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Duke struggled through scoring droughts f<sr much of last season, failing to

score more than 86 points in any game.

Monday night against New Mexico State (0-2), the No. 13 Blue Devils (2-0) matched that total in an 86-61 victory, despite suffering a long second-half dry spell.

In the process, they showed both the development in this year’s team—frequendy pushing the fastbreak and putting the ball in the basket.

After Duke increased its lead to 61-30 with 13:37 remaining, the Aggies went on a 22-8 run over the next eight minutes.

“Give them credit. They’re a good team,” sophomore Gerald Henderson said.

“But there were things we didn’t do too well. We left their guys open a lot, [and] we

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The Times Higher Education SuppleQuacquarelli Symonds, an education research firm, ranked Duke the 13th overall best university in the world in an annual report released last week.

Duke’s place on the list was unchanged from 2006. The THES-QS report placed Duke between No. 12 McGill University in Canada and the University of Pennsylvania, which came in 14th.

“Duke is one of the best universities in the nation and the world,” said John Bumess, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “As a confirmation of the quality of our faculty and our student body, I think the ranking is ment and

overhelped.”

The Blue Devils gave New Mexico State several open looks, but the Aggies’ inability to make those shots prevented them from further closing the gap. Duke also missed some shots, including many layups.

“We can’t afford to hope that somebody just misses shots,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They got some open ones in the corner. I’d say there were about 10.

They may have hit one or two, but they were open.”

Had it not been for that good fortune, Duke may have been in trouble late in the game. The Blue Devils went on a 21-2 run early in the first half to jump out to a 25-8 lead. But after pushing the tempo and pressuring New Mexico State for much of the contest, Duke relaxed in the second half, leading to the scoring drought that was reminiscent.

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The Blue Devils used an early 21-2 run and some hot shooting from Jon Scheyer to put away the Aggies, 86-61.

Policy draws jeers, some cheers Stella wins mtvU band contest by

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Kiel Russell has stood in the first three rows of every men’s basketball game since he came to Duke. Except last Friday.

The sophomore said he had to wait in the walk-up line for Friday’s game against NorthCarolina Central University because fie when tried to validate online, registration for spots in the student section was already full. All available slots—estimated at between 700 and 800 seats—were filled 20 minutes into the registration period, which opened at 12 a.m. last Wednesday.

A new policy, which was used for the first time at the Blue-White scrimmage, requires undergraduates to register for men’s basketball games up to three days in advance online. Seats unclaimed one hour before tip-off are then made available to students waiting in a walk-up line.

Like other students, Russell said he may get used to the policy as the season progresses, even though he was frustrated about his spot in Friday’s game.

Duke has long been known for its top-notch academics and athletics, but it can now also lay claim to the best college band in the country.

Duke band Stella by Starlight received the mtvU “Best Music on Campus Woodie” Award Nov. 8 at a ceremony in New York City’s Times Square. The indie synth-rock H ; trio of Duke seniors beat out Lehigh University’s Show Me M Action to win the award.

Stella’s award marks a major milestone for the band. Not only

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Pakistan arrests Bhutto to avoid protest by

Bhutto’s aide, Sen. Safdar Abbasi, said the seven-day detention order was not binding because neither Bhutto nor one of her representatives had been served with the document.

“We will go ahead with the march,” he told The Associated Press.

Aftab Cheema, the chief of operations of Lahore city police, told the AP that a Bhutto representative had received the order issued by the government of Punjab province, where Bhutto has been staying at the house of a lawmaker from her party.

“She has been detained and she won’t be allowed to come out,” Cheema said.

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LAHORE, Pakistan Opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was placed under house arrest for the second time in four days to prevent her staging a march on Tuesday to protest emergency rule, police said. A close aide to the former prime minister said she would try to lead the 185-mile procession anyway.

The showdown intensified the political crisis engulfing Pakistan and further clouded the prospect of a pro-U.S. alliance against rising Islamic extremism forming between Bhutto and President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

He said about 600 police had been deployed around the house in Lahore and additional forces could be sent later Tuesday, when Bhutto was due to commence her procession to the capital, Islamabad.

A series of three steel-and-barbed wire barricades were erected around the house Monday and sharpshooters took up positions on surrounding rooftops.

The protest caravan was intended meant to pressure Musharraf to end the state of emergency he imposed on Nov. 3 and give up his post as army chief. It had been expected to take about three days, and Bhutto’s party said thousands of supporters were expected to join en route.

Judge orders Bush to keep e-mails by

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has been taking steps to preserve copies of all e-mails and will continue to do so.

The administration is seeking dismissal of the lawsuits brought by two private groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive.

The organizations allege the disappearance of 5 million White. House e-mails.

The court order issued by Kennedy, an appointee of President Clinton, is directed at maintaining backup tapes which contain copies ofWhite House e-mails.

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WASHINGTON A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy directed the Executive Office of the President to safeguard the material in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether the White House has destroyed emails in violation of federal law.

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standards prohibiting the destruction of government documents including electronic messages, unless first approved by the archivist of the United States.

Justice Department lawyers had urged the courts to accept a proposed White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes.

“The judge decided thatwasn’t enough,” said Anne Weismann, an attorney for CREW, which has gone to court over secrecy issues involving the Bush administration and has pursued ethical issues involving Republicans on Capitol Hill.

A U.N. human rights envoy arrived Sunday in Myanmar on a mission to get inside the country's prisons to determine the numbers of people killed and detained since the military regime's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

7 killed in Fatah-Hamas conflict A rally of more than 250,000 Fatah supporters ended in mayhem Monday, with Hamas police opening fire and protesters hurling rocks or running for cover. Seven civilians were killed and dozens were wounded in

the violence between Palestinian factions.

Benedict to visit U.S. in 2008 Pope Benedict XVI will travel to the United States for the first time as pontiff next year to meet with President GeorgeW. Busheddress the United Nations and visit ground zero, a Vatican official told American bishops Monday.

China profiles foreign reporters The Chinese government has created profiles on thousands of foreign journalists coming to report on next summer's Beijing Olympics and is gathering information on thousands more to put into a databases top official said in comments published Monday.

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Gangs may face mafia laws in city by

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With gang violence a consistent concern for Durham residents, city officials are considering resurrecting old laws used to prosecute mafia members in an effort to tame Durham’s gangs.

The laws fall under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, a federal statute

implemented in 1970.

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sentences.

Today, Durham gang members convicted of a crime are tried as norEugene Brown mal offenders, but under RICO, they would be prosecuted more stricdy if their association with an organized gang could be proven, a move some say is necessary to fight a persistent gang problem.

“In fighting crime, there are no magic bullets,” City Council member Eugene Brown said. “Somehow the message has to get out that gang activity will not be tolerated.”

If convicted under RICO laws, a defendant can be fined as much as $25,000 and sentenced to anything from 20 to 30 years m prison Although RICO results in stricter sentencing, Mayor Bill Bell said proving RICO can be time-consuming and often takes up a lot of resources.

To prove that RICO applies, police and prosecutors must show that a criminal committed at least two felonies within a 10-year period while part of an organized criminal group.

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Students can become party monitors after reviewing a 10-minutePowerPoint showand taking a quiz.

Party monitor training moves to Blackboard by

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Party-monitor training is now online.

In an effort to diversify the offerings ofDuke night life, Duke Student Government and the Office of Student Activities and Facilities have enacted a policy that allows students to become trained as party monitors online, simplifying the process and drastically reducing the trainee’s time commitment.

Since last week, students have been able to enroll in a Blackboard course, after e-mailing OSAF Program Coordinator Leslie Grinage.

Once enrolled, aspiring party monitors review a 10-minute PowerPoint presentation and then take a 15-question quiz, OSAF Director Chris Roby said. If they pass, Roby estimated that

students can pick up their orange party monitor T-shirts within two to three days of e-mailing Grinage.

Grinage said about 10 students, primarily members of the International Association, have enrolled in the course and five have passed the quiz as of Sunday.

The process of becoming a party monitor has gone through several evolutions, Roby said. Initially, three threehour training sessions were offered at the beginning of each year. Because of limited enrollment, larger social groups like fraternities ensured their members received training, but smaller organizations had more trouble, said DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior.

A second arrest has been made in connection with the off-campus assault and robbery of a Duke graduate student Nov. 7.

Cinnamon Collins, who has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree burglary, robbery with a dangerous weapon and two accounts of obtaining property byfalse pretense, was arrested Monday by the Durham Police Department Bond for Collins is set at $250,000.

The student was taken to the Duke University Hospital after the attack, but was released Saturday, Duke University Police Department officers said.

David Hill, who is acquainted with the victim, was named as the prime suspect of the crime Thursday and was arrested Friday.

The two were reported to have assaulted and robbed the victim.

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CinnamonCollins was the second suspect arrested for assaulting and robbing a Duke graduate student.

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A Critical Response to Mao: The Unknown Story

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A talk by Maoist political economist Raymond Lotta Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s Mao: The Unknown Story has been widely promoted in the media as the definitive biography of Mao Zedong. In away no recent work has, Mao: The Unknown Story demonizes Mao, the towering revolution-

figure of the mid-20th century, and the Chinese revolution, the most radical of the 20th century.

The book presents the Chinese revolution as based on pure manipulation and terror. It obliterates the social gains of the revolution in health and education and women’s liberation. The societal accomplishments, grass-roots innovations, and

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political complexities of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution are simply tossed off as madness.

Raymond Lotta will present a spirited critique of key contentions the authors make about the Chinese revolution, economic strategy under Mao, and the goals and results of the Cultural Revolution. And he will invite discussion about the legacy of the Chinese revolution in today’s world.

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Although the Blue Devils lost Saturday’s match-up with Georgia Tech, one Dukie walked off the field with his head in the air.

During halftime at Saturday’s football game in Wallace Wade Stadium, junior Imran Uraizee won $lO,OOO in Alltel’s MyCircle Ist & 10 Sweepstakes. Uraizee started at the 35-yard line and 10 of his

friends each made a 10-yard pass to an inflatable target, allowing him to move 10 yards forward to the 25yard-line. He missed his own pass to the goal line and lost the $lOO,OOO grand prize, but still walked away with $10,000: $5,000 for himself and $5OO for each ofhis friends.

“It had a perfect spiral, it had the distance, it had the height,” Uraizee said. “[The] only problem was it was four or five feet to the left.”

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The throw, however, wasjust the last in a full afternoon’s events for Uraizee and his friends. Before the game they had lunchwith members of the Iron Dukes and took a tour of the field and football facilities.

“We were treated like royalty for the afternoon,” Uraizee said.

They even screamed themselves hoarse watching the first half of the game from the sidelines, he added.

“We had a good time out on the field and seeing the game from ground level,” said junior Hari Shankar, one ofUraizee’s 10 friends to help in the challenge.

For Uraizee, the adventure began when he received an e-mail from the Iron Dukes announcing the sweepstakes. Entrants were allowed to register online as many times as they wanted, so Uraizee registered 50 times in a matter ofminutes.

“I figured, you know what, I’ll give it a shot,” he said. “You never know what could happen.”

The week before the game, Uraizee received a call telling him that he had been selected to try the throw. He said his initial surprise has still not subsided—nor has his surprise at winning.

“I don’t think it has hit me yet,” he said. “I don’t think it’ll hit me until the actual check appears in my mailbox.”

When asked what he plans to do with the money, Uraizee said he has no immediate plans.

“For now I’m just going to put it away,” he said.

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Students and faculty crowded into a packed lecture hall in the School of Law Monday to hear the insider perspective of former presidential adviser Jack Goldsmith on the complex legal issues surrounding

is that the opposite is true: The threat is much more intense than is revealed to the public,” he said, Goldsmith noted, however, that the president relied too much on unilateral action after 9/11. He said Bush could have been more successful by involving Congress from the outset of the War on Terror, “Trust and credibility in wartime is always difficult to achieve,” Goldsmith said.

“I think this president has made it super hard through his actions.”

During the discussion, Christopher Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy professor of law and public policy and director of the Program in Public Law, interviewed Goldsmith about his recendy published book “The Terror Presidency; Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration.” Schroeder served as head of the OLC during former President Bill Clinton’s

President George W. Bush’s administration and the War on Terror.

Goldsmith, currently the Henry L. Shattuck professor of law at Harvard Law School, served under then-attorney general John Ashcroft for nine months as the head of the Office of Legal Council in the Department of Justice. Goldsmith advised the president on legal issues such as wiretapping laws and torture until his resignation from the department in 2004.

Goldsmith said when he entered the OLC he found some of the previous legal opinions formulated as administration, a result of the Schroeder said he “I noticed an enormOUS fear .

War on Terror could relate to the fear .1 r m the government of anto be of nonsln read overly broad on issues other attack. The lawyers I’m ing Goldsmith’s book, like torture.

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“I was incredibly naive when I started sure were under enormous pressure to this job,” he said. “I [did not] realize the push the law as far as it could go.”

The government has not exaggerated political pressure inside the department.” the threat of terrorism, Goldsmith said.

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“I came to the presentation because I wanted to find a view from inside the administration on how the policy was formed,” said third-year law student Arman Tasheneff.

Ben McNabb, also a third-year law student, agreed but said he thought the interview was vague.

“I’m not really clear what his conclusion •

was, to be honest,” he said. “I think he saw a lot ofmerit in what was being done, but he thought Congress could have been a little more involved.”

McNabb said he thought Goldsmith was

hesitant to criticize the Bush administration.

“I really want to hearwhat he says in the book because it will probably clarify a lot of what he said today,” he added

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“I’m worried about what will

happen with some of the more popular games,” said sophomore Ben McCormick, who was also unable to validate for the NCCU game. “I feel like it could be very difficult to get validated [for those games], but I don’t think it has been a disaster either.”

HeadLine Monitor Roberto Bazzani, a senior, said everyone in the walk-up line got into Friday’s game, and 90 to 95 percent of those who validatedredeemed their tickets.

The high student demand to validate for the NCCU game was an anomaly, Bazzani said. Junior Sunny Kantha, Duke Student Government vice president for athletics and campus services, added that 80 spots for last night’s game against New Mexico State were not registered when the period ended and were granted to students in the walk-up line.

Some students said the policy—which has been criticized by fans for subverting the competitive nature of attending games—couldbe improved to reward die-hard fans.

“I thought [the policy] was completely unfair to me as well as everyone in the walk-up line,” said freshman Michael Warady, who stood in line for Friday’s game. “All I care about really is rewarding every student for how much time and effort they put into [getting into games] and not [for] logging on at midnight and pushing a button.”

Warady also proposed a change to the policy at the DSC meeting

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Despite a walk-up line, some students say online validation keeps out hardcore fans. last Wednesday that would reserve the first 100 seats in Cameron Indoor Stadium for students standing in line for the game.

Kantha said he liked the idea and had proposed it in meetings with the athletics department, but chose to hold off on any changes to the policy until next year.

“We decided to stay away from it because we thought it would complicate the situation further,” he said. “The last thing you want is people getting intimidated [by the changes].”

A number of seats for the NCCU game were sold to nonstudents before the validation period began, students said, although neither Bazzani nor Kantha would confirm the rumor.

Kantha noted, however, that the NCCU game was ticketed differently from other games.

Many students said they noticed that the student section was fairly packed, which some attributed to

a combination of fewer validation spots and increased attendance.

“Based on thefirst game I think there’s an increase in attendance,” junior Justin Ostrowski said. “A lot of that was it seems that this year’s freshmen are better than last year’s freshmen. The student section was much fuller than usual, and that’s a good thing.”

Bazzani said there was no precise way to measure how much the policy increased attendance, but he and Kantha both said they believe the policy has been effective thus far and will continue to improve turnout at upcoming games.

And although the policy may be achieving goals quantitatively, it is less popular amongst students who feel that the most devoted fans end up in the back of Cameron.

“I know several people who are hardcore fans who weren’t able to validate,” sophomore Amanda Marchese said. “That shows there’s a problem with [the policy].”

tation is catching up to our American reputation as we... do more things internationally no surprise.” and as people begin to shape Universities were ranked acan image of Duke overseas,” said Gilbert Merkx, vice procording to a weighted scoring system that emphasized peer review, vost for international affairs. research citations and graduate “People around the world are employability. beginning to understand what Harvard University topped the Duke is.” list. The University of Cambridge Merkx pointed to Duke’s and the University of Oxford, both emphasis on interdisciplinarity in the United Kingdom, and Yale and innovative research as key University tied for second place. components of Duke’s profile “It is clear that Duke is now abroad. He added that President being perceived as a very serious Richard Brodhead’s visit to China player on the international higher last year helped establish Duke’s education scene,” Bumess said. global image.

“Lead institutions are starting to “We’re continuing to do things come talk to us as they are trying that we dowell and we’re engaging to understand in more international ach ow to create tivities, which the universities “People around the of the future.” helps our inworld are beginternational visThe THESQS report also ning to understand ibility,” Merkx ranked world said. what Duke is.”

Burn e s s universities in five categoGilbert Merkx, noted, howries—science, ever, that Duke viceprovost is still a young biomedicine, technology, soinstitution cial sciences and compared to arts and humanities. Duke was its peers. The relatively small size ranked 19th in biomedicine, 20th ofDuke’s engineering and science in arts and humanitiesand 25th in programs may have contributed to social sciences. It did not rank in the University’s absence in the top the top 50 universities in science 50 lists for science and technology, and technology. he said.

Burness said the University’s re“It really is a scale issue,” Bumess lationship with the Duke-National said. “To the degree that we have University of Singapore Graduate begun to develop real strength and Medical School is indicative of larger programs I think you’ll see Duke’s expanding profile abroad. that [Duke’s science and technol“Our international repu- ogy ranks] will get better.”

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STELLA from page 1 did Stella emerge as the winner pool of more than 1,700 college groups, but the band won based on popular vote rather than a committee selection.

“The award says our music is making the connection to people we really wanted it to make,” Stella guitarist Sonny Byrd said.

In addition to a $5,000 prize and appearance on mtvU, the band’s victory has gained it the attention of news outlets and record labels nationwide.

“As a band it’s so, so hard to make a splash or get your foot in the door,” Byrd said. “This event has kind of kicked the door down.”

Initially, only one of Stella’s members, keyboard and synth player Nate Fowler, was planning out of a

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Senior Sonny Byrd is the guitarist for award-winning band Stella by Starlight.

on pursuing a career in the music industry. Although the band has not cemented any future plans, members said they may stay together after graduation.

“Probably for the first time, we all realistically feel like this is something we could go off and run with,” drummer Greg Laird said.

Aside from the band’s excitement, the award has also pleased Stella’s on-campus fans.

“I think it’s really great that they’re getting some national recognition for their talent,” sophomore Jason Preissig said.

Laird added that theaward will be good for Duke’s public image.

“It’s also good because the last big thing about Duke was the lacrosse thing,” he said. “It’s showing that there are positive

things coming [from Duke] Although band members said they were excited about what the Woodie will do for them, they said they are equally excited about

MONITORS from page 3 “It [was] a limiting factor on the groups that [could] throw events,” he said.

At the beginning of this academic year, groups could sign up for 90minute training sessions with student trainers at a time of their choice. But Slattery said the latest incarnation of the process, which can be completed on a personal computer, is moreconvenientfor students and accessible to smaller organizations.

“In an ideal world, you would want all groups to have the ability to contribute to the social scene,” Slattery said.

In this way, Roby said simplifying training for party monitors relates to the Campus Cul-

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Initiative “We’re looking at social opportunities for student organizations and how to create less red tape for groups to socialize and have a good time on campus,” he said.

“Party monitoring is just one element of that larger conversation.”

Slattery said without face-toface instruction, students will retain just as much, if not more, informationfrom the course.

“You can zone out during personal training,” he said. “This may actually lead to a higher level of retention.”

Wayne Manor President Ellis Wisely, a junior, said all 28 sophomores in the selective living group were required to undergo party-monitor training in a group session this year. Now

that training is online, Wisely said he worries it will be difficult to track which members have completed the training session on their own time.

He said he does not think online training will be much more convenient for members, adding that they might have trouble remembering to enroll in the first place.

Junior Jordan Charles, a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, said he became a party monitor after attending a training session as a sophomore and would have preferred to complete the process online.

“I know how to handle party stuff,” he said. “Training wasn’t that useful for me. I would [have] preferred to do it online because it would [have] been so much faster.”

is a very high priority for the police department,”, Taylor officers said. “Twenty-nine have been assigned to the gang unit, and everything they do is directly or indirectly related to

RICO adds additional proof requirements, but it has been used elsewhere successfully,” Chemerinsky wrote in an e-mail.

It is unclear at this point whether RICO will be used in Durham, but some city officials have supported using it despite concerns that it is cosdy.

Although RICO laws have yet to be implemented on gang members in Durham, Brown said Durham residents are ready for gang activity to decrease. With RICO, he said citizens may have something to look forward to.

“RICO needs to be there to send the message that Durham is getting serious about gangs—it is going to be ‘bye-bye time’ for criminals,” Brown said.

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what the award will do for the Duke and Triangle music scenes.

“If another band is from Duke, people are going to want to hear [them] just because of the association [with Duke as a new] hotbed for indie, or just music, success,” Fowler said.

With tours starting in May, an upcoming EP and the possibility of signing with a record label looming in the band’s future, Stella is still grounded in making music that people like.

“Our test now is to write new and better music than ever before,” Byrd said. “I don’t think that’s going to be a problem.”

MAFIA from page 3 candidate Thomas Stith, however, said he is an advocate of using RICO. “Our gang problem is running rampant,” Stith said in a mayoral debate on ABC 11. “We need to send a clear message thatDurham is closed for business for violent crime and gang activity.”

There are approximately 30 active gangs in Durham with roughly 800 members, ranging in size from small neighborhood units to large-scale ones with national associations, Durham Police Department Capt. Ray Taylor told The Chronicle in January. “[Curbing gang violence]

gangs.”

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“RICO is a tool in the arsenal and it should be used,” he said.

RICO laws have been used in other areas, such as Florida, New York and even Charlotte, and have been regarded as fruitful, said Erwin Chemerinsky, Alston and Bird Professor ofLaw. “Mayor Bell is correct that

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For three years at Duke basketball games, I felt like George Costanza. Why, I wondered, did the managers have to wear suits to games when they spent a good deal of time on their hands and knees wiping up sweat?

I had always wanted to write a column pleading for more comfortable uniforms for the managers, just like how George hatches a plan to bring the guard a rocking chair.

But a funny thing happened when this season began. The managers’ uniforms were different; their suits replaced with polo shirts and slacks.

In the Seinfeld episode, the rocking chair George brings for the security guard ends up resulting in die guard falling asleep while the store is held up in an armed robbery. That’s where the analogy ends (that is, unless the managers get too comfortable and allow the opposing team to steal the black bag in which they cany the team’s shooting shirts).

Cosmetic changes, like the managers’ new getups, and real ones, like Duke’s newfound commitment to a running game and zone defense, have transformed the Blue Devils’ appearance from last season, the program’s worst in a decade. A month ago, a columnist in this newspaper (Okay, it was me), wrote, ‘Whether Coach K admits it publicly or not, his program is currendy in a bit of a valley.

On the court and on the recruiting trail, the Duke brand has lost some ofits value.”

While I stand by my message that last season’s early exit hurt the program’s image and was cause for concern, let’s give credit where credit is due. From the exhibition games and the first two regular season contests, it appears as if Mike Krzyzewski and his staff have done an excellentjob ofadjusting and updating their strategies to give this year’s team a chance to blow away preseason expectations.

The changes have been written about before, but their significance bears repeating. This year’s Blue Devils are running and even employing the ultimate strategic sacrilege of the Coach K era: zone defense.

Some of it is surely driven by changes in personnel. After gaining three impact players in this year’s freshman class while only losing one in Josh Mcßoberts—whose departure is looking more like a net positive—depth is an obvious byproduct. The arrival of Nolan Smith has allowed Krzyzewski toreduce Greg l_

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SEE BEATON ON PAGE 10

In the first three-and-a-half minutes of the second half, Greg Paulus showed the Cameron Crazies exactly what he’s capable of.

After New Mexico State’s first field-goal attempt of the half, Paulus pulled down a defensive rebound, pushed the ball up the court and lofted it above the rim for DeMarcus Nelson to throw down. Just 11 seconds later, the junior poked away a steal and dove across Coach K Court while tipping the ball with his left hand to Nelson for another dunk.

Two minutes later, 031116 Paulus had yet another analysis takeaway, and followed it up by drilling a three from the left wing. These are the types of energetic, crowd-pleasing plays the Blue Devils’ husding point guard has been known to make.

“Greg had a really good game,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

But much like his first two seasons at Duke, Paulus still can’t get over the hump of mistakes. During the same three-plusminute stretch, he displayed the same enigmatic inconsistency that has plagued him in his two-plus seasons as a Blue Devil.

While simultaneously getting the crowd pumped enough to chant his name, Paulus turned the ball over twice.

The point guard traveled after an indecisive pass attempt and was whistled for an offensive foul while flying to the basket out of control.

He also struggled at the other end of the court, allowing the Aggies to beat him off the dribble on three possessions.

“He uses a lot of energy,” Krzyzewski said of Paulus’ stretch. “They drove him three straight times, and that was the first time they drove him all night. I think he Just got tired.”

Throughout the game, Paulus was the spark that ignited the Blue Devils, both in his play, delivering eight assists—one more than he had in any game last season—and in his leadership. A co-captain

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Guard Greg Paulus recorded eight assists Monday night—more than the juniorhad in any game last season. last year, Paulus has become the most vocal player on the court for Duke this season. During timeouts, he is the first player to call the Blue Devils into a huddie, acting as the proverbial coach on the court.

Possibly more than his own coaches, Paulus is hard on himself for the mistakes he makes. Following Monday’s game, he

asked the media how many turnovers-he committed.

When a reporter responded that he had made three, Paulus was miffed, “That’s too many,” he said. “I was unhappy with those three. I’m trying to get no turnovers. IfI keep those down, everything SEE ANALYSIS ON PAGE 12

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Sometimes, the hardest game to play is not on the field; it’s one that everyone has to play—the waiting game. The Blue Devils found themselves playing this game at head coach Robbie Church’s house Monday night, having the fate of their season decided on by the NCAA selection committee.

“To be honest, we were nervous,” Church said. “You never know until you see your name on the board.”

Fortunately for Duke, it did not have to wait long, as its name was called fairly early alongside that of its opponent, the South Carolina Gamecocks.

“There was a huge shout that came in,” Church said. “It was a relief. The girls were just very, very excited.”

This marks the Blue Devils* fifth consecutive appearance in the year-end tournament. Duke earned a berth even though its eight wins were fewer than any of the other 63 teams.

“We realize now that everyone is (M),” Church said. “We have to do some things a little bit better than we have, and if we do that, we have got an opportunity to make some noise.”

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Pass With Georgia Tech attacking on the ground early and often, Duke's pass defense was not thoroughly tested. Still, they did a decent job of holding Georgia Tech quarterback Taylor Bennett in check, and linebacker Mike Tauiliiii snagged an interception in the first quarter. Cornerback Leon Wright also played well in pass defense, recording numerous pass deflections.

Xs&(ys Choice ran Duke ragged on Saturday, and early as the second quarter Georgia Tech took advanqe of the Blue Devils' struggling run defense by lining up their star running back behind center with an extra blocker in order to run a variety of direct snap rushing plays that were easily their most effective plays on the ground.

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Paulus’ minutes, providing Duke at all times with a fresh body at point guard to push the ball up the floor. Since Chris Duhon left in 2004, Duke has struggled pushing the tempo without the necessary backcourt depth.

Beyond a different roster makeup, the time Krzyzewski spent this summer with Phoenix Suns head coach Mike D’Antoni appears to be paying dividends with Duke’s fastbreak.

Personnel changes alone also do not explain the other big change Duke fans have seen this year, the zone defense. In fact, it might have made even more sense to utilize a defense that better rests its players when the team was using the six-man rotation thatit has for much of the past three seasons. The Blue Devils watched as deeper, more athletic teams found enoligh flaws in thevauntedDuke manto-man defense to pull away late and win.

Coach Khas taken his experience at USA Basketball this summer and used it toward positively affecting the 2007-08 Blue Devils.

After the blowout win over N.C. Central Krzyzewski credited Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, with whom Coach K worked over the summer, with helping the Blue Devils’ coach implement the 2-3 matchup zone. Most Duke fans can probably count the number of times they remember Krzyzewski’s teams playing zone defense in the past 27 years on both hands, regardless of the roster’s makeup.

This year, however, the fans have gotten what they’ve been pining for. It’s been only two games so far, but it’s been a while since Duke has been scoring at this pace or winning by this much at this stage in the season.

After last season, Krzyzewski told reporters he would take the summer to re-evaluate his program going forward. Judging by the early seasonresults, mission accomplishedon everything from the managers’ outfits to the offensive and defensive strategy.

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M. BASKETBALL from page 1 “We put on the gas for so long, and then we took it off a little bit,” Greg Paulus said. “When you’re playing great teams, they’re going to take advantage of that.... When we didn’t stay aggressive and strong defensively and offensively, they took advantage of our offensive mistakes and our defensive mistakes.”

The Blue Devils, however, countered that Aggie run with one of their own, scoring 17 of the final 26 points to put the game firmly out of reach. Jon Scheyer scored 13 in that stretch, including three treys, and led all scorers with 22 points on the night.

Senior captain DeMarcus Nelson had 14 points and seven rebounds, and Paulus recorded nine points and eight assists, leading the team with four steals as Duke forced 26 turnovers.

The juniorpoint guard paced a Blue Devil offense that continues to play a more uptempo pace. That strategy remained effective against the first NCAA Tournament team—and also the tallest squad—Duke has played so far.

New Mexico State started guard Chris Cole over 6-foot-l 1 center Martin Iti to match up better with a relatively small Blue Devil squad.

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“We didn’t think' the interior was the strength of [Duke],” New Mexico State head coach Marvin Menzies said. “We felt like they had strong perimeter players, wing players, guard players, so we thought we would have to try to approach that in a different manner.”

The Blue Devils, however, outscored the Aggies 36-30 in the paint as Id was saddled with foul trouble before fouling out with seven and a half minutes to go.

Kyle Singler also battled foul trouble, picking up his third and fourth fouls in a 10-second span early in the second half. That sequence forced him to play cautiously the rest of the game, limiting the Blue Devils’ effectiveness inside.

“We have to look at Kyle’s four fouls,” Krzyzewski said.

“He can’t get a fourth foul with 18:14 to go in the second half.... He’s a real good player, and all of a sudden he’s playing with that foul trouble. And he stayed in. We massaged it, but it still wasn’t like he can [play].”

Even with Singler being hampered and Duke suffering a late dry spell, the Blue Devils managed to score a lot of points —a quality that should bode well for the rest of the season.

“We did well,” Krzyzewski said. “We won by 25 points, so we did okay. The last 12 games of the season last year, I would’ve liked to score. But we can get better.”

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ANALYSIS from page 9 else will fall into place.”

In past seasons, Duke has not played at the breakneck pace its plans to employ this season. In two games, the Blue Devils have averaged a staggering 103.5 points.

With this offensive strategy, it is impossible to expect Paulus to play mistake-free basketball if he is as aggressive as the coaches have asked him to be. Yes, he is the guy pushing the ball up the court, hitdng high-flying wings for dunks, but—perhaps more importantly—he is the player who has to be able to rein in his teammates when Duke gets out ofcontrol.

“He’s become a poised point guard,” sophomore Gerald Henderson said. “We like to play uptempo offense, but he really settles us down when we need it. He played a hell of a game.”

Last season, Paulus emerged as a potent three-point threat, shooting 45-percent from beyond the arc. In the final five games of the year, he averaged a stellar 20.6 points per game.

This season, however, that cannot be his role. He has, to be the guy to control the pace for Duke, knowing when ,to look deep and when to slow down. He has to be the guy Duke can count on to make the correct decision in key situations. He has to be the guy who runs the team when the game is on the line.

Throughout his first two seasons, Paulus has been this player at times. In the past two games, he has been that player most of each night.

But as the leader of this team, that may not be enough. For Duke to reach its potential, Paulus has to be that player all the time.

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As a result, this year’s tenuating circumstances facing this year’s sophomores sophomores will have the option of submitting an applicanot only with respect to Few tion by Jan. 18, 2008 to enter Quad renovations, but also a lottery to live off-campus fall with respect to returning semester o£ their junior year. study-abroad students.

The lottery should be ofThis editorial board has called for such action in the past fered earlier so that students to address the housing crunch who will live off campus have facing RLHS next year. Those plenty of time to make arstudying abroad have always rangements—either for refaced limited space problems, turning from abroad or for and the Few Quad renovations a fall semester in the Gothic have compounded the issue. Wonderland—instead offorcNot only does the new waiver aling students to scramble for

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Sophomore Ben McCormick on the new online validation policy for spots at men’s basketball games. See story page 1.

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The three-year residency requirement provides the strong sense of community and class bonding that our University seeks to cultivate.

Yes, there are specific issues characteristic of Duke residence life that are not ideal for such community building.

As a larger school that lacks a quad model, we do not have the same residential community that the Ivy League universities or small liberal arts colleges do. And because of our large number of study-abroad participants and the configuration of

Central Campus, the junior class is often fragmented.

But the fact of the matter is that the three-year residency requirement is nonetheless one of the best ways to maintain a sense of community at this institution.

Indeed, the three-year residency requirement is an excellent overruling ideal, but, with theFew Quad renovations and Central Campus reconstruction, implementing it for all students in the coming years will be difficult logistically.

Currently, our system pushes students who cannot afford to live on West and Central campuses off campus. The lottery system will add to this effect, as incoming juniors who cannot afford to live on campus will enter the system in search

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recently perused my regular paper circuit to find that Paul Tibbets—the man who

piloted the B-52 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima—passed away at the age of 92.

Only a few days earlier I was informed that my

great-great-uncle Dewey passed away. He was 84.

This summer his brother, my greatgrandfather Walter, also passed away at 90 years old. When my amey adkins mother called to in medias res tell me about Uncle Dewey’s death, she noted that sadly, we had just bore witness to the end of an era, the close of a generation.

As a minister, it was only natural that when I spoke at my Papa’s funeral this summer—grieved not only by my personal loss but also at the. dying generation he represented—l reflected on the Biblical story ofSarah and Abraham.

In the Hebrew Bible, God approaches the newly named Abraham and Sarah to announce that, at 90 years of age, Sarah will give birth to a son.

Abraham inquires of God at this moment, and in her own due time, Sarah infamously laughs at the notion of giving birth at such a mature age.

Within only a few chapters, however, Sarah gives birth miraculously to a beloved son, Isaac. Isaac is a sign of the promise and provision of God to Abraham and Abraham’s descendants, an everlasting covenant between the Lord and the generations to come.

At the age of 90, Sarah is given an invisible promise of an everlasting hope. This promise came in the form of one child, one life and a deeply instilled faith. Providentially, at the age of 90, my own great-grandfather left me with his words, memories and hopes for a bright future for his children’s children, as well as their children.

He left me with stories of his father, Papa Crockett, who lived to be 103—whose parents came up in the time of slavery. He reminded me of what it was like to be a part of such a large black family in the South during those years. He told me tales of food rations during the Great Depression, and stories from his years in army service, particularly during World War 11. He saw the Civil Rights Movement as it unfolded.

He saw Vietnam. He was there for Iraq. We even reflected together on what is perhaps the defin-

of cheaper rent and better facilities offcampus.

Moreover, this demand for off-campus housing indicates a muchbroader problem with oncampus housing—overpriced and poorly maintained facilities, particularly on Central Campus.

Ultimately, the answer lies in forcing RLHS to offer competitive pricing and facilities to entice students to stay on campus.

It is easy for RLHS and administrators to plan on resolving all of our residence life and campus culture issues with the new Central Campus, but thousandsofDuke students will have to deal with these issues before Central Campus is completed.

For now, we need to salvage what community we still have and the lottery system is an excellent, albeit not permanent, solution.

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ing mark of my generation, September 11 Dearest to me were the last few conversations we had by the window of his nursing home room in the last two years of his life.

Papa was a founding member of our small, conservative Missionary Baptist Church and had served as an elder and deacon for most of his life. As this earth began to fall from his eyes, we had many conversations about God, life and church. Specifically, after he heard that I had entered “seminary somewhere down there around Duke,” I recall him asking me if I had “gotten the call” to enter ministry.

Coming from a denomination that traditionally doesn’t ordain women, I was hesitant to be completely honest about my aspirations.

However, Papa gingerly smiled and expressed utter excitement that the Lord was “doing a new thing,” a reference to the prophetic scrolls of Isaiah.

In spite of a life filled with immense joys and horrible disappointments—seeing his wife and three children claimed by cancer, his youngest son commit suicide and the arguments between his grandchildren in his later years—Papa still had faith in an omnipotent, omnipresent God. Papa still believed in love.

Papa still believed in me. Papa saw in me, his oldest great-granddaughter, promise for a future that would continue to evolve, consider the past and create a brighter future. Not a future full of empty material possessions, or monetary success, but a future of a life lived in love, a life that honored and respected the stories of my ancestors and a life that respects the friends I have who live in constant struggle and strife around the world.

As a generation of wisdom, promise and life enters its final stages, I wonder how faithfully we have served as their promise. I wonder at their pride, the hope they see in our generation, and in the “newfangled” advancements and habits of our day.

I reflect upon how quickly times change, but how much things really do stay the same. I also wonder what the future really does hold, and what part I will play in making it more beautiful.

More than anything, though, I reflect on the great history and story that we are a part of, and am challenged, burdened and simultaneously inspired to live a life that remembers well. I’m inspired to live into a story “bigger than we,” and committed to leaving a legacy that my Papa, and perhaps yours, would be proud of.

Amey Adkins is a graduate student in the Divinity School. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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lettertotheeditor Online b-bail validation system needs fixing On Friday morning, I got in line for the N.C. Central University basketball game at 7:20 a.m. There were only four people in line ahead of me at the time, but by the time Cameron opened, there were about 600.

I was the guy with the sign that said “I’M A CAMERON CRAZIE—I WAIT IN LINE AND I LIKE IT. FIX VALIDATION.” Validation seems to have worked as intended for today’s New Mexico State game, but all the seats for the NCCU game were spoken for in less than 20 minutes.

I understand the reasons the validation system is here. I want a full student section as much as anyone.

And I don’t blame the line monitors—they did a great job getting people into Cameron on Friday, and it’s not their fault there were only 700 validation spots instead of 1,200.

But when myfriends ask me why Duke students wait in line for days or months for tickets, I always tell them, “Because your school doesn’t, and that’swhat makes us Cameron Crazies.”

Waiting in line used to be a tradition, and now it’s an afterthought. Worst of all, hardcore fans that don’t validate cannot get front-row seats no matter how dedicated they are.

Today’s game shouldn’t prove the system works-1,200 seats for Virginia or N.C. State will go at least as fast as 700 went for NCCU. Don’trisk forcing hardcore fans to the back row or the Dillo—fix the validation system now.

If there are 1,200 spots available for a game, only put 1,100 online—reserve 100 for the walk-up line, and let those fans in first. For big games, the front row should be for the most devoted fans regardless ofhow fast they click a mouse.

At the Blue-White scrimmage, Coach K told us to Be Duke. The Cameron Crazies are Duke, and waiting in line is Duke. Let’s keep our storied traditions alive.

Let’s Be Duke.

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nearly any measure, Durham politicians have had a dismal two years.

There was of course the lacrosse scandal, which recendy spawned a $3O-million-plus civil rights claim. And let’s not forget the $600,000 yard-waste blaze that erupted in 2006, followed by the lead contamination scandal that left Durham in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act. City Council was caught accepting a $2-million payoff in exchange for Central Campus zoning considerLrictin DUllci hi it lor KilbUll ations. The city manager waited until the city had with all deliberate speed less than 80 days worth of water left before enacting mandatory conservation measures. District Attorney David Saacks’ appointment ended up violating state law. And just this week, we learned Durham police officers are back under investigation for accepting sexual favors from prostitutes for the third time in 20years—information that newly arrived Chief Jose Lopez outrageously concealed until after last week’s election.

Oh yeah, and the murder rate is up 50 percent fromlast year.

I think it was Benjamin Franklin who first said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over while expecting differentresults. That’s why after two years ofbroadbased failures ofleadership in Durham, it was quite a shock to see incumbents Bill Bell, Diane Catotti and Eugene Brown enjoy landslide victories last Tuesday. Are local voters just crazy?

This was, after all, a well-fought (and sometimes downright nasty) campaign season. Choices abounded. Mayoral contenderThomas Stith spent nearly $150,000 to blanket the city with fliers denouncing high crime rates and Durham’s lax policies toward illegal immigrants, among other things.

Supporters of incumbent Mayor Bill Bell, whose campaign was outspent nearly five-to-one, fired back with signs reading “Thomas Stith—Conservative Republican—Don’t Be Fooled!” With a 5842 percent split, not too many were.

But why not? It turns out that to understand the non-incumbents’ electoral “thumping,” we need look no further than Durham’s unique political machinery. That’s because elections in this city are effectively controlled by three nonpartisan political action committees: the conservative Friends of Durham, the very liberal People’s Alliance and the self-explanatory Durham Committee on theAffairs ofBlack People.

As The (Raleigh) News & Observer’s Durham News supplement recently spelled out, an endorsement from one or more ofthese PACs will make or break a candidate “more than nine times out of 10.”And with only one exception—thatwould be “Spoiler” Steve Monks, who received no major endorsements after throwing the election in former DA Mike Nifong’s favor

last year—local PACs dictated this November’sballot.

As a result, voters hoping to support a renegade candidate for, say, mayor, had only write-in contender Paul Scott to fall back on. Scott’s unforgettable platform was as follows: “I want to represent the voices that aren’t heard....

Those young people who other candidates might consider gang members, I consider them my constituents.”

Therein lies the problem. At their best, political action committees create an electoral bottleneck that stymies energetic and ambitious newcomers who don’t tow the party line. At its worst, Durham’s PAC-dominated system entrusts the city’s political fortunes to a group of morally bankrupt individuals who do not have citizens’ best interests at heart.

The most spectacular—though by no means only—example of this type of corruption involves the Committee on the Affairs ofBlack People. Despite recent concerns over declining membership and an impending leadership crisis, theCommittee remains the most powerful political organization in the county, controlling the vast majority ofDurham’s black vote.

Yet Committee leaders’ behavior has become increasingly bizarre. This fall, the group shocked observers when it endorsed bigoted City Council hopeful Victoria Peterson (who believes “sodomites” shouldn’t receive health benefits because “many of them are infected with diseases and their lifestyles are very, very dangerous”). That wrongheaded decision, which insiders attribute to a political feud between moderate candidate David Harris and Committee Chair Lavonia Allison, makes it hard to take anything about the organization seriously.

Former executive committee member Lois Murphy’s publicly circulated resignation letter only adds to the outrage. Addressing Allison, Murphy let loose: ‘You often told me that you would not allow anyone to ‘pimp’ the Committee, and I believed y0u.... I have since come to believe that you do not want anyone else to pimp the Committee because you and you alone want all the spoils a pimp receives from her prostitutes. I just want to know what you have gained from pimping the Committee to Johns...”

You can’t make that stuff up. Hard as it is to believe, these really are Durham’s political kingmakers, the men behind the proverbial curtain. And they are not doing nearly as good a job as they’d have us believe.

Indeed, although Council member Eugene Brown insists, “I don’t know anyone on our council who’s completely satisfied with the status quo,” next year’s agenda seems largely dedicated to maintaining it; council members have said they will focus on holding City Manager Patrick Baker accountable for widespread incompetence, managing growth and improving city services like road repairs and crime prevention.

That’s why I vote that come next election, Durham should stop this insanity and find a better way to select its local politicians. After all, what have we got to lose?

Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every Tuesday.

Where s your hip-hop?

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admit I’m a big hip-hop fan. I listened to “Whatta Man” repeatedly on cassette tape when I still thought boys had cooties. I was one of thosekids who hid the parental advisory stickers from my parents and who tried to have a cool pose for every situation. I was a big Ja fan but when Curtis dropped “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” I switched sides. I’ll be in attendance at Kellz’ concert in a few weeks, and IS: I could probably spit the lyrics to most songs that are

currently played on 97.5.

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As of late, a lot has been going on in the world of hiphop. T.I. was arrested on firearms offenses, Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint assailed the hip-hop generation in their new book “Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors” and hip-hop’s favorite female rap group, Salt-n-Pepa, debuted a new reality show on VHI. All of these events have sparked discussion about the state of hip-hop in America today. For people like me who love hip-hop, these discussions are absolutely integral to making the music better and more representative of the people who listen to it.

With the release ofits “Hip-Hop vs. America” series, BET went against its traditional “black exploitation television” programming and offered the most thought-provoking and productive dialogue about hip-hop yet. Toure and Jeff Johnson, BET’s newest television personalities, co-hosted the series, which featured XL, Nelly, Michael Eric Dyson, Stanley Crouch, Karrine Steffans and other notable hip-hop names discussing the state of hip-hop today and the roles materialism, violence and sexism play in the music genre.

To open the discussion, Jeff Johnson asked, “Why is it that hip-hop continues to be attacked even though there are other genres of music that have had connections to the streets?”

“I feel like that someone justwants to have something to blame society’s mistakes on and being that hip-hop is probably the youngest genre of music and the most popular, then we’re the easiest people to blame,” T.I. responded.

Hip-hop didn’tcreate sexism, materialism or violence—these are traits common to American culture as a whole.But it is true that hip-hop perpetuates these negative aspects ofAmerican culture at extremely high rates to impressionable young children.

In each episode of “Hip-Hop vs. America,” rappers, intellectuals, journalists and commentators all brought different perspectives to the discussion, causing bitter disagreements and raised voices all for the sake of making hip-hop better.

Rappers played their expected role, defending the music. Nelly, who has been attacked from all sides for his video “Tip Drill,” responded to a question about how hip-hop music affects young girls with something along the lines of, “Well, my daughter is on the honor roll at school and she can pop, lock and drop it with the best of them.” No need for another Nelly critique—the absurdity of this statement speaks for itself. As long as rappers like Nelly continue on this tradition of defense, standing up for the music and the choices that girls in videos make (i.e. the credit-card scene), it will be hard for hip-hop to progress.

But forums like “Hip-Hop vs. America,” where rappers have to defend the music against people who can speak their language but who also critique hip-hop culture, force these rappers to think about the ways hip-hop can be improved.

The goal isn’t to uproot hip-hop from street culture but to make it about something beyond degrading, violent images.

XL is right: hip-hop culture is everywhere. You can go to a hip-hop club in Israel, and while I was in Ghana this summer, I listened to “Umbrella” on the radio in taxis.

But there are times when I feel I have to protect myself from hip-hop culture because negative images and lyrics begin to seep into my brain and take over my thoughts. So I stopped watching videos, even though now when I’m in clubs I don’t always know the correct dance moves.

I wish that I didn’t have to take these precautions, though, and programs such as “Hip-Hop vs. America” could make that a reality. We have to keep the dialogue going; hip-hop has never been a static phenomenon. It’s ever-changing, but this time around, we need to change it for the better.

Aria Branch is a Trinity junior. Hercolumn runs every other Tuesday.

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experience and Zen spirituality.

Dagys unites images of objects thatreveal personal expression with captions of poems by Zen masters. Presented by he

distinction project. Bpm. Sunday matime 2pm Brody Theatm East Campus. Em.

Friday, November 16 MUSIC Djembe 6 AfroCuban finsembles: Bradley Simmons, dir. with guest artist Madeleine Yayodele Nelson. B pm.

Baldwin Auditortu., Fm.

Friday, November 16 LEON FLEISHER Solo Recital After conquering a disability that loft most of one hand immobile, the charismatic piano expert performs a rare solo recital. 8 pm. Page Auditorium. $4O $32 $25 ss*

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DUU Visual Arts Committee. On view November 12th Decern* ber 6th. Reception; Novombor 18th. 2-3pm. Brown Gallery.

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Sunday, November 18 CIOMPI QUARTET WITH BELLA DAVIDOVICH, piano VIEUXTEMPS, JAFFE, & SCHUMANN Duke welcomes virtuoso Azerbaijani pianist Bella Davidovich. The Ciompi Quartet is honored to collaborate with this international piano legend. 3 pm.

Page Auditorium. $l5 Adults• $8 Youths Duke Students Free.

Saturday November 17 DANCE. November Dances 2007. Special guest Keith A. Thompson and his danceTactlcs company, In collaboration with dance faculty and Duke graduate composer Chla-yu Hsu, present a vibrant, varied, program of Modem, Ballot and African dance. Opm. Reynolds Theater. $2O ■$S Students

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DUKE PERFORMANCES

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States ofMind: Danand Lia Porjovschi.

Mid-career retrospective of intematioi recognized Roma artists. On view through January 6,2008.

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New at the Nasher. Recent acquisitions and loans thatreflect the museum’s increased focus on contemporary art. On view through July 6, 2008.

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11/14Buddhism & Modernity / Cine-East: Why Has Bodhi Dharma Leftfor the East? (dir. Bae Yong-Kyun, 1989,35mm) (G, 7pm) 11/27 Israel/Palestine film series: Waiting (Attente) (dir. Rashid Masharawi, 2005, 90 min, 35mm) (G, Bpm)

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Oldenburg, Kline. On special loan 2008

from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. On view through fall

Thursday, November 15 ART FOR ALL. A relaxed evening to bring Duke students and the community together. Light food, cash bar (sorry, no credit cards or Food Points), gallery talks, tours, live entertainment. 7pm 9pm. Nasher Museum. Free with admission.

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