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ed experience and then building the facilities that make that possible.”

City Council unanimously approved Duke’s rezoning request in January, giving it permission to rezone the area with a universitycollege designation, which allows a mix of academic, residential, restaurant and retail facilities.

The search for a master architect began in March, when University Architect John Pearce compiled a list

The Board of Trustees this month unanimously selected Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects as the master designer for the comprehensive Central Campus project, which has been in discussion since 2000.

The firm previously designed the Schwartz-ButtersAthletic Center, Wilson Recreation Center, the Sheffield Tennis Center and Krzyzewskiville.

“We are delighted with the news SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 23 and are looking forward to working with the Duke and Durham communities to plan a livable, harmonious and sustainable Central Gampus,” Cesar Pelli, PCPA’s founder, told Duke News. “Duke is a great university that already has two wonderful campuses. To design a third will be a challenge and makes the assignment more exciting.”

The integration of Central with East and West campuses has been a tangible goal since 2002, when Executive Vice President Tallman Trask first unveiled plans to renovate the 200-acre middle campus. The project is expected to take 20 and 50 years.

Initially, the development’s purpose was to replace housing, but programming committees broadened the scope of the project in 2005.

“Central Campus should not be about building dormitory space,” President Richard Brodhead said. World-renowned architect Cesar Pelli “It shouldbe about having a vision of has designed structures for college campuses across the United States. education as a very vibrant integrat-

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Ask Kristinajohnson about her first days

at Duke, and she tells you about late nights spent at the Washington

Duke Inn, scarfing down chowder and, on particularly tough days, some gin and tonic.

Ask her about her favorite memories as a Blue Devil, and she recalls the thrill of Cameron Indoor Stadium and the pride she Kristina Johnson felt when ground was first

broken on the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences —one of her most recognized projects at the University.

But the dean known for her good nature and numerous contributions to Pratt over the past eight years announced lastWednesday that she will leave Duke to become provost atjohns Hopkins University—a decision she says was both difficultand necessary.

“I love Duke. I love the students,” she said.

“It’s a really special place, and that is going to make it a very difficult place to leave.”

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Although most Dukies returned to homesteads all over the country and world at the beginning of May, the past three months have not passed without incident. There was still lacrosse, celebrations and shufflings, investigations and even progress on the longawaited Central Campus project.

Summer seemed to be a season of lacrosse restitution. Former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred, Duke announced that settlements had been made with former men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler and former players Dave Evans, Trinity ’O6, Reade Seligmann (who chose to transfer to Brown University) and Collin Finnerty (who is headed to Loyola (Md.) College). And finally, books about the novel case were already sent to press as the NCAA granted members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team an extra year of eligibility.

Although the team fell just short ofa national championship againstjohns Hopkins, and women’s lacrosse also lost their bid to Virginia, there was plenty of reason to celebrate athletics at Duke. Women’s golf won its third straight title, tying Arizona’s NCAA record. It was the team’s fifth title overall.

Inquiries into the Durham Police Department continued, and external inquiry into its involvement in the lacrosse case will be headed by former state supreme court justice and state legislator Willis Whichard.

Duke Student Government also questioned the Office of Judicial Affairs for its evidentiary standards and the University’s relation-

Although theformer Durham DA was disbarred, Mike Nifong still faces charges of contempt of court.

ship with the Durham Police Department.

The Fuqua Judicial Board ruled in late

April that nine Fuqua School of Business students who were charged with cheating should be expelled and 15 students should receive a one-year suspension and a failing grade. Nine others will receive a failing grade in the course, and one student will receive a failing grade on an exam. It was discovered, however, that a majority ofthose convicted were Asian, calling the penalties

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Pelli Clarke Pelli was named the master designer for the Central Campus development project, after a months-long search.

Ground could begin being broken as early as 2008, with residences projected to open in 2010 or 2011.

The University mourned the loss of two faculty, who died within days of each other.

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Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, was appointed provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. Robert L. Clark, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Thomas Lord Professor ofMechanical Engineering, will serve as interim dean ofPratt, effective Aug. 15, until Johnson’s successor has been selected.

Scott Lindroth, chair of the music department, will become the University’s first vice provost for the arts July 1, Provost Peter Lange announced June 14.

A week later, Lange announced that William Chameides will take over as dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Sept. 1.

That same day, University officials announced that Steve Nowicki, dean of the natural sciences, will be the first dean of

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The Class of 2011 can proudly boast it is the “most diverse class in Duke’s history.”

At least that is how Dean ofAdmissions Christoph Guttentag described the incoming freshman class to Provost Peter Lange in a memo concerning admissions numbers June 11.

“We believe that given the way the world is evolving, it is important for our students to learn how to interact with other students who come from many different backgrounds,” Lange said. “That is an important part of the educational experience that a student at our university should have.”

Although Duke evaluates diversity along many factors during the admissions process —backgrounds, interests, values and experiences—two of the more easily quantifiable factors are racial and ethnic classifications.

Over the past 20 years the University has made tremendous strides in this area, which Guttentag and Lange both said Duke once lag in comparison to its peers.

In 1987, only 14 percent of the incoming students were black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American. For the incoming freshman class, 44 percent are minority students, with a total breakdown of 9 percent black, 6 percent Hispanic, 28 percent Asian and 0.2 percent Native American “I’d say that Duke may well have made the greatest progress in terms of diversity—at least in racial diversity—of our peers in the last 20 years or so,” Guttentag wrote in an e-mail. “The Duke that students arrive at today is, I think dramatically, more diverse along many dimensions than students would have found 20 years ago.”

One other notable trend is the increase in Asian students over the past four years, rising from 17 percent for the incoming freshman class in 2004 to 28 percent in 2007.

Guttentag said the greater Asian enrolment was more the result of a natural phenomenon than the University pursuing some kind of an agenda.

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Across other racial and ethnic categories measured by the University, the percentage numbers have stayed fairly steady, with the greatest increase occurring for black students in the late 1980s—from 4 percent in 1984 to 9 percent in 1990—and Hispanic students around the turn of the century —4 percent in 1997 to 8 percent in 2001.

Guttentag said the University hopes to encourage more Native Americans to apply and enroll, starting a Native American high school program that could potentially come to Durham next summer.

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Caitlin Donnelly, Trinity ’O6, is recov-

ering well after sustaining critically injuries in a Sept. 29, 2006, hit-and-run incident, Donnelly and her parents said.

She said her physical therapy and social life are keeping her busy and that she hopes to eventually return to her film productionjob in Los Angeles or perhaps attend law school.

The accident Caitlin Donnelly occurred during Homecoming Weekend when Donnelly, a former Chronicle staff member, was crossing South LaSalle Street near the Belmont apartments to check if her taxi had arrived. As she turned back to cross the road again, she was struck by a 1988 Honda Accord.

Donnelly suffered injuries including severe head injuries—facial and skull fractures —and spinal fractures.

At the time of the accident, doctors did not expect her to survive, said her mother, Ellen Donnelly. “[Caitlin is] still a miracle,” her mother said. “It’s her very determined goal to recover fully.”

Donnelly began physical, speech and occupational therapies in late October at Duke Hospital. In November, she returned home to New Jersey, where she currently participates in a daily physical therapy regime at the Kessler Institute for RehabilitationHer mother wrote in an e-mail that her daughter is currently walking with a cast on herright leg, but the cast is scheduled to be removed within a few weeks.

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In particular, Brodhead said he expects the few years of his administration to center around the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee report, released this spring.

‘We understood when [the CCI report] came out that some of those recommendations were just plain good ideas, some of them you could act on the first day, some of them would be very hard to translate into practice,” Brodhead said. “For a lot of these projects, we understood we had to pass on from the phase of vision to the phase of implementation.”

Brodhead’s objectives are reflected in the University’s five-year strategic plan: to deepen engagement, secure faculty, improve facilities, strengthen the arts and recommit to diversity and access. The Financial Aid Initiative, DukeEngage and the CCI were all implemented in conjunction with the plan’s goals.

“Everything is themed at making the undergraduate experience rich, but it’s also next

People don’t often ask President Richard Brodhead what the job of a university president really entails.

“It is ajob of such spectacular randomness you can scarcely imagine,” he said. “At bottom, what you’re really trying to understand is, what are all this intelligence and all these resources for? What could it be for? And how can we make sure thatwe’re making the best uses now to train people to be creative and productive in their future lives?”

In his three years as president, Brodhead has made it a priority to strengthen students’ experiences and opportunities on campus as well as provide resources to engage and benefit the community in Durham andabroad.

It’s at threeyears when university presidents can expect their transitional period to end—no matter how volatile their first years —and real implementation of their goals to begin.

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Reigning over the Health System, Dr. Victor Dzau has made Duke a player in local and global issues.

Born in Shanghai, raised in Hong Kong, educated at McGill Medical School in Montreal and now a citizen of the United States, Chancellor for Health Affairs Dr. Victor Dzau brought a global perspective to Duke University Health System when he came to Duke in July 2004.

One of the first things he discussed with President Richard Brodhead was how the University and DUHS could collaborate on global health issues. During the first three years of his tenure, Dzau has overseen the creation of the Duke Global Health Institute as well as a partnership with the National University of Singapore to establish the country’s first graduate medical school.

“Global health affects every profession and every aspect of our society,” he said. “That’s why one of the most important things we can do is to educate students, especially undergraduates, aboutit” The project is among many set into motion

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Dzau, who also serves as president and CEO of Duke University Health System and continues to work as a physician researcher with multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, describes himself as “a multitasker”.

When Dzau lefthis post as chairof the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in July 2004, he saw opportunity at a younger, smaller university known for its multidisciplinary approach to education.

Last summer, Dzau and Provost Peter Lange formed a committee to explore the development of global health initiatives at Duke. The group’s report called for the creation ofDGHI and Dr. Michael Merson was appointed as its first director in November.

Merson said DGHI has already established an undergraduate Focus program, as well as a global health certificate. There are plans to expand, the number of undergraduate global health courses, eventually

offering a major in the subject.

“Dr. Dzau has a lot of experience in global health, and he’s a leader in the field,” Merson said. “One of the reasons I came to Duke was to work with someone like him.”

Dr. Robert Califf, selected as thefirst director of the DukeTranslational Medicine Institute in October 2006, first crossed paths with Dzau at Harvard’s Brigham andWomen’s Hospital.

Califf said Dzau has personal experience translating laboratory discoveries into real-world patient treatments. He pointed to Dzau’s work with cardiovascular genes, therapies as an example of translational medicine in practice.

“Academic centers are not built today to handle the process of translational medicine,” Dzau said. “At Duke, we’re going to take whatever discovery you have, and we’re going to shepherd your project quickly and seamlessly internally until it reaches human application.”

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Seven down, four on their way and one question mark.

That’s the word on 12 houses the University bought in Trinity Park and Trinity Heights—adjacent to East Campus—in February 2006. Seventeen months later, the deal has garnered positive reviews from the University, the seller and the

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neighborhood.

“I have no complaints,” said Jennifer Minnelli, president of the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association. “We’re very pleased. We think it’s going to improve

property values to have those be owneroccupied residential properties.”

The houses, which had been rental properties owned by Guy Solie, Trinity ’67, were purchased by Duke-owned Durham Realty in an effort to cut down on neighbors’ complaints about unruly student tenants.

Under a gradual sell-off, most of them have now been sold or are under contract—but not all.

“There’s one house that I don’t have to name that’s not on the market,” said Jeff Potter, Duke’s director of real estate administration.

The most notable of the properties—-610 N. Buchanan Blvd, site of the March 13, 2006, party that spawned the lacrosse case—was bought too late to prevent trouble and remains in limbo.

The house is not under contract, Potter said, adding that any decision will be made by senior administrators.

President Richard Brodhead indicated in an e-mail that there are currently no plans to decide the house’s status.

Potter said three houses are currently

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President Brodhead says there are currently no plans for 610 N. Buchanan Bivd., the "lacrosse house." under contract and a buyer is being sought for a fourth, the sole property located in Trinity Heights.

The purchase of the 12 houses—as well as three empty lots near campus —was the result of a conversation Solie had with administrators, and both he and Duke officials said the deal was a unique chance to improve the neighborhood.

“We certainly didn’t go through the exercise to make money. We will have spent more money buying the houses than we made selling them,” Potter said, noting the renovation costs. “We think it’s had a very good effect in terms of improving the neighborhood and making them valuable

properties.”

Covenants on the houses now require that any residents be single-family homeowners.

Minnelli said residents had detected a decrease in noise and other complaints,

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Standing in the low-ceilinged basement of the Regulator Bookstore, Mike Pressler is an imposing figure.

Dressed to the nines in a pristine black suit that looks more suited to New York’s financial district than an independent bookstore in the heart ofDurham, Pressler stands on stage, his first public appearance in the Bull City since rape allegations against members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team forced him out as head coach last year.

This time, however, he was not followed by a team, but by co-author Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor

but added that pre-existing student leases on some of the houses during the past year meant that the coming year will provide the most definitive indication of the purchase’s effects.

Comparative statistics for the past two years were not available from the Durham Police Department. “[The deal] was designed to do two things,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. “One was to help stabilize the neighborhood, and the other was to address some of the outstanding concerns about behavior over there.

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A local civil rights activist even had the gall disbarment of Durham District to accost the mother of one of the accused Attorney Michael Nifong should be just the students at Nifong's disbarment hearings to first step in remedying the gross and cynisay that she still believes they were guilty. cal fraud of last year's "rape" case against Duke University lacrosse players.

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and Not only is Nifong still liable to civil lawcourageous past, has over the years degensuits from the three young men whose lives erated into a demagogic hustle, promoting he tried to ruin, and criminal prosecution the mindless racism they once fought for his obstruction of justice and making against. false statements to a judge, there are many other people who disgraced themselves in Although the committee that disbarred hyping a lynch mob atmosphere when this Michael Nifong said many things that needcase first broke last year. ed to be said, they muddied the waters by saying that Nifong may have deceived him"Not only is Nifong still liable self before he deceived others.

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“Steve’s an evolutionary biologist, so he’s interested in how things evolve.”

So says George McLendon, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. Steve Nowicki’s expertise in the realm of change may come in handy as he navigates Duke’s unprecedented new position as dean of undergraduate education.

President Richard Brodhead announced that Nowicki will assume the deanship this fall, a position that comes to fruition at Duke after almost 20 years of discussion and proposals.

Among larger research universities, it is not uncommon to have a figure or figures in charge of coordinating the complex realm of undergraduate Steve Nowicki education, said Paula Burger, dean of undergraduate education in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.

“What’s unique about what Duke has done is it has given somebody a role covering all areas of academic and student life and made him responsible for a consistent philosophy and a program that recognizes how much these areas intersect and how there should be synergies,” she said.

At larger universides administrative responsibilities are usually split. A vice provost generally has university responsibility and a dean typically has school-specific responsibility, Burger added. Often, multiple schools offer

undergraduate education within a single university, creating multiple entities to supervise, which is why there are few deans of undergraduate education by title.

Provost Peter Lange said that he and Brodhead gave Nowicki the title of dean to help establish a certain authority for his role.

“He will be reporting to me, but he will have a great deal of autonomy,” Lange added.

Nowicki will join the provost’s “inner staff,” as the person responsible for bringing up discussion of all things undergraduate. He will join other members of the provost’s cabinet, which includes John Simon, vice provost for academic affairs, Susan Roth, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, James Siedow, vice provost for research, and Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts.

Although he will be joining the ranks of vice provosts in Lange’s office, Nowicki said his title as dean makes him more independent.

“If I were a vice provost in title then I would be justan extension of the provost,” he said. “Being a dean, I’m an extension of nobody even though I work directly in the

provost shop.”

To gauge Nowicki’s level of authority within the provost’s staff, Lange explained that there is a spectrum of power among vice provosts. Some have significant units that report to them, such as the vice provost of research; others have less substantial teams, such as the vice provost for academic affairs and the vice provost for interdisciplinary studies. Lange said that Nowicki falls somewhere SEE NOWICKI ON PAGE 14

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Following a tumultuous year, University officials created the position of vice president for Durham and regional affairs in May to improve the Duke-Durham relationship.

Phail Wynn, who is leaving his post as president of Durham Technical Community College after 30 years at the college, will fill the post at the start of 2008. Appointed by President Richard Brodhead as part of the University’s strategic plan, “Making a Difference,” Wynn will assume responsibility over local issues currently assigned to John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

In an interview with The Chronicle’s Phail Wynn Shuchi Parikh, Wynn discusses his ideas for economic development for Durham and his plans to better Duke’s image in the local community.

The Chronicle: What are the top priorities for your agenda?

Phail Wynn: One thing that I want to do is to help define a new role for Duke as an advocate and partner for economic and community development. By that I mean to help identify some of the challenges and needs in the community, to work with community leaders as well as elected officials to build a consensus around priorities for things that need to be done... and then find a role for Duke as a partner in this.

Another part to begin is just having conversations. It’s important to know what community leaders and elected officials are thinking.

TC; How long do you expect that assessment and those conversations to go on?

PW: I’m thinking six months. I may be overly optimistic because already there are many, many constituencies in the area that have things they want to talk about. A lot of my initial conversations will involve a wide range of topics, and it’s important to spend time listening to those constituencies that feel it’s important that someone from Duke hear what they have to say.

TC: How much will you be interacting with John Burness or is your position independent from his?

PW: I’ll be interacting with John quite a bit, in terras of assuming that responsibility from his and also a couple of other things that we will be collaborating on. One is just to improve working on providing better communication to all of the employees of the far-flung Duke enterprise, to help them better understand the role and mission ofDuke.

TC: How do you hope to improve Duke’s image in the local community?

PW: One part of it is to increase the visibility and the awareness of the efforts already underway. So much of what has already been done by Duke to be a viable partner in the community... is not well-known and not well recognized.

Part of it is to help remind citizens of what Duke’s role is, not only as the largest employer in the area, contributing a substantial amount to the overall economic development of Durham, but other engagement efforts that folks are not aware of.

TC: How do you believe Duke has lacked in interacting with local institutions and what do you plan to do to improve those relations?

PW: Certainly there has been engagement in the past, but the needs and the opportunities change very rapidly.

Part of what needs to be done is again an assessment of what kinds of productive relationships can we work toward implementing now.

One of the things that’s important for Duke as an educational leader is to work with public schools in strengthening math and science education and doing a lot with teachers to provide professional development opportunities for them to upgrade their skills.

TC: Do you feel that the position you’re going to undertake is a necessary step by the Duke administration to address the negative media from the lacrosse case, or are /

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Forgive Allison Haltom if she has gone to Duke in her mind—she’s called it home for more than four decades.

This winter, however, Haltom, Woman’s College ’72 and longtime University secretary, will retire, leaving behind her eighth-grade ambition and the post she has held for many years.

“I am ready to spread my wings beyond Duke,” she said. “It may be difficult after 36 years in the nest, but I will find out January 1.”

Raised in Denton, N.C., Haltom was the first person from her high school to be admitted to Duke. She estimated that there have probably been only two Allison Haltom or three since.

One thing she said she does not think has changed, “I don’t know if it was a sort ofhalo effect that I wanted however, enamored with Duke a is Duke’s sense of community. really, was as being really go—I “There was a man who worked [in the East Campus good school*” she said. “It was kind of like going beyond Store] named Mr. Pickett. He would put a piece of candy in what was expected.”

Haltom said even at a young age, when she pledged to each of the mailboxes and would write a little note, ‘Hope get straight ‘A’s to gain admittance to her dream school, you’re having a good day,’ things like that,” she said. “He liked to take care of us. That wasn’t his job, but it was so education had been important to her. to education the he nice to have someone like that.” only thing father used an was “My say When she graduated, she was reluctant to leave the could give me that no one could take away from me,” she said. co-educational Duke community just yet. As a second-semester senior in Having seen Duke’s transition into a 1972, three her she had begun working with the Annual Giving Camperand the of presidents, university leadership spective was “invaluable,” in the words of President Rich- paign in the Development Office—a position she expected ard Brodhead, who said her knowledge was key to easing to hold for only six months.

And though she had been admitted to law school, she his transition into Duke three years ago.

“Duke is a better place now than it was when I went, par- joined the Office of Undergraduate Admissions as assistially because it is more diverse,” she said. “We lived in a sort of tant director following graduation.

Five years later, she was still at Duke, working in the Ofbubble, and I have had the privilege to be part of the change.” fice of Annual Giving. She was appointed university secretary in 1986 and vice president in 2000.

She now manages the activities of the Board of Trustees, directs commencement and manages the hiring of senior University officials, serving on the committee that helped appoint Brodhead.

“Allison Haltom knows Duke inside and out, and has been a wonderfully devoted servant of this university,” Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. “She is the kind of person who holds the web of generations together in the life ofDuke.”

In addition to witnessing Duke’s growth, she has also served an active role in making a palpable difference, making women’s issues a particularly important part of her agenda.

She has been a member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors since 1990 and served on the Women’s Studies Council from 1993 to 1999. Haltom also chaired the Committee on Child and Family Issues from 1993 to 1995.

She steadfastly credits the Duke community for all that she has accomplished.

“We stand on the shoulders ofothers,” she said. “It’s not one person if a university is going to be special—it’s got to be the sum of the parts.”

Following her retirement, Haltom said she plans to focus on a number of volunteer interests.

Haltom’s husband, David McClay, is a professor of biology, and her daughter, Katie, is a 2001 alumna. Her son chose Davidson, a choice she called “heartbreaking,” forging an even tighter bond between her and the University.

Haltom said Duke, and the interests and progress of students, will always be dear to her, even in retirement.

“Duke has grown in national prominence and it has benefited by the reputation,” she said. “Duke has developed in these 35 years—but these things that are charming and good are nice to maintain. I hope students still find a ‘Mr. Picketts’ out there.” to

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PW: Perhaps the lacrosse case has made the Duke administration aware of the need to strengthen its engagement with the community. Deep ties and a strong relationship with the community can provide that ongoing reservoir of understanding and support that’s necessary when you run into a crisis like the one that’s occurred. Part of the challenge is, with a dynamic and growing population the mission and role of Duke and the historical relationship between Duke and Durham will not stay explained or will not remain in the minds of citizens.

Having someone in the role that’s always there to be seen as the engagement person and as the person that’s not only advocating for what Duke has done but also looking for ways to strengthen the engagement relationship of Duke is very important.

TC; Why did you choose to undertake this position?

PW: I had fully planned to retire, work on my golf game and travel. This was not in my plans because my 30th anniversary at Durham Tech was Sunday, July 1, so I had planned to retire and take some time off and think about what I wanted to do.

One reason that I decided to pursue this is I’ve worked with John Burness over the years, I’ve worked with Provost Peter Lange, [Executive Vice President] Tallman Trask and President Brodhead. They’re colleagues and I’m familiar with them and I felt that there probably was some contribution I could make in working with them. I think we all have a common vision about the importance ofDuke’s role and how it can be enhanced in the community.

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Strolling along the gravel paths of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, one hardly notices the tiny brick-layered hut blending in the shadows of overarching trees.

Instead, one’s attention is captured by the peaceful sonance of birds and by the vibrant array of colors sprinkled across the lush green background.

Located on the fringes of the Terrace Gardens, the Terrace Cafe is catered by The Picnic Basket—a Durham restaurant —and offers a large assortment ofbaked desserts, teas, coffees, drinks, ice cream, soups and salads. It also serves a variety of fresh sandwiches—the most popular among the customers being the chicken salad sandwich. Yet it has struggled to attract customers this summer, especially student customers.

Its location away from the main campuses may contribute to its anonymity among some Duke students.

“I didn’t even know there was a Terrace Cafe,” said junior Hyun-Joong Kim. “But then again, I’ve only been to the Duke Gardens twice.”

Terrace Cafe employee Jane Fucito, however, said the lack of student customers is only temporary.

“There just aren’t a lot of students during the summer,” she said. “[The lack of student cus-

ferent from the computers of today because you could not see Forty-eight years ago and what you were typing. two weeks out of high school, ‘You had to pull the carriage Becky Tesh rode passenger side out and up to see what you had heading south from Oxford, typed,” she said.

N.C., to DurWorking on the third floor ham. Tesh’s of the Allen Building, Tesh said aunt had the thing she remembers the found her a most about it is the way people in helped her. position the accounts ‘Years ago, someone always payable de- answered the phone,” she said. partment at ‘You always got someone during Duke and that eight-hour day. They usuwas driving ally helped with the problem that Becky Tesh the teenager day, and you had an answer.... to her first Now, there is a long chain of commands you have to go through to day on the job.

Now, six decades later, Tesh, a try and get your job done.” sweet-hearted 66-year-old woman Nowadays, Tesh works as with a soft Southern voice, makes faithfully as she did when she that same drive five days a week—- was a teenager. In fact, she said a 30-mile trip to the place where she even works more sometimes, she has worked for close to 50 noting the added pressure that years. Her tenure at Duke is the has come from Duke’s expanlongest among active employees, sion in the past 10 years. not including faculty.

The only thing that slows her “Things have changed quite down is that she is deaf in her a bit since starting at Duke,” right ear, an unfortunate byTesh said. product of a surgery to remove a The University first hired her tumor in her ear 10 years ago. with only a high school diploma Now that Tesh has qualiin 1959 because she was a speedy fied for maximum Social Secutypist, Tesh said. She added that rity, she said she has begun to the Burroughs adding machine SEE TESH ON PAGE 17 she originally used was very difby

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The Terrace Cafe, located adjacent to the Terrace Garden in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, may escape notice because of the thick greenery surrounding it.

tomers] is a seasonal thing. We still get lots of students during the regular school year.”

A typical summer day in the Duke Gardens is deserted and quiet. The only sounds of the garden emanate from the chirping of birds and the scraping of footsteps on the gravel-covered walkways by an occasional visitor. But the weekends are a stark contrast to this silence.

“Summer business has been

kind of slow during the week, except on Saturdays and Sundays,” Fucito said. “[Our primary customers are] mostly outsiders visiting the gardens on the weekends.”

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President Richard Brodhead is entering his fourth year with high hopes for more student involvement.

linked to a broader effort at Duke to make this place less about academic boxes and more about learning multiple skills to solve complicated problems,” he said.

Brodhead, who was installed as Duke’s ninth president SepL 18, 2004, took his seat at the helm after a 32-year career at Yale University.

“There’s something differentabout this place,” Brodhead said. “There’s a different character. It’s much less traditional, in that there’s a kind of flexibility here—a willingness for experimentalism.”

He said he hopes this flexibility will help the University and its observers move on from the lacrosse case and refocus attention on Duke’s goals. “The whole episode was so regrettable and so painful,” he said.

“But even on the worst day ofthat story, Duke

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was still a very great university.”

Brodhead’s first personal initiative as president was the Financial Aid Initiative, which recendy crossed the $230 million mark—just $7O million short ofits goal.

DukeEngage, a $3O-million effort to provide funding and support for undergraduates to work with societal issues at home and internationally, is also about access and engagement Brodhead said the substantial changes proposed and the numerous goals on the University’s plate are typical of any fine educational institution.

“As we look to the future our plan is not to just sit here and continue to be happy with how good we are —that’s not the kind of place this is. We’ll always have things that people know are great and fun here.We’ll always have basketball. But all of our programsbuild from existing strengths—it’s not thatwe’re trying to create things that were never here before.”

sity’s emphasis on global health “Ifwe succeed, we will have a collection

ofresearch from the new North Carolina Research Campus, the Singapore campus and extensive collaboration in India and China,” he said.

Dzau said that in leading Duke Medicine, he seeks to go a step beyond the guiding principles ofexcellence to which most top health systems ascribe.

“For an organization like ours, it’s not good enough to say we’re going to give the best care to everyone who walks through our doors. It’s not good enough to say we’re going to do outstanding research,” he said. “We need to transform medicine and eliminate health inequalities, and we have the potential to do that”

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NOWICKI from page 8 in the middle Nowicki will employ a staff of his own, an associate dean and a director of communications. He also plans to hire a recent Duke graduate as an intern to provide him with additional insight and perspective.

In addition, Nowicki will be in charge of three pools of budgetary money. The first pool will be reserved for administrative expenses of the office. The second will be a pot of discretionary money, which will be comparable to the funds of most vice provosts and the last will give Nowicki control over broader funding linked to strategic

planning.

“Ultimately I have the resources of the entire strategic plan at my beck and call,” Nowicki said. “In that sense, although it’s not something I can just write the check for

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as ideas come forward, if they cost a lot of money, I can go to the strategic plan and make a case that we need to have this money out of their strategic capital resources.

I’m not above asking donors. In a sense the sky is the limit, ultimately.”

Although there has been talk that Nowicki’s heightened authority may infringe on the clout of other administrators—namely Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta—neither Nowicki nor Moneta feel that any toes will be stepped on.

“The beauty of this is that Dean Nowicki’s role provides the glue that binds some of us that serve undergraduate students,” Moneta said. “It’s not about restructuring any roles. My office isn’t changing. My responsibilities aren’t changing. Dean Nowicki will make sure that what’s happening in the classroom and outside the classroom are collaborative, as I work specifically within the

realm of student affairs.”

Although both Nowicki and Moneta will report to the provost, Nowicki will take the driver’s seat on broader undergraduate education planning. He will coordinate and supervise an undergraduate leadership group comprised of Moneta and Director of Athletics Joe Alieva along with the deans of Trinity College and the Pratt and Nicholas Schools.

In his mission the stakes are high and the possibilities are even higher, but Nowicki enters it with the full support of the president and provost. Brodhead wrote in an e-mail that Nowicki is “a perfect choice to be the principle spokesperson for Duke’s vision of undergraduate education.”

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Lopez nabs Durham police chief position Jose Lopez will be the next chief of the Durham Police Department, City Manager Patrick W. Baker announced Thursday. Lopez will take the reins Sept.

1, on the heels of a seven-month, 60-candidate search.

Currently assistant chief of the Hartford (Conn.) Police Department, he inherits from Chief Steve Chalmers a department under scrutiny for its handling of the Duke lacrosse case and a city with

slightly above-average crime rates—accentuated by a recent spate ofmurders.

But at his introductory news conference Thursday, Lopez struck an upbeat tone, saying the department was strong and Durham a safe city.

“I was proud of this department when I applied for it, proud to say I was a candidate for this department, and now I’m proud to be part of it,” Lopez said.

In naming him to the post, Baker said Lopez’s reputation for strong community relations was a major factor in the decision to hire him.

“Chief Lopez has the experience in working with violent crime and gang activity that we need in a police chief,” City Council member and mayoral candidate Thomas Stith wrote in an email. “He also has demonstrated the ability to work closely with neighborhoods and community organizations, which will be critical to his success in Durham. I look forward to Chief Lopez building upon the strengths of our department and moving forward to bring a sense of safety to all of our

neighborhoods.”

A City Council-appointed external commission is currendy examining DPD’s role in the investigation of rape charges—later dismissed by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper as baseless—against three then-members

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New Durham police Chief Jose Lopez speaks at a news conference Thursday announcing his hiring.

of the men’s lacrosse team. An internal investigation by the department was attacked by some as a whitewash.

Finnerty to transfer to Loyola of Maryland Former Duke ihen’s lacrosse player Collin Finnerty followed teammate Reade Seligmann by announcing in July his decision to transfer to Loyola College in Maryland for the upcoming school year. Finnerty and Seligmann were both indicted in the lacrosse case.

Charges against them were dropped in April.

Finnerty will play lacrosse for Loyola next season.

“Now that I have made my college decision, my life is my own again,” Finnerty said in a statement. “I loved Duke and will miss all my friends there, especially my teammates and coaches. They are an unbelievable group of guys who stood behind me from day one, and I wish them all the best.”

Seligmann announced earlier in the summer that he would be finishing out his college career at Brown University. iPhone scare dismissed; network to blame A story that ran on national newswires last week suggesting that the new Apple iPhone could cause wireless network disruptions turned out to be nothing more than a hiccup in the deployment of a large wireless network at Duke.

The new cell phone was initially thought to be the cause of several interruptions in the network, and media discovered the story after an Office ofInformation Technology technician posted on a listserv asking if other colleges had experienced iPhone-related problems, said Michael Cannon, senior communications strategist at OIT. The University announced Friday, however, that the interruptions were network hardware-related and not tied to the phones.

External investigation of Durham police department launches A panel formed by the Durham City Council and charged with reviewing the role of the Durham Police Department in the lacrosse case rape investigation met for the first time July 20. In their first meeting, the 13-member committee heard testimony from former defense attorneys for the formerly indicted players. Led by former state supreme court justice and state legislator Willis Whichard, the committee seeks an answer to the question of where blame lies in the wrongful prosecution of the players—with former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong or with DPD investigators.

The panel has extended an invitation to testify to Steve Chalmers, DPD’s chief during the investigation, in order to better understand the position of the department.

Homicide spree hits Durham Early July in Durham saw a string of at least three homicides in an eight-day period in Durham, as reported by The (Raleigh) News & Observer.

It is not yet known whether the homicides were related. The murders all occurred within miles of Duke’s campus, on Burlington Avenue, South Roxboro Street and Cheek Road. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Crimestoppers at 683-1200.

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Information, consultation, training and resources to the Duke community (Duke’s students, faculty, managers, supervisors, staff and administrators) with regard to diversity, harassment and discrimination prevention, affirmative action, equal opportunity and disability matters; Management of, and response to, complaints of harassment and discrimination; Oversight of and support for the University’s compliance efforts in the areas of equal opportunity and affirmative action, harassment, non-discrimination, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Dr. Benjamin D. Reese, Jr., Vice President for Institutional Equity, is the designated Affirmative Action Officer and Title IX Coordinator; Implementation and oversight ofDuke’s policies related to equal opportunity and affirmative action, harassment, non-discrimination and individuals with disabilities.

Questions, comments or concerns regarding any of the above may be directed to: Office for Institutional Equity, 143A Trent Drive Hall, Box 90012, Durham, North Carolina 27708

For more information, including the full text of the harassment policy, call 919-684-8222 or visit the OIE website at: http://www.duke.edu/web/equity For more detailed information on harassment prevention and resources, visit: http://www.duke.edu/harassmentprevention

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and converse on benches. Another familiar activity among visitors is one in which they are consuming Terrace Cafe’s sandwiches, almond-covered brownies and chilled beverages. “[The cafe is unique because] it’s an outside establishment,” Fucito said.

“There’s no other place where you can enjoy the garden scenery and eat a variety offresh and nutritionalfoods.”

The inside of the cafe is compact and devoid of a dining area, which is located outdoors instead of under the overcast of tall trees. Otherwise customers have the option of dining under the gazebo or on the innumerable benches scattered all over the gardens.

consider retiring. She said, however, that when she was growing up, the word “retirement” was not part ofher vocabulary.

“It’s the way you were raised,” Tesh said.

“The attitude was, ‘Get up every morning and go to work.’ There was no such word or talk about retirement. Basically, work until you drop dead.”

After nine years in accounts payable, Tfcsh took a job in 1968 handling grants in the Office of Sponsored Programs.

In the interim years, Tesh, then Becky Brooks, married Bob Tesh, and the two moved to Roxboro, N.C., Feb. 14, 1965.

“I remember the day we moved—it was snowing,” she said.

Tesh took her third and final position at Duke as the financial manager in the

Center for Aging, starting in 1972. Working that job for the past 35 years, she has handled grant preparations and budgets.

For her devotion to Duke and her reputation as one of Center for Aging’s most helpful employees, Tesh was honored with the Duke University Presidential Award in the managerial category in 2006.

Linda Wilkins, who worked with Tesh in the past, said she’s an “excellent administrator.”

“She’s put in a lot ofyears at Duke,” said Wilkins, grants and contracts manager.

“She has an incredible eye for detail. If there’s a cost that’s missing, she’ll research it and find it.”

Coming full circle, Tesh now lives with her husband at her grandparents’ old home in Oxford and commutes to Durham from her hometown—just like she did 48 years ago.

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In response to recommendations put forth in the Campus Culture Initiative report, Duke Dining Services will develop facilities that will foster conversation and community among students during meals.

Provost Peter Lange said he supports the dining-related suggestions in the report and will push for changes to be made as soon as students return to campus.

“We intend to take steps toward implementation of this idea as the Fall semester begins,” he wrote in an e-mail. “[The CCI report] was so widespread and so compelling that we felt we could begin to implement it immediately.”

Despite recommendations made by the

Campus Culture Inidative Steering Committee last spring, selective living groups will likely not be eliminated from West Campus, University officials said this month.

“I could well imagine that the recommendation in its fullest form would not be implemented,” Provost Peter Lange said, noting the disagreement the recommendation has created. He is now reviewing the committee’s recommendations and will make his own final recommendations to the president this fall, but said the result is likely to include more options for students.

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Weighing in at 27 pages, the Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee’s report, released in February, was one of the most important University-released documents in recent Duke history.

Until now.

Five months later, Provost Peter Lange, a member of the original Steering Committee charged by President Richard Brodhead with the responsibility of assessing Duke’s culture, is in the midst of composing yet another report.

Lange said his report is not a re-write but rather a follow-up to the CCI and will

be released in November and will provide concrete recommendations regarding those issues brought to light in February’s report, Lange said.

“Basically this spring, we met with hundreds of students and many faculty to look at the CCI report, gatherreactions and hear on a broader, more open scale... their view of the issues,” he said. “We’ve absorbed that information, and we’re now going to have another round ofconversations in the fall, and then the follow-up is to present some more specific options about various issues that the CCI report raised.”

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sportswrap Editor: Meredith Shiner Managing Editor: Tim Britton Photo Editor: Lauren Beth Douglas Associate Editors: Stephen Allan, Ben Cohen, Joe Drews, Will Flaherty, Matt lies, Archith Ramkumar, Gabe Starosta, David Ungvary Senior Staff Writers: Patrick Byrnes, Andrew Davis, Adrienne Greenough, Diana Ni, Madeline Perez, John Schneider, John Taddei, Galen Vaisman Special thanks to Chronicle Editor David Graham, Managing Editor Sean Moroney, News Editor Shreya Rao, Photo Editor Sara Guerrero, former Sports Editor Greg Beaton and former Managing Editor Andrew Yaffe. Photo Mosaic on cover designed by Sara Guerrero.

Founded in 1983, sportswrap, is the weekly sports supplement published by The Chronicle. It can be read online at:

www.dukechronide.com To reach the sports department at 301 Flowers building, call 919-684-2663 or e-mail mhs6@duke.edu .

3 See why Duke is hitting the road to take on Notre Dame, Northwestern and Navy and whether return visits to Wallace Wade are in store

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If you are interested, please e-mail mhs6@ duke.edu

12 Check out Duke's "Faces in the Quad" to learn more about some of the most accomplished Blue Devils on campus 16 Duke honors reigning National Player of the

Vaas, competition at quarterback and the potential to redshirt more freshman to solve its woes

Year Lindsey Harding by announcing the school will retire her jersey

6 The Trail Blazers

assistant general manager explains the team's pick of Josh Mcßoberts at the No. 37 spot in the 2007 NBA Draft

16 Read about the injuries to DeMarcus Nelson and Brian Zoubek and the hiring of a new men's golf coach in The Chronicle's sports briefs

8 In an exclusive interview, Coach K shares his thoughts on whether Duke is still "Duke," the allure of the NBA and more

17 Duke's Abby Waner and Joanne P. McCallie help the U-21 USA National team take the gold at the FIBA World Championships in Russia

8 The Chronicle, with the help of ESPN Analyst

19 For the fifth time since 1998, a Duke golfer was the top amateur at the U.S. Women's Open, find out who (hint: it's not Amanda Blumenherst)

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On May 28, I sat in the front row of the press room at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. after Duke’s heartbreaking 12-11 title-game loss to Johns Hopkins. Watching senior Matt Danowski try to fight back his tears on the dais was one of the most difficult moments of my brief journalistic career. Sometimes when watching you’re Duke athletes on a field, it’s easy to forget that they are your peers. But then they share their stories—they Meredith get up in front of a 1II“I room of reporters after a devastating loss—and the student part of the studentathlete takes the stage.

When trying to generate an idea for the focal story of this, the first issue of the 25th volume of Sportswrap, I reflected back on that moment. “Portraits of the Players” is The Chronicle’s attempt to give you a glimpse of what some of the most prominent Blue Devils are like on and off the field. In doing so, I hope that the sports department has set a precedent for what I hope will be our continued dedication to presenting our readership with stories you can’t find anywhere else.

As writers for a student newspaper, the members of The Chronicle sports staff are in a unique position to report not only on some of the top teams in all of college sports, but also on the student-athletes behind their successes.

With that, I officially welcome you to the 103rd volume of The Chronicle and look forward to sharing an exciting year in sports.

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Mcroberts is the man Let’s Just get it out of the way now—anyHere’s Mcßoberts’ line from last seaone who thinks the Blue Devils will be betson: 13 points, 8 boards, 3.5 assists and 2.5 blocks a game. Here are two stat lines, ter off without Josh Mcßoberts is crazy.

Will they be better than they were last (same stats), from two other Duke sophoyear? Probably. But that’s because of a more seasons. 16,9.5,2.2,1.1. And 9.1,4.9, year of experience and development, not 1.5,1. The first one was put up by Christian to mention a Sean May-sized chip on the Laettner, the second by Shane Battier. team’s collective shoulder. With McßobBoth of those guys made it to the tide erts, this team would be a Final Four congame their sophomore years, not because tenderfrom the get-go. they were dominant, but because they had Far too much of the team’s struggles last better talent around them (not to mentio year were blamed on Mcßoberts inability senior leaders—l to dominate. That blame may have been Trajan LangdoA the deciding factor in him deciding to try National Players > for a fresh start at the next level. ties when they we But there used to be a time in college and true leaders. basketball when players weren’t expected Mcßoberts was pi to lead teams until their junior or senior Andall that talk year. The game hasn’t changed. The physiteammates not cal and emotional maturity of teenagers him? That just hasn’t changed. Only the expectations come at the end have changed. The special players have befrustrating Duke come the rule and the guys who need time a decade. A 3-0 to adapt their game to this level have sudACC this season, an denly become flops. would have been As a freshman, Mcßoberts did very well With Mcßobi complimenting JJ. Redick and Shelden would have had; Williams. Consider that even when he was presence with im in high school Josh played on an AAU team around him. Now with Greg Oden, Mike Conley and Dequan ing hole in the mi Cook, three first rounders in this year’s to be filled by pla draft. It seems that just maybe Mcßoberts like Josh was last was only starting to get used to being the just aren’t read' be “the man.” leading man against good competition.

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Can you say DetlefSchrempf?

At the end of Josh Mcßoberts’ freshman campaign, I wrote a letter on these very pages asking—nay, begging—the versatile big man to return to campus for just one more season. Thanks to eyewitness testimony, I know he read it.

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The season Mcßoberts turned in last year was, at best, uninspiring. Duke fans expect and respect constant husde and b d ire, but it never seemed like > had the requisite fire. He was talented player on the team, ie Cameron Crazies showed nowhere near the love most his fellow players got.

I’m not a huge believer in schadenfreude, but how could any Duke fan who suffered through a 4-8 finish to last season not chuckle when \e heard Mcßoberts—a oneime candidate for the top ick in the 2005 NBA Draft—;t his name called 37th, well ;er the likes ofMorrisAlmond i Petted Koponen.

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down a meager nine points or against the Tar Heels at home, where you managed to net three field goals.

Don’t get me wrong, Mcßoberts has a ton of talent. He can throw down dunks like Kenny “Sky” Walker and Harold Miner. Unfortunately, the rest of his game, at times, looks like theirs too.

He’s 6T1,” but he never showed any effective moves in the post. He displayed no prowess at facing the basket, either, unable to beat fellow big men off the dribble.

Where exactly does he plan on fitting in at the next level? As Greg Oden’s hat rack?

He’s Dedef Schrempf without a jumper.

Without Mcßoberts grabbing the ball 22 feet from the rim and jabbing seven times, the Blue Devils will be able to do what they to best—play in transition, run motion and improvise. Look at the talent on this squad. It is not built to be an effective half-court team.

GeraldHenderson is at his best slashing to the rim, and we’ve seen three seasons of DeMarcus Nelson’s struggles beating people off the dribble. We’ll have to see what Kyle Singler can offer, but there are some great YouTube videos of him throwing down fast-break dunks. Sure, Nelson is now Duke’s best option to guard Tyler Hansbrough, but how much more damage could the Sinead O’Connor look-alike do than 21 and 10 a game?

Good luck to Josh in his NBA endeavors, but the BlueDevils and all their fans should be happy he finally took the plunge.

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Despite owning the nation’s longest losing streak at 20 games, Duke’s football pro-

gram isn’t shying away from taking on diallenging schedules in its upcoming seasons.

This year, the Blue Devils’ schedule features matchups against seven bowl teams from a season ago—including two, Wake Forest and Notre Dame, that played in BCS bowls—and an opponent winning percentage of .565. The Blue Devils will play five home games and seven road contests, highlighted by Duke’s first trip to South Bend, Ind. to play Notre Dame since 1966.

Duke’s difficult schedule, which does not include a game against a Division I-AA opponent for the first time since 2002, was not created by accident. Games like the one against the Fighting Irish Nov. 17, though unlikely to result in wins, are part of Duke’s strategy to increase the football program’s visibility nationally, which could deliverbetter recruiting results.

“There are a number of things you have to balance,” said Chris Kennedy, senior associate athletics director.

“Coaches like to go to certain parts of the country for recruiting, and you also want to get some sort of publicity.”

Duke is in the midst of a multi-year stretch that includes two-game series against traditional college football powerhouse Alabama, whom the Blue Devils will play in 2010 at a neutral site to be determined, as well as like-minded aca-

demic schools Northwestern, and Stanford. Negotiations for a game against Notre Dame is uni The athletic department is also schedule games in the Texas, with possible ing Southern Methodist With the team victories 5 nents in to become bowl eligible can however. Duke is trying to schedule home-and-home series with Army for the years 2015 and 2018, Kennedy said, “We’re scheduling games for kids who are in seventh grade,” Kennedy said.

Playing big games in different parts of the country helps recruiting, but it also gives a major boost to current inter “If you go to Vanderbilt or Northwestern, you check out Nashville or Chicago,” said Jack Winter, director of the Iron Dukes fundraising group. “People make a weekend out of it.”

Northwestern, however, is not even the biggest game for Duke in the Chicago area. That would be Notre Dame, and the school is doing everything to promote the trip to South Bend, about 100 miles from die Second City.

The Iron Dukes are offering a travel package of a weekend hotel in Chicago and a bus ride to Notre Dame, in addition to a ticket to the game itself. About “three busloads” of people have accepted the offer so far, Winters said. Interest in the Notre Dame game has been high

among Duke fans, and the Blue Devils have easily met their allotted sales number of 5,000 for the matchup.

“It’s one of those games where everyone wants to go out there,” Winters said.

Duke kicks off it season Sept. 1 with a 2 p.m, contest against'Connecticut, which the Blue Devils lost a heartbreaker to in -2004 when they missed a field goal in the final minute. Other home games include Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Clemson and Georgia Tech, and Duke will also take

trips to Virginia, Navy, Miami, Florida State and North Carolina.

After a long string of frustration, the football program is hoping an infusion of talent and ambitious scheduling will turn into more wins and increased profits.

“Any big game is certainly going to draw attention,’ said Bart Smith, Duke’s director of athletic promotions. “The better the schedule we’re playing, hopefully that translates into more people coming to which will hopefully increase revenue.

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Zack thing,” Vaas said. “The more In 2005, Asack was named an hon- players you have at one position, In the weeks prior to the start of fall orable mention freshman All-America ter. Both these guys are going to ha practice, questions for head coach Ted by the Sporting News after starting six jor roles in the way we do things Ik Roof and the Duke football team serve games and throwing for 966 yards and Vaas worked with Lewis during spring five touchdowns. Asack ran into trouble practice, but because Asack was not enlittle purpose.

There are so many questions that there over the summer, however, when the rolled in school, he was prohii University became aware that he had participating in any drills. is just no way they can all be answered.

It remains to be seen whether or not plagiarized a paper for a Cultural An“Thad and I got to dev the Blue Devils will be able to snap the thropology class. With Asack at home relationship during the sp nation’s longest losing streak, which cur- in Massachusetts serving his suspen- said. “Fm excited to see rently sits at 20 games. It is also impos- sion, a true freshman assumed the reins and I will interact. I haven’ sible to know if the Blue Devils will be and quickly established himself as the thinking at all about com able to replace All-ACC cornerback John Blue Devil quarterback for the second tion between the two, o about the relationships Talley, Casey Corner©, and Eli Nichols, straight season.

“At this time of the year, the media would like to build with b who all signed NFL frCe-agent deals follikes to make a big deal about whatroles of them.” lowing the NFL draft, Until Duke takes the field Sept. 1 certain people are going to have on ceragainst Connecticut, any outlook for the tain teams,” Roof said. “But so much of Redshirting Freshmen 2007 Blue Devils is merely speculation. people’s roles are defined by things yet Regardless of who ultima) to be determined.As we’ve seen so many iip directing the Blue Devil The Competition at Quarterback times, roles can change during a season, season—and both Roof am Fresh offhis one-year suspension from and Zack knows that.” that Lewis is the team’s s the university, quarterback Zack Asack Instructing the two quarterbacks and terback—Duke will face sti has been enrolled in summer school the rest of the Duke offense this season tion in the ACC. The Blue since May. Along with returning freshman will be new offensive coordinator and struggled in recent years, in All-American Thaddeus Lewis, Asack proquarterbacks coach Peter Vaas. Last to the fact that so many true vides the Duke offense with something it season, Vaas tutored Notre Dame quar- have had to take the field. In hasn’t had in Roof’s tenure—two talented terback Brady Quinn in his role as quar- 2006, Duke played 23 true and proven signal-callers. terbacks coach with the Fighting Irish. While the number dropped Nonetheless, on a team full of ques- At Duke, all 11 starters return from an in 2005 to nine last season tion marks, at least one thing is certainfor offense that finished second to last in to- Devils were often overmatched Roof—who his starting quarterback is. tal offense and last in scoring offense in older, more experienced pi A “ThaddeusLewis is our quarterback,” I’d like to redshirt m> Roof said. “Zack is going to play a major »f said. “It’s the landscape role on this team and he knows that, but football. Teams have right now, Thaddeus is plugged in that redshirt seniors on the by

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Josh Mcßoberts was never so relieved to hear his name called.

The former Duke forward was taken with the 37th pick by the Pordand Trail Blazers in the 2007 NBA Draft heldJune 28 in NewYork City’s Madison Square Garden.

Mcßoberts, thought to be a surefire lottery pick out of high school, surprisingly slipped into the second round even though most experts believed the 6-foot-9 forward would be taken in the mid to latefirst round.

The Trail Blazers, who had passed on Mcßoberts with the 24th pick, were ecstatic he was still on the board at 37.

“We were shocked actually [that he fell]Portland Assistant General Manager Tom Penn said.

‘We thought for sure he was first-round talent” The Trail Blazers apparently weren’t alone in that assessment, as Penn said two teams attempted to trade with Portland in order to take Mcßoberts with the 37th selection.

“I thought Josh would have been good value at the end of the first round,” Duke alumnus and ESPN draft analystJay Bilas said. “He was a steal for Portland at 37.”

Mcßoberts had been on the Trail Blazers’ radar since his standout high school career at Carmel High School in Indiana.

“He was a very accomplished player at the high school level, and we were aware of it then and of course tracked his every move at Duke, so •we felt like we knew him pretty well,” Penn said.

“Our scouts were at a number of Duke games, and of course they appear on television every once in a while.”

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ican Game and joined the Blue Devils with high expectations. While he often showed flashes ofhis potential brilliance on the court, he was plagued by inconsistency in his two seasons at Duke.

In many ways Mcßoberts was the victim of poor timing in Durham. Playing alongside JJ. Redick and Shelden Williams his freshman season, Mcßoberts was often relegated to a tertiary option on offense. A year later, he was thrust into the limelight following the graduation ofRedick and Williams but never seemed comfortable in his role as a go-to scorer. He led the Blue Devils in scoring only four times in ACC play and struggled down the stretch in many close games.

“He’s a good complementary player, and I mean that as a compliment,” Bilas said. “He makes people around him better. He’s not a solo guy, he’s an ensemble player.”

Mcßoberts will have plenty of young stars to complement in Portland, beginning with his friend and fellow Indiana native, top-pick Greg Oden.

“It’s helpful that [Mcßoberts] and Greg are friends because of course that fosters better team chemistry and just creates a comfort level for both of those guys,” Penn said. “It was sort of icing on the cake.”

Oden and Mcßoberts are not the only parts of the Trail Blazers’ youth movement. Last season’s NBA Rookie of the Year Brandon Roy and recent college standouts LaMarcus Aldridge, Channing Frye and Jarrett Jack are all part of the rebuilding in the Pacific Northwest.

“We’ve got big time competition at every position,” Penn said. “It’s difficult to say where [Mcßoberts] or anybody else is going to shake out in the playing rotation, but for a rookie he’s going to have a chance to earn minutes and certainly be a part of the team.”

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Taylor King (6-foot-8, SF, Ranking: 56) A tali, left-handed sharpshooter who is especially dangerous from long range, King makes up for his lack of scoring in the paint with a sweet stroke from behind the arc. Named California’s Mr. Basketball in Slris nci 2007, King averaged 26.6 points per game his senior year to lead high school athletic powerhouse Mater Dei to the Division II state championship. Additionally, King lias already taken a liking to the soft rims in Cameron Indoor Stadium, leading all scorers with 32 points, including six threepointers, in a Durham Hoopshall Classic game against Nolan Smith’s Oak Hill Academy in January. \

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Listed as the top small forward in his class

by Scout.com, Singler’s deadly mid-range jumper and ability to crash the basket allows him to be a threat at several positions.

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Jay Bilas’ take: “I had a chance to work with Singler at the Nike camps a couple of summers ago and diink die world of him....

People are going to make comparisons to Dunleavy because of looks and size and where he comes from—and I diink that’s a fair comparison—but he has a chance to be great in his own right.... King is a great shooter, left handed and can take care of the ba11.... And Smith is a really good athlete.

—Compiled by Galen Vaisman, all rankings from scout.com

Sitting down with Coach K The Chronicle’s Sports Editor Meredith Shiner had an exclusive interview with Coach K to talk about Duke, his team and the summer’s basketball news.

Over the past year, how do you feel the University, particularly the Department of Athletics,

handled the lacrosse situation?

It’s easy to look back and say everything that you would have done or that could have been done.

Instead of rehashing those things—we could have taken care of the kids better, we could have done this better—Overall we could have done that better. Could we have done that worse? Absolutely, we could have done it a lot worse. Right now, especially [after the conclusion of the Nifong hearings] , there’s a great deal of closure now that has happened with Nifong. We need to be in a healing phase, and I want to be a part of that as much as I can.... No matter what, you’ve got to be there for them—that’s the job of a parent, a coach, a school or whatever. There were so many lives to this thing that it got complicated, and in that complication, I think some made, including the prop kids.

After last season’s AC' Tournament, John Feinstein wrote that “Duke isn’t Duke anymore.”

What do you think?

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no. Can we be that again? Yeah. I don’t know if anybody can though... We’ve been an extreme.

But I’m fine with that. I also accept those remarks.

I don’t think it’s criticism. I would tellyou. Were we like my teams of the previous five years? Hell no.

Did you watch us play? Not that those kids didn’t try, but they were the youngest team that Duke’s had in 60 years, but still Duke. So the people who are competing against you, who we’ve been winning against or winning championships over, this is their time. So those kids had a rude awakening.

It’s was a tough year for our team, and we need to take that as a positive and build from it and not making any excuses. I’m looking forward to John writing an article next year saying Duke is back.

Some writers were highly critical of Billy Donofor backing out of his contract with the Magic.

You faced similar circumstances with the Lakers in 2004. Do you empathize with him and is there external pressure to have pro coaching success to fulfill a career? van

I don’t think a collegiate coach thinks that needs to go to the professional level to fulfill whatever your time here on earth is supposed to be. In, a lot of ways college coaches get more notoriety. It’s two different worlds. So, no, I don’t think that. As far as what happened with Billy, he’s 42 years old, he wins backto-back national championships. Kentucky wants him. The Grizzlies want him. More things are public and he probably made a rush to judgment. A lot of the stuff I’ve done is private and no one even found out about it. The most public of all was the Lakers, but, at that time, I’m 57 years old. There was never going to be a rush to judgment. I had people around me who said, ‘Don’t do anything until you’re sure.’ Who knows? Maybe he didn’t have that. It seemed really quick.... I understand how it happens, whether it’s right or wrong, I understood it. The worst thing would be for Magic and for Billy not to want to be together—passionately— because if you’re going to succeed, whether it be at Florida or with whatever pro team, you better want to be there badly.

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But last year, after a fall of his own, the multitalented quarterback found his schedule empty. No practices, no games and no classes simply a blank slate. “lt was awful,” the sophomore quarterback said. “Taking the year off, it felt there was something misswatchbe out —

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“Zack was a good person,” head coach Ted Roof said. “Good people make bad decisions sometimes. He was a good person before he did that, but certainly [now he] understands the impact of decisions and how they can alter your life.”

Asack took a shortcut, and now he’s traveled the long road back to Durham. The sophomore hopes his coaching staffremembers the promise he showed as a freshman in 2005 when he made six starts and led Duke to its lone victory over the last two seasons, a 41-14 romp of VMI. In Asack’s absence last year, freshman Thaddeus Lewis had a jreakout season, throwing for over 2,000 yards in 11 starts for the Blue devils. Asack, however, |sees the jSi competition with Lewis for the starting job as just anotherhurdle to leap on the path to his redemption.

“He’s a great quarterback, and ic’s going to be pushing me, and ||P| in going to be on the other side pushing him,” Asack said of Lewis.

“I’m really looking forward to competing with him and making each '•ther better.”

While Lewis earned his stripes in ACC competition, Asack was as an assistant for his high school football team and a ball boy for the New England Patriots. Asack took fulladvantage of his proximity to two-time Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady on a regular basis.

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photos being sold on Shakedown Street, Bonnaroo’s main thoroughfare, on Saturday. Attendance was shy of last year’s record, but seeing something like 70,000 people from the air is still awe inspiring.

The view from the ground nearly defies description. Walking to and from Centeroo, the festival’s compound ofstages and official vendors, the dusty expanse sometimes resembles a third-world market and sometimes, as during the Sunday night early exodus, the end of the world. Equally remarkable is the truly eclectic mix of festival-goers. Despite the Clear Channel takeover and the proliferation of mainstream artists in the lineup, jam band fans and hippies of all stripes showed up in droves: young ones, old ones, Trustafarians, ’6os holdovers, enterprising veggie quesadilla chefs—no shortage of dreads and tie-dye. to see the aerial

Added to the simmering cauldron of heat, music and drugs were hipsters, high schoolers, frat boys and the women who love them, ravers, parents, children, and me.

Day One: Neared Manchester, Tenn. at about 2:00 p.m. on Thursday. Endless line of Bonnaroo traffic was diverted on the shoulder, and over the next four hours we gradually inch towards US-24 exit 112. Set up about thirty minutes awayfrom Centeroo, next to a friendly group from Virginia (who throughout the weekend will share their water, food, and shade).

Ventured in the first evening and spent a great deal of time trying to get oriented. The four main venues are named What Stage, Which Stage, That Tent and

Saturday NightLive star AndySamberg makes the move to the big screen this summer inHot Rod, bringing along dosefriendsAkkra Schaeffer and JormaTaccone.

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It is an unusually NEW YORK warm New York City night and I can just barely hear the faint sounds ofWest Chelsea nightclubs pulsating in the distance. I make my way into PreiPost, the most pretentious nouveau American, pan-Asian bistro I have ever visited, albeit the only nouveau American, pan-Asian bistro I have ever visited.

The mellow lighting and mellower music create the perfect atmosphere for hipsters to show their face and be seen while pretending not to care. The devastatingly trendy design features booths made from smoothed birch and VIP cabanas for the more covert crews.

And I’m hanging out by the bathroom with the “Dick in a Box” dude.

Andy Samberg has had a big year.

The 28-year-old has gone from obscu-

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we couldn’t turn it down because it was such a great opportunity,” he says.

The “we” refers to The Lonely Island, aka Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Schaeffer, respectively the lead, co-star and director of Hot Rod. The trio made their mark with a series of digital shorts, which they direct and often compose music for. The soaring success of the shorts is not surprising—the boys have been doing it for years.

Schaeffer, Taccone and Samberg became close friends during junior high, but parted ways to attend college. Eventually, the group reunited in Berkeley, Calif., and watched the short films they made while in college.

“Akiva is very meticulous and Andy is all over the place. All of our styles clicked really well together and was a perfect kind of mix of what you see today,” Taccone says.

It was obvious that they were on to something different. The friends decided to try their hand at showbiz, quitting after a couple years if they couldn’t make a break.

“There was a day in Berkeley where we went over to Jorm’s mom’s house and there’s a picture out on the front porch which is die moment we said ‘So, we’re gonna move to LA and do comedy for

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a living,’” Samberg said. “And that was 2000 and now we are literally doing what we said we were going to do.”

However, it took five years to get there.

Setting up base in Los Angeles, the boys began making Internet comedy sketches, popular on YouTube, as The Lonely Island. Their special brand of absurdist humor got them noticed by several, but wanted by few. “The Dudes”—as their fans call them—landed odd jobs as writers for a couple award shows, including the MTV Movie Awards, where Samberg met host Jimmy Fallon, who encouraged them to audition for SNL Executive Producer Lome Michaels.

Samberg landed a temporary spot on the show, later becoming a featured player—ajob he had wantedsince he was eight years old. Given their collaborative success, Taccone and Schaeffer landed writing jobs. The quick transition from unemployed to working with celebrities was a shock to the system.

“In our first season with SNL, Steve Martin came in. I had a pullout of that dude in my college dorm and then to write a skit for him is amazing,” Taccone says, quickly shifting to sarcasm: “Ashlee Simpson was awesome too.”

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To the left are the covers that make up the past nine years of this glorious and, frankly, most awesome weekly section.

Though our covers have changed over the past 10 years, our dedication to informing Duke students about the best and worst of music, film, food, fashion, books, tech and more has not. recess started as a replacement to “R&R,” another Chronicle section dedicated to the weekend life at Duke. The first issue of the first volume featured an article about the closing of the legend-

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Today recess consists of a small staff of some of the kewlest kids and hippest cats at Duke. That’s what you kids say these days, right? Hip? Kewl? Our tastes editor used to run an illegal gourmet restaraunt out ofhis dorm room and our very own David Graham was a freakin’ park ranger. Like that hip, kewl kid-cat from Yogi theBear, Ranger Smith. Most impressive is our managing editor, who can throw a DukeCard distances over 50 feet at speeds fast enough to kill West Campus cats.

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Durham’s vibrant Mexican culture. The restaurant is scheduled to open in early 2008 and will be located at Rogers Alley, the area under renovation by Greenfire

Dos Perros and Watts Grocery may seem like odd names for two highly anticipated restaurants opening in Durham Development. later this year. The names of other local favorites like Rue For Durham native and chef Amy Tornquist, Watts Cler and Piedmont suggest picturesque scenes from Paris or Grocery will pay homage to the neighborhood of her die ambiance of the Italian countryside. Dos Perros, despite youth. Tornquist’s first stand-alone restaurant effort, its feel-good canine allusions, falls short this casual Southern eatery will offer traditional takes on of offering the same romantic imagery.

And Watts Grocery is something of a misCarolinian classics with a distinctively local flair.

SPOTLIGHT nomer, as it is neither on Watts Street nor a grocery store.

But in as much as these Yet the significance behind these Dos Perros restaurants seem to be fit107 E. Parrish St. quirky names reveals a common ting additions to the TriDurham, N.C. thread that in many ways makes these angle’s rapidly revitalizing two restaurants quite similar—both Upscale and affordable Mexican fare dining landscape, they also mark significant breaks represent a nostalgic homecoming for Watts Grocery their chef-owners. from the norm for their 116 Broad St. chefs. Deal’s two previChef Charlie Deal at Dos Perros Durham, N.C. ous restaurant efforts have left his post at Durham’s Grasshopbeen of the pan-Asian perLocal ingredients and simple dishes per—which recendy closed—soon afsuasion. And Tornquist aster its opening two years ago. For the sured recess a little more past two years he has worked tirelessly than a year ago she had as chef-owner at Chapel Hill’s Jujube while living in Durham. Dos Perros is Deal’s culinary reno plans to open a restaurant in Durham beyond her turn to Durham and is named after his two pet dogs. then-post at the Nasher Museum Cafe. With her wellThe traditionalMexican cuisine will not only pay respect established Sage and Swift Gourmet Catering operation and a bakery project also in the works, Tornquist, to that country’s oft-misunderstood bold flavors but to however, appears to forging new paths beyond Duke’s Gothic walls.

From a culinary perspective both restaurants present dishes that are at once traditional yet exciting, familiar yet faintly exotic.

“Dos Ferros is my answer to what has amounted to a frustrating compromise in Mexican cuisine in the Triangle and beyond,” said Deal of his new venture. “One can find a delicious authentic taco by going to a traditional taqueria, but that often comes at the expense of atmosphere. To get a slightly more refined version, your only other opdon is typically a Southwestern or Tex-Mex styled fme-dining restaurant.”

In order to buck this stereotype, Deal will present affordable tacos and small plates in a taqueria and bar section ofhis upcoming restaurant, while offering Mexican specialties not typically found in the Triangle area, like serving mole poblano in the main dining room.

With a similar mindset, Tomquist aims to break down another unfortunate misconception—that local and sustainable ingredients must be the sole domain of stuffy and expensive fine-dining restaurants.

Charlie Deal helms Dos Perros, aMexican restaraunt taqueria ami bar.

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“We are, of course, focused on local and seasonal but not in a fussy or fancy way,” Tornquist said. “We are planning to open for late night drinks and snacks Thursday through Saturday until 2 a.m. and will serve cupcakes at lunch and brunch.”

With staples like hamburgers and buttermilk fried chicken—all sourced from local forms—on die menu, even less adventurous palates will have the opportunity to feast with a dear consdence. And with the femed Ploughman’s Plate making a return laden with local bread, artisanal cheeses and charcuterie and a planned dish ofCreole spiced fried chicken gizzards, foodies will also have something to look forward to.

It is unlikely that Dos Perros or Watts Grocery will challenge the Triangle’s old guard ofNew Southern restaurants for critical acclaim or media attention. But in their own way, the future success of these newcomers may well reflect on the increasingly local and ethnic tastes that have come to dethe region. If their chefs’ goals are any indication, they

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����� GetBehind Me Satan and the formation of Jack White’s “supergroup” the Raconteurs were mixed blessings for White Stripes fans. On the one hand you had a solid album with some standout tunes and a radio-friendly classic rock band that showed new facets of White’s musical personality. On the other, you had a mess of hit-and-miss experiments with marimbas and anti-electric guitar songwriting that did not bode particularly well for the future of the White Stripes and a group whose success threatened to end the Stripes altogether.

Icky Thump, the group’s sixth album, will allay the fears of even the most skeptical candy cane child. Like Elephant, it is an album in the classic rock m> Icky Thump successfully inco many of Get Behind Me s new d’ into the heavy garage sound the organ/fuzz guitar interplay Slowly Turning Into You”), res an album that covers a lot o ground and still delivers the roll goods.

While the songs in the classi such as spoken-word stomper Little Cream Soda” and the savage “Catch Hell Blues,” don’t disappoint, the bizarre detours are in fact some of the album’s best moments. “Conquest,” an unhinged cover of a Patti Page song, places a mariachi trumpet over Jack’s aggressive guitar grind, and “Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn” is a beautiful, mandolin-accented

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recess Scottish folk song, reminiscent of “The Battle of Evermore” from Zeppelin’s IV. Led Zeppelin is hands down the most popular critical comparison when it comes to this album, but really, Zep has always been a major touchstone for the White Stripes sound, and Icky Thump is certainly no more the Stripe’s “Zeppelin album” than Elephant was.

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listlessly drones through sound and stylistic the same aesthetic. clumsy lyrics for which Interpol is so well Icky Thump is an amazingly solid al- known (perhaps best exemplified by the bum because it succeeds both at stretchstaggeringly unsubtle “No I in Threeing out and sticking to the tried-and- some,” which details the protagonist’s true. In the White Stripes, we are lucky declaredly selfless case for a menage-aenough to have a truly great rock band trois).

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built for and around the framework of Carlos Dengler’s movements, the bass is almost entirely inaudible on Our Love. All of the internal rhythms that characterized the group’s earlier releases have been stripped away, taking with them a good part of the group’s former energy and emotion.

In its place, Interpol has stepped up the level of guitar interplay, resulting in a full-frontal, guitar-driven record that is both remarkably clean and straightforward. But when the group hammers through tracks such as “The Heinrich Maneuver,” theirrestless gusto almost implies that have forgotten to write the entire song. The track—lamenting a former lover—is both quick and entertaining.

It’s just not as musically contemplative as some of the group’s previous work—as if the group has intentionally substituted pacing for gravity.

It’s when the groupslows itself down that it really shines, such as on the jolty “Rest My Chemistry,” where the song’s awkward pacing perfectly complements its subject matter: the drug-addled decision between sex and more drugs.

While the guitar is still the prominent player on the track, it slows down just enough to give the rest of the layers a bit of breathing room. This is rare on Our Love, where most of the tracks move too fast for their own good, and occasionally just choke themselves out. The ironically titled “Pace Is the Trick,” for example, feels cluttered, with so many overlays that it ultimately comes out flat. The bulk of the album moves in this fashion, right up until the rattling cocaine comedown of “The Lighthouse”—a moody hangover from the rest of the album’s guitar high.

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strous LCD screens. While waiting for the Followills to take the stage, sought shade behind the mid-field sound booth, and spoke to a man named Chris, a graphic designer from Georgia, attending Bonnaroo with his son. Discussed how the music industry has changed since his youth, when there were only a few dozen major artists and groups with the kind of popularity that it now seems anyone can enjoy in the Myspace age. He was open to seeing his son’s favorite acts, exhibiting not a whiff of the cluelessness one might assume on the part of a dad at a festival.

After a solid, energetic set by theKings, trekked over to see Manu Chao and the Radio Bemba Sound System. Manu Chao surprised with his set—instead of duplicating the more relaxed feel of his international pop albums, the band went for a deep reggae on many songs, periodically erupting into a hyper-kinetic double-time thrash, during which Radio Bemba’s flamboyant guitarist would leap onto the monitors and unleash over-thetop wah-wah solos.

This Tent. According to Josh from Wisconsin, who I met in the long line for Stanton Moore’s set at the Something Else jazz tent, the festival creators created the system to “trick” people (i.e. stoned people, i.e. everybody) into seeing different types of music they weren’t seeking out. It’s an interesting thought, and moreso now given the variety of the lineup.

Was turned away from the tent when it reached capacity, and went to That Tent to wait for the National. Waited through the end of a set by the Sam Roberts Band (unfortunate, fratty quasi-retro rock) and technical difficulties which resulted in an altercation between the National’s violinist and a stagehand, until finally the band took the stage. Sound was much more British new-wave than I’d been led to believe, and singer Matt Berniger sang spookily like lan Curtis although sometimes too low to be audible over the instrumentation.

Slogged back to camp and rolled over a few hundred times in my tent before fall-

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Day Two: The campsite seemed to wake with the sun, which was not surprising given our

position in the field (although some lucky bastards had snagged spots along the tree line in the shade). Arrived at Centeroo around 12:45, thinking we’d be on time for a set by the Cold War Kids, blogger favorites from California. Horror as we turned up to find an enormous gridlock of hundreds of people trying to get in: another forty-five minutes of waiting in the sun as people slowly trickled through the security checks. Several fainted in the heat as a few merciful souls with squirt guns tried to spread moisture around.

Missed most of the Cold War Kids’ set, but was impressed by what I heard, Nathan Willett has an excellent live voice, well suited to the lounge-style throwback elements of the group’s sound. Semi-hit “Hang Me Up to Dry” was well-received, particularly with That Tent’s stellar sound system pumping up its insistent octave bass line to epic proportions.

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with all the energy they deserved. Daniel has an innate sense of drama, and when he hit the fantastic line “I got to believe they call it rock and roll” from “The Beast and Dragon, Adored” it sounded positively triumphant.

Went back to camp rather than watch the Police (who, I heard, were about as good as could be expected; personally didn’t feel like staring at Sting’s smug mug on a Jumbotron for two hours). Gave in to exhaustion and napped. Woke up much too late and missed most of the Flaming Lips, to my eternal shame. Still got a taste of theirjoyful spectacle: confetti jets, smoke, lasers, lights and costumes. Wayne Coyne is not a great live vocalist, but as a feelgood ringmaster, his skills are unparalleled. Got to hear theirstandard closer “Do You Realize??” as well as an encore ending with an yearning version of the Rolling Stones’ “Moonlight Mile.”

Day Four; Spent much of Sunday recovering from three days of dust, heat, and dehydration.

Hiked back to Centeroo around 4, and went to What Stage for Wilco. heat was still unbearable, discomfort disappeared /ilco took the stage, openth ‘You Are My Face,” one most stately and gorgeous >ers from their laid-back jam-friendly new album ue Sky. Jeff Tweedy’s new may lack the edge of his work, but it is obvious lat new lead guitarist Nels Cline is at least a gifted musician and possibly a visionary. He seemed to perform miracles, his \ands coaxed spiraling, owering leads from his mder Jazzmaster, directg the new songs’ breathtking instrumental pas;ages. Tweedy was in fine form as well, giving vitality to the words and melodies of such classic songs as “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” and “A Shot in the Arm.” Broke my heart to leave early (good work, Tweedy), but needed to secure a spot at the impending White Stripes

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show. Ended up about 30 to 40 feet from the stage, packed in tight by the ever-expanding crowd. The masses were indeed unwashed, and the odor was none too pleasant. It was evening, sticky and muggy, and the vintage blues pre-show music suited the ambience of the crowd perfectly.

Jack and Meg walked on late, waving to the crowd before kicking off with “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground.” It didn’t matter that I had heard that song hundreds of times, as Jack steadfastly refuses to play or sing anything the same way twice.

It was a raunchy, dirty set, with both Jack and Meg squeezing the maximum amount of grit from their simple grooves.

The mid-set slide showcase of “Death Letter” was heart-stoppingly thrilling, and the monumental, effects-laden fuzzguitar sound was so powerful it seemed to bend the speakers as it forced its way out onto the crowd. The crowd pogoed, crowdsurfed and headbanged as we were beaten into willing submission.

There was a moment during the long encore when I looked at Jack White, perched atop the monitors, his body shaking as he ripped into another screeching solo, that I became aware I was watching something of genuine importance. Watching the White Stripes that night I knew I was in the presence of one of the great rock and roll bands of our era, and that I would have a story to make many envious in years to come.

Took a much-needed dunk in the Centeroo fountain after the show, and headed back to camp for the final time.

It may be, as some claim, that Bonnaroo will be destroyed by its commercial ambitions, and that the original spirit ofcreating a temporary utopia apart from the laws and cares of theworld (the aim of every rock festival since Woodstock, in a sense) has already been diluted by the manipulations of the business world. Or it may be that Bonnaroo will, as its creators hope, become an institution, America’s version of the famed annual Glastonbury Festival in Britain. I can’t say.

But I can tell you that the camaraderie is real, that Bonnaroo exists in a dream state where instant connection is possible, and friendship evolves naturally. Beyond that I can only tell you what it did for me, and it was no small thing. My faith in rock and roll, ever shaky, was given a much-needed shot in the arm.

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Branan talks songs, shows, scars Born in small-town Southaven, Miss., singer-songwriter Cory Branan began his career in a Black Sabbath cover band. The 32-year-old’s sound has long since abandoned the dissonant chords of heavy metal for his own version of twang-rock. The newly-free-agent musician, who combines folksy rock with punk, pop, soul and blues influences, talks with recess’ Varun Leila. His last album, the appropriately titled 12 Songs, was released on Madjack Records in March of 2006.

Rolling Stone magazine compared you to some pretty well known songwriters like Ryan Adams and [Bright Eyes’] Connor Oberst, people who fill their music with a lot of irony and anguish. Your music is a little bit more upbeat and hopeful. How do you feel about having these lofty ex-

pectations?

Well, frankly, I am not huge fans of either of those guys. Comparisons are going to have to be made, you know?

You do it when you buy f—ing ice cream. It’s just natural. People have to do it. I don’t diary write [in my songs] very much. If something is that personal to me, I try to convey that in some other form. I like to write stories. I like to use whatever raw stuffI have and put it in a story. I don’t think I am a story.

I don’t think my life is records and records and records of material. I am not the constant source of my own damn inspiration. I see that in a lot of diary type writers and I decided to stray away from that.

And the comparison?

As far as comparisons, that’s cool. People gotta do it. You gotta call music something. Say that it sounds like this or whatever. Both of those guys, when they are on they are really on. I just think... it really doesn’t matter what I think. I really like them when they are both on, they are just not always on.

There’s nothing wrong with liking what you like.

Of course not it’s a big, big world.

I read thatyou had a pilot for VHI. Yeah that was a few years back, nothing really happened.

What was the show supposed to be?

Little dumb s— like that happens to me. I lived in L.A. and NewYork for a little bit and some guy saw me at the show. The premise of the pilot was this guy has lost this girl and wants to get her back and wants to write a song, so they bring in a professional songwriter, (laughs) which they thought I was. Basically some guy saw me at show, acting like a retard, and was like “Alright, this will work for TV.” They flew me out for a couple days and we shot the whole thing and it never panned out to

anything.

So the idea was you were a songwriting Well, Paul Simon is Paul Simon.

He always does great, solid work, but to be at that age. superhero of sorts?

I was supposed to be a professional That record is groundbreaking, it’s new stuff that he hasn’t songwriter who takes little tidbits of their done. To be groundbreaking at that age, its like damn. Dylan memories and put them into song. He is doing great, great stuff, just as good as he has ever done, went down and sang it for her at work but I don’t think he’s breaking new ground. That last Paul Siand got her back and everything. mon I was like, woah what the hell. Surprise! Oh, s— I didn’t Well, congrats on saving a relationship. mean to tag it. I guess its called Surprise. That was the lamest You know, I don’t think that lasted thing I ever said, but it did surprise me. more than a night.

Do you think there is a disadvantage to not being in If you had the money would you rather your 20s? be touring of recording?

I started real late, so I’d like to think not. For what I would rather be recording, but I do, the more scars that cut my face and lines in my that depends on when you ask me. face, the more authentic people I assume I am. People l’m on tour right now, so I would want the grizzled old songwriters, they don’t want the courtesy cory branan rather be recording. I like both and grizzled old rock star.

I’m no longer afraid of touring. I’m still afraid of the You should start wearing an eye patch and a cowboy hat Trust me, I’m not in a hurry to look like... I was going recording studio, which is kind of why I want to do it—it to name some people, but its not nice to name people who still gives me that rush.

What have you been listening to lately? aren’t looking so good. It’s not nice to call out my heroes.

I don’t know about albums, but there is a band I like There might be a name in there that thymes with Bob Fyian. a lot.. They’re called J-Roddy Walston and the Business. (laughs) Yeah, yeah. Tom Fails. People who are 60, who I don’t know about the record, but I saw them live and look like they are 120, those are my heroes, usually. they ripped my face off. I haven’t been blown away by a re- Well, if there is anything great to admire itis certainly the abilcord in a while. The last thing that blew me away was Paul ity to look like 120 and tour like you’re 24.

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You got to love those survivors.

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New at Nasher, the latest showcase at the Nasher Museum of Art, is a celebration of contemporary art across all forms ofmedia. Contrary to the name of the showcase, the two-part exhibition will not present wholly new artwork, but will actually display pieces that have been acquired by the museum in the past few years.

The first installation will be open to the public July 19 and will be quite a varied sampling. The exhibition will feature several diverse artists, offering everything from photography to sculptures to video installations. Famous for its mixture of Pop and Photo Realist, only a few of Barkley Hendricks’ paintings will be included in this installation, with a larger collection of his works slated to be featured exclusively in another Nasher exhibit in spring 2008.

Making its return to Nasher in the first installation is the infamous “Mask (Self-Portrait)” by Australian-born Ron Mueck, the largerthan-life sculpture ofhis own face in great detail. Also included in the lineup for the first installation is French artist Christian Boltanski, a photographer, sculptor and painter, who is best known for his installations centered on the pains and problems of memory, loss and

death. Oftentimes, his installations are memorials to anonymous individuals or to those who have disap-

peared.

The second installation, opening in the same galleria on Feb. 23, 2008, will continue to display varied works from artists worldwide, including Dario Escobar. The Guatemalan painter and sculptor's pieces often combine ornate objects and decorative techniques with commonplace urban items.

Similar to the fusion employed by Escobar, Chinese artist Hong Lei mixes monographic Chinese motifs with Western esthetics in his photo-based creations.

“We wanted to showcase really leading-edge international art from around the world,” said organizer Anne Schroder, curator ofacademic programs. “There are not really many collections in this area that focus on contemporary art, and we want to make a difference in that way.”

Although many of the pieces of the two instillations are regulars at Nasher, more than half are indeed new; many are even making their North Carolina debuts in this exhibit. In total, the full “New at Nasher” exhibit will highlight more than 25 artists, amounting to an amazing sampling of contemporary pieces with topics and issues that spans the globe.

Battle of the local venues Durham Located at 1116 Broad St, this coffeehouse offers up sweets alongside a wide array of musical acts. Broad Street features everything from blues jam sessions, allowing amateurs and professionals to showcase their talents, to local R&B groups and even local improv groups like InDecision Theater Improv. Just off East Campus, this laid-back cafe is a greatvenue to enjoy local artists up-close.

Page Auditorium Duke’s very own West Campus auditorium hosts several music, dance and theater performances every year, including student artists. In the past, Page has featured headliners such as Ben Folds and Lewis Black.

Although this year’s Duke Performances line-up is especially strong, the limitations of this not-so-state-ofthe-art venue makes the convienient choice less than ideal.

Home to many ofDurham’s best playwrights, directors and actors, the Manbites Dog Theater is a professional non-profit theater. In the last 19 seasons, Manbites has hosted 60 productions, involving both local and national artists and companies. Operating from 703 Foster St., this local gem offers up moving and entertaining plays throughout the year.

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The Arts Center This center is not only a decent location for theater and art, but it also offers art classes for both the beginner and the advanced. Some ofits offerings are the annual 10 by 10 Festival, featuring 10 one-act plays each lasting 10 minutes, along with many short-film festivals and art exhibits.

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Virtual Effects:The Good,The Bad and The Digital byJanet Wu THE CHRONICLE

Towering toy robots, legions of fiendish Persians, Davy Jones, Sandman —they defy the cosmos and destroy competition at the box office.

Cinema has entered an age where little is impossible and everything is attempted. Budgets are burgeoning and though production sets remain as grandiose as ever, the digital world of visual effects—or VFX—is infinitely vaster.

Freeman, an animator for Image Works, with clients such as Spiderman 3 and The Chronicles of Narnia.

“You’d be surprised by the kind of work that goes into a shot or film that isn’t ‘effects heavy,”’ Freeman said. “Everything from sky replacements to removals are all things you would never even think to call out. When we are doing our jobs, the audience doesn’t even know that effects are involved.”

Often underestimated are the small details in an effect—the flow of hair, the texture of clothes or the shiny Autobot's sheen.

“It takes that critical eye to produce imagery that the audience won’t question for a moment when it appears on screen,” said Jeff Dillinger, whose primary task on Spiderman 3 was to construct the malleable Sandman using particle

But amidst the boom of explosions and the whoosh of space crafts, an undercurrent of grumbles has surfaced to meet the digital takeover.

300’ s “massive, computer-based postproduction army” had “no ragged breath of real, ugly, human consequence,” according technology. to an Entertainment Weekly review by critic In some ways, the critical community Lisa Schwartzbaum. And Time Magazine's is suffering from too much of a good Richard Schickel likened Pirates of the CaSPECIAL TOTHE CHRONIC thing and, arguably, the anesthetization ribbean: At World’s End to being “trapped in Movies past and present, as Spiderman 3 and E.T., use VFX to marry technology and story. such of the Star Wars-e ra wonder. a theater with the visual effects flaming all “I think you’re reaching a saturaaround you.” think then the can benefit from the tion people were amazed [back then] film technology. point... I Looking at this mish-mash of critical comment, an life, because they understood that it wasn’t real but it “The flip side, I think, is the overuse of digital efinadvertant association between flashy visual effects and looked pretty real and questioned, ‘How do did they poor storytelling has seemingly developed. With energy fects when it comes to more physical matters like car have done the with do that?”’ Windell said. “Whereas now, people don’t in past funneled so vigorously into the fantastic, it’s no wonder crashes—things we might think said, miniatures and Winded even bat an eye they just say, ‘Oh, well that’s done “I much ends the real. pyrotechnics,” that not up in with a computer.’” sometimes you can find yourself in sort of a plastic real“It’s a little unfortunate that we have the technology Windell’s hope is for superior stories and tasteful now to make—whether it’s the future or the past —look ity with the digital effects.”

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He sites E.T as a past example of a film that in using think become to the objects manipulaso real you’d they’d transparent transcends the vacancy of tech-heavy productions and tion of history, such as with 300’s “rock -video version” storytelling. But we depend on making it more the specThe Lord of the Rings trilogy as a more recent instance. tacle than the character,” said Terry Windell, who has of the Battle of Thermopylae and with the overall tenbasic for Whether the great power of visual effects will be animation and visual effects on Star Wars: to disregard physics spectacle. dency worked on Both critics and visual effects teams seem to agree handled with great responsibility remains debatable Return of the Jedi (he did Emperor Palpatine’s lighting in the onslaught of studio tent poles. But Freeman is on the necessity of a quality story. Visual effects may bolts!) E.T and Ghostbusters. but do offer certain of one thing: the digital way—from iPhones characterization—when a mediocre a they deepWhen digital effects increase not remedy script, to blockbuster effects—isn’t going anywhere. er, more textured movie-going experience, said Kevin our beloved subjects offantasy and science fiction come to

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Department of Theater Studies Annual Open HOUS6 All Duke undergraduates are invited to this open house on the first day of class, Monday, August 27, from 5:30—7:00 p.m. in Brody Theater, Branson Building, East Campus. Meet the Theater Studies

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Mister ioso Directed by Jay O’Berski The Space, Smith Warehouse September 26-29

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Betrayal

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It was early in that first season when Samberg was offered the lead part in Hot Rod, bypassing the normal slew of supporting roles and heading straight for the top of the marquee. The comedy features Samberg as Rod Kimble, a not-so-talented stuntman who must raise $500,000 for his abusive stepfather’s heart operation —so he can beat him up and gain his respect. The role was originally meant for Will Ferrell, but, with the success of Anchorman and Elf, Ferrell was fully booked by the time Hot Rod was ready for production, making way for Samberg.

The rookie actor then convinced Paramount to give the director’s chair to Schaeffer and include Taccone as Rod’s eager younger brother, Kevin. Although exciting, it was hard for the boys who write their own material to deliver on someone else’s script.

“We made our own sort of adjustments to make sure it would be something I would be comfortable performing. We kind of Lonely Island-ized it,” Samberg says.

After years of trying to find work, The Lonely Island now faces the more welcome problem of too much work. Schaeffer noted that the constant switching between writing sketches, directing shorts and making a feature-length film wears on the group's endurance.

“I think the deadline is the hardest part. The fact that you are on someone else’s schedule and not your own,” Schaeffer continues.

Although they are busy with several projects, the threesome from Berkeley have not let their recent achievements inflate their ego. Back in Pre;Post, Taconne winces when I call him a soon-to-be celebrity. Though it's hard to believe him, he says he will still remember my name and not brush me off ifwe ever cross paths again. For the Dudes, they say, it is and always will be about the fans that made them famous. Despite not posting as The Lonely Island since 2005, Taccone says the group still thinks about returning to its roots "I really wish in time we can revisit The Lonely Island.

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TRANSFORMERS DIR. M. BAY DREAMWORKS

With G.I Joe and CGI Care Bears on the way to the big screen, it seems like Hollywood is depleting everything from the ’Bos toys nostalgia bank. I’m still waiting for a live action Cabbage Patch film starring Carrot Top. In the mean time, I’ll have to settle for Transformers, a sci-fi action epic that blows my mind with unbelievable visuals but not much else.

Film critic punching bag Michael Bay manages to realistically transform (pun blatantly intended) the robots from two-dimensional Saturday morning cartoons to living, breathing—and most importantly—lovable characters.

The film follows the awkwardly named Sam Whitwicky as he buys his very first vehicle, a beat-up Camaro that happens to be an alien robot. It turns out that Sam’s pioneering grandfather —

came across a frozen Megatron, leader of the evil Deceptions and inadvertently obtained directions to the All-Spark Cube which has the power to create and destroy worlds, or something ridiculous to that effect. Now, Sam must help the good-guy-Autobots get to the Cube before it falls in to the hands of Megatron and anthropomorphized machine army.

Oh, and there’s a really hot grease monkey-tress (Megan Fox), who comes along and serves as eye candy/ love interest.

The plot is not terribly important in a film so dedicated to big explosions, guns and car chases. The special effects are some of the most groundbreaking since Neo dodged bullets in the Matrix. Robots shred through tiered freeways and skyscrapers in a noble quest to beat the break fluid out of each other. The time in between the stupendacular—copyright 2007—battles are just filler.Like an addict going through withdrawal, audiences will rock back and forth, scattering popcorn and Raisinets while anxiously

awaiting the next hit ofexcitement.

These non-action sequences grow even more unbearable with the subpar acting and even worse dialogue.

The script, penned by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, is littered with fan-boy jokes and sophomoric oneliners that can cause bouts of uncontrollable laughter in the all the wrong places. Fortunately, the acting is salvaged by the two big stars, young gun Shia Lebouf and Optimus Prime (voiced by the original 1980 voice actor, Peter Weller). Lebouf is genuinely funny, picking up a classic, Vince Vaughn-esqe banter and timing. Weller manages to deepen his robot counterpart beyond the confines of the stalwart, ever-optimistic leader.

Hearing Optimus Prime say “my bad” is worth a matinee ticket alone.

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As thematic as Hairspray leans, it never fails to bring on the good times and the better beats. Leading the merriment is debut actress Nikki Blonksy, a bouncy bundle of doe-eyed gusto. She’s Tracy Turnblad incarnate, scooped up from a real life of scooping ice cream and grant-

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Tracy’s ambition is to show her moves on the Comey Collins’ Show, a localized American Bandstand, featuring prim white teens who rule the stage. Batty and blonde producer Velma von Tussle (Michelle Pfeiffer) takes the villainous reins, crusading to eradicate the single day a year set aside for the annual

Tracy and company accept with an admirable but hasty innocence, turning race into a “chocolate,” “vanilla,” “swirl” fantasy ffo-yo of integration, all the while breaking it down with the hip oppressed.

The film, however well-intentioned, nevertheless represents a “vanilla” perspective.

It’s the statuesque Queen Latifah, as “Negro Day” host Motormouth Maybelle, who suspends the flood of choreographed vigor with a stirring spiritual anthem.And it’s this flicker of soul in an overeager dose of heart, which makes Hairspray a picture of harmony.

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Throw in some hallucinogenic pills courtesy of Martha’s brother Troy, mysterious dwarf Peter (Station Agent's Peter Dinklage), who has scandalous photos of the departed, a naked Simon crawling about the rooftops and—well you get the gist.

Just whenyou think you’ve seen the worst ofDaniel’s troubles, another mishap occurs drawing the film toward the black and away from the comedy. There are plenty of laughs, but it’s the kind of hilarity embittered by a guilty aftertaste. Simon’s delusional romp amidst the mourners is, after all, drug-induced, and funny as it is, dwarf kidnapping is not the most upright scheme.

Nevertheless, the film is not without an underlying tenderness, and if the plot seems a bit outrageous at times, the characters, performed by some of Britain’s finest, are perfecdy constructed as fallible humans who cope with life and loss in imperfect but authentic ways. Funeral is dark and at times brutal, but then such is life and such is death.

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There is a painful mirth specific to British black comedy. It is a long and torturous episode of laugh-moans at the sight of our refined counterparts faced with obscenely unrefined situations. With the same uneasy fascination of watching an overly inflated balloon reach its last rubbery stretches we watch the politely nervous pats to the brow, the eyeful of abhorrent disbelief and all the while our eager American breathes bated with the question: Will it pop?

It, more precisely, refers to him: Daniel (played by the baby-faced Matthew Macfadyen) an earnest everyman left to preside over his father’s funeral. With a coffin mix-up to get the funeral started, it’s clear that nothing is bound to go smoothly.

Soon a colorful hodgepodge of black clad relatives make the haphazard drive to pay respects —Daniel’s sharp-tongued cousin Martha with anxious boyfriend Simon (a frazzled Alan Tudyk) in tow; the unsuave Justin and chattering Howard who

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Game after game, Chante Black Goestenkors decided it wasn’t worth slumped into her seat, ready to occupy rushing her rehabilitation because her role as glorified team cheerleader. Duke was cruising without her. Even But even in the midst of Duke’s undethough the program did not officially feated regular season, or perhaps beannounce the decision until later in cause of that unblemished run, Black the year, Black’s fifth year of eligibilcouldn’t help but wonder. ity seemed inevitable all season.

If the team was undefeated without A Black-Bales combination might her, how good could it have been with havebeen thebest frontcourt in school her? history, and even though those hopes The 6-foot-5 junior would have slimmed daily until they reached a nadrawn offensive attention away from dir of possibility, they rarely escaped 6-foot-7 Alison Bales in the post, and Black’s imagination, the mammoth duo might have boosted “It never slipped my mind,” Black the Blue Devils past the Sweet 16. At said. “I always wanted to be out there, the very least, the two players would whether we were winning by three or have allowed Duke’s guards to put winning by fifty. I always wanted to even more pressure on opponents, be on the floor. And the possibility of because those who dared to penetrate what could have been—l could have the lane would have likely met the fate contributed greatly to that team.” of a gnat at a barbecue.

While Black’s injury may have “It would have been unbelievable,” been detrimental to last year’s team, Black said. “We would have been the it was one of the best things that could tallest frontcourt in women’s hashave happened to the 2007-08 / ketball—talk about blocking.”

Blue Devils. Bales’ graduaBut instead, Black was reltion left a crater in Duke’s egated to the bench, wearing frontcourt, and now Black a long-sleeved shooting shirt has two years to fill that that never came off, anahole, lyzing Bales instead of Even though she k could barely pracplaying with her. She missed her entire jura. tice, Black’s year nior season with a ||| off prepared her to torn muscle in her I fill those big shoes, calf, which was exE From the sidelines, acerbated by a hyBlack helped men- | per-extended knee suffered in her and other frontfirst practice after trying to mount a making sure they.

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The disappointing end to the team’s season yershadowed the end of a breakout junior seaon for the red-headed Cryer. Now heading into ier final year, Cryer is looking to improve upon n individual season she even admits herself ame out of nowhere. A Tewaarton trophy final»t and first-team All-America selection, Duke’s >p returning starter is doing herbest to prepare or next season in hopes to attain what has eludd her for three seasons—a national champion-

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“It’s been heartbreaking, getting so close evry year,” Cryer said. “It’s just killer. It makes ou want to get back there so much more.”

The victory would be all that much sweeter if came over ACC foe, Virginia.

As a Colorado high schooler playing a pre)minately East Coast sport, Cryer consi aying for the Cavaliers, the team now ble for two of Duke’s three early pla “That kills me,” she said. “It’s deft battle playing against them. I’m alw Ve have to beat UVA. We have to ’s tough to look at that, but they d ational championship, so from that m not missing out, thank God.” SEE CRYER ON PAGE 13

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obtained their pre-set goals.

That sort of maturity could prove invaluable for the Blue Devils. After all, Duke’s best two players the last two years, Monique Currie and Lindsey Harding, were also five-year players.

Currie garnered numerous All-American honors, and Harding was named National Player of the Year in 2007. “[Black’s] the voice ofreason, so to speak,” new head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I definitely think sitting out a year has an amazing ability to mature someone. You recognize what you can’t do, and you have to wait and be patient. You have to get a whole lot better without the motivation of playing a game. It helps people understand a lot more.”

Black’s last game, an overtime loss to Maryland in the 2006 National Championship, still lingers. Her teammates avenged that loss twice last year, but she hasn’t played a competitive game since then. She understands what she went through will allow her to fully appreciate her time on the court.

So for the first time in more than a year, Black, who says she’s at 90 percent now, can take off her warmups and reveal the No. 11 that was conspicuously absent. And if her vision is prescient, that’s an encouraging harbinger for the Blue Devils.

She said it herself: “It’s going to be victim after victim.”

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Redmond, a highly-touted recruit entering last season, enjoyed a stellar freshman campaign at Duke, finishing second in points behind classmate Kay Anne Gummersall and leading the Blue Devils with seven assists. The All-ACC freshman alternated between midfield and forward, and head coach Robbie Church will rely on her to pace an offense that struggled at times last season.

Redmond, whose sister plays on rival Virginia, trained with the U.S. U-21 team this summer.

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about in his time away from the University and the team. “[The suspension] was tough, but it was a great learning experience for me seeing what life is like being out of school and without football,” Asack said. “Coming back to school it made me work harder and appreciate everything that Duke has to offer for me.”

Asack is ecstatic to be back in a Blue Devil uniform, to have a second chance to lead Duke on the field, and maybe even to win a few games.

After all, doesn’t a program deserve a blank slate every once in awhile?

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scenes leader,” junior Carolyn Davis said.

“But this year, she was a lot more vocal, especially out on the field. She’s going to be a really great leader next season. The more responsibility put on her, the better she has done.”

When the first whisde blows next spring, Cryer’s final chapter will begin to play out.

She has three championship seasons in high school followed by three semifinal disappointments in college and one last year to set the record straight.

“I can say right now, that will never happen again,” she said of losing in the semifinals. “Coming to Duke, I really wanted to be apart of a team that I thought could win a national championship. I’ve got one more year to make that happen.

“I think getting so close so many years in a row, we realize just how hard it is and how it’s really going to take that extra little bit next year.”

Despite the hard losses, Cryer still stands firm in her decision to choose Duke, confident in knowing that she has helped the Blue Devils cement their status as an annual threat for the NCAA women’s lacrosse crown.

“As a coach, it’s very satisfying to watch somebody who works as hard as Caroline does and is as dedicated as Caroline is,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

“It’s very satisfying to watch a kid come in and give you everything she’s got day-today, and then some.”

The Blue Devils graduated seven seniors, including three of the team’s topfive point scorers, and will not only rely on Cryer’s prolific scoring but on her growing leadership skills as well.

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be scored. You’ll work harderfor thatkind of a player because you believe in him. He has the capacity to be just absolutely brilliant on the field.”

Grella reciprocates that belief back to the whole team, which he expects to exceed last year’s lofty accomplishments.

“I don’t want to set any marks,” Grella said. “But we can win the whole thing without a lot of problems. If we just stay compact and organized and work hard, I don’t see us losing.”

Grella makes it sound easy, but then again, he’s made justabout everything seem that way. And you can’t help but feel the same confidence he does—that anything is possible. A third straight ACC tide, a national championship, an undefeated season?

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PAULUS from page 11 game, Paulus dished out six assists, but he also committed five turnovers. That seemed to be the story of his freshman season: Paulus was the fourth rookie in conference history to lead the league in assists, yet he averaged 3.3 turnovers per game.

A freshman is supposed to make mistakes—it’s expected. But it’s also expected that the Duke point guard won’t. Especially when he’s at the helm of the No. 1 team in the country.

There’s a lot ofpressure in tradition.

On Oct. 14, 2006, long after Redick and Williams left campus and shortly after he was named as one of the youngest captains in program history, Paulus and his story took an unwelcome turn. In only the second day of official practice, he reaggravated a left-foot injury that kept him on the sidelines for the entire preseason.

“I think [that was] the toughest and most frustrating thing for me,” Paulus says. “It was three straight weeks of not doing anything—it was the physical part but also the mental part, where I had never had anything that serious before.”

Despite returning to the court in late November, Paulus struggled physically for the duration of the season. Suddenly Paulus had to deal with his own rehabilitation, his responsibilities as captain and the public criticism that came with his struggles.

Yet, as usual, the guard didn’t want himself or his injury to be the story.

“Was his foot bad? Yeah,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Was he at his best? No. Did we ever talk about his injury? No.” In an overtime loss to Virginia Tech at home Jan. 6, Paulus went scoreless while committing six turnovers in only 18 minutes of action. After Deron Washington blocked Paulus’ three-point attempt to win the game at the buzzer, the Duke guard was so frustrated he looked close to tears. When the Blue Devils lost four in a row the

following month, the point guard absorbed the brunt of the media’s blows.

“Greg took a beating for being the point guard at Duke,” ESPN analyst and former Duke guard JayBilas said.

“It’s not fair, and it’s probably not objective or right, but it’s almost become expected.... His weaknesses seem to be emphasized at the expense of his strengths —and he’s in a different category of player in regards to how he’s treated by the media.”

The Blue Devils lost eight of their last 12 games in 2007 and fell in the first rounds of both major tournaments.

The NCAA tournament loss to Virginia Commonwealth snapped Duke’s 11-year run of gaining the second round.

The media again openly criticized Paulus, even though he led the Blue Devils inscoring in their finalfive contests (he dropped 25 against VCU) and scored in double-figures in 16 of their last 17. On one foot.

But while media may have been harsh, no one was harsher on Paulus than the guard himself.

“Everyone on the team took [our losses] hard, but I think that he took them harder,” said junior Griffin Tormey, Paulus’ roommate, who walked on to the team last season. “He’s the point guard and the captain, and he felt more responsibility. There were certain times in last year he was frustrated because he wanted to play better, and it wasn’t happening for him. You could definitely see it bothered him a lot.”

It seemed like after every Blue Devil loss last season, you could scan the floor and find Paulus, hunched over, crouching, as if the weight of defeat—of failing to live up to that Blue Devil tradition—fell squarely on his shoulders.

In his mind, it does.

“Nobody likes to lose,” Paulus says. “I do feel that when we lose, I’m not doing my job. I’m supposed to make sure everything is running smoothly, everything’s in place, that we’re getting the job done. When we’re not doing that, I feel responsible for it.”

Paulus underwent surgery March 27 to repair the damage in his left foot and has been in Durham all summer taking classes, rehabbing and conditioning. Since getting back onto the court for the first time in midJune, Paulus has done everything from the Steve Nash skills camp—an elite, invitation-only affair for the top 10 college and top 22 high school point guards—to scrimmaging against former National Player of the Year Jason

Williams in Cameron.

He talks a lot now about creating good habits on the court, which makes sense because he is such a creature of them off it, from obsessively watching college football on Saturdays and attending mass on Sundays with Tormey to playing video games with Scheyer. In a time when most bigtime college athletes try to prove their status as Big Men on Campus, Paulus seeks to maintain a “normal” life.

Now, it seems he just wants to find normalcy on the court again. He has a chance to prove to the college basketball world what Scheyer and the rest of his teammates already know.

He’s resilient. Give him credit for that.

After rehabbing all summer, junior Greg Paulus looks to bounce back from injury to lead the Blue Devils to a top finish in the ACC.

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Duke hires UCLA’s O.D. Vincent to head golf program After leading UCLA to two Pac-10 titles and four top-10 NCAA finishes in five years, O.D. Vincent decided to take the head coaching position at Duke. The job was left open after long-time coach Rod Myers passed away of leukemia in March.

“I am extremely honored and excited to have the opportunity to join the Duke family as the head men’s golf coach,” Vincent said. “Coach Myers was a mentor, friend and legend in our sport. I look forward to honoring the great Duke golf tradition and anticipate an exciting and successful future.”

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Alieva also expressed his gratitude to interim head coach Brad Sparling, who had led the team since March.

Nelson and Zoubek incur injuries in summer play Senior DeMarcus Nelson will miss six to eight weeks after undergoing surgery on his wrist July 17 at the Duke Medical Center. The guard injured himself the evening of July 12 during tryouts for the U.S. Pan American team held at Haverfold College in Pennsylvania. Teammate Jon Scheyer, who was also at the trials, was not named to the roster.

Sophomore Brian Zoubek will be sidelined for eight to 10 weeks after his surgery July 11 to repair a fifth metatarsal fracture in his left foot. The 7-foot-l center fractured the bone ifi a pick-up game July 9.

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Lindsey Harding spent five years at Duke, but her legacy will remain in the rafters ofCameron for much longer.

Harding’s No. 10 will be retired this year, athletics officials announced earlier this month. She isjust the second women’s player to earn that honor, after Alana Beard’s No. 20 was retired in 2005.

“Coming into this last season, my main goal was to win a championship and be National Player of the Year,” Harding said. “I never really thought of getting my jersey retired. Now that I’ve accomplished that, it’s the ultimate goal. It beats out, any National Player of the Year or any award, because that’s going to be in the rafters forever.”

At Duke, a player must be a National Player of the Year and graduate for the retirement ofher number to be considered. Harding earned numerous NPOY honors, including Naismith Player of the Year and ESPN Player of the Year. She graduated with a degree in sociology in May. After Harding’s senior season, in which she led Duke to a 32-2 record and averaged 13.6 points and four assists per game, former head coach Gail Goestenkors began the nomination process, and it accelerated when she earned the plethora of NPOY nods.

Harding was suspended for her junior season for a still-undisclosed violation of team rules, which put the retirement in question. But, ultimately, that punishment did not affect the final decision, Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva said.

Newly-hired head coach Joanne P. McCallie has not met Harding, yet she was still thrilled with the school’s decision.

“I think she’s a remarkable person that has done a lot ofgreat, wonderful things,” McCallie said. “I always think that players never really get thatretirement until ten years or so down the line. It’s a long term thing to understand the significance. I’m thrilled for her. I’m obviously a big fan, and I look forward to meeting her someday.”

The date of the retirement ceremony has not yet been set. In a July WNBA game, Harding suffered a tom ACL and underwent successful surgery last week in Durham.

She plans on rehabilitating in Minnesota and might play overseas next winter if she can recover in time. The exact date of the ceremony depends on her schedule.

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when we could sit back and talk about what we wanted to do this year.”

During the time off from basketball in France, the team swam in the Mediterranean, visited Cannes and toured Monoco.

On the court, things were different, as the players were quite serious about coming together and capturing the championship, McCallie said.

“I got tough on [Abby] to recognize all of her talents,” McCallie said. “Obviously she can shoot. But she can also rebound pass, play backup point and create off the dribble very well. She has so many elements in her game. I really tried to communicate that to her.”

Waner finished the eight-game stint in Russia averaging 18.5 minutes, 2.4 rebounds and 5.9 points and said she played better during the three exhibition matches in France than she did in Russia.

The Russian atmosphere was also quite different from the beauty and luxury of the French Riviera, Waner said.

“I’m not really rushing back to Moscow,” Waner said. “It was a good experience, but the place itselfis behind. There was a lot of traffic, construction and pollution. People were not as friendly. They certainly have hard lives.”

In the USA team’s one matchup against Russia July 7, the Russians jumped out to a 13-0 lead to start the game. The United States, though, recovered and cruised to an 86-61 win to advance to the gold medal contest against Australia.

“Russia would sell out every game with seven to eight thousand people,” Waner said. “It was a pretty hectic environment.” moment or two

Joanne P. McCallieand Abby Waner succeeded where infamous conquerors have historically failed. The 2007 USA Basketball U2l head coach and shooting guard marched into Russia and took the crown—the FIBA U2l World Championships gold medal crown, that is.

As part of a three-week trip on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean during parts of June and July, a team of collegiate stars from across the country, including AllAmerican posts Courtney Paris of Oklahoma and Crystal Langhorne of Maryland, gathered together under the guidance of Duke’s new head coach. The group went undefeated in pool and tournament play against the likes ofRussia, Australia, France and a host of others.

The 96-73 title game victory against AustraliaJuly 8 capped off a perfect run for the FIBA aged-based squad over the past four years, finishing with a record of 26-0 in FIBA, FIBA Americas and other exhibition tournaments.

‘Year after year it gets better and better,” Waner said. “It was just special because this group has gone undefeated in the last four year, which has never been done before by past groups. I think this is the best balanced team that USA has ever had.”

Waner’s position on the squad, though, was still in question days before the team was set to depart for its warmup matches in the French Riviera the week before the two-week World Championships in Russia.

After three days of intensive practice in Colorado Springs in mid-June, Waner

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Waner and McCallie said they both knew from the outset that they had to keep Duke Basketball and Team USA Basketball

separate, but that didn’t keep them from capitalizing on the opportunity to spend their spare time together, “It was great shortcut to get to know Abby as a person and player in that environment,” McCallie said. “We used the days off to talk Duke-ish stuff. We really didn’t talk about Duke very much, except for a

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Stepping to the tee box in the first round of the 2007 U.S. Women’s Open, Amanda Blumenherst, last year’s low amateur, had a

veryjunior moment.

The rising Duke junior was paired with 1987 U.S. Open Champion Laura Davies.

“When they announce the pairings at

the first tee, the announcer also says when the golfers won the Open,” Blumenherst said. “I must have been six months old when she won it.”

Blumenherst and fellow teammate Jennie Lee did their best to add to a very successful spring—which included winning Duke’s third consecutive NCAA Championship—by making waves at the Open, which was held June 28 to July 1 at Needles Lodge

and GolfCourse in Southern Pines, NC. Carding a 10-over par 294, Lee finished 39th, sharing low amateur scorer honors with South Korea’s Jennifer Song. Blumenherst placed in 50th with a 12-over par 296, placing her third amongst amateurs.

Lee’s honors marked the third secutive year and the fifth time 1998 that a Duke golfer has poster top amateur score at the U.S. Worn Open. In addition to Blumenhers 2006, alumni Jenny Chuasiriporn (L Candy Hannemann (2001) and Bri Lang (2005) each turned in the 1 amateur scorecards.

“Its something that we’re really of,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said of his golfers’ winning tradi-

tion. “It tells you how seriously these kids take their summer golf. We play hard all season long, and they’re usually playing right after nationals. It shows how truly into the game of golf they are.”

The course conditions posed a hallenge for much of the field.

Cristie Kerr’s five-under par was the winning score, while only five golfers finished the tournament with rounds under par.

“It was playing really long, and the greens were extremely fast,” Blumenherst said. “It was a challenge to get it on the green, keep it on the green and really judge the speed.”

Although neither Duke

golfer was in serious contention of winning the tournament, both players said the experience they gained playing alongside professionals in a pressured, high-profile environment was invaluable.

“At times you just learn by watching them hit different shots around the greens, and by how they approach the course,” Lee said. “They’re not always going to be very talkative with you, but you definitely learn a lot just by watching them when you are playing in the same groups.”

With another set ofexcellent performances, Brooks’ golfers continue to impress him.

“Strengths and weakness are going to be exposed [at the Open], and that’s why I was really proud,” Brooks said. “It’s not just flukish. It’s not just college golf. They’re playing at the highest level.”

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Senior administrators and the Trustees’ Building and Grounds Committee then narrowed it to a short list of 11.

Concept plans for Central Campus should become public in early 2008, Pearce added.

He said changes can be expected from the original vision because of the redevelopment of the nature of the project. Pearce emphasized that there has never been a rigid timeline for the project.

“When the initial designs were proposed in 2002, Central Campus was identified as a ‘University Village,”’ he said. “Its primary focus was housing with ‘retail’ services necessary to support die undergraduate residents. More recently, programs have surfaced that include academic initiatives and institutes.”

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hoped ground would be broken as early as summer 2007, under the new plan, infrastructure work is more likely to begin in 2008.

“What happened last year is our plans became slighdy more ambitious,” Brodhead said. “We

realized we needed an architectural plan that matched the scale of our educational ambitions.

We’re doing so much building here, and there’s away of doing buildings where it’s all about the building. But in a better scheme, facilities are all about the experience they enable.”

The design phase is expected to take at least six months, and buildings could be open by 2010 or 2011.

“Developing the right design for the goals is Duke’s priority,” Pearce said. “Breaking ground on the infrastructure—the utilities and roads—will not occur this summer. This is the ‘stuff that supports the vision. The professionals will be ready to act—design and construct—when the design and the funding is approved by the Trustees.”

SELECTIVE LIVING A challenge administratorsface in the decision is that there is no “correct” answer, said Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services. “If there was, everybody would be doing the same thing,” he said. “It’s all a matter of what is it that would best serve the goals of Duke and how does that mirrorup with the desires of students.”

But administrators do acknowledge an inequitable distribution of privileges under the current system. The CQ reported that in Fall 2006, West Campus dormitories housed 82 percent ofDuke’s white students, approximately 75 percent of both Hispanics and Asiansand only 58.4 percent ofblack students.

“Real estate is important at Duke and to the extent that one controls real estate, one has some significant privileges,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs and the CCI Steering Committee’s vice chair.

Furthermore, according to the CCI report, the presence of many fraternities and mosdy male selective living groups creates a “male-dominant” campus, although Hull said “retaining selective living opportunities also has merits.” . Lange said the new Selective Group Assessment, launched injanuary, will evaluate group’s performances—rewarding or punishing performance with bed-space changes—and may help change the current system.

Joe Gonzalez, associate dean ofresidential life, said options include establishing all-selective quadrangles and creating more co-ed selective living groups and all-female groups.

“Regardless of the outcomes, I think groups are recognizing... that they’re going to get more attention,” Gonzalez said. “They have a chance now to show that maintaining their existence is better for the community than not.”

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PRESSLER from page 6 and New York Times best-selling author.

Audience members rose to their feet, giving the pair a deafening standing ovation.

A copy of their recently released book, “It’s Notabout the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and the Lives it Shattered” could be seen in the hands ofevery audience member.

Addressing a group of students, team members, alumni and University neighbors, including City Council member Eugene Brown, Pressler’s tone was serious and his message clear.

“Nobody wanted to believe the truth,” he said, his coaching voice booming in the small room. “Fifty of us believed one truth, and 50 million believed another. I swore on my children that [the players] didn’t do it.”

Pressler recalled some of the most emo-

tionalmoments of the one-year ordeal, from a night spent waiting hopelessly for an indictment to be served to his final departure, family in tow, with an unclear career future.

Asked about what he would say to former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong if given the opportunity, Pressler laughed, his head shaking.

“Why?” he asked. “Was it worth it? Was your pension worth it?”

Still, the disbarred prosecutor was not the only target of criticism at the gathering.

“I’m not going to miss Duke,” Pressler said, explaining that it was his friends at Duke he would truly miss and criticizing University administrators. “When you’re wrong, admit you’re wrong. What is the message you’re sending to these guys, to America’s youth?”

Contrary to the title of his book, Pressler said for him and his team, it was all about the truth.

“If you stand by the truth, no matter

what, it will pay off,” he said, adding that he preached the same message to his players.

As for the players with whom he struggled for more than one year, Pressler said he was confident in their futures.

“The players moved on,” he said. “These guys made a mistake of judgement; how many times do they have to pay for the same offense?”

The players’ growth during the trial was immense, he added, noting his pride in seeing them handle themselves with composure and maturity while the justice system ran its course.

Pressler said he has joined his former players and moved on from the events of the past year. Now head coach at Division II Bryant University in Smithfield, R.1., he said he filled with pride in remembering his team.

“They became the teachers,” he said. “And that’s one of my greatest joys in this.”

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U.S.MEWSRANKINGS 1. Princeton University 2. Harvard University 3. Yale University 4. California Institute of Technology 5. Stanford University 6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7. University of Pennsylvania

8. Duke University 9. Dartmouth College 9. Columbia University 9. University of Chicago Source: U.S. News andWorld Report, 2007

U.S.NEWS from page 1 “No college president will say that the influence of the rankings is in line with their educational value,” he said. “If we’re in the business of training kids to align their values with their actions, why should we expect less of ourselves?

Saying no to rankings is the right thing to do.”

I’ll be right behind you “I think many colleges would be hesitant to be the first of their peer group to do that because if yop don’t participate you have absolutely no control over the information in there,” said Christoph Guttentag, Duke’s dean of admissions. “The problem with being highly ranked is that nobody wants to jeopardize that position.”

Duke, he added, is not considering signing the letter or discontinuing its participation in the peer assessment survey, Guttentag said.

“The U.S. News rankings have been positive in that they provided a lot of information to a lot of student,” he said.

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“By their very essence, any rankings are bound to please some and upset others,” Powell said. “The rankings are not published for college presidents.”

She noted that the publication strives to make ranking tables as inclusive as possible —bringing together information on more than 1,400institutions—because of the rankings’ focus on “consumer journalism.”

“As a result of its breadth, the guide has helped enhance the reputation and visibility of numerous colleges and universities that had not previously received significant recognition beyond their immediate geographic area,” she said.

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As a 25-year veteran of admissions, Guttentag said he does not like rankings of colleges for two reasons: They are overlyreductive, and colleges do not have a say in how they are being evaluated.

“They appear to make distinctions that don’t actually exist,” he said. “There’s an implication there that being ranked ninth is differentfrom being ranked third; I don’t think that’s true.”

He also noted that different factors have more weight in different people’s decision.

“The notion [is] that U.S. News is making this decision for all of us, [that] none of us, college people and students and parents, have control over the criteria they use, the weighting they give to each criteria,” Guttentag said.

He said he believes the move among higher education institutions to discontinue submitting the peer assessment survey is a healthy one.

“I’m hoping more schools will join,” he said. “What we’re seeing is institutions responding to this false objectification of quality, [and] there’is an increasing number of institutions trying to figure out how to counter that.”

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‘They will make up a number’ In March, Sarah Lawrence College President Michele Myers wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post that because the institution decided not to accept SAT scores from its prospective students, Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News, notified her that they will assume the average SAT score is one standard deviation below the average of the institution’s peers.

“In other words, in the absence of real data, they will make up a number,” she said.

Powell noted that information not provided directly from institutions is footnoted on the rankings chart.

Sarah Lawrence has since decided not to participate in the peer assessment portion of the rankings.

“Depending on someone else to rank schools without examining them for and in relation to yourself seems antithetical to what an educated person might do,” Stephen Schierloh, Sarah Lawrence’s acting dean of admissions, wrote in an e-mail. “Students are horrified to think that colleges might reduce someone’s life and potential to a score—it seems equally ridiculous to distill an entire college or university, with all of its offerings, character and dimension, to a single number!”

Morse and Samuel Flanigan, deputy director of data research for the magazine, said there are other factors that are important to college applicants that are not included in the assessment in an article titled “How We Do Rankings.”

“While we acknowledge that the ranking tables are an incomplete indicator of the quality of education and the degree of student learning on campuses, we also recognize that no better measure exists today,” Powell said.

A different way There is, however, an alternative approach.

Guttentag said he believes U.S. News and World Report can better serve its readers by providing the same information but putting it in a database that buyers can access.

“Let everybody decide for themselves which of the information they care about and how they weigh those pieces ofinformation,” he said. “So everybody can do their own ranking.”

University and College Accountability Network, a consumer-information initiative of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges, will provide information on individual colleges and universities in a common format online starting in September 2007.

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But with every end comes a new beginning, and for Johnson that beginning is at Hopkins, where she will take over as provost and seniorvice president ofacademic affairs Sept. 1.

“It’s about the challenge,” she said. “[At Hopkins], I can make an impact on the next level. This is an opportunity to step up and take it to the next level.”

It was the same challenge that attracted her to Duke, she said. Formerly a professor at the University of Colorado, Johnson was drawn to Duke’s strong academic and athletic programs and the possibilities offered by a position as dean.

In her letter of resignation to Provost Peter Lange, Johnson highlighted some ofPratt’s achievements in her years at its helm, from the construction of the Fitzpatrick Center to the 20-percent growth ofPratt’s student body.

The school has seen growth in a number of other areas as well, such as recruiting 60 new faculty members and increasing its endowment from under $2O million in 1999 to more than $2OO million in 2007.

Robert Clark, formerly Pratt’s senior associate dean and currently chair of the mechanical engineering and material sciences, has been appointed interim dean for the coming months. Clark said Johnson’s contributions reach outside statistics.

“She has greatly increased our awareness of the importance of diversity, creating a welcoming environment for women faculty that has greatly enabled our efforts in recruiting and has resulted in a significant increase in the number of women faculty in Pratt,” he said.

Johnson was quick to add that her decision to resign was not intended to reflect poorly on her experiences at Duke.

“It’s a unique situation,” she said. “This just seemed like the right time, and I think the school is in great hands.”

Johnson was offered the position of provost in February. The University will begin a national and international search for a new dean toward the end ofAugust.

“Kristina Johnson has been a tremendous dean, and we’re extremely sorry to see her go,” President Richard Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. “She and I talked during the process, and she knows how much we would have liked to have kept her, but also that we would support whatever decision she made.”

Candidates both within and outside the University will

The investigation of the hit-and-run case, however, has shown no progress. A week after the incident, a sheriff s deputy found the hit-and-run car in the Duke Manor apartment complex parking lot—less than half a mile from the scene of the accident. The owner of the car was identified and questioned, but said he was out of town at the time of the incident. No arrests have been made in connection with the crime.

“We are not at all satisfied with the way the Durham Police Department handled this situation,” said Brian Donnelly, Caidin’s father.

He said that although a witness has said the vehicle had no lights on and she was less than a foot from the taxi, Goodwin claims the vehicle had its lights on and she was much further across the lane.

Goodwin was not available for comment.

Although Caitlin Donnelly has a generally positive outlook to her recovery, she said she wishes the police would catch the driver of the car.

Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, will become provost at Johns Hopkins University after eight years at Duke.

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be considered for the post, and an appointment is likely to be made based on a recommendation from Lange and Brodhead in February’s Board ofTrustees meeting, Lange wrote in an e-mail.

“Deans ofDean Johnson’s caliber and success are always likely to become attractive candidates for other positions of even greater responsibility,” Lange said. “Hence, both the Pratt community and others who know Dean Johnson were probably not overly surprised that she was offered an outstanding opportunity and took it.”

As for the future ofPratt, both Lange and Johnson remain confident.

“I believe that she leaves Pratt in excellent shape and that the School will continue to advance on the steep trajectory it has been on under Dean Clark’s leadership and once a successor has been selected,” Lange said.

Asked for a final message to the Duke community, Johnson falters for the first time.

“Keep doing the things thatmake Duke great,” she said, and then through audible tears: “I love you.”

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“I think that students pay attention to big groups, top 15, but not a whole lot about where someone is ranked,” he said.

Guttentagadded that students pay more attention to the academic programs that are available at the institutions among other factors.

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AUDITIONS Duke Symphony

Orchestra Saturday, August 25 Information Meeting 4-s:3opm

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Monday, August 27 6:30-9-30pm

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We have an exciting season planned, culminating in a semi-staged production of Hansel and Gretel with professional opera singers.

Questions? Contact Emily Threinen, director 919-660-3306, www.music.duke.edu

For more information, please contact Harry Davidson: 919-660-3324 hdavid@ duke.edu

Structure House, a highly successful and nationally recognized residential weight control and lifestyle change facility in Durham, NC is seeking: ices Reoresentativi Selected candidate will be responsible for a variety of tasks -

including but not limited to, covering front desk including answering phones and greeting clients, creating reservations, taking inquiries, maintaining office supplies and placing orders, preparing brochures and packets, monitoring all printed collateral, and distributing mail daily. Successful candidate will support Participant Services and will be Office Assistant for Structure House Inc. Interested applicants should have 2 years of experience as an Administrative Assistant, Office Assistant or Receptionist and/or a degree with coursework in Psychology and/or Marketing.

Qualified candidate must posses a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, ability to multi-task, strong interpersonal skills and desire to learn.

Experience in hotel industry/health care, taking telephone reservations, and sales promotion a plus.

rening Wi Part-Tim Porter Duties include providing varied facilities services assistance to our guests. This includes help with luggage, orienting customers to our facility, janitorial/housekeeping, laundry, grounds (trash pulling), transportation (via minibus), minor maintenance, and customer service and limited security duties. Job involves considerable physical demands for extended periods of time, including walking, lifting, and assisting with furniture moving. Neat, enthusiastic, pleasant, friendly, honest, and dependable individuals need only to apply. Requirements: clean NC driver's license record, and previous hotel or janitorial experience is a plus. Work schedule is two to three weekday evenings from 6:00 RM. to 10:30 P.M. and rotating AM or PM weekend shift (Saturday and Sunday).

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Places of Worship Beth El Synagogue 1004 Watts St., Durham Since 1887

919-682-1238

Durham's First Synagogue One block from Duke East Campus

Traditional Conservative Egalitarian congregation offering an Orthodox Kehilla

Rabbi Steven C. Sager Shabbat services: Friday evenings 6:00 p.m.

Saturdays Conservative: 9:45 a.m.

Orthodox: 9:00 a.m Website: http://www.betheldurham.org

Please join us for services next Shabbat

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Calvary United Methodist Church The Church of Fellowship and Love We have worshipped in this sanctuary for 80 years.

Our theology is progressive & Christ-centered.

The sermons are dynamic, the pastors are Duke graduates.

Our membership is multi-cuitural and intergenerational.

These hearts and doors are wide open.

COME AS YOU ARE, FIND A LOVING JESUS 1 mile East of East Campus 304 East Trinity in Old North Durham For transpoitation, call 919 688-7138 www.calvarync.org

Laurie Hays Coffman, Pastor Gayle C. Felton, PhD, Minister for Christian Formation

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Emmaus Way is an emergent, Christian church in Durham. We believe in seeking justice and embodying God’s grace beyond our own interests, community over individualism, and the historical narrative of Christianity above religiosity. We hope that our church will be a respite for spiritual sojourners, a community for the isolated, and a catalyst to those who desire to express God’s love and hope in our community and world. Please feel invited to share these dreams and risks with us.

Worship Gatherings: 5-6:3opm on Sunday evenings, 407-A N. Mangum St., inside the downtown loop near City Hall and Rue Cler.

EmmausWay.net for directions, information, and dialogue

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Worship with Holy Communion 8:30 & 11:00 am each Sunday

for a stroll over to Ben 8c Jerry’s.

We’ll then gather on the East Campus lawn nearest Ben 8c Jerry’s where you can get to know the Westminster crowd. Afterwards we play frisbee 8c other lawn games.

followed by program and worship in the Duke Chapel Basement Lounge.

Fall Retreat to Montreat, NC September 7-9

We are a community of friends who seek to follow, grow &C serve Jesus Christ in our life together & in the world.

We are an open-minded, open-hearted fellowship of Duke Christians in thereformed traditions of the Presbyterian church (USA) and United _

Church of Christ! All interested are welcome!

For more information contact: Rev, Cheryl Barton Henry

lifting high the cross, to proclaim the love of Christ!

Westminster Fellowship Mon., Aug 27, 7:30-9pm “Hap Hour” (fellowship and snacks)

919.684.3043 cheryl.henry@duke.edu www.duke.edu/web/westminster

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Blacknall Presbyterian Church

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An evangelical FC(USA) congregation

located off east campus between Whole Foods & ninth Street at 1902 Perry Street, Durham, nc 27705 www.blacknallpres.org (919) 286-5586

Together in worship, learning, community and mission under the banner of Jesus Christ

Worship 8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

College Class 9:45 a.m.

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Special greetings and welcome to incoming students and faculty.

The next scheduled Sunday Mass is August 26 at 11am in Richard White Lecture Hall on East Campus.

Welcome cookout will follow Mass.

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Our first meeting will be Tuesday August Vb, at 130 p.m. in the Upper E-ast Side of the

Marketplace

Look for us at the religious life activities fair on Aug 22 from 3:00 4:30 at the Schaefer Mall to find out more information about our fall retreat, service projects, and other activities. Or join us for worship and dinner on Sundays. Worship at Duke begins at 5:15 in the Centenary Room of the Divinity School (meet in front of the chapel at 5:00 for help Finding the room rides from East to West available). Dinner follows at 6;oopm in the Chapel Basement Kitchen.

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For more information visit our website at www.duke.edu/web/fca

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ANNOUNCEMENTS It’s Freakin’ Darts! Bull City Dart

League plays Tuesdaynights-come join us! Registration: Tuesday, Sept. 4,7-9PM, Time Out Bar & Grill, 4310 S Miami Blvd, Durham.

For more info: www.thebcdl.org or pr@thebcdl.org.

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RESEARCH STUDIES VISUAL SEARCH STUDY Research participants 18-29 years of age needed for 90 minute visual reaction-time experiment. You must have high school diploma with good vision and english as your Ist language. $l5 Compensation. 919660-7537

HELP WANTED BARTENDERS ARE IN DEMAND!!!

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Now hiring! Habilitation Technicians and CNAs for a growing Mental Health Agency. Help people with developmental disabilties and mental retardation. Need oneto-one care for FULL TIME AND PART TIME hours. Must have reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, and car insurance. Please apply in person at 1500 East Club Blvd, Bldg 1, Durham, NC NO CALLS PLEASE

LIFEGUARDS NEEDED Lifeguards needed for up to 10-15 hours per week at the Lenox Baker Children's Hospital therapeutic pool to guard for children and adults with special needs. Person must be 16 years old and hold current lifeguard certification. Hours available immediately. Pay rate $lO.OO per hour. If interested, contact Jean Bridges at 684-4543.

BARISTA Gourmet coffee bar inside DUMC seeking Full & Part Time Baristas. Fun & fast-paced.

Competitive pay. Apply in person at EspressOasis inside North Cafeteria. Call 681-5884.

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DESIRING RESEARCH EXPERIENCE? Are you a student desiring RESEARCH EXPERIENCE? Cognitive psychology lab focusing on healthy and disrupted autobiographical memory on West Campus seeks part-time (8-12 hrs/ week) research assistants. Tasks would include: coordinating and conducting behavioral experiments, including participantrecruitment and data entry, coordinating research with post-traumatic stress discorder patients, assisting with fMRI experi-

ments, conducting library research, and miscellaneous laboratory tasks.

Flexible scheduling and a relaxed working environment at a pay rate of $B/ hour. (Psychology major not required: work-study preferred.)

Email memlab@psych.duke.edu or call Amanda at 660-5639.

BIOINFORMATICS SCIENTIST Our vision is to revolutionize the use of plant resources to improve the quality of life. Our commitment is to excellence in science. Athenix is a leading biotechnology company that develops novel products and technologies for agricultural and industrial applications, including biofuels and bioconversions. We are looking for a talented, flexible and highly motivated professional with excellent communication skills to join our successful company. We currently have an opening for the following career opportunity: Bioinformatics Scientist (Job Reference: DTS) Job responsibilities; Scientist will apply his/her experience in several key bioinformatics disciplines in a teamoriented environment. This includes biological sequence analysis, gene annotation, Linux/UNIX scripting, and database implementation and maintenance. Core responsibilities include designing, implementing, and supporting bioinformatics strategies as part of a microbial gene discovery project. An additional task is the implementation of state-of-theart computational tools to improve research and development efforts company-wide. Required skills and experience; Doctorate/Equivalent in bioinformatics, or Doctorate/Equivalent in biological laboratory science with strong experience in sequence analysis, programming, and database development. Experience with sequencing and annotation pipelines strongly preferred. Key programming languages used are PYTHON, PERL, and RUBY. Previous bench experience a plus. Excellent organizational and recordkeeping skills are essential, and experience with large data sets is strongly desired. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and an attractive stock option plan. This is an exciting opportunity to work for a cutting edge company and to make a difference. To apply, please email resume with job reference code DTS in subject line to careers® athenixcorp.com Athenix Corp., Human Resources, P. O. Box 110347, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

EOE, www.athenixcorp.com

HELP WANTED The Asian & African Language & Literature Dept, needs a workstudy student to help with copying, errands, scanning and typing. We need someone on Financial Aid that can work 10 hrs a week. Please email mmarcus@ duke.edu for more information TALENT

IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM Work study positions. Miscellaneous projects, research, process applications, prepare mailings, data entry. Require strong attention to detail, dependability, ability to work independently or as part of a team. Prefer 8-12 hrs per week. If interested contact pallsbrook@tip.duke.edu -Women ages 21-30 needed to donate eggs to infertile womenMust have flexible schedule, selfadminister daily injections and sign legal contract. For more info, please see the “Donor FAQ” section at www.babystepping.com

RESEARCH ASST/DATA TECH NEEDED The Duke ADHD program is conducting a search for a Research Assistant/ Data Technician for its Psychopharmalogy Laboratory. Duties primarily focused on assisting with implementation of behavioural and clinical studies in the laboratory.

Bachelors degree or relevant clinical research experience required.

Experience in clinical studies not required, although recent or upcoming graduates in psychology are encouraged to apply. Position will be full-time, beginning in August 2007 within the Department of Psychiatry. Potential for beginning part-time prior to full-time starting date. Please contact Joe at 416-2099 or email at englioo9@ mc.duke.edu 919-416-2096 Associate in Research Fuqua School of Business Duke University Management professor seeks one individual to work on project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Responsibilities include maintaining a project database; conducting web searches for biographical information; interfacing with NSF for annual reports; and creating statistical reports.

Requirements include BA or BS degree, preferably in math or computer science, 2 years of programming experience preferred in php, mysql, and/or java (including college projects). Position is full-time (12 months) with health benefits.

Salary is $33,000, August 1, 2007 to July 31, 2008, renewable pending future funding. To apply, send letter of application with resume to Associate in Research Search, Fuqua School of Business, Box 90120, Duke University. Durham, NC 27708 or email Emily Kavari,

Recruiting Specialist, at ehkavari@ duke.edu Duke University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. 919-660-7924

work study position Come assist the Duke Dance Program wide variety of projects, from the mindles: to the exciting. A great working environment with fun and supportive colk Computer, writing, and/or graphic skills an 6-10 hours per week with flexible hours. S per hour. Work study eligible applicants p call Christina Price at 660-3353.

PART-TIME OFFICE ASSISTANT Help needed for the Organization for Tropical Studies, a non-profit dedicated to research, education, and conservation. Office near East Campus. Data entry, filing, general office duties. $lO hour/10 hours a week. Flexible schedule. Contact davislB4@duke. edu, or call 919.668.1688

RESEARCH/EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Visually impaired, retired professor needs conscientious, meticulous, experienced secretary/ research/editorial assistant to help with home office administration, research, writing articles, talks and revising books in the fields of science and religion. Permanent/part-time (approx 20 hours/week) preferably Tues, Wed & Thurs. Must be MS Office proficient. 20 minutes from Duke. Please send resume, cover letter and salary requirement to:

Saulboyarsky@gmail.com

CHILD CARE CHILD CARE NEEDED Beginning 8/21, need resp. person to care

for 3 children ages 6,3,1 on T, W, Th from 9:30 to 5:30. Reliable transportation, good driving record and references needed. Good pay and lots of fun. Call 919-402-9482

PT NANNY NEEDED Chapel Hill, one child age 3, M-F, 12:306pm, $ll-14/hr, long term. Must have previous exp and exc refs.

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PT CHILDCARE AVAILABLE Clinical social worker and mother of one 11 month-old available to provide excellent part-time childcare in my home or yours for a child between the ages of 6 mos. and 2 yrs.

References available upon request.

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CHILDCARE Single dad needs pt live-in helper for 3 kids-14,11,9.

Duties are getting kids to school in morning, staying with when I'm on business trips, occasionally filling in for day-time nanny. Will provide room, board, and car. House near Southpoint Mall 919.606.4019

AFTER SCHOOL SITTER to pick up 7 year old daughter from Durham Academy this Fall. Help with homework and transportation to activities. 919-531-7260 P/T CHILD CARE NEEDED DURHAM Will need child care -

needed for fun 2 1/2 year old girl M-F 12-3 starting August. Car and references required. 919-304-5444

AFTER SCHOOL CARE Need fun, responsible person for after school care for 2 kids, ages 9 and 6.

Need car to pick up from school and drive to activities. Hoping for Mon, Wed, Thurs 3-6 pm. 919-493-6154

ham, two 3-year-old boys, school pick up and in-home care beginning September. Tues-Thur 3:30-6 pm, long term. Must have experience, excellent references and clean driving record. 919-286-1910.

Bright house in quiet, safe neighborhood in SW Durham. Hardwood floors, gas fireplace, deck, fencedin back yard. 5 minutes from Duke, Washer/ Dryer included. $1,200 per month, 1 month deposit. 1-year lease, available August Ist. email uisg@hotmail.com or 919-2253119.

FURNISHED APARTMENT Furnished garage apartment near

Lovely 2BR/2BA and 2BR/ IBA Very nice. Hardwood floors.

Duke. 3 rooms bath. Air conditioning, gas heat. Quiet residential neighborhood. No pets. $4OO/ mo security deposit. Available August 1. 682-4814 or 489-8021

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TOWNHOUSE FOR RENT TOWN HOME AT WINDERMERE RIDGE Brand New Town Home available for rent. 2 &3 BR with MBR down available. Call 919286-9333

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Beautiful new detailed southern style beach house overlooking Bogue Sound with spacious floor plan and elevator. Kitchen includes granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. Living room has fireplace and is wired for surround sound. Master bath includes whirlpool tub. Water filtration system throughout entire house. Screened porch is wired for stereo. Landscaping includes irrigation system.

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FURNISHED EXECUTIVE HOME Looking for single student, faculty member or professional to rent & house sit home while family is on assignment in London. Immacu-

Looking for a reliable, fun, loving nanny to care for our toddler son.

Up to 37 hous a week. Or, will consider part time for the right person (people). Must love dogs (as well as kids), non smoking, CPR cert., clean background check, own transportation, no other children. Please

ergetic, fun 3 yr old. Car needed for school pick-up but home in walking distance to park and East Campus.

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for our 10 mo. old daughter starting in September- she is active, joyful, and lots of fun. Looking for care to take place in our home, (Durham), and for someone who enjoys spending time outdoors (can walk to nearby park and museum). Combination of Tuesdays & Thursdays.

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Lange said the decision to open the Faculty Commons to students starting this Fall—with food by former Nasher Cafe caterers Sage and Swift—will give students an additional option that is, as the CCI report articulates, “conducive to fostering community.”

“We expect students to use this ‘restaurant’ extensively, hopefully often with faculty and others as well,” Lange said.

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said the CCI report has spurred plans to renovate the West Union Building and create a more inviting dining environment.

“I think it’s a very real initiative,” he said. “I think the West Union Building is going to be blown up in the next few years. I think it’s going to be a very open place, and I think that’s a good thing.”

Wulforst said new designs aim to produce an open space that can include designated areas but will not be split up into different rooms.

“The key is to take cavernous space and fix it up with floating partitions,” he said.

The University has begun to examine the possibilities for the West Union space, but Wulforst says a completed renovation is still “two to three years out.”

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Lange’s report is by no means limited to those recommendations listed in the original CCI, however. After months of meetings, Lange said he intends to “move beyond” the CCI where conversations indicate it necessary.

“Inevitably, since it spoke to so many topics, the February report’s recommendations were fairly general,” Brodhead said. “In the months that followed, we’ve tried to understand the world of student experience in greater detail, so we can know what steps would make what sorts of difference.”

Lange said that though some changes will be feasible in the short term, others will require years to come to fruition.

When students return in the fall, for example, they will .be greeted by a changing dining system with expanded opportunities for sit-down-style meals. In addition, an alcohol resource official and an ombudsperson to whom students can turn with issues of discrimination will be among the new faces on the quad, ready to begin the transformation the CCI envisioned.

“We’re not going to solve any of these problems anyway,” Lange said. “We keep working on them—they’re not problems you solve and then say, ‘Oh, that’s solved—race, no longer an issue, gone’—nobody believes that. So the issue is to make in-

roads in lots of different ways.”

It is not a surprise, then, that Lange’s goals are not to overhaul campus culture at Duke but to fine-tune it.

“I don’t believe in radical shifts in a culture as complicated as ours,” he said.

Instead, Lange emphasized the need to focus on those parts of Duke’s campus scene that do accomplish the goals outlined in the CCI and look at how such successes can be carried over to other areas of Duke life.

“Are freshmen going to graduate from a Duke that’s exactly like this Duke?” he asked. “No. We’re always changing. We’re probably accelerating the pace of change in some of the areas of campus culture, but it is always incremental change.”

The presentation of the report will also indicate a passing of the torch, as Lange backs away and Steve Nowicki, the new dean of undergraduate education, steps up.

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I don’t think anyone would question that it was a watershed moment for the University.

All of us dealt with the repercussions of the lacrosse case, whether we were ■ david graham students being ha rangued by teievi- from the editor's desk sion cameras on the way to classes, faculty members coming under fire for their response to the accusations or incoming classes deciding whether it was worth it to attend a school dogged by scandal.

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average egghead. For one mechanical engineering and materials science and Thomas thing, she showed her committo of student Lord professor of mechanical ment other areas life in her very visible support engineering, will serve as dean for Duke athletics, particularly until a nationwide search finds a permanent replacement. women’s basketball.

She fostered a strong Johnson’s successor will sense of community among have big shoes to fill. They Pratt students, reaching out should strive to continue the with a weekly e-mail memo sense of community that has been founded and build on detailing news and accomof unplishments professors, Johnson’s progress. They will dergraduates and graduate also be faced with the tasks of bringing the entire school students at the school. shestood out as the Finally, up to the level of biomedical field administrator a engineering and working to in top dominated by men. A hire of make sure that the drop in Pratt applicants in the Class former president Nan Keohane, Johnson’s departure of 2011 does not repeat itself leaves the University largely next year. bereft of female top adminisIn the meantime, Dean trators. Only Dean ofStudents Johnson: It’s been a good Sue Wasiolek comes close to run, and you will be missed.

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night, hundreds of eager Harry Potter fans and their parents lined the streets in anticipation of a first look at the series’ grand finale, but the scene was much different a few days ago, when The New York

Times featured an advance review that revealed several important details about the story, including...”

“Holy God, turn it off, m turn it off!!”

This was the scene Saturday morning in my Washington, D.C., hotel room, where I was nursing a hangover and hiding out jacqui detwiler from the deluge of Harry Potter news. Being a Potter please hire, desperate. aficionado, I admit that perhaps my D.C. food-and wine-tasting vacation was ill-timed, but I firmly believe that life comes (albeit just barely) before books.

Because I was unwilling to spend my single weekend out of town curled up in a squishy chair with a book, I might have been one of the only Potter fans on earth not frantically striving to finish before radio stations, TV shows and even T-shirts begin broadcasting the fate of the boy wizard.

To those people I say: “Look around you, for it has al-

ready begun.”

By now, even those who don’t know how the saga ends know how the last book got an early start. In the melee surrounding the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” a number of copies were distributed early. Good for the guy who got them, right? Perhaps until The New York Times got hold of one and banged out a first review before it was even on sale to the general public.

Within days, multiple Internet sites featured reviews and purported (contradictory) copies of the book, prompting a full-scale media frenzy. For days before the official release date,

Harry Potter lovers who wanted to preserve the suspense were forced to avoid newspapers, MSN.com, and even CNNand local news. By now, Slate.com—my usual online sanctuary—sports a staggering three articles on the novel. The day of the release, it was all I could manage to avoid learning the fate of the wizarding world while catching up on the details of Bush’s colonoscopy.

Although this hoopla is unlikely to spoil more than the end of a popular children’s story, the relentless harping of the press on single, broadly popular topics has in the past contributed to much graver offenses. The recent Paris Hilton debacle, the death ofPrincess Di, and the now-infamous Duke lacrosse case all come to mind. In the search for news that will entertain the widest audience, multiple publications are apt to seize upon a select set of stories, and then proceed to beat them into submission with article after article. With our American need to grab, eat and take, everyone tries to get a piece before the flame subsides and we have to think of something else to writeand talk about As a member of the media, I enthusiastically support the reporting of news, but I believe there is a desperate need for diversity. The insinuation that the American public only cares about a single event at any given time is downright terrifying. Not to mention that the overload of information about the chosen topic is often dizzying in its lack of consensus. Like sushi rice, the more you add, the less you taste, until eventually you’re left with a bland, gelatinous mess.

Fortunately for us, the power of the media resides in our reading, watching and listening to it. We shouldknow that what we choose—or choose not—to see can sometimes make an impact long after the half hour of viewing time ends.

I know I’ll be avoiding the mayhem until I make up my own mind about Harry Potter, and I can only hope that will be the case when I am confronted with more serious issues. My question to you, newly autonomous Duke students, is what do you want to see?

Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in neuroscience.

Harnessing the passion for global health at Duke This

summer, Duke undergraduates are in Kenya, India and Durham working with underserved populations. Duke faculty are researching cures and vaccines for AIDS and other infectious diseases that unduly burden developing countries. Duke environmentalists are studying how pollution contributes to the persistent inequalities in birth weight and premature birth among underservedpopulations in North Carolina and are investigating the effects of climate change on malaria transmission. Can anyone doubt that global health is flourishing at Duke?

I came to Duke last November to direct the newly created Duke Global Health Institute, the mission of which is to reduce disparities michael merson in health worldwide, including in our local community, global health at duke: part I in a series through global health education, research and service.

I was drawn to Duke because of its rich tradition of interdisciplinary work and its commitment to draw on the intellectual assets of the entire University to address global challenges. As I spent my first months listening to many at Duke share what excited them about global health, the interest among students was palpable. Students want and demand—education about the many facets of global health, from the biology ofAIDS to how international law can affect health disparities. And they have an unquenchable desire to make a difference through service.

This surge ofinterest in global health comes at an exciting time. There is growing consensus that all people have a basic human right to access to essential medications and vaccines. The recognition that a healthy population is essential for economic and social development has led to increased support for global health research and programs by governments and organizations such as the Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation. More people understand that improving the health of populations the world over requires participation of scholars from many different disciplines.

DGHI has the enviable luxury of being a Universitywide institute, able to support and build on the wisdom and energy of faculty and students from every school—business, divinity, engineering, environment, graduate, law, medicine, nursing and undergraduate.

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In early September, the Institute’s Center for Health Policy will host a conference on sustainable development, featuring student presentations on summer experiences in global health. In late November, DGH3 and the Fuqua School of Business will co-sponsor a conference with the World Health Organization on the private sector’s responses to the health worker shortage crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.

We plan to develop an undergraduate major in global health, work with the Career Center to offer undergraduate global health career counseling, establish masters and doctoral programs in global health, add a third-year global health track for medical students and promote campus activism, advocacy and service.

In research, we will assist current Duke projects in global health and develop a focused portfolio of new research initiatives on priority topics such as HIV/AIDS and other emerging infections, obesity, environmental health and the interrelationship of gender health and poverty.

We envision Duke as “the” destination for scholars and practitioners in global health, as well as the producer of the next generation of global health experts and leaders. And our service efforts will show Duke’s commitment to providing practical and sustainable solutions to global health problems.

By harnessing the passion for global health—by coordinating what many at Duke already do and expanding what the University and Medical Center offer—DGHl will allow students and faculty to continue to tackle one of humanity’s greatest challenges.

This column is the first of a nine-part series that will explore some global health issues. I encourageyou to read more about the surge of global health activity at Duke and our university’s impassioned endeavors to achieve health equality worldwide—and to find ways to be part of this exciting effort Dr. MichaelMerson is director ofthe Duke GlobalHealth Institute.

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Waiting for game day ISTANBUL,

The things I love about Turkey Turkey generally make no sense to me. Take the baked potato vendors, for example: Each stall offers the same bizarre toppings of sausage, peas, corn, cabbage and mayonnaise Then there’s the Turkish devotion to backgammon No American parallel exists for the backgammon

tradition here, for the way a board game has endured as the national pastime. Grab a seat at almost any cafe, order your tea, and next to the ashtray on your table is probably a backgammon set leslie griffith Here in Istanbul—an ancient city where nothing t»Spatdl from the Onent is permanent —people have played backgammon for centuries. The city is sacked, rebuilt and re-sacked; empires dissolve, republics emerge and coups overthrow leaders. And after every upheaval the citizens ofIstanbul unpack their boards, roll the dice and play backgammon.

So it is fitting, two weeksbefore elections, that I spent three hours last Saturday playing backgammon at an outdoor cafe.

One table over from me, two grizzled men hunched themselves over the board with cigarette in one hand and dice in theother. Across from us sat a young, stylish couple, squeezed cozily on a bench with the board perched between them.

A cafe may well have stood in that spot since the menus were in Arabic script. When I glanced up from our game, however, I saw two nightclubs (one named Cheers) and the bar where my friend’s cover band plays songs from the Killers and Green Day Friday nights. A block away from our timeless game, Istiklal Street throbbed with modem activity.

Crowds spilled in and out of Lacoste, Nike and Mavi stores.

Between buildings hung banner ads for political candidates, water conservation and Turkcell phone plans.

It doesn’t makeany sense, Istanbul, and so of course I’m infatuatedwith it To say Istanbul is a big city does not begin to convey the overwhelming force of its history and of its 15 million-plus inhabitants. And the population is growing daily, its numbers swelled by migrants from rural, mostly conservative areas wholly alien to this Western-oriented, urbanized environment Istanbul is a crowded city; the Turkish word for minibus is literally “stuffed.” Ethnicities, religions, classes and ideologies josde for breathing room on every comer. Somehow, one city is home to both the second-largest mall in the world and to countless gecekondu—migrant settlements of cardboard and tin that huddle on the city’s fringes and pockmark its garbage dumps.

Campaign season has consolidated and exposed all these contrasts. It is easy to think of Istanbul as a den of Western sins like the recent Shakira concert, but its mayor belongs to the moderately Islamic Justice and Development (AK) Party.

Current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who threw the secular military establishment into a tizzy by even considering a presidential candidacy, also once served as mayor ofIstanbul.

As part ofmy camp counselor duties here, I shepherd kids to a bowling alley every afternoon. On the bus ride I traverse the entire political spectrum, passing the campaign ads offour different parties in five minutes. Watching the abmpt transition between opposingparties’ flags and banners, I feel like I’m at a carnival, or perhaps a car dealership. Red and white flags promoting the MHP or CHP shift abruptly to the AKP’s orange, blue and white or occasionally to Anavatan’s green. Forget red states and blue states—to ideologically color code Istanbul would require a palette and attention to each city block.

Thumbing lamely through my Turkish dictionary, I decipher slogans from their billboards. ‘To the world, there is one answer,” intones the ultranationalistMHP. I have a hunch it involves invading northern Iraq. “Keep to the road,” the ruling AKP earnestly states. “Peace ofmind and order are the first priority,” insists the CHP. Their main theme seems based in affirmation theory; “The republic will win, the people will win.” Our youth will win, labor will win, Istanbul will win, Duke football will win—if they can make it happen, more power to them.

Although the tension here is less palpable than two months ago, the significance of these electionshas not diminished. Regardless of the AKP retaining power as expected in Sunday’s elections, Turkey must confront its calcifying cultural divisions and work toward a viable, civilian-governed democracy. The winning party will also chart a course through presidential elections, EU membership talks and relations with the U.S. Istanbul and Turkey are headed for change—so in other words it’s business (and backgammon) as usual. ..

Leslie Griffith is a Trinityjunior and editorialpage managing editor of The Chronicle.

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