two artists met through a mutual friend, and Braids were Weisenfeld’s first choice for a supporting act.

“I could tell they had to make music, that it was in their blood to do what they do,” he said. “I was totally enthralled with what they were doing and honored that they would support me on this tour.”

Like Cerulean, Native Speaker, with its angelic, clarion vocals and heavily layered guitars and synths, represents a breakthrough for a band with extensive prior recording experience.

“It’s very emotional, almost cinematic music,” said keyboard player and vocalist Katie Lee. “We like to try to create environments with our music, and we use it as a way to communicate with each other on a deep level.”

Though grounded in indie rock and shoegaze influences, their debut is as dreamlike and transcendent as Baths’ more electro-oriented effort. Lee was quick to point out other similarities to Baths.

“We really enjoy his work—he’s a lot like us, as Braids, in that the music requires some patience to fully understand,” she said. “Plus, he just makes some really good pop tunes.”

But perhaps the biggest similarity between the two artists is their newfound success, both critical and popular. Lee recalls their previous years as a touring band being dominated by a few very dedicated fans, mostly friends or friends of friends.

“It’s been really flattering to see new faces at shows in the last couple months, even in Montreal,” she said.

Playing to a wider audience has also given the band new sources of feedback.

“It’s nice when other people understand why we write the music we do and when people come up and tell us what they thought about the music,” she said. “I always like to ask what people liked about the show, because everyone has a different take.”

Baths plays the Duke Coffeehouse tonight, with Braids and Blackbird Blackbird opening.

Doors are at 8:30 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are free for students and $10 general admission.

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February 10, 2011

Filmmaker Hawkins takes a novel look at Cameron

by Derek Saffe THE CHRONICLE

Duke basketball in Cameron Indoor: It’s what every sports-conscious Duke student loves. But to documentary filmmaker Gary Hawkins, a son asking his father why the people in the bleachers painted their faces blue is just as interesting as Nolan Smith shouting out a set play to his teammates.

Hawkins, a visiting lecturer at the Center for Documentary Studies and the Sanford School of Public Policy, is currently working on One Night In Cameron, a documentary about the different elements that compose watching a game in Cameron. Equal emphasis is given to the actual game and the fans, food vendors, towel guys and all others who make Duke basketball unique.

An Emmy winner and Sundance Fellow, the North Carolina native has also taught filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where his students included David Gordon Green, director of Pineapple Express, and Danny McBride, star of Eastbound and Down. In addition to One Night in Cameron, he recently filmed a concert by Outkast rapper Big Boi and electronic duo MSTRKRFT during the annual Yorktown Throwdown music festival in Charleston, S.C., and a documentary about the American Dance Festival held every summer in Durham.

Hawkins derived the inspiration for One Night in Cameron from Federico Fellini’s Satyricon and his own Thelonius Monk documentary, In My Mind. In Satyricon, Hawkins saw the gladiator fight scenes and was entranced by the audience members.

“I always wondered how it must be like to be in

the Coliseum,” Hawkins said.

His musing gained traction when he and a group of his Duke students flew to New York City to film In My Mind, a tribute to Monk’s famous 1959 Town Hall concert. His goal was to deconstruct the concert, and after compiling the footage his student crew had taken, he decided there was enough to create a compelling film that captured what it was like to watch the performance live.

For One Night in Cameron, his army of camera operators filmed the action from two hours before the Jan. 27 home game against Boston College until an hour afterward, focusing on the fan experience as being the core of what defines a Duke basketball game (they will also film additional games). A fan of Eisensteinian montage, he prefers to show the result of a Seth Curry free throw by a quick cut to the audience’s collective “swoosh” rather than a shot of the drained bucket itself.

Hawkins strives to encapsulate the true experience of being one of the Cameron Crazies, where verbal exchanges like the one between that father and son are just as important as the crowd’s chanting and screaming. He is interested in exploring the minute details, the often unseen elements that compose the bigger picture and make it what it is.

“Gary always asks us ‘to deepen the mystery of life,’” Ronja Dittrich, a graduate student in public policy and a member of Hawkins’ Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking class, wrote in an e-mail.

Both One Night in Cameron and his Yorktown Throwdown concert film are shot with mostly student crews and no additional funding.

“It is unique how readily he is willing to incor-

porate learning students into his big shoots,” junior Roberto Rivera, also a student of Hawkins, wrote in an e-mail. “The on-the-job training was great, and it allowed me to learn much faster than if he had forced us all to take baby steps through the process.”

This hands-on training comes with its own travails, as many hours of footage have been lost to inexperience. Luckily for his students, Hawkins takes these errors of naivete in stride, believing that the only way to get better at filmmaking is by making more films. And in the same way, even with the countless hours of footage already amassed, One Night in Cameron has still not developed into its final form.

“We still don’t know where it’s going,” Hawkins said. “[The experience] is way more complex than I thought.”

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Swag is a delicate thing. In hip-hop, rappers cultivate it with care and persistence, as though they were selling a product—shill enough, and somebody will buy in. But with punk rock, swag is self-evident, and on Mr. Dream’s stellar debut LP Trash Hit, it’s there from the first smoldering bass line.

A Brooklyn trio featuring two prominent music writers—vocalist/guitarist Adam Moerder and drummer/producer Nick Sylvester—and vocalist/bassist Matt Morello, Mr. Dream shows none of the prissy abstraction with which critics are often stereotyped. Trash Hit is sweltering no-wave grafted onto the skeleton of modern punk that, aside from a few notable standard-bearers, has been cast aside for the insipid drone of chillwave and glo-fi now dominating the contemporary discussion.

Mr. Dream’s strutting sound careens between repeated, pugilistic guitar riffs, rising and diving like F-16s, and fuzzy bass that lends the songs a teeth-bared, hackles-raised ferocity. Sylvester’s relentless drumming sets the breakneck, two-and-a-half-minutes-or-less pace and guides the freewheeling sonics.

But to have a truly dominant punk band of the kind that these guys are going for—literate, confident and generally pissed-off—vocals are the lynchpin.

Moerder’s art-rebel yell is at once controlled and lunatic, and songs here are imbued with aphoristic mantras and come-ons: “And now he’ll never be the same” (“Scarred for Life”); “Honey, go get my shotgun” (“Shotgun Tricks”); “Heaven is just a zip code” (“Learn the Language”). The thick, twangy “Knick Knack” best embodies Mr. Dream’s pulsing swagger: “I’m David, I’m Goliath/ You’re a knick-knack/I’m the Fuhrer, I’m the Kaiser/You’re a knick-knack.”

No quarter is given on Trash Hit; though Mr. Dream released a few tremendous songs prior to the LP, “Knick Knack” is the only one to make the cut, which just affirms the record’s consistency. But of the 13, the three best— slowed-down anthem “Unfinished Business,” the angular, caterwauling “Cool Down Apollo” and the menacing “Croquet”—all mine different veins of the same terrorizing, absolutely necessary rock-and-roll.

Like Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor last year, and Pixies and early Spoon (think Telephono), Mr. Dream isn’t solely good music. Trash Hit is a riot against today’s regime of toothless, eyes-inward monotony.

—Kevin Lincoln

Sparkle & Twang brings both legends and everyman emotion to CDS

by Caitlin Moyles THE CHRONICLE

A snapshot of a pastor holding his Bible in front of a Baptist church, a close-up of a medicine man from the Lakota tribe and a formal portrait of Dolly Parton—Sparkle & Twang: An American Musical Odyssey presents these seemingly disparate photographs in an intimate yet democratic collection by celebrated country singer Marty Stuart.

The series of black-and-white photos, on display at the Center for Documentary Studies, offers a holistic look into Stuart’s church-going, rhythm-and-blues America, adding a personal touch to the traditional genre of documentary photography. The collection features both recognizable characters, such as Bob Dylan, B.B. King and Ray Charles­­, and everyday citizens of old America who Stuart encountered during his time working and traveling as a musician—a 1980 snapshot of a black man lollygagging in front of the White House, dryly entitled “The President of the United States,” comes to mind.

The photographs vary in approach as much as they do in subject matter. The exhibit includes formal portraits, including one of Johnny Cash taken four days before he died in 2003, but many of the pictures have a familiar feel and capture musicians at ease in cafes and Nashville recording studios.

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also dedicates a significant portion of the exhibit to the Lakota tribe, whose South Dakota reservation Stuart first visited while touring with Johnny Cash’s band. Located on a different floor, this section initially seems disconnected from the rest of Sparkle & Twang. However, his portraits of a Lakota queen, a medicine man and the vast emptiness of a field with a sole buffalo in the foreground parallel Stuart’s attempt to preserve a forgotten people and time. Stuart also features more recent folk heroes, such as Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, illustrating how the tradition of the past is alive in the present.

Thirty years later, the preservation of American people and places emerges as the dominant theme of Sparkle & Twang. Every detail of the portraits stands out, from the subjects’ facial expressions, to what they wore, to where they lived and worked. Contrary to what you might expect, the portraits of big-name celebrities by no means steal the spotlight of the exhibit—Stuart’s portraits are honest, direct and treat his subjects as if he knew they would, one day, be historical treasures. As varying as they may initially seem, the portraits of Sparkle & Twang are intimate and poignant, bringing the viewer on a veritable odyssey through the history of American musical heritage.

Sparkle & Twang is on display through March 31 at the Porch and University Galleries in the Center for Documentary Studies.

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Duke professor explores blues through dance

by Michaela Dwyer THE CHRONICLE

When dance instructor Andrea Woods Valdes moved from New York City to Durham, and took on the role of a professor at Duke in addition to her art, she knew it would take some adjusting.

This Saturday, Woods Valdes, assistant professor of the practice of dance, will present blues wimmin, an evening of original, multidisciplinary works created in Durham. It will showcase seven video and performance pieces that Woods has developed over the past 10 years, each exploring, in some way, the wide-ranging emotional and physical facets of the blues.

“I intentionally uprooted myself from all that was familiar,” Woods Valdes said. “The new territory allowed me to redefine what I do. I was looking at an open plane.”

The program, which features junior Danika Manso-Brown as well as local Durham dancers Christiana Barnett-Murphy and Kristen Taylor, will also include live music by Josh Stohl and vocalist and cellist Shana Tucker, who composed the scores in real time as the dancers rehearsed.

Woods Valdes said this sort of experimentation echoes the project as a whole, which was an exploratory process for her and for the dancers.

“I’m trying to define a paradigm that works for me, as an artist and as a professor and a scholar,” Woods Valdes said. “When working with students, it’s usually more objective. I want [blues wimmin] to be personal and subjective.”

The program’s title was inspired by political activist Angela Davis’ book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism. In the first piece of the evening, called blues wimmin: evidence of freedom, prelude to protest, Woods Valdes will present a lecture and perfor-

mance that explores the evocative music and lyrics of the blues, as well its complex undertones of irony, sensuality and empowerment, through the lens of the female experience. This opening piece centers on the confluence of movement and prose. Additional works, such as the video still life w/ words, follow this same theme.

Other dances, such as Slow Jig and Mirada Ritmica/Rythmic Gaze, are more movementbased and indicative of Woods Valdes’ signature style, which incorporates modern and African dance techniques.

Barnett-Murphy, who has taken classes with Woods Valdes and participated in her repertory pieces for November Dances, discussed her experience working with Woods and with the other dancers and collaborators of blues wimmin.

“All [of the artists involved] have something to offer individually, and when you see that amount of creativity and passion being put in one project, it’s quite beautiful,” Barnett-Murphy said.

She said though working with the other artists had been a gratifying group effort, the opportunity to work with Woods Valdes herself on such a specific project has been especially insightful.

“I’ve also learned a tremendous amount from Andrea specifically,” Barnett-Murphy said. “She has a way of balancing the specific vision she has for the work, while still keeping an open mind.”

Perhaps, then, Woods Valdes’ attempts to define and preserve herself as both an instructor and an artist are falling into place quite naturally. Seamlessly connecting multimedia and movement, blues wimmin demonstrates that all it takes is the proper amount of balance. blues wimmin will take place Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ark dance studio on Duke’s East Campus.

February 10, 2011

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London producer James Blake’s self-titled debut album has relegated everything else in my music library to secondclass status for the past month, but for an album I’ve listened to 60 times it remains unusually difficult to contain.

The individual components of each song are so precisely ordained, it’s tempting to call Blake a perfectionist.

But he’s been so prolific—this is his fourth release in 11 months—that “genius” may be a more apt description.

The album is chock full of moments befitting a sagacious producer who knows his craft inside out: the epiphany just past the halfway point of “The Wilhelm Scream,” when the music drops out to introduce a droning organ sound; the crescendo that carries “I Never Learnt to Share” skyward before abruptly bringing everything back to ground level. The subsequent two-song suite is graceful and well executed, and auto-tuned vocals punctuated by gaps of silence create suspense until gentle guitar strumming eases “Lindisfarne” into its second part. The magnetism of the

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maneuver is undeniable.

His minimalist take on Feist’s “Limit To Your Love” highlights the song’s poetry, and Blake adds startlingly grave bass wobbles that simply cannot be appreciated on laptop speakers. Although Blake’s sound was influenced by dubstep’s early progenitors, “I Mind” is the closest thing here to “dubstep” in its current iteration.

After the string of EPs Blake released in 2010, the musical prodigy on display here isn’t surprising. The revelation of James Blake is the aching, palpable humanity he has imparted through his songwriting.

Blake’s lyrics consist mainly of earnest declarations of vulnerability. His pining on “The Wilhelm Scream”— “I don’t know about my dreams/I don’t know about my dreaming anymore/All that I know is I’m falling, falling, falling”—encapsulates the confusion, apprehension and choking sense of loss brought to bear.

James Blake brings two recent classics to mind: Spoon’s Kill the Moonlight for its brilliant economy and Burial’s Untrue for its uncanny evocative powers. Like those artists, Blake refines and distills the sounds that preceded him in order to produce something even simpler, yet somehow avant-garde.

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Cut Copy’s dazzling sophomore LP, In Ghost Colours, performed an impressive tightrope act—capturing all the euphoria and all the irresistible kinetic energy of new-wave dance rock without any of the kitsch of the ’80s. It is a feat few contemporaries could match, made all the more remarkable by the straight-faced execution. Ironic signifiers and notions of cool aloofness be damned—Cut Copy just wanted to dance.

Zonoscope announces a new, but not drastically different, mission statement. There’s a greater emphasis here on textures, transitions and cohesion. The prevalent sequencing tic of In Ghost Colours—ambient minute-long interludes— is subverted. Frontman Dan Whitford gives these tracks a thicker, more consistent production than the mercurial serotonin rush of their predecessors.

Whitford also wears his influences on his sleeve more apparently than ever before, many of which bring Zonoscope into a campy realm that In Ghost Colours transcended. “Take Me Over” rips its bass riff from Aussie compatriots Men at Work; Whitford adopts a shameless David Byrne vocal affect on “Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution”; and the looping electronics that conclude 15-minute closer “Sun God” (itself a sequencing oddity, being three legitimately distinct tracks crammed into one) recall LCD Soundsystem passed through the same grating New Order filter that pervades the rest of the album. This last comparison may be the most illuminating. In Ghost Colours gave coproduction credit to DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, who in retrospect seems instrumental in helping Cut Copy develop that album’s more natural synthesis of dance and electro-pop.

Zonoscope, with all its ambition, proceeds from a definitive more-is-more aesthetic, but somehow all this sound doesn’t make the songs any bigger. Just when the pulsing guitar of “Corner of the Sky” seems ready to take off, the band flubs the chorus. Whereas In Ghost Colours’ lead single “Lights and Music” announced its intentions with roiling synths and keyboards that jumped through the roof on every downbeat, Zonoscope opener “Need You Now” spends four and a half minutes building tension—but the payoff leaves you cold.

All this isn’t to say the album fails completely, because it doesn’t. There’s plenty here to like, and tracks like “Pharaohs & Pyramids” make clear that though Cut Copy may not have retained their magic touch, they haven’t lost an ear for hooks. But those hooks—the primary reason why In Ghost Colours made such a splash in the first place—aren’t given the same exuberant prominence as before. Cut Copy have grown up, but their unabashed youthfulness was what we loved about them all along.

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NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City,

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February 3 – July 10, 2011 The Nasher Museum presents The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965, an exhibition of photographs and recordings of some of the jazz world’s greatest legends. In the late 1950s, W. Eugene Smith lived and worked in a New York City loft building with an amazing list of visitors–jazz musicians, filmmakers, writers and artists. In photographs and audio recordings, Smith documented an era and rare moments with Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Norman Mailer, Salvador Dali and others, presented here in photographs, video and audio.

LEFT: W. Eugene Smith, Zoot Sims, c. 1957-1964. Collection of the W. Eugene Smith Archive, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona and © The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith.

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Scenes from the game

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[LEFT] Seth Curry celebrates after hitting one of his eight shots. The sophomore had seven straight points late in the second half to propel Duke to the comeback; [RIGHT] Nolan Smith drove to the lane at will in the second.

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duke-unc from page 1 Something needed to change. So Krzyzewski delivered a long halftime speech—not punctuated with broken clipboards or unprintable phrases, but instead with pleas for his team to relax.

“We didn’t yell or anything like that. It was just telling them to settle down and play,” Krzyzewski said. “They were just nuts [in the first half]. We were like, ‘What are you guys doing?’”

An entirely different team appeared to come out in the second half. This team was more ferocious on defense, forcing two straight traveling calls on Henson and Harrison Barnes. It was finally taking advantage of second-chance opportunities on offense, too: Smith hit

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a 3-pointer off a Kyle Singler offensive board, and Curry knocked down a trey of his own off another Singler offensive rebound to cut the 14-point halftime deficit to six.

The game’s most pivotal stretch, though, didn’t come in Duke’s initial second-half blitz. It came around five minutes later at the 10:51 mark, when Curry finally lived up to his promise shown at the beginning of the year and put Duke on his back.

The sophomore hit a 3-pointer to cut the lead to four, drilled a jumper to cut it to two, then, on the next Duke possession, pump-faked his defender, causing him to fly past and leave Curry open to nonchalantly hit another jumper.

It marked seven straight points for the guard, and he reveled in his incredible accomplishment.

“Let’s go!” he screamed to his teammates, with the game tied at 54 and 9:45 remaining.

“He’s pretty damn good,” Krzyzewski said of Curry. “The thing he’s learned to do is get his shot off quicker. He was really coming off screens well, and when he was he took his shot.”

North Carolina began to look rattled in the wake of Curry’s outburst. Kendall Marshall—who was neutralized in the contest, scoring nine on 3-for-11 from the floor—was fouled, and he went to the line and bricked his first attempt.

On Duke’s next trip down the court, Smith drove in the paint and dished the ball to Ryan Kelly, who knocked down a 3-pointer to give Duke its first lead of the night with 9:14 left.

A minute later, Smith hit a layup in transition and picked up the foul, running to the student section and beating his chest at the fans, then lining up his free throw attempt and making it. The Blue Devils now

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Kyle Singler had a poor shooting day, but stopped Harrison Barnes from breaking double digits in scoring. had a 60-55 lead.

“Those guys [Smith and Curry], they keep coming at you, keep coming at you, keep coming at you,” North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said.

Smith scored nine more points after that and-one. With 15 seconds left in the contest, he caught a perfect inbounds pass from Singler and threw down a game-clinching dunk to put Duke up six.

Just a few seconds later, with the Blue

Devils’ win in the books, the senior jumped up and down back to the Duke bench. He said later that he realized his team was “a part of history.”

“Nolan’s performance was off the charts,” Krzyzewski said. “That was one heck of a performance by that kid.”

Duke-North Carolina is a rivalry that contains among its storied history a collection of many memorable moments, many classic individual performances.

Add last night to that group.

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The language of love

he weather is warming up, the shanties in K- momentous protocol that the English verb is. “It ville are empty and Valentine’s Day is quick- is an important phrase for a relationship,” French ly approaching. Is it February already? lecturing fellow Christelle Gonthier told me, “but In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, I wanted a couple can use ‘Je t’aime’ when they’re just startto make note of a few things. I love my ing to go out. In France, there’s parents, my brother and my friends. not so much restraint as far as I love Duke and our basketball team. feelings go.” This was baffling to I love my hamster, Oliver. I love walks me, especially since the epic misalong the Eno River at dawn. And I placement of the “I love you” molove the opportunities that my family ment is a running motif in Ameriand my education have afforded me. can culture.

I used the same word—“love”—in Now close your eyes again all of those sentiments, but I didn’t and imagine that you’re on the sandeep prasanna hot streets of Bombay, holding mean the same thing. To be sure, love is a complex, multifaceted idea in any hooked on phonetics hands with your significant other. language. But the unique English colIt’s been a few months since you loquial use of the word spans many different mean- started dating, but you haven’t yet experienced ings, from appreciation to like to lust to romance. the “I love you” turning point. Keep waiting, my To non-native speakers, the protocols around its friend—it’s not going to come. use are often perplexing. Hell, even for native EngIn Indian cultures, love can be expressed lish speakers, finding the appropriate moment to through actions, but it is almost never explicitly say “I love x” can be difficult. spoken. If it is expressed verbally, it will likely be in So let’s try to sort this out. Professing uncon- English. I didn’t even know how to say “I love you” ditional love to one’s family is common in An- in my first language, Kannada, until I looked it up glophone cultures. To tell your friends that you online about two years ago. Most of my Hindi, Marlove them is fairly common, too. Saying you love athi and Bengali-speaking friends don’t know how abstract or inanimate things, like a university or a to say the phrase, either. I have never felt unloved leisurely walk, is a common idiom in English, even by my family—it’s just that the explicit articulation though the feeling cannot be reciprocated. “Love” of that familial love isn’t part of our style. Someis also thrown around flippantly in situations where times silent demonstrations are more powerful. reciprocation is either unwanted, unspoken or unOther languages guard love, too. In Chinese, expected. We have different situational terms to “wo ai ni” is a well-known phrase, but its use is describe love, such as “platonic” or “unrequited.” rare. Germans save “Ich liebe dich” for exclusively “Love” can also be used as a euphemism for physi- romantic situations, preferring “Ich habe dich cal relations, from the phrase “making love” to the lieb” (roughly, “I like you”) for platonic relationclever substitution of “love” for a certain four-letter ships. To many cultures, love is an intensely perword in clean versions of explicit songs. sonal and important emotion.

But in English-speaking romantic relationIt’s different here. Despite how puritanical ships, the moment when someone looks at his or America can often seem, our non-romantic use of her partner and says “I love you” is a watershed— the word “love” is laxly enforced. We’re no steamy a fantastically significant event after which every- Latin culture, but it’s heartening to note how freething supposedly changes. Commitment! Soulmates! ly we distribute “love.”

Indeed, to say “I love you” requires the courageous To me, the permissive use of the word “love” expectation that the statement and sentiment will in English doesn’t devalue the idea. It strengthens be reciprocated. As any soap opera viewer knows, it through reinforcement. Even if we aren’t often the seconds after that first “I love you” can be ago- open with our feelings, maybe the repeated and nizing: Will she or won’t she? free use of the word “love” will eventually shift But imagine for a moment that you’re having something in our collective consciousness. If the a whirlwind romance in Paris. You’re at your fa- casual use of hateful speech can create pernicious vorite café waiting for your date. You’re nervous— environments, then why couldn’t the casual use of it’s only the second time you’ve met up—but after “love” do the opposite? you share the obligatory bisous in greeting, you After all, who ever said that putting more love start to feel at ease. Then your date leans over the into the world was a bad thing? table, smiles and says, “Je t’aime.” Hold up. Did the L-word just get pulled out?

Sandeep Prasanna is a Trinity senior and a Program Sort of. “Aimer” is used for both “like” and II major studying the dynamics of language. His column “love,” so its use isn’t surrounded by the sort of runs every other Thursday.

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A strategic voting plan for Duke

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ne of the more fun moments I’ve had this year was driving a bunch of people to the polls on a beautiful fall day, to the tune of “Party (and Bull—) in the USA.” It’s cliché to say that voting is fulfilling. But I’ve recently become more appreciative of my freedom to vote whenever and for whomever I wish after watching thousands of Egyptian citizens filling their streets and squares, demanding those same freedoms.

Unfortunately, most Duke students samantha take this freedom for granted. Entirely lachman rough and unscientific numbers from the 2010 midterm elections estimate my favourite things that only a third of Duke students were registered to vote, and of those, only a third voted, said senior Ben Bergmann, three-term president of Duke Democrats. I’ve often wondered why our campus seems to lack a vibrant political atmosphere.

However, students with the Duke Political Union are trying to ameliorate this apathy by crafting a student-oriented strategic plan for future elections. Though these plans are still theoretical, there’s a lot to chew over.

The first issue is transportation. The Duke administration provided buses to polling sites for the 2008 presidential primaries, but didn’t immediately offer transport in 2010. Bergmann, a founder of the Duke Political Union, said “everyone agrees [on the need for transport] when they are forced to think about it,” but that it took “prompting” to arrange midterm transportation.

The second is turnover. Bergmann pointed out that “we’re only here for four years.... there’s no institutional memory as to what happened in the previous election.” From personal experience, I wasn’t sure how to effectively help turnout, and it was only because I’m involved with DPU (if you couldn’t tell, this is a lot of shameless plugging) that I could even help with rides. Though we may have Chronicle archives and Facebook pictures of our graduated friends celebrating to prove a past election happened, we don’t know what turnout strategies worked or which events have been popular in the past.

Even more problematic is that elections happen in early November, only two months after the Fall semester begins. Successful turnout operations involve being organized early and hitting the ground running.

Having a strategic plan would make this easier. Or, as Bergmann argues, “Each election, students are reinventing the wheel and every time they encounter problems they have to invent solutions on the fly.”

It’s particularly imperative for this student initiative to provoke conversations in off-election years. During these times, we aren’t distracted by primaries or SNL parodies and can outline strategies for engaging students at a grassroots level. This plan could document what the administration has done in the past (for instance, the early voting site on West Campus in 2008), so we don’t get responses from the administration like: “We have never done this and we have no obligation to do this.” It could be a manual for political groups, a way for Duke Student Government to help student leaders identify turnout pitfalls and a directory of the right contacts.

The apparent disconnect between the concept of “Civic Engagement” and political participation presents another issue. As Bergmann says, “There’s this bizarre attitude that politics is anti-civic engagement,” and there’s a “ disconnect” between what we value and then what we support financially. I hope that the same students who find value in volunteering in Durham will find value in voting in Durham.

Gunther Peck, Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, remarked in a Chronicle guest column in October that “civic engagement does not begin and end with voting, but it shouldn’t exclude voting either.” A few days earlier, he had told The Chronicle that “Duke went from being a leader to a distant laggard,” among surrounding universities with our midterm turnout numbers (compared to turnout in 2008).

Another problem is engaging those who don’t care. Bergmann asks, “How do you engage students who are just here to pick up credits between drinking and then go I-bank?” To me, it’s more that there are tons of intelligent students here who don’t see the value in casting a vote.

Sophomore Gordon Wilson, a tracker and field organizer for Suzanne Kosmas for Congress, is more optimistic, saying, “The combination of administrative support and more student engagement would foster a greater political culture on campus.” I think this plan could combine those two elements.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if Duke became known for a super politically active student body? I think Duke’s perennial PR debate could be helped if future students had to fight their way onto buses to midterm polls!

Samantha Lachman is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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lettertotheeditor Nothing wrong with write-ins I am writing in response to Tuesday’s editorial, “Disallow Young Trustee write-ins.”

Write-in candidates did not “expose a gaping loophole” in the YT process. Write-in campaigns are authorized by Duke Student Government election bylaw, appropriate in any student-wide election. Therefore, write-ins did not bypass YT process, but followed a procedure clearly outlined in existing DSG policy. However, the issues exposed include the role of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee. And while I commend the hard work of Chair Christine Larson and her committee, I see the flaws in the process.

I hold reservations about YTNC membership and the selecting process. Why is it that freshmen who are ineligible to run for YT because of their lack of institutional knowledge then serve as members of the YTNC? This lack of consistency seriously compromises the process and allows for members who are not well-versed in the YT process to select finalists. Additionally, the student body does not know what members on the committee are thinking when deciding what best makes a Young Trustee. The intent of

the YTNC is to “select three finalists worthy of serving on Duke’s Board” but it is still unclear what criteria members use to evaluate candidates and the effect that biases may have had on their decision-making.

Lastly, the editorial cites an unwarranted concern of the campus potentially not knowing other write-in candidates. An obligation for write-in candidates is to educate the campus about their candidacy. Moreover, an easy solution to this concern could be to create a deadline for write-in candidates to declare and/or require them to inform the Election Commission. DSG possesses the infrastructure to include write-ins and address such concerns.

And the option of a write-in allows for strong grassroots support.

We, as a student body, currently have a democratic system in which students directly select the YT. We should be given the option to vote for write-in candidates and ultimately decide who we want for YT. Ubong Akpaninyie Trinity ‘12

Beyond the veil

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f the one thing most central to your identity is Afrina told me. “If the one thing you can identify constantly under attack, what are you supposed with is constantly under attack, what are you supto do? posed to do?”

Afrina*, an undergraduate, posed this question I was stumped then, as I still am. A simple piece to me several days ago, and I still have of cloth that is an inheritance of pino answer. ousness and tradition has become a Growing up with a dueling Arab misunderstood symbol for an entire and American cultural identity, she, religion. For some Muslims, worshiplike many Muslim youth, has eming traditionally carries the additional braced her religious heritage as her societal responsibility of showing that primary one. In fact, she displays it Islam is not misogynistic, oppressive openly. According to the Center for or extremist.

Muslim Life, Afrina is one of approxiDuke’s accepting environment is bhumi purohit a blessing mately 10 undergraduate women who for Muslims, Duke Muslim got privilege? wear the hijab, or headscarf—a saChaplain Abdullah Antepli, told me. lient symbol of Islam.

Regardless, I know I carried misconThe hijab, which translates to “curceptions of hijabis when I first came tain” or “cover” in Arabic, is a sign of modesty for to Duke. I am ashamed to confess that these misconMuslim women. In the West, however, the veil has ceptions didn’t leave until several women explained conjured up images of subjugation, oppression and their identity to me in relation to the hijab. restriction. For Afrina and Nusaibah Kofar-Naisa, So, like Afrina, I can’t say what one is supposed also a hijabi, the veil is simply a choice regarding to do about an identity constantly under scrutiny. As how they practice their religion. she said, it will take much longer than a decade to “It distinguishes me as a Muslim and it is an hon- change the understanding of Islam since 9/11. But or,” Afrina said. “It reminds me that, even if I wanted somehow, correcting misconceptions doesn’t seem to, I can’t hide my identity.” enough to remedy the “otherization” of an entire With the honor comes great responsibility, how- community. ever, as hijabis often feel that they must be ambasAt a diverse community like Duke, it seems that sadors of Islam. When Afrina first came to Duke, she such racialization doesn’t occur. However, just as we chose her words and actions with the utmost care are accepting of differences, we are also presumptuin order to avoid misrepresenting her entire reli- ous about how these dissimilarities prevent us from gion. However, that didn’t stop the glances or the making connections with others. Perhaps, then, by stares—or, outside of the Duke walls, the hurtful in- missing out on the bonds we can create despite our cidences. differences, we are also missing out on understandIn her hometown, Afrina has been flashed the ing both our identity and that of others. cross by a stranger and been called a terrorist by a Afrina’s question still lingers, though. I don’t passerby. Nusaibah has also dealt with more than know when the Muslim identity will be put away looks of curiosity at the airport. When hijabis are in from the spotlight, but I do know that our convera more welcoming community like Duke, they still sation made me aware of my prejudices. So, here’s feel the need to overcome others’ misconceptions of the naïve optimist in me hoping that in decades or them as conservative, oppressed women. even centuries from now, the bonds multiculturalAfrina said that when she first started wearing the ism allows will create a communal shift toward the hijab, she openly started dialogues about the veil acceptance of any identity. and what it meant to her. To her disappointment, *Denotes the individual’s name has been changed she realized that misconceived questions still kept to protect her privacy. coming up in conversations.

“One of the most fatiguing things on the face Bhumi Purohit is a Trinity senior. Her column runs of the planet is trying to explain who you are,” every other Thursday.

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