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After a dip in the number of regular decision applicants last year, the Class of 2012 may be the most selective in Duke’s

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The Office of Undergraduate Admissions said it has received 20,250 regular decision applications for the next freshman class. It is the first time the number of applications has surpassed 20,000—the previous record year was 2006, when Duke received

One minute before a midnight deadline Tuesday, the city ofDurham submitted a motion to dismiss charges in an ongoing lawsuit with the three formerly indicted Duke lacrosse players.

Also Tuesday, Investigator Benjamin Himan, lacrosse lead investigator SgL Mark Gottlieb, Cpl. DavidAddison and a group of defendants from the Durham Police Department presented similar motions asking the court to

19,387 applications.

Other responses to the suit were issued earlier in the day Tuesday. Like the city, Linwood Wilson, who worked for disgraced former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong during the investigation, and Richard Clark and Dr. Brian Meehan, who both were associated with DNA Security, Inc.—the lab responsible for performing DNA tests in the case—also sought relief from the suit.

Nifong responded to the litigation by filing for bankruptcy Tuesday.

The lawsuit, filed by players Oct. 5, 2007, alleged that the 14 defendants, ranging from city officials to DPD investigators, allowed injustices against the students to occur through malicious intentand negligence.

The Bull City The premise of the city’s argument rests

Sophomore Jon Scheyer went 9-for-13 from the field, scoring 21 points off the bench Wednesday night in theBlue Devils' 70-57 win over Florida State in Tallahassee.See story PAGE 9.

“What this shows is that the quality and attractiveness of Duke continues to remain very Guttentag high among the best students in the country and indeed the world,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Duke saw large increases in the number of alumni children applicants. The number of applications from international, Hispanic and Asian students also broke previous records.

Additionally, there were significant increases in the number of applicants from Florida, Texas, Virginia, Massachusetts, Michigan and Alabama.

“We’ve been interested in Texas and Florida—two states that are experiencing growth in the number of l&year-olds,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag.

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Faculty members’ donations to presidential hopefuls veered left last year, with Sen. Barack Obama, D-111. and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards together claiming more than eight times the amount given to all Republican candidates.

A total of 40 Duke faculty, administrators, researchers and staff had contributed $41,358 to nine presidential campaigns as ofSept. 30, 2007, according to data released by the Federal Election Commission.

Of these funds, $37,508, roughly 91 percent, went to the campaigns of Obama, Edwards, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., with the remaining $3,850 split between Sen. John McCain, RAriz., former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. SEE CONTRIBUTIONS ON PAGE 7

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Former Rep. sent funds to terrorists by

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WASHINGTON A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday on charges of working for an alleged terrorist fundraising ring that sent more than $130,000 to an alQaida supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

Mark Deli Siljander, a Michigan Republican when he was in the House, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about being hired to lobby senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secredy sending funds to terrorists.

The 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S.

District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying—money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The charges paint “a troubling picture of an American charity organization that engaged in transactions for the benefit of terroristsand conspired with a former United States congressman to convert stolen federal funds into payments for his advocacy,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein said.

Siljander, who served in the House from 1981-1987, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987.

Calls to Silander’s business in a Wash-

ington suburb went unanswered Wednesday. His attorney in Kansas City, James R. Hobbs, said Siljander would plead not guilty to the charges against him.

“Mark Siljander vehemently denies the allegations in the indictment,” Hobbs said in a statement. He described Siljander as “internationally recognized for his good faith attempts to bridge the gap between Christian

and Muslim communities worldwide.”

The charges are part of a long-running case against the charity, which had been based in Columbia, Mo., before it was designated in 2004 by the Treasury Department as a suspected fundraiser for terrorists. The indictment alleges that lARA also employed a fundraising aide to Osama bin Laden.

Bush visits Egypt, lauds Mubarak by

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SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt President George W. Bush’s fast-track plan for a Mideast peace agreement got a welcome endorsement Wednesday from a nation long seen as a key Arab mediator.

Bush responded by pulling his punches on the human rights backpedaling in Egypt that has cooled relations with this

longtime ally.

The president closed an eight-day Mideast trip well-fed from several linger-

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ing meals with his Arab hosts and upbeat about what even some of America’s closest allies say is an unexpected and ambitious drive.

An Israeli-Palestinian agreement has eluded U.S. presidents for decades, and Bush didn’t put much effort into trying for the first seven years of his presidency.

Bush had a message for skeptical Arab states whose help he needs to make any accord stick and who doubt the president’s intention to personally shepherd a deal. “I mean what I’m saying,” Bush said.

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Sex toy causes bomb scare A Swedish bomb squad called out to disarm a suspicious package Wednesday did not find a ticking bomb. But they did find a vibrating sex toy. A janitoralerted police after he found the package in an apartment building, a police spokesperson said.

Marine may have fled U.S. A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant comrade told friends he would flee to Mexico to avoid being convicted of raping her, and investigators said Wednesday they are working with Mexican authorities to track him down.

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In a brief appearance with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Bush dealt gendy with the pace of political reform in Egypt, the issue that has most distanced his administration from this historical partner, the first Arab state to make peace with Israel and the recipient of the most U.S. aid except Israel.

He started with praise that had less to do with Egypt’s government than with its history and populace. He said he discussed the issue with Mubarak, who himself said nothing on the topic.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are in a statistical dead heat in Nevada before Saturday's caucuses. And Nevada's sizable blocs of Hispanic, union and urban voters could provide an indicator of where the race is headed.

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Cameron Crazies have been painting “Duke” on their bodies for years, but this year University of Georgia students are starting a new trend, spelling “Conserve Water” across their chests for-games.

Severe drought across the Southeast has made universities in these areas implement a number of measures to conserve water.

To reduce water consumption, Duke, Emory, UGAand Georgia Institute ofTechnology have set their toilets and urinals to low flow, installed low-flow showerheads, reduced watering of athletic fields, turned decorative fountains off, installed waterless sanitizers, improved irrigation systems and enacted a number of otherinitiatives.

The involvement of students in water conservation efforts, however, has varied.

Duke Environmental Sustainability Coordinator Tavey McDaniel has worked closely with the Environmental Alliance, a student-run organization, to spread awareness of the drought, said sophomore Kelsey Shaw, co-vice president of EA. The University has also posted ongoing stories for Duke Today, an online daily publication, created fliers for wide-spread distribution and sent e-mails to students with tips to conserve water.

“Students have been very active in sending tips to the water conservation Web site and contacting staffwith questions and concerns,” McDaniel said. “While not all students at Duke are actively engaged in this issue, I thinkwhen you hear 30 to 40 days left of water as we had in December, everyone begins to sit up and pay attention.”

While Duke has made efforts to urge student participation in lowering water usage, other southeastern universities have launched formal campaigns to raise awareness.

UGA is in the process of beginning its “Every Drop Counts” campaign and student interest is high, Kathy Pharr, co-chair of UGA’s Ad-Hoc Task Force on Water Resources, wrote in an e-mail.

“Public service announcements from coaches are played at all sporting events, including basketball and gymnastics this winter in our coliseum,” she added.

UGA will also soon engage students in

Adding to an ongoing lawsuit against the University, former men’s lacrosse coach Mike Pressler amended his complaint Wednesday that his former employer defamed him.

The suit was originally filed in October with allegations thatJohn Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, violated the terms of a March 2007 confidential settlement between Pressler and the school.

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The new low-flow showerheads newly installed in bathrooms aroundcampus use 1.5 gallons of water per minute. The old fixtures used 2.5 gallons of water per minute.

“water wars”—competitions between residents of buildings or floors to reduce consumption of water.

Georgia Tech students have initiated their own education campaign with the theme, “Slow the Flow, Save H20,” Marcia Kinstler, chair of Georgia Tech’s Campus Water Conservation Task Force, wrote in an e-mail.

Georgia Tech also debuted a public service announcement from Gov. Sonny Perdue during the Georgia Tech vs. Virginia Tech football game at Bobby Dodd Stadium, attended by 52,000 fans, she added.

Emory has launched a “Be Water Wise” campaign and put stickers above all faucets on campus to urge their community to conserve water, said Ciamlat Howett, director for sustainability initiatives at Emory University.

It also sponsored a competition to reduce water usage among residential dorms and will soon have a competition among all the major buildings on campus, she added.

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tion—the biggest challenge is to help themfeel empowered to do something about it” Durham County is in an exceptional drought and there are now 185 days of water supply left, according to the city of Durham.

Athens, home of UGA, and Atlanta, home of Georgia Tech and Emory, are also experiencing a historical drought, although it is unclear how long their water supply will last.

“Athens draws water from an actively flowing river and as long as itslevel is available to pump, the city does not face a limit on the number of days in the municipal water supply,” Pharr said. “If the river drops to a point where the county cannot make draws... the reservoir can provide water for 60 days.”

Atlanta’s main water supply is Lake Lanier, which is controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The city and state’s estimates ofhow much water is left and the Corps of Engineers’ estimates are different, Howett said. “Whether it’s 90 or 190 days, it’s still a situation everyone is having to take very seriously.”

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about Coach Pressler were defamatory and slanderous; were intended to be defamatory and slanderous; and the defendant’s spokesman knew that his slanderous statements would be published nationwide in Newsday and published on the Internet for all the world to read,” the filing argues.

Attorneys for Pressler demand a Jury trial in the amendment, with the intent of recovering actual and punitive damages in excess of $lO,OOO each.

The statement refers to comments Bumess made in April and June of 2007 to Newsday and The Associated Press.

In one instance, Bumess is cited as telling Newsday that “coaches in general in each of our sports are responsible for the behavior of their teams.”

Attorneys for Pressler and the University are scheduled to convene at theDurham County Courthouse tomorrow to discuss Pressler’s initial demand that the March confidential agreement be rescinded. ments

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Sunday, January 20 at 3pm Duke University Chapel

Keynote Address MLK Sunday Service Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) and civil rights lawyer, will be the keynote speaker at Duke University’s 3008 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. Mrs. Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans her entire professional life.

Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families.

Monday, January 21 3pm, Page Auditorium A performance that will warm jour heart and lift jour spirits!

The African Children?s Choir performs throughout the world bringing hope and joy to everyone they meet while shining the spotlight on the plight of children in Africa.

It is comprised of children ages seven to eleven. Each child in the Choir, has lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. The Choir members are ambassadors for all children in Africa who have become orphans because of the AIDS pandemic. They are their voice to the rest of the world.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance 2008 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Friday, January 11

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2pm, Biddle Rare Book Room Perkins Library INHERITING THE TRADE

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A Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history

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Card Gymnasium GALLING THE CIRCLE ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN MLK Employee Breakfast With a focus on "taking up the work on behalfof children", departments are invited to share their stories on how they as a collective unit contribute to the well being and development of children and young people.

is 3 Rubenstein Hall Sanford Institute TRACES OF THE TRADE; A Story from the Deep North Showing of clips and discussionwith filmmaker Katrina Browne. Parking is available at the Sanford Institute. ?pm, Room

Wednesday, January 16 12 Noon-i ;3o pm Searle Center Lecture Hall Honoring Community Caregivers Duke Hospital employees are invited to hear GEOWilliam ]. Fulkerson, MD, introduce a new award that will honor employees who volunteer in the comraunity. Lunch will be provided.

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Journey with Duke Divinity School through Durham Sponsored by Duke Divinity School and Duke Chapel: During the pilgrimage, we will journey into the heart of Durham and experience the signs ofthe "beloved community” through the lives of local neighbors, to engage the racial, economc anc* c * ass Parities within Durham and deepen participants’sense of the realities ofreconciliation within the community of which we live and work.

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6 pm., Searle Center "A DREAM FULFILLED: Education as the Key to Success” Keynote Speaker: Dr. Levi Watkins, Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Formal Attire. Donation s3o GeneralAdmission or $lO Students and Employees. Gome join us celebrate the great legacy of Dr. King at our biggest event of the year!

7pm, Doris Duke Center Duke Gardens THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES A theatrical adaptation of the New York Times best-selling novel, performed by Denise Wilbanks, from the novel by Sue Monk Kidd. The story is set during the Civil Rights Movement, where a young girl's search for truth abouth6r mother leads her to three beekeeping sisters and the discovery of the real meaning of family. This Literature to Life presentation is made by special arrangement ,

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Admission sio/adult $5/child. Tickets available at the Doris Duke Center.

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11:3o am, Duke Raleigh Hospital Chapel Martin Luther King Jr. Observance and Prayer Service Eev. Adrian Dixon will lead an observance and prayer service in honor of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday January 20,2008 3 pm, Duke Chapel MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Keynote Address MLK Sunday Service Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) and civil rights lawyer, will be the keynote speaker at Duke University’s 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration.

Mrs. Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans her entire professional life. Underher leadership, CDF has become the nation's strongest voice for children and families.

Monday, January 21,2008 3 pm, Page Auditorium AFRICAN CHILDREN S CHOIR The African Children’s Choir performs throughout the world bringing joy to everyone they meet while shining the spotlight on the plight of children in Africa. Ages seven to eleven, the Choir members have each lost one or both parents to poverty or disease. They are ambassadors for all children in Africa who have become orphans because of the AIDS pandemic.

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"Durham: a Self-Portrait” is a documentaiy film on the history of one of the South’s most remarkable communities.

It includes more than 70 original interviews, and rarely seen film and photo images about the "real Durham.” A city that has lived theAmerican story of race and class, and just may once again have something to say about where we are going as a nation.

Wednesday, January 23,2008 6-8 pm, 8-10 pm North Carolina Central University Million Meals Duke University, Durham Rotary Club, North Carolina Central University, and the international hunger relief agency Stop Hunger Now will participate in the Million Meals project. Students from the universities will package 80,000 nourishing, dehydrated, rice-soy meals to be sent to crisis-burdened areas and school lunch programs to feed children in developing countries such as Ghana, Bolivia, and Haiti.

Thursday, January 24,2008 6 p.m., Schiciano Auditorium Film Screening: 4 LITTLE GIRLS On Sunday morning in 1968,four little girls were brutally murdered when a bomb ripped through the basement of the SixteenthStreet Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Told through the eyes of people who were there—survivors, witnesses, defenders and prosecutors, this account records a terrorist act whose supporters once thought they would be able to put an end to integration; instead, it fueled the movement further. Sponsored by the Black Graduate and Professional Students Association.

Free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

For more information: 919/684-8030 or mlk.dllke.edu The Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Committee acknowledges the support of the Duke University Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the Duke University Health Systems, the Office of the Chancellor for Health Affairs, the Duke Divinity School, the Duke School of Medicine, the Health Arts Network at Duke, Duke Campus Services, the Office for Institutional Equity, the Officefor News and Communications, the Duke Chronicle, Trinity College ofArts and Sciences, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Mary Lou Williams Centerfor Black Culture, theDuke Student Government, Duke Dining Services, Duke Performances, Duke Chapel, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke Gardens, Executive Vice President, Graduate Student Affairs, Campus Services, Franklin Humanities Institute, African and African American Studies, Perkins Library, Multicultural Resource Center, Duke School of Medicine, Duke Athletics. Duke Hospital Administration, Duke Global Health Institute, GPSC, and Office ofthe Dean ofArts and Sciences.

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The Duke Student Government Senate discussed changes to the University’s emergency preparedness policies at the organization’s meeting Wednesday night.

David Jarmul, associate vice president of news and communications, and Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, presented senators with the new measures, which were drafted in response to the Virginia Teel) shootings last spring and released in November.

“The University has spent a lot of time... to make sure we have a robust, effective crisis management plan,” Graves said. “We realize there is a wide range of challenges to overcome in doing that.”

A brochure detailing the new measures was mailed to all undergraduates and parents over Winter Break.

The administrators outlined protocol on how to act in case of an emergency, explaining that the University is planning to install both high- and low-tech means of alerting the community in crisis situations.

For instance, the University is acquiring high-tech alert systems including sirens, speakers and text messaging, Jarmul said, adding that “redundancy” will be emphasized in getting the word out about an emergency.

Vice President for Community Interaction Genevieve Cody, a senior, voiced concern about the effectiveness of using drills to test such alert mechanisms, saying overused drills often cause students to ignore the warnings.

Graves said campus security expects students to respond to all warnings in the interest of their own safety.

“We put [instructions] in place, but

there’s still a sense of personal responsibility, and we can’t hold each individual accountable in that regard,” he said.

Jarmul acknowledged that the changes were not comprehensive, adding that a number of details were still being fleshed out.

“The fact is there’s still a lot more to be done,” he said. “We’re still trying to nail down what to do about text messaging and other issues.... This is really complicated—we do a drill and figure out five things we forgot,”

In other business: President Paul Slattery, a senior, presented changes to event registration policies implemented overWinter Break and demonstrated a new Web site for party monitor training.

A student-designed Web site, rather than Blackboard, will be used for the training to further minimize the amount of time required for completing the online course, Slattery said.

When party monitor training was moved online to Blackboard in the Fall, students were required to e-mail the Office of Student Activities and Facilities to be enrolled.

The new Web site allows students to complete the training and take the quiz without waiting for an initial response from OSAF. Slattery said he is working with Provost Peter Lange to create a University calendar of events that he expects to be completed by the next academic year.

Vice Presidentfor Academic Affairs Gina Ireland, a senior, updated senators on the proceedings of the task force evaluating the Office of Judicial Affairs. The task force—currently in its research phase—is forming a student engagement committee to gather student input on judicial affairs.

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Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, presents a brochure outlining new campus security systems and measures during Duke Student Government's meeting Wednesday night.

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Black Women Identity Dating and Mating Durham Giving Project Evil, Ethics, & Everything in Between Experiential Education Investment/Political Economy in Asia Latinos in Durham Microfinance: Theory and Practice Poetry and Sexuality Popular Music 1940's to Present Racial Identity Social Justice: Home/Abroad South Park, Religion, & Satire The Gothic Wasteland?

Understanding China Women, Vocation, & Identity Youth in Durham Register online on ACES; look for HOUSECS. Course descriptions and syllabi available at http://housecrs.trinity.duke.edu

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We wanted to make sure that we recruited fairly aggressively.”

He added that Trinity College of Arts and Sciences received a record number of applications, and the Pratt School of Engineering received its second-highest number of applicants.

“I certainly expect we’ll be more selective and the decisions will be harder,” he said. “It’s not just a larger pool but a stronger pool, and the end result is that there are students we won’t admit this year that we would have admitted last year.”

Guttentag said a large applicant pool allows the Class of 2012 to better approximate an ideal class. He pointed to talent, diversity and civic engagement as defining characteristics of an exceptional student body.

“I’m very pleased,” said Provost Peter Lange. [These numbers are] a testimony to the underlying quality and reputation of the University and also to some of the new programs we’ve announced.”

Lange cited Duke Engage and a recent change to financial aid as factors that may have helped attract applicants.

“We’ve made a point of making sure that people learned about DukeEngage,” Guttentag said. “As the Financial Aid Initiative and DukeEngage more firmly become part of the Duke experience, we’ll see their effect [on admissions] actually increase.”

Duke’s regular decision deadline was extended this year from Jan. 2 to Jan. 14. Guttentag said the change was because of the financial aid changes announced in December.

“We realized that there were going to be some students, on the basis of the [financial aid changes], who decided to apply to Duke,” he said. “We didn’t want students and families to worry excessively... so we thought [the extension] would give students the opportunity to make a rational decision and for the high schools to follow through in a timely way.”

Guttentag added that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions actively informed high school students of the financial aid changes throughout December.

“We sent an e-mail to every senior on our mailing list, we sent a postcard to every senior and [we] created a Web site about the mew financial aid policies,” he said. ,c

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The Obama campaign, which received the most contributions—slB,3oo from 20 donors—has been particularly appealing among intellectuals, explained Dr. James Tulsky,

professor ofinternal medicine. “[Obama] is extremely intelligent and resonates with the typical faculty member,” he said. “He’s a visionary leader... somebody who really understands why politics has gone downhill.” Tulsky, an active Obama supporter and fundraiser, has donated $2,300 to Obama’s campaign.

North Carolina native son Edwards netted $13,108—five times the amount given to Clinton—from 12 faculty members.

That Obama outperformed Edwards despite the latter’s local connections could be anticipated, said Michael Munger, chair of the political science department.

“Many faculty members might not have a native North Carolina identification to begin with, so there’s no reason to expect a significant Edwards advance,” he said, noting that “it is a little surprising that Clinton is that far back.”

Those who donated to the Edwards campaign cited ideological rather than geographical reasons for their support.

“His positions on issues of the environment, economy and healthcare are the most advanced of any candidate’s,” said Edwards contributor William Chafe, a professor of history.

Timothy Tyson, a research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies, wrote in an e-mail that his decision to aid Edwards was motivated by the candidate’s platform and broad-based, populist appeal.

“I also think thatEdwards can win in places south and west ofNew York City where others may not do so well,” he said.

But Tyson, along with several other Democratic donors at the University, said he will most likely vote for whichever candidate the party nominates.

McCain, who received $2,100—the largest contribution to a Republican candidate—fell short of Clinton by a few hundred dollars. The disparity between Republican and Democratic faculty contributions is not surprising given the predominantly liberal academic climate, Munger said.

He cautioned, however, against drawing conclusionsfrom the relatively small sample of donorsabout the faculty as a whole, “I suspect most of the faculty is generally left-leaning,” Obama contributor Chris Dwyer, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, wrote in an e-mail. “I do

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John McCain (top) and Barack Obama (bottom) lead Republicans and Democrats, respectively, in receiving contributionsfrom Duke professors. know this causes some friction with conservative students.”

Munger added that the largely undecided primary season and the recent appearance of Obama on the national stage have generated more excitement than in past years.

North Carolina’s late presidential primary—to be held May 6—may have discouraged potential donors, as the state is unlikely to have a significant impact on party nominations, Tulsky said, adding, “I’d like to see a little more political activity among faculty.”

None of the fourDuke faculty who donated to campaigns of Republican candidates could be reached for comment.

Public Policy Studies Open Courses for Spring 2008 Enroll now there’s still seats available PUBPOL 196.20 Participation and Public Policy

Instructor: Goss In recent years, scholars and public intellectuals have grown increasingly concerned about Americans’ disengagement from civic life and what the “social capital” deficit means for U.S. democracy. This course will explore the role of public participation, broadly understood, in the policymaking process.

PUBPOL 1965.05 Science in the Media

Instructor: Angrist Those who write about science, health and related policy matters for a general audience face a formidable challenge: to make complex, nuanced ideas understandable to the nonscientist in a limited amount of space and in ways that are engaging and entertaining, even if the topic is far outside the reader’s frame of reference. What does good science writing look like and what can we hope to get from it as readers and citizens? We will examine different modes of science writing, different outlets for publication, and the peculiar editorial demands each places on the writer.

PUBPOL 1965.15 Canadian-American Relations Instructor: Gagn£ This course seeks to describe the main aspects of the relations between Canada and the United States. We will concentrate on,the main determinants of the bilateral relationship, analyzed around five major themes: the political relations, the economic and trade relations, the cultural relations, the defense and-security relations, and the environmental relations. Counts toward elective credit for Canadian Studies.

PUBPOL 264.02 Long Term Care Instructor: Taylor This seminar will document the aging of American society and how this and related demographic changes will influence how long term care will be provided in the future. Long term care is broadly defined as help and support provided to persons with disability that allows them to function as well as they are able. Nursing home care is included in this definition, but many other types of care are also included such as informal (unpaid) care provided by family members. Specific topics to be covered include causes of disease/disability, current financing of long term care, why private long term care insurance is rare, the link between retirement, social security and long term care, and the cost of long term care to society.

PUBPOL 264.11 Economics of Reparation Instructor: parity This course will explore the rationale for compensatory payment for a grievous injustice to a group that has been demarcated racially or ethnically. Special attention will be drawn to the case for and against reparations for African Americans, historical precedents for payment of reparations, and casino rights mechanisms as a form of reparations for native Americans in the USA. PUBPOL 2645.21 Women and Public Policy Instructor: Goss American women have been in the forefront of virtually every major social and political reform movement in American history, from the battle to ban alcohol and cigarettes to efforts to establish a national kindergarten system and the United Nations. This course considers the role of women in the American policy-making process as voters, Voluntary association activists, social-movement participants, and elected officials.

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v “Plaintiffs have failed to allege any undeflyingtonstitutional violation by city officials and have failed adequately to allege a policy or custom of the city that caused their alleged injuries,” the reply states.

Thus, the motion argues even if plaintiffs allege that the investigation was faulty, it may not have violated their constitutional rights.

Attorneys for the city also addressed accusations that Durham officials perpetuated systematic discrimination against Duke students.

“Plaintiffs’, allegations of a policy to target Duke University students... lack the requisite specificity and do not allege that such a policy caused the alleged constitutional violation,” it reads. >

LAWSUIT from page 1 on its claim that Nifong, an employee of the state and not the city, made the decision to pursue charges and an investigation against the players.

“The central fact of this case is that the plaintiffs cannot recover against Mr. Nifong’s employer—the State of North Carolina—because it has absolute immunity,” the motion on behalf of the city reads. “As a result, plaintiffs have resorted to overreaching conspiracy claims and other novel legal theories that attempt to impose legal liability on the city of Durham, Durham police officers and city administrators for the actions of an overzealous prosecutor.

All this creativity is in aid of an effort to impose on Durham taxpayers untold millions of dollars in damages for plaintiffs who were publicly exonerated and never spent a moment in jail.”

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Among the six were former chief Steve Chalmers, Maj. Beverly Council, current Deputy Chief Ron Hodge, Cpt. JeffLamb, Lt. Michael Ripberger and Maj. Lee Russ.

“Plaintiffs mass defendants together, and repeatedly and summarily allege ‘upon information and belief,’ that as a group, defendants were aware of exculpatory evidence that they ignored,” a groupresponse filed on behalf of the six reads.

The 48-page response outlines a series ofrebuttals to claims made in the October suit, arguing both that the suggestions are faulty and that they present legal redundancy, since DPD is a subsidiary of Durham, itself a defendantin the suit.

But like the city, DPD’s response is most ardent in its insistence that Nifong, not the police department, called the shots in the case.

“Defendants are not liable for any potential Fourth Amendment violation, because Nifong’s decision to seek indictments broke the causal chain,” the motion reads.

“While plaintiffs allege that ‘it was unprecedented for a district attorney to play such an active role so early in a police investigation,’ they have not, and indeed cannot, allege that a direction to work with a prosecutor showed an indifference to a risk of constitutional injury.”

The motion adds that although Nifong may have had ulterior motives in pursuing charges, the DPD defendants cannot be presumed to have been privy to them.

“Although plaintiffs allege that defendants knew that he was running for election, there is simply no suggestion that Lamb, or anyone else, had any reason to believe that Nifong, the district attorney appointed by the governor, and with the broad constitutional grant of authority and discretion to determine what cases to prosecute and what charges to bring against a particular defendant, would pose a risk ofunconstitutional injury,” the motion reads.

Himan, Gottlieb and Addison Himan and Gotdieb, who headed up the investigation, and Addison, who served as DPD’s official spokesperson, chose to respond individually to the suit.

But like the other parties, attorneys for the three emphasized Nifong’s leading role throughout the proceedings as taking precedence over the investigators’ independent actions.

They each additionally argue that the plaintiffs fail to specify wrongdoings on the part ofany of the three defendants, supporting their claim that they acted in line with the expectations of their duties.

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Family photos find exposure by

Claire Finch

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When asked if his artwork is similar to that of his son’s, artist Murry Handler answers succincdy; “I don’t think that there’s any similarity.”

Yet in spite of the elder Handler’s conviction that he and his son, Lowell Handler, produce works that occupy distincdy opposite ends of the artistic spectrum, Through This Lens’s new exhibition of both Handlers’ work, entided Father & Son: Creativity Across Two Generations succeeds in bringing to light the subtle similarities between the two artists’ styles. Indeed, both artists prefer vastly different mediums. While Lowell works primarily in photorealism, his father creates minimalistic,

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Duke Food and Wine plans on hosting courses in mixology, wine tasting and fine cuisine appreciationbeginning this semester ona trial basis.

New courses mix tastes and class by

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Senior Joshua Kazdin is the type of guy who would make the perfect bartender. He knows everything about alcohol, from the history to the best way to mix it. Kazdin, however, has already filled his time as a bartender and is moving on to bigger and better things.

Although he is graduating in May, he taking on the role of Professor of Mixology in his final semester at Duke. Kazdin’s self-proclaimed title comes from a new not-for-credit, weekly class sponsored by Duke Student Government and Dean of Undergraduate Education Stephen Nowicki’s office.

Kazdin’s mixology class is one of three offered by the recently formed Duke Food and Drink. Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Michael Gustafson is

gestural paintings.

‘You might say that Lowell’s work is more a matter of explaining reality, and Murray’s work is more about expressing emotions,” said Roylee Duvall, the gallery director of Through This Lens, a fine arts gallery in Durham.

Each Handler produces art that has proven strong enough to stand on its own. Lowell is the photographer of the Emmy-nominated documentary Twitch & Shout, a film that chronicles his experience coming to age as a photographer with Tourette Syndrome. This exhibition at Through This Lens features documentary-style phoSEE FATHER AND SON ON PAGE 7

teaching wine tasting and senior, illegal restaurateur, and recess Tastes Editor Bryan Zupon is tackling Fine Cuisine 101.

The main goal of these classes, wine tasting and mixology especially, is to create an appreciation of fine food and drinks for Duke students, but also to create a new culture of drinking.

“Behavior tends to model environment,” Kazdin said.

“That’s a reason why students act differendy when they’re at Nasher Noir rather than a frat party. You can drink the same amount at both, but the expectations ofhow to act and what is ‘acceptable’ are radically different.”

Though Kazdin knows that these classes will not change drinking culture, he sees the classes as an avenue for a COURTESY THROUGH SEE MIXOLOGY ON PAGE 3

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FatherandSon celebrate artistic differences Murray and Lowell Handler.

MLK Day films explore race relations, Durham history by

Andrew Hibbard THE CHRONICLE

In his vision of civil rights in America, Martin Luther Jr. emphasized engaging youth as a major part of his message ofcivil rights.

Because of this vision, Duke’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commencement Committee has made its 2008 theme “The Power ofYouth.”

“When you look both nationally and internationally, the plight ofyoung people is always of concern to people in higher education,” said Benjamin Reese, co-chair of the MLR Commencement Committee. “I think this is just a ripe opportunity to mesh that concern with the work and values of Dr. King.”

Reese and his colleagues have spent the past seven months working out events for the commencement series.

In addition to the cornerstone event—a speech by Children’s Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman in the Chapel—the committee has incorporated two documentaries into its schedule: Traces of the Trade and Durham: A Self-Portrait.

Traces director Katrina Browne and her cousin Tom DeWolf, author of the related book Inheriting the Trade, visited Duke Jan. 11 to present the film. It follows Browne as

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she learns her family was one of the most prominent slave trading families in Rhode Island. She assembles a group of family members to retrace the slave trade route from Rhode Island to Ghana to Cuba and back.

“We viewed a few film possibilities and this one presented the rare opportunity to select a film prior to its debut at Sundance Film Festival and to stimulate conversation and dialogue about issues that are often left behind the curtain,” Reese said of Traces. “As an educational institution, we owe it to ourselves to stimulate dialogue about a host of issues that are difficult.”

Because the film is making its official premiere next week at Sundance, Browne was only able to show clips of the film. Nonetheless, the small audience ofDuke undergraduates, grad students, faculty and Durham residents were able to follow the film’s story and understand how Browne and her family members reconciled with the guilt they felt towards their family’s past.

“It was evil, and they knew it was evil and they did anyway,” Browne said at the screening.

The other documentary, Durham: A Self-Portrait, which made its world premiere last November, tells the history of SEE MARTIN LUTHER KING ON PAGE 6

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Let me be honest, I hate improvisational comedy. I also hate a cappella for the most part, but that will be the topic of another Editor’s Note. If you watch more than five episodes of Whose Line is it Anyway? you realize the formula is the same: insert effeminate character here, make sexual inuenndo there, add a splash of funny voices and repeat ad nauseum (and in most cases beyond).

However, it hard to deny that Duke University Improv hasn’t been on fire as of late. Last semester Brandon Curl wrote the best “Monday, Monday” since “Elton Brand, Prince of Tennis” (that is a blast from a past that most of y’all don’t know about) and David Distenfeld is off to a fine start this semester.

More impressive is DUl’s viral video “My New Haircut: Asian Edition,” which is an Eastem-ized parody of a rather famous short about the day in a life ofa tannedand gelled Jersey-shore male. DUFs version is irreverant and slighdy offensive, but in all the right ways. The execution is father impressive and the script is pretty hilarious.

As of Jan. 15, the clip has received over 1.5 million views, which is more than probably 99 percent of videos on Youtube ever receive. A moment that truly conveyed DUFs public success was when I spotted an allusion to their video in the CollegeHumor.com comments section. You know

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The real humor in the entire situation is how DUl’s strongest traits seem to be in scripted, rather than improvised, comedy.

Inside Joke has been one ofmy favorite student performing groups for the past four years; they have blossomed immensely over the short-period of time. However, Inside Joke better keep on their toes, otherwise DUI will soon be the undisputed kings of comedy, both scripted and non.

If DUI keeps releasing digital shorts of such high quality, they will quickly find success beyond the shadow of the Chapel. Is DUI going to blow-up on the Internet like Soulja Boy or Dramatic Chipmunk? Probably not, but heck if they aren’t going to try.

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new appreciation of drinking. Whether the person wants

to know what to order on a date or an interview, Kazdin hopes they leam to truly appreciate every aspect of wine, food and cocktails.

“We’re moving away from SoCo with lime or a flirtini to respecting drinks that are uniquely American, are really colorful, subtle and are actually enjoyable in a social setting, rather than fodder fonbinge drinking,” Kazdin said.

Moreover, Kazdin wants to draw a diverse crowd that harks back to the days when The Hideaway, a student bar, still existed on campus. Kazdin said the bar had a community that was a different from the section party scene.

Because of this, he wants a monthly speakeasy-type event where students can focus on what they have learned and enjoy one another’s company. He also wants to ensure that this includes faculty.

“Similar to the Duke Plays events, it’s just a really good forum for students to meet up with faculty members and see them more as humans... per se,” he said.

Gustafson also believes in the faculty and student interaction, but wants to extend that conversation to the community with Triangle wine experts.

“I think a lot of it is just going to be another sort of informal faculty-student interaction,” Gustafson said. “A big part of this is inviting faculty staff to be part of this. There are people that really don’t know much about wine or are afraid of trying it or don’t really have a setting to do it. [By

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inviting experts, we] increase what sort of breadth people are getting. Getting more community involvement... and [community wine experts to] talk with Duke students about stuff is a really nice side benefit.”

Gustafson does, however, want to stress that this is not overly formal.

“It is not the Frasier and Niles Crane crash course in oenology,” he said.

Kazdin’s interest in the project is rooted in his history with alcohol, going back to his first beer. “[The] first beer I ever drank was Guinness, so my senses were already set with regards to drinking,” Kazdin said. “I was much more drawn to something that would be subde, interesting, sophisticated rather than something simple just to get the job done.”

From there, Kazdin attempted to move beyond the Natty Light scene and tried experimenting with other drinks.

“I was really beholden to what I saw other people ordering. My staple drink was a White Russian because it’s what I saw being drunk in The BigLebowski. Nothing against the Dude, ofcourse,” Kazdin said.

He eventually began working with drinks such as B-52s that people found interesting and fun. This led to enrolling in a bartending class while spending a summer taking math classes at Columbia and New York University.

“It seemed, like cooking, to be somewhat of an art,” Kazdin said. “It definitely was a nice way to meet women. I never liked anything that was generally more mainstream anyway. Furthermore, it increased my enjoyment.”

Razdin began independently researching the back story of different drinks. Eventually, he was making a name

for himself as a bartender at Anotherthyme by creating new drinks named after his friends at Duke. He involved Gustafson after hearing of the professor’s involvement in organizing wine tastings with interested students and Maxwell House.

The specifics of the curriculum, especially in wine tasting, are not clear, but Gustafson said he is not worried.

“It’s going to be a kind of ground-up,” Gustafson said.

“The assumption is people will know what a wine is. There might not be any real knowledge of different colors or grapes or regions. The first approach will be really showing folks the differences, then kind of seeing where it goes.

Once you figure out who’s in it and you go a couple weeks, and people have a basic vocabulary, you can start asking, ‘What are you interested in?”

Before students rush to register for the courses, Kazdin has one thing he wants to make clear.

“This is not a forum for drunkards,” he said. “Alcohol [is] the libation of conversation. We’re appreciating it responsibly without getting dangerous or ahead of ourselves.”

Nonetheless, the class is an opportunity for students to refine their taste buds.

“I always enjoy a good wine,” said senior Ben Shelton who registered for the class, “and I feel like expanding my palette on Duke’s dollar is always a welcome occurrence.”.

Detailsfor all three classes, such as meeting time, are still pending, but students and faculty can sign up through the DSG web site at dsg.duke.edu/dfd.

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Actor Washington discusses career as film director by

Charlie McSpadden THE CHRONICLE

“Do what you’ve got to do so that you can dowhat you want to do. It doesn’t work the other way around.” Denzel Washington was not reading from a script, but explicating his own morals, wisdom and friendly demeanor while talking about his new film, The Great Debaters.

Washington is considered by many to be one of today’s finest and most versatile actors, portraying immoral thugs, inspiring coaches and everything in between.

What many do not know him for is his directing, even though his directorial debut Antwone Fisher garnered a fair amount of praise and recognition. The Great Debaters, which came out over the holiday season and is based on true events, follows the lives of students at an all black college in Texas that form a debate team and travel to compete against Harvard in the national championship. Washington, who plays Melvin B. Tolson, the debate team’s coach, saw the movie as “the little train that could” that “affected [him] on an emotional level.” When asked to contrast Debaters to his other recent release American Gangster, Washington said: “there’s no Frank Lucas in my Mel Tolston.”

He did reveal that his son talked him into doing Gangster and his Oscar-winning turn in TrainingDay. “I can blame both of those on him,” Washington said.

Washington, who first read the script four years ago, talked at length about selling a debate team period piece to the studios. He said he urged the producers and

actors to “think of this [the film] as a sports

movie” and explained that debate “was entertainment in those days. You know, before television.” Washington mentioned a few run-ins with The Weinstein Company, which produced the film. He revealed that he did not want to star in the film, but agreed to in order to get the money.

“The studio said, ‘Well, if you’re not in the film, your budget is this. If you’re in the film, this is your budget,’” Oprah Winfrey, who first discovered the script, was a co-producer on the film and was “there when you need[ed] her,’’ despite her busy schedule.

“It was her baby long before it was mine,” he said.

Washington, who felt much more prepared to direct after his experience with Fisher, expressed that directing the film was “tiresome.... Really, I play all the parts in the development process.” He shared his attitude toward directing.

‘You know I always call it the cup maker, If I’m making a cup, I don’t walk around while I’m making it and ask everybody’s opinion on what they think I should do.

So I just make the movie. You know people have their opinions about it and I don’t need to deflect anything. I’m a positive person,” he said.

When Washington learned that he was speaking to a Duke student, he mentioned that his wife grew up in North Carolina, For a time, the Duke family sponsored her because of her musical abilities. Moreover, he said his father-in-law, a former educator in North Carolina, was an inspiration for the film.

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Denzel Washington's inspirational period piece The GreatDebaters was co-produced by Oprah Winfrey, “He’s long gone now... but I thought of men like him in making this film,” Washington said.

The GreatDebaters, which was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Drama, has been receiving some Oscar buzz. Washington, a winner of two Academy Awards, appreciates the buzz but expressed that, “for me the joy is making the film, and now, finding out that people are responding.”

When asked about possible critics of the film, Washington’s voice took on a more

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tone.

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, criticize those who can,” he said.

When asked about the future, Washington mentioned an upcoming project with John Travolta and Man on Fire director Tony Scott. As for directing again, Washington said that he had “no plans to direct another film right now” and is “going back in front of the camera” for the next few years.

Washington, who came across just as

moral as many of his on-screen characters, had advice to dispense to college students.

“Don’t wait until the eleventh hour, which I know you guys probably do, which of bourse I did too,” he said. “If you operate in fear, you’ll be paralyzed.”

Though he said his leaves his characters at the studio, Washington sounded more like Tolson thanan actor when asked about race, a significant aspect of the film, You know when you look back at four hundred years or three hundred years of slavery and five years or ten years of legislation, everything is not going to be just perfeet... in my generation or your generation, , But we do have to understand our place in history and that we have to keep fighting and keep moving forward... something that I tried to instill in the film is I always showyoung people and how it affected kids because racism is taught hatred is taught, Do you know what I mean? Ignorance is taught. You’re not bom ignorant. It takes education. It does.”

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As the ominous title suggests, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is an instant American masterpiece, offering a tangled vision ofviolence, greed, religion and oil.

Starring Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of Neiv York), as the shrewd and ruthless oilman Daniel Plainview, the film, loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel Oil!, is a decades-long epic that traces Plainview’s ignoble rise from struggling silver miner to a self-made oil tycoon with unimaginable wealth.

From the very beginning, the powerful score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood makes itself known as the camera explores the lonely Texas desert. Consisting of highpitched dissonant strings, it makes the film as grating to the ear as it is on the eye. It is thoroughly disturbing and prefaces the ensuing pain and blood.

Divided in into four dated subsets, the film begins in 1898. The first 30 minutes are without dialogue and feature a grimy Plainview digging in his mine shaft for silver. In a freak accident,

Plainview discovers not silver but oil, setting the film’s events in motion. With success, Anderson boldly relies on the bleak landscape and the score to carry the film’s first segment.

The years pass and Plainview becomes a successful oilman determined to find the big strike that will bring untoldriches. On a tip from a quiet but steely young man, Paul Sunday (Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine), Plainview and his cherubic son H.W. (newcomer Dillon Freasier) journey to southern California and participate in the oil boom of the early 20th century.

As he tries to secure the vast ocean of oil he discovers in California, Plainview finds himself locked in a psychological, spiritual and even physical struggle with Eli Sunday (also played by Dano), Paul’s twin and leader of the cult-like Church of the Third Revelation. As Plainview’s wealth grows, so does his greed and the chasm between him and humanity—threatening even his bond with his beloved son. The struggle displays Anderson’s ability to draw out the best in two talented actors.

This film traces the progress of modern America through Plainview. Though it takes place a century ago, it is a timeless story of transformation, the humble worker forever tainted by insatiable greed.

—Braden Hendricks

For months, the hype surrounding the mysterious Cloverfield has led to all kinds of speculation. Finally, it is here, and oh how it was worth the wait.

Produced by J.J. Abrams {Lost, Armageddon) and directed by Matt Reeves {The Pallbearer) the film starts by building on the trailer’s ambient ambiguity.

After a brief, dark silence, the audience sees an ominous message that the video on-screen is the property of the United States government and that it is an artifact from site of the incident designated “Cloverfield,” the area formerly known as Central Park.

The film then begins in earnest. It seems to be actual home video, complete with the shaky motion and low-quality resolution one would normally not find on the big screen. The camera records a going-away party for Rob Hawkins (Micheal Stahl-David), thrown by his brother Jason (Mike Vogel) and friends Lily (Jessica Lucas) and Hud (TJ. Miller). Also central to the story line are Rob’s friends Beth (Odette Yustman) and Marlena

(Lizzy Caplan).

Only minutes into the film, it is clear that this home video presentation is to be the sole format of the film, indicating at the very least the artistic commitment and determination ofAbrams and Reeves. It is a gamble that pays off, as the audience briefly believes that nothing terrible will happen and that this is nothing more than a comedic home video like any other in our YouTube nation.

The illusion is shattered effectively as, in seconds, all hell breaks loose in Manhattan.

Amidst fireballs and the Statue of

Liberty’s decapitated head, this home video takes a horrifying turn as a creature only imaginable from the deepest of nightmares is suddenly and unequivocally real.

The struggle is on for survival, and the

audience is there firsthand. It sees and knows everything the home video shows, no more and no less. Reeves defdy offers a masterstroke of presentation. While there are no explanations givep for this terrible reality, there doesn’t need to be.

The audience is too caught up in trying to escape with Rob and his friends to concern itself with such logic. This focus is all that matters, and, in that, Cloverfield is a stunning success. While it might recall sci-fi classics like Alien, the first-person perspective makes it a unique and memorable addition to the genre.

Like most recent Hollywood blockbusters, the visual effects are spectacular, but this film has more depth.

Ingeniously interspersed amongst the madness are both scenes of comedic relief provided in large part by Miller and Caplan and touching love depicted by two on-screen couples.

There are no big name actors, yet the final product is surprisingly balanced—the hallmark of a talented director.

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have to think about you/So I Do!” On “For Love” Starr delicately delivers poetic gems such as “Everybody’s got to LIVERPOOL 8 love is not like in the picture show/When you know/That CAPITOL/EMI know, you really know.” ����� In spite of its numerous instances of illiteracy (and occasionally because of them), Liverpool 8 is still actually It’s always been pretty hard to take Ringo Starr seriousa pretty darn enjoyable record. The tide track is a nosly. Despite his impressive drumming chops, he’s typically talgic ballad of Beatles yesteryear, bursting with genurelegated -to the background—or punchlines—of Beaties ine enthusiasm as Starr recounts the early adventures of history. It could be the name. Or the nose. Or the fact that “Those four boys from Liverpool” over a soaring backhe spent the ’Bos playing an eight-inch-tall train conducdrop of violins and synths. Though it borders on cliche, tor on the American spin-off of Thomas The Tank Engine his weepy remembrance is somehow endearing enough (this is probably a big part ofit). to forgive lines like “In the U.S.A./When we played Starr’s latest, Liverpool 8, falls prey to similar pitfalls. Shea/We were number one/And it was fun.”

The album is unmistakably jolly, optimistic and upbeat, Ringo has always been considered a great musician, but it achieves this at the cost ofborder-line absurdity. but there’s a good reason why he has never been (and His musical ability is unquestionable, but anyone fahopefully never will be) considered a good frontman: he’s miliar with Starr’s back catalogue knows he has never just not that good at it. been much of a lyricist. Liverpool 8 confirms this.

Unfortunately, his performance on Liverpool 8 is no The inadvertently hilarious “Think About You” details exception to this rule, but it is a solid effort that will the Starr’s method for respite from pangs of loneliness; likely appeal to any listener eager for a little Beatles sen“If I want to cast a spell/There’s a litde trick that I do/I timentality.

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����� Stephin Merritt is not a happy guy.

And never has this been clearer than on Distortion, the first album in four years from his most famous vehicle, the Magnetic Fields.

In contrast with the warmer string melodies of 2004’s i, the new album offers a feedback-heavy, 10-fisound in keeping with its name.

A heavy influence from the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy shrouds the album in an outright coldness rather than Merritt’s usual tongue-incheek lyricism. This darker ambience brings his cynical perception of love

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Still, Merritt retains much of this whimsy, notably on tracks such as “Nun’s Litany.” The track, which is about a nun wanting to be a pom star, marries his unflinchingly sardonic outlook with a dose of absurdity.

One ofDistortion’s best tracks, “Too Drunk to Dream,” strikes a similar balance. Juxtaposed with upbeat garage rock, this ode to drinking away feelings of love feels light-hearted.

But Merritt’s baritone cannot be anything but serious when he laments, “Sober, life is a prison / S—faced, it is a blessing.”

“Mr. Mistletoe” and “Courtesans,” sung by secondary vocalist Clau-

dia Gonson, further highlight the album’s darkness with their celebrations of loneliness, but do so without being trite.

These depressing themes have the same mark that Merritt has always left on his songs, but Distortion is a very differentalbum. The fuzzy feedback, seemingly both an exaggeration and fitting extrapolation of the band’s previous work with synthpop, works for Merritt. The distortion gives an ambience that fits his messages of unrequited love.

Given Merritt’s musical past, his next album will sound the opposite of this one. Nonetheless, this album will certainly be remembered as one of his best.

—AndrewHibbard

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����� What’s the recipe for kool? Take a bit of Outkast and Lupe Fiasco, add a dash of old school R&B, a Grammywinning producer, throw in some home-grown Raleigh funk and stand back; Kooley High (a reference to the 1975 film, Cooley High) is on the scene and ready to make some noise with its new EP, Summer Sessions. The EP sports an eclectic mix of beats (think a little MF Doom) and soulful lyrics to chronicle the group’s imminent rise.

The EP starts with “Too Late,” a forceful declaration of the band’s presence on the music scene. With its easy beats, the song grooves nicely along to the graceful backdrop of Carole King’s 1971 hit, “It’s Too Late.”

Kooley High then kicks out “Kool with It“ a love song reminiscent of Andre 3000. Using the same laid back beats and funky vocals, this song is a duet between two of the groups three “rhyme spitters.” In addition to the three vocalists Kooley High has two producers who add to both its depth and repertoire.

Perhaps the most notable song on the EP is its sixth track, “Water” It is one of two produced by 9th Wonder, the local, Grammy-winning producer who has worked with the likes of Jay-Z and MaryJ. Blige. The experience shows in the both the background music and the lyrics,

which contain references ranging from Dr. Martin Luther

King to Finding Nemo.

It isn’t surprising to find such a quality group on the up and up from the Triangle area—this is a rich region for creative art ofall kinds. With such successful local acts like Stella by Starlight hitting the rock scene, Kooley High will make sure the hip-hop vibe doesn’t lack behind.

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the city primarily as a tale of race relations. Although director Steven Channing explores many avenues of Durham’s history, the lens he decided to focus the film through was race, allowing him to combine his academic interests with his filmmaking interests.

“I felt like I had reached a point in my life where I really wanted to d0... the stories that interested me. I just thought the Durham story would have all the stuff I found interesting,” he said. “I think I always knew the central theme had to be around race. There are other aspects of the story we talk about, particularly the industrial growth, the economic life and something about the politics. You can’t get away from the race issue.”

Channing incorporates both Duke University and its founding family into the film. He feels the family not only played a prominent role in the city’s history, but in positively setting attitudes towards race relations.

The director started the project because of his personal interests but he feels it will remain an important document for future generations as well as current Duke and North Carolina Central University students and Durham residents. “[The film is] a different kind of voice on campus than an academic voice. WeTe out here living the real life,” Channing said. “I thought that would be different for students than some other expert. I hope students come with an open mind and experience the story as it comes. I hope it encourages conversation dialogue and healing, however that might play out.”

Durham: A Self-Portrait will play at Ip.m. in the Griffith Theater Monday, Jan. 21 and will be followed by a Q&A with Channing and two of the interview subjects in his film. For more information, visit mlk.duke.edu.

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Perhaps one of the most-beloved and well-known musical comedies featuring an über-sexualized-transvestite mad scientist—and very possibly the only one— The Rocky Horror Show has made its flamboyant arrival at Duke. Paying tribute to the very play that birthed the cult-classic film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Duke’s Hoof ’n‘ Horn will perform the British stage musical tonight for the first time in campus history.

“The thing that makes The Rocky Horror Show such a unique production is that the whole play is just an intense burst of raw, in-your-face energy that lasts for an hour and a half,” said sophomore Aidan Stallworth, who plays lead character Frank-N-Furter.

Created in 1973, The Rocky Horror Show is a musical homage to the ’sos, the disco-era sci-fi movie phenomenon and, most noticeably, the sexual revolution. Filled with fabulous camp, fantastical characters and a great score, the play is about a newly-engaged couple, Janet and Brad, who stumbles into the company of Frank-NFurter, “a sweet transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania,” when they acquire a flat tire.

Newcomer Stallworth .proudly and dynamically fills the high heels of Frank-N-Furter, fearlessly commanding the stage as the rightful diva of the show. Also enthralling are the impeccable performances given by graduate student John Kolba and freshman Robert Krattli as Riff Raff and Dr. Scott respectively. Not only do they entertain from the moment they appear on the stage, but they commit themselves entirely to theirroles. Suffusing each gesture and every posture with the essence of their characters, Kolba and Krattli charm the audience without slipping into archetypal characters.

Brad, however, played by junior Ross Goldstein is a bit over-the-top in his struggle to uphold traditional masculine roles, making his ultimate sexual awakening disappointingly anti-climactic. But propelled by an amazing pit band, accomplished talent and an abundance of energy, the overall performance will not disappoint.

While the 1975 film adaptation featuring Susan Sarandon as Janet and Tim Curry as the infamous Frank-NFurter is more famous in the United States than the original musical production, it is noticeably different in many ways. Despite the popularity of the ritualized call-backs associated with viewing the film—things such as responding to what the characters have to say, throwing props at the screen and the infamous panty run —the stage production affords the audience even more interaction.

“While the call-backs are great for the midnight showings of the movie, you are limited to the dialogue and confines of the film,” said director David Hankla, a se-

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Being unapologetic in its expression of sexual freedom, The Rocky HorrorShow is not your average stage musical, but that is also one ofits biggest strengths.

“I don’t think theater should always be comfortable,” Stallworth said. ‘Youshould be challenged. You shouldn’t always see what you’ve always seen.”

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tographs from his award-winning project The Vanishing: Photographs from a Small Midwestern Town, which chronicles the slow

deterioration of Madison, Missouri. Lowell’s black and white photographs simultaneously capture and form a commentary

on small-town life, as exemplified by his piece “Billboards Along Highway 24.” The work portrays a peeling billboard that features two advertisements—one reading “God’s Handiwork; Life Begins at Conception” and a second equally large ad for Busch

beer. Lowell indicates that the understated criticism in his work is intentional.

“I disbelieve the premise that journalism is objective or should be objective,” Lowell said. “Because it is always donefrom a point of view. And yes, I have a point of view, I’m pointing at the landscape. And in pointing it out, you’re putting it in a frame—it’s like you’re setting it up.”

Lowell’s work is not limited to landscapes, but also includes portraits of people in the town, which prove to be even more

thought-provoking.

“It’s like I’ll sit there with a camera, and I’ll wait and justphotograph and photograph. And I’ll inevitablyjust pick one from a few rolls. I’ll pick the one thatis the most poignant and the most ambiguous,” he said.

The results of this process are portraits that successfully convey the distinct personalities of the subjects while simultaneously rendering them larger-than-life, lending a grave importance to the inhabitants of an otherwise unremarkable town.

Like his son, Murry Handler also creates works that, while stylistically opposite, are similarly figurative and strive to capture human emotion. A collection of serigraphic prints made from paintings, Murry’s art marks a novel deviation from the gallery’s typical photographs. He accurately conveys the gestures and sentiments ofhis models with a minimum number of brushstrokes, producing simplistic forms that vibrate with deliberate energy.

“I’m a minimalist as a painter. So it’s the simplicity that I’m trying to show,” Murry said. “And I’m trying to get an emotion, a momentary emotion, so that when you see it you’ll understand it just by the attitude and by the posture of the figure. Which I think, in some of them, I actually succeed.”

An example is Murry’s print “Embrace,” which in only five brushstrokes, manages to evoke an intimate image of a couple embracing.

“That’s probably the most successful piece that I’ve ever done,” he said.

The elder Handler’s ability to depict complex relationships with basic lines is mirrored in his son’s photographs, and it is this parallel that is highlighted throughout the exhibition. For example, Murry’s print “Mother and Child,” is hung directly above Lowell’s picture of a mother posing with her daughter, urging the viewer to compare the two works. Similarly, at the front of the gallery, one of Murry’s landscapes is displayed between two of Lowells’, so that the viewer is immediately confronted with the stylistic discrepancy in the artists’ approaches to the same subject matter. Both artists emphasize stark lines in their landscapes, causing these works to most clearly demonstrate what Lowell acknowledges as his father’s artistic legacy.

“I find that his use and knowledge of shape and line have influenced me a lot,” Lowell said.

The Father & Son exhibition is not only a chance to view aesthetically pleasing works, but it also serves as a unique glimpse of what can remain constant in art across generations.

Father & Son: Creativity Across Two Generations will be showcased through Feb. 12 and is hosted by Through This Lens, located at 303 E. Chapel Hill Street, Durham.

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A harrowing tale of humanity and art in the face of totalitarian oppression, William T. Vollmann’s awardwinning 2005 novel forms the basis for Europe Central, a play that will force the audience to reevaluate what may seem familiar.

Beginning tonight, the progressive stage of Durham’s Manbites Dog Theater will host the world premier of Europe Central Breaking old conventions and stock full of innovation, the play features such historical figures as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin leading the warring forces offascism and communism. Meanwhile, artists AnnaAkhmatova and Dmitri Shostakovich, among others, desperately try to save themselves and their art from being silenced forever.

The setting of this tale is two-sided, and the stage itselfreflects it. The left half of the stage is exclusively Russian, visually highlighted by Soviet propaganda with barbwire fence dividing the stage. The Germans’ story unfolds in an expressionistic backdrop.

“The novel pops back and forth between German fictions and Russian fictions,” said Jay O’Berski, associate artistic director of Manbites, director of Europe Central and a Duke University lecturing fellow. “So we actually hired two playwrights, One to handle the German side and one to handle the Russian side.”

Audience members will have their pick of which side of the stage to watch at anytime during the twohour show, as both sides have continuous activity.

“The characters for the large part stay on their side, but everybody is on stage the whole time,” O’Berski said. “The lights direct the people all over, but there are often times when many things are happening at once.”

The simultaneous activity in these two separate worlds is reminiscent of the chaos of the times in which the story is told. The division of the stage, while remarkable, probably will not be what captures the audience’s attention the most.

Instead, it is the cast itself that is so enticing. For instance, the actor Lament Reed takes on the role of Adolf Hitler. Reed is charismatic, expressive and loud, all things one would expect of an actor in this particular role, but there is one thing that might be unexpected to those who don’t know Manbites Dog Theater and Jay O’Berski—Reed is black, as are other members of the twelve-character cast. “We have a young black woman playing the Soviet hero, Zoya.

This is something our company is committed to, color-blind casting,” O’Berski said. “We really chose the best actors for the job.”

In addition to the divided stage and diverse cast, there are other convention-breaking delights in this play to be explored and enjoyed. From the music to the presentation of authentic-seeming film documentaries on stage, O’Berski takes theater presentation back to an earlier time.

“It goes back to the [theater of the] ‘3o’s and ‘4o’s, to total theater. Dance, music and song, puppets, they would utilize them all to tell a story,” O’Berski said.

O’Berski’s brand of total theater will mean total encapsulation of the audience. The presentation will be enthralling and the story engrossing. For anyone who derides the path of the artist, or takes art for granted, this play will serve as a live-action reminder of the importance of art in describing what O’Berski calls “the human condition” in the times when all rationality and order in the world has failed.

That said, Europe Central is not meant to be didactic.

“I want to make people think about it and draw their own conclusions,” O’Berski said, “Notjust have a rote judgment.”

Europe Central will be performed at the Manbites Dog Theater on Foster Street in Durham from Jan. 17-19, Jan. 23-27 and Jan. 30-Feb. 2. All shows will be at 8:15 p.m. except the 3:15 p.m. showing Sunday Jan. 27. Tickets are $l7 for weekend shows and $l2 for weekday showings.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. For a few moments, No. 7 Duke looked as if it were about to relive another nightmare against

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —After 20 minutes ofplay Wednesday night in Tallahassee, the Seminoles seemed to have no answers for a Duke squad brimming with confidence.

The Blue Devils led Florida State 34-22 at the intermission after Jon Scheyer exploded for game 16 points off the bench, sparking a 16-0 run near analysis the middle of the period.

In the second half, however, an altogether different FSU group took the floor and stormed all the way back, taking a one-point lead with fewer than four minutes to play.

As the Seminoles charged, you couldn’t shake the feeling that Duke had been there before.

On Dec. 20 in Madison Square Garden, the Blue Devils fell to then-No. 11 Pittsburgh, and its similarities to Duke’s ACC road opener seemed ominous as the team’s lead was slipping away Wednesday. At half-

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Unlike the Blue Devils’ previous two loses to the Seminoles, however, this one had a happy ending.

Down one with 3:46 to play, Duke utilized a 16-2 run—including points from five different players and eight straight free throws—to close out Florida State, 70-57.

After jumping out to an early 17-point first-half advantage, the Blue Devils (141, 2-0 in the ACC) saw their lead quickly evaporate behind a 29-point second-half charge from the Seminoles’ Toney Douglas and Jason Rich.

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time, the scores were identical, 34-22. The Panthers were turning the ball over, making poor passes and missing easy shots, enabling the Blue Devils to score in transition and keep the Pitt fans in their seats. Just like against Florida State, though, Duke allowed its opponent back into the game, and the Panthers claimed a 50-48 lead with 5:27 left in regulation.

That, however, is where the similarities end. Instead of letting the Seminoles stay in the game, the Blue Devils responded with the poise and maturity they lacked that night in New York.

“When you play good teams like Pittand Florida State, they are just not going to give up, and sometimes it makes them come out harder [in the second half],” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We beat a real good basketball team tonight.”

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With the tomahawk-chopping crowd in a tizzy, Jon Scheyer drove down the right side of the lane before turning around at the foul line and kicking the ball out to Kyle Singler at the top of the arc. Singler drained the wide-open three and gave the Blue Devils a two-point advantage that they would not relinquish.

“That was the biggest shot of the game,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“There are shots, and there are huge shots—and that was a huge shot.”

Following Singler’s three, Greg Paulus added a layup and Nelson, who entered the game shoofing 62.3 percent from the charity stripe, hit three of four free throws to make it a three-possession game. Nolan Smith and

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push the Blue Devils’ margin of victory to 13.

“That was a big-time game to win,” Krzyze-

wski said. “For a while there it looked like there was no way we were going to win it. Our kids got tough. After they had been the weakest, they got to be the toughest. I don’t know how that works, but it worked tonight” Scheyer carried the team for much of the first period and finished with a gamehigh 21 points. Ten of his points came during a 1:35 stretch in the first half in which he gave the defense fits with spin moves that led to open shots on several different occasions.

The Seminoles did not help their cause by going almost seven minutes without a basket, shooting 0-for-6 from the field and committing five turnovers. By the 7:37 mark, the game had all the makings of a blowout as Gerald Henderson dunked in a missed 3point play opportunity by Scheyer to cap off a 16-0 run that gave Duke a 30-13 lead.

“After the first couple minutes, we just went on a roll for eight to 10 minutes that was fantastic,” Krzyzewski said. “Scheyer, he blew up and gave us that lead.”

The Blue Devils cooled off, however, scoring only four points in the remainder of the period and went into the locker room at halftime with a 34-22 advantage.

Duke’s offensive woes continued throughout most of the second half, as the team shot just 11-of-27 from the field.

Rich and Douglas, who combined for just one basket in the opening period, quickly began to pick apart the Blue Devil defense and cut away at Duke’s lead. By the time Florida State evened the score at 48 with 9:05 to go, Rich had outscored the Blue Devils by a margin of 16-14 in the half.

Nevertheless, Duke was able to shut down the Seminole guards down the stretch, holding the pair to just two points in the game’s last four minutes.

“I was proud of our guys down the stretch,” Krzyzewski said. “Every play was a big-time play.”

team a two-point advantage with a trey off of a pick-and-pop from Scheyer to respond to FSU’s only lead of the second half. That started a game-sealing 16-2 run by Duke that put the Seminoles away for good.

In the closing minutes, the Blue Devils received key contributions from players who had struggled for the duration of the game.

Point guard Greg Paulus had a first half reminiscent of last year’s debacle against Virginia Tech, shooting three air balls and failing to score in the opening period. In crunch time, though, Paulus came through in a big way. The junior scored all nine of his points in the second half, including two layups and two foul shots late in the game.

Senior DeMarcus Nelson, who came in averaging a team-high 14.1 points per contest, was shut out in the first halfbut contributed seven points to prevent a repeat ofPitt’s Levance Fields’ game-winning three.

“We told them at halftime, ‘Just settle down,”’ Krzyzewski said. “DeMarcus, on a couple ofoffensive rebounds, just put it up too fast instead of shot-faking. It’s not that he needs to score, but if you don’t score, it gets to you. I was proud of him that he was able to function well, and then he made some of the big plays of the game.”

Overall, Wednesday’s win showed how this team has grown since last season, when it suffered several last-second losses—and also since December, when it fell to an inspired Panthers squad. The Donald L. Tucker Center erupted after FSU’s Jason Rich scored with 3:46 left to give his team a 55-54 lead, and the young Duke squad could have folded in its first conference road game.

Despite their youth, however, the players came together to quiet the crowd and leave Tallahassee with the victory.

“Those young guys are more than capable, and they are outstanding players,” Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said.

[Duke has] brought those youngsters along, that’s one reason why I think they are one of the top five or six teams in the country.”

If Hamilton is right about the Blue Devils’ potential, the differences between this contest and that against Pitt under a month ago—not the similarities—will define just how good this Duke team can be. “

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Tyler Hansbrough scored 27 points and made a crucial block in the closing seconds as the topranked Tar Heels held on for an 83-82 victory over stubborn Georgia Tech on Wednesday night.

Danny Green put North Carolina (18-0, 3-0 in the ACC) ahead by making one of two free

throws with 22 seconds remaining.

Georgia Tech (7-9,0-3) had a chance to pull off a monumental upset, but Zack Peacock's shot was blocked by Hansbrough, allowing North Carolina to escape. (AP)

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Virginia Tech 70-UVA 69 OT Deron Washington's driving layup lingered on the rim and finally fell through at the buzzer of overtime Wednesday night, giving Virginia Tech its first victory in its rival's home city since the 1967-68 season.

The Hokies (11-6, M in the ACC) held Virginia without a point for the final 31/2 minutes ofthe extra period in erasing a 69-64 disadvantage. Washington's winning shot came after he drove around one defender and under another

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Hoffman is a former member of the U.S. Diving National Team. He won the Niagara Frontier League Diving Title in 2007 and has finished fourth in the state championships for the past two seasons.

The Blue Devils close out their home schedule this Saturday, as they host ACC foe Virginia and Gardner Webb. Twelve seniors will be honored before the meet, which is slated for 1 p.m.

New Recruits bolster Duke roster The Blue Devils made a big splash with the addition of six new members to the swimming and diving team for the Class of 2012.

Five swimmers—Katherine Bondar, Catherine Conklin, Rose O’Connor, .Andrew Huff and Alex Kluge—and one diver, Shawn Hoffman, will join Duke next year in the pool and on the springboard.

“This is an exciting group of incoming freshmen to complement those signed in Blue Devils find success at Temple Invite In its season opener, the Duke men’s November,” head coach Dan Colella said. and team picked up three victories last been fall of fencing recruiting, “It has a great we are looking forward to adding several Sunday at the Temple Open. .After dropping the opening round of more swimmers and divers.” the hails from New tournament 20-7 to Penn, the Blue Huff, who Scarsdale, York, holds personal best times in the 200 Devils defeated Drew 19-8, Sacred Heart 21-6 and Johns Hopkins 21-6 to finish the freestyle, the 500 freestyle, the 1000 freeweekend with a 3-1 record. Duke was led and the 400 IM. style, the 1650 freestyle Kluge, meanwhile, is a specialist in the by its saber squad, which won 24 matches in the three wins. The group was led by backstroke and the 200 IM. women’s the trio of new side, On the juniors Peter Truszkowski and Laughlin swimmers will add depth and skills to the Stewart, who each went 9-3.

Duke’s foil squad also finished with three squad. O’Connor holds personal best the 500 times in the 200 butterfly, freestyle, triumphs, as all four members finished with the 1000 freestyle and the 1650 freestyle. winning records. Senior Ben Hendricks led Conklin, who has personal best times in the squad with a record of 10-2.

The Duke women’s fencing team also the 500 freestyle and the 100 backstroke, is the daughter ofBlue Devil swimming alopened their season last Sunday at Temple and finished with a 3-3 record, notching ums Jeff and Terri Conklin.

Bondar headlines the group. Coming victories over Farleigh Dickinson, Sacred from New York City, she brings times of Heart and Drew. Freshman foil competi59.55 seconds in the 100 backstroke and tor Allison Putterman had the best performance of the day with a 9-4 mark in her 2:05.23 in the 200 backstroke.

“Katherine Bbndar is a young lady with collegiate debut.

The Blue Devils next travel January 26 junior and short course senior national cuts in the 200 backstroke,” Collella said. to State College, Pa. for a five-team meet “She has major aspirations to go to the hosted by Penn State. next level.”

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North Carolina usually ATLANTA does its best work at the offensive end.

This time, it was a defensive play that kept the top-ranked Tar Heels perfect.

With Georgia Tech poised to pull off a monumental upset, Tyler Hansbrough made a game-saving block in the closing seconds and the 83 Tar Heels escaped UNC an 83-82 vic82 GA.TECH tory over the pesky Yellow Jackets Wednesday night.

Hansbrough scored 27 points, bullying inside for shots and drawing one foul after another, but he saved his biggest play for the end getting a hand on ZackPeacock’s shot that could have won it for theYellow Jackets.

“Tyler was really something else,” Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams said.

Danny Green put North Carolina (18-0, 30 in the ACC) ahead by making one of two free throws with 22 seconds left Georgia Tech (7-9, 0-3) had a chance—a couple of them, in fact. Peacock retrieved the looseballafter Hansbrough’s block and got off another shot with 3 seconds to go. It rimmed out, allowing North Carolina to escape.

Peacock insisted that someone hit his hand on the first shot, but he made no excuses about the second attempt.

“It was the cleanest shot you’ll ever get in a basketball game,” he moaned. “Next time, it’s going in.”

Hansbrough finished 7-of-14 from the

fieldand kept getting to the foul line, where he had more attempts (15) than Georgia Tech’s entire team (10). The burly, 6-foot-9 junior made 13 free throws, and North Carolina needed every one of them.

“My face really got beat up,” said Hansbrough, who also had 11 rebounds. “It was really, really rough.”

North Carolina is off to its best start since the 1985-86 team began the season with 21 straight wins. Another encouraging sign for the Tar Heels: This is their first 3-0 start in the conference since 2004-05, and that team went on to claim the NCAA championship.

This season, they have won all but four of their games by double-digits. North Carolina came into Atlanta averaging 92.2 points and winning by an average margin of 22.1.

With snow covering the ground outside after a rare winter storm in Georgia, the Yellowjackets almost pulled off an even bigger surprise. They put together an 11-2 run for their biggest lead of the game, 63-56.

The Yellow Jackets closed the first half with a flourish, led by freshman Maurice Miller. He scored his team’s final seven points before the break, including a buzzer-beating Jumper from just inside the arc that sent him hopping off the court and left Georgia Tech trailing just4846.

When the final buzzer sounded, North Carolina was able to celebrate.

Or at least breathe a sigh of relief.

“It never felt very solid in our hands,” guard Marcus Ginyard said. “They fought us to the last second.”

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announceated a program that allows of Director students to borrow directly of Financial Aid from the University.

Belvin’s retirement In the past 32 years, the Jim marks the end of a very cost of a Duke education has successful been made and signifimore affordeditorial cant career. able to stuWhen Belvin took the dents of lower socioeconomhelm of the Office of Finanic backgrounds. There is no cial Aid more than three doubt that a stronger finandecades ago, Duke was a cial aid program, a product very different place. Trinity of Belvin’s work, has helped College and the Woman’s propel Duke’s meteoric rise College had only recently in the ranks from a regional merged, and the University school to a place of national was not the prestigious naand global renown.

Belvin’s behavior is a modtional institution it is today. el for what all Duke adminDuring his tenure, Belvin instituted need-blind istrators and faculty should admissions, increased the strive for; not only has he number of students on aid been a leader in the Universifrom 25 percent to nearly ty community, he has also lent 40 percent, streamlined the his time, talents and expertise work-study system and cre- in the service ofsociety. ment

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remark that, under Belvin, Duke’s tuition has raised exponentially, he certainly cannot be blamed for a national trend outside of his control.

Given these circumstances, he has worked tirelessly to provide aid and alleviate the burden of high tuition costs.

Belvin’s announcement of retirement comes at the heels of the Board of Trustees’ major overhaul of

Duke’s financial aid system, which will seek to alleviate the burden of education for families with incomes under

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It certainly is an exciting time at Duke for financial aid, but much hard work lies ahead. Therefore, it is crucial

that the search committee for Belvin’s replacement, led by Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki, nabs a highly experienced professional with a proven record of leadership and creativity.

We hope the University’s new director of financial aid will be an avid advocate for students both at Duke and on the national level.

As the cost of education continues to rise, the new director of financial aid must grapple with these changes.

In the past, Duke has often followed the lead set by Harvard, Princeton and Yale. We implore the search committee to select a person with the vision and ingenuity to make Duke’s financial aid program a leader in the higher education world.

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At the national level, Belvin served as a trustee for the College Board, chaired the 568 Presidents Group, testified to Congress on financial aid and co-authored dozens of books on financial aid—all in an attempt to open the doors of opportunity to lower-income students. For this, he should he commended.

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But the writers are not, I am all for paying the writers for their work. In support of their strike, I have kept the television off and the remote hidden.

But it hasn’t been easy. There are three people in this world I love and need. One of them is my mother. The other two are on Comedy Central Monday through Thursday from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Even when I do not have a specific show in mind, I like to have the television on in the background. I was reared by my family’s television set, and even ifI have the TV behind me and on mute, I find the subde flashes of light emanating from the screen comforting.

So these months have been a sort of rehab Trying to cut myself off cold turkey left me anxious and unable to focus, so the occasional hour of E! Entertainment Television was necessary to quell my cravings. (A fascinating excerpt from my allotted hour Monday night: “What if there were really vampires? And what

if they were all women? And what if they were topless?”)

Luckily, my conscience and values are intact.

E! doesn’t really count. Unfortunately, my IQ and taste surely have suffered.

But it is worth struggling through this strike alongside the WGA—if not to show my support

for the writers, then for my own mental and social health. Having severed my relationship with my TV, I have taken this opportunity to connect with

people—real people.

The transition is not complete. Everything begins with baby steps. Step one was peering out my window. The window is rectangular, like my television screen, and although the window

is taller than it is wide (this troubled me) and has only one channel, the similarities to my TV were enough.

I was delighted to discover that from my perch I could see another student whose desk was pushed against his window. To be fair, from my angle, I could only see his hands, but they were worthy protagonists. On Dec. 2, 2007, the right one held raisins.

Step two: I sat outside on a bench. I made friends with a squirrel.

From my metal seat at the corner where Kilgo meets the Plaza, I could see the squirrel balancing on top of the archway. He rotated 180 degrees while nibbling some sort of nut. We got on quite well until a surly, gray campus cat chased me away.

I am not discouraged, however, because my bench adventure has already taught me so much.

Sitting on the bench was unlike any television experience I had ever had. It was 3D. I have made brilliant progress so far.

I haven’t yet established a third step to my program. Perhaps my squirrel friend will introduce me to some of his buddies. Or I could make peace with the cats. I could try saying “hi” to a passerby... but I don’t want to push myself too hard.

Lysa Chen is a Trinity sophomore and wire editor of The Chronicle. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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letterstotheeditor Harding exemplified Duke athletics’ best To say that Lindsey Harding does not deserve the honor of having her jersey retired (“Lindsey hardly belongs in Cameron’s rafters,” Jan. 15) is mean-spirited.

Columnist Greg Beaton has a misplaced sense ofpress entitlement. Bluntly, he wants to know information he has no need to know.

It is no one’s business why Lindsey Harding sat out a year. She paid a price for whatever her indiscretion was. Public revelation would serve no cause other than to titillate gossipmongers.

Her jersey retirement is based on merit, as Beaton notes. She brought positive national attention to Duke, led her team with dignity and determinationand in every way exemplified the best of Duke athletics.

Beaton can stay home and suck sour grapes, or he can join Duke fans in celebrating the positive things Harding did for Duke.

The Chronicle really doesn’t have thatmuch space.

Why waste so much in trashing someone for no reason other than unsatisfied curiosity?

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Diane Weddinglon Visiting lecturer Sanford Institutefor Public Policy

If

I haven’t made it clear in earlier columns, my parents do not necessarily “approve” of certain lifestyle choices I make.

But they can do little to physically control my behavior from sunny San Diego, besides of course Friday morning phone calls to confirm that I am indeed hung-over in my bed or a set of holiday cards with inspirational messages that made me feel like I was in rehab. So, my parents turn to the almighty dollar as a means of control dan belzer While the ’rents do genw.w.j.d. erously give me plenty of money to live, eat and even go out to bars on occasion, one important event they have annually refused to pay for is Spring Break.

“We refuse to financially support a week of binge drinking. We know what happens during those trips,” they explain as I smash my head into a wall for thinking it was a good idea to let my parents escort myself and three of my friends to Cabo my senior year of high school—and also for thinking that asking my dad to If only Congress would send its key leaders to a couple “cover for me” when I stumbled in at 3 a.m. trying to Duke-UNC games, true political consensus might just be find a condom was somehow going to work out well for within reach. me in the long run.

Of course, not all discussion takes on such a peaceful Because the March week is pretty much the holy grail and inclusive air. 3:46 a.m.: “I said you get Tyson in my of collegiate life, and I have an existential fear of missing face, I will knock his (fill in several colorful expletives out on any sort of fun-doing, I have opted to get a job reminiscent of Mike Tyson’s heyday) out.” If the fight the last couple of years to raise funds. After a stint my takes place in this twilight zone outside of Wilson, it just sophomore year as a caller for the Annual Fund, which pays a whopping $8 an hour, I decided to venture into might happen. the greater Durham job market as a server at fine dining Jan. 13, K-ville, 4:01 a.m.: “Re-ur... RE... e... e... ur....”

Fear strikes the heart of every Dukie within earshot. establishments.

It can’t be! Maybe they’re just not pressing the button Doing so turned out to be probably the best decision I down all the way. Maybe we’re just hearing things. But have made at Duke, other than going abroad. Besides the no. The gasping alarm sounds again, even more pitipotential for a much higher salary, working at restaurants fully than before. The megaphone is dying and we are with mostly locals provides a much needed break from my all witnesses. otherwise homogeneous Duke life.

Even with death at the doorstep, those looking for Interacting with the locals on a regular basis, and besomething to believe in descend to the valley, pouring in coming friends with a few of them, helps put our little bubble into perspective, and it usually reminds me to to get close to the golden calf ofK-ville.

Crowell Commons 13, Room, 12:47 p.m.: stay sane.

Jan. “WOOOOOOO!!!!!

I can’t even begin to count the hilarious conversations By midday Sunday, a group of women moved into the I had with the bartender at the first downtown Durham commons room, their chattering unbroken. I’ve been establishment I worked at. The 45-year-old, flamboyandy working for some time now in the adjacent room and gay man loved to go on and on about how the lacrosse it’s time for a bathroom break and some PB and J. I hear team was guilty, how he hated each one of them and how a loud bustle coming from the quad. I look down and the whole thing was a white male conspiracy. Of course stand amazed. the second a laxer happened to come in to eat, we would Women, trooping toward the same room that conhave to wipe the drool off his face as he reminded all his tains my copy of “Milton’s Complete Poetry,” were everyco-workers exacdy what he would love to do to each one of where, in a pilgrimage that seemed to resemble the Hajj. the players in his fantasy world.

And then, there is the drama.

I walked down the stairs holding a sandwich in one hand, a glass of milk in the other, and I soon found myself in I’ll admit it, I love it. L-O-V-E. the middle of two rows of women dressed in purple linRestaurant drama is what keeps me going between all the standing around, yelling and dealing with jocking ing the walls.

The applause I received beckoned me to pass customers all night long.

I mean, how can you beat this work environment; through and into whatever Mecca lay beyond, but my faith failed me and I turned a Dantean left back to my A young female owner, married to the head chef, bestudies. As the minutes wore on, I discovered that I gins a three-year affair with the manager of her own was a witness to the “best damn pledge class” of Kappa restaurant, culminating in the husband walking in on her, um, in the act with the manager. There was a surAlpha Theta sorority.

To those of you who apologized to me after, there gery involved later. Let’s not get into details. It’s so was no need. In fact, I should thank you. I was a witness sad it’s almost not hilarious. Almost. I’d feel worse to history. about the whole thing if the owner wasn’t such a hor13, Duke Men’s rible human being.

Basketball, 8:14 “Let’s p.m.: Jan. Go Duke!”

Or how’s this? In my latest gig, a former employee used The little girl in pink was nowhere to be seen. Only to shoot up heroin during work. I’m not talking one little blue and white existed on this night as the Crazies were fix at the end of a shift to calm down (as if that were in out in force. any way acceptable). No, this guy was injecting himself so Crazy Towel Guy became Wild ’N Crazy Towel Guy for often you’d think he’d just had his arm blown off on the a night as he surfed his way across midcourt. Litde white battlefield in ’Nam. handkerchiefs floated above the crowd in constant revoluThe craziest part about it was that he would protion. And then the bomb dropped. ceed to wait on a party of 30 people by himself during 8:24 p.m.: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA this entire process. When I first caught on to what was A!” Mr. Gerald Henderson needs no introduction. going on, I wasn’t sure whether to be horrified or flatJan. 14,K-ville, 2:10 a.m.: “He has boxes ofcrazy dildos out impressed.

Remember, always tip your server. in his home.”

I hope I do not get fired for this.

Only in K-ville “Monday, Monday,” wrong on tenters I’ll admit, K-ville and the Crazies have its fair share of people who would like to be on TV, but that’s not why I have been out since Dec. 6 (“No country for cold men,” Jan. 14).

Most of us are there for the team. Duke has a rich tradition of having the bestfans in the country and we wantto continue that We aren’t called the “6th Man” for nothing. Coach K and the players truly believe our presence helps them on the court Once I leave Duke, I won’t be able to cheer on my team from the front row and be so close I feel like I’m in the game—so for me, it’s worth the two to three months of sleeping in a tent or on a sidewalk, and I’ll never regret it David Distenfeld doesn’t have to like us and doesn’t have to join us, but he could at least respect us.

Kim Marston Tent 1 Trinity ’O9

Sounds and time

Overheard

at

Duke this week:

Jan. 11, 2008, Duke Women’s Basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, 7:34 p.m.:

“RAAAAAR!” A little girl, dressed in a pink Duke T-shirt, scurries with her friends through the student section, attempting to reach the holy sustenance of pizza and candy. In her hasty movements she elad gross does not miss a beat, and she attempts to add to the good, better, best crowd’s less-than-deafening blast of sound. In doing so, her growl is that of a fiery kitten deep in a den of Blue Devils.

Jan. 12, K-ville, 11:50 p.m.: “DISCOVERY!” The tent has sure made a name for itself. The chant can be heard all through K-ville on a daily (and during particularly invigorating times, on a minute-by-minute) basis.

But unlike some other outbursts in the makeshift town, there is no animosity in the tone, no seeking out battle, only a motivation to search and succeed. It is a common thread holding all K-ville campers together in an attempt to weather the surprisingly sunny yet rapidly cooling homeland of basketball fanatics. The shout has become a rallying cry, not just for one tent, but for the site as a whole.

Jan. 13, K-ville, 1:37 a.m.: Blaring of a saxophone and .

,

trumpet.

For a brief time, K-ville has not only transplanted dormitories outdoors, but it seems to have brought the Mary Lou with it. Boom-boxes playing the latest in hip-hop have been switched off in deference to the live music being created only feet away.

At first an auditory oddity, the abnormal quickly becomes accepted in this surreal place. The notes are absorbed into the soil fertilized by pizza and beer.

Perhapsjust another annoyance for the weary, the emotions buried in the harmony lighten the burden of yet another night for these refugees from normality.

1:49 a.m.; Silence, as the saxophone takes its last bow.

Jan. 13, K-ville, 3:44 a.m.: ‘You know who’s an American? Not Jay-Z. Tupac.”

The wonders of the K-ville conversation. Every night is different, but all nights meld into one whole hodgepodge of snippets.

Just listen. The consumption of fermented beverages fosters tremendous creativity. From K-ville, it was ascertained that the American Gangster is in fact not American. While his nationality has yet to be discovered, his late colleague Tupac Shakur most assuredly is a U.S. citizen. Perhaps Jay Hova has transcended the nation state to become a true cosmopolitan. Most likely, we will

never know.

But the issue of citizenship quickly moves into a discussion on who really is an American, with the culminating resolution: “Mexicans. They’re real Americans.”

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Elad Gross is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.

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