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In response to the recent spike in crime on and around Duke’s campus, University officials recognized a need for increased security presence and better communication within the community at a panel discussion Wednesday night.

Some students, however, were skeptical, saying the discussion seemed to be mainly for media purposes.

The quarterly forum, titled “Primetime,” was called as a special meeting after the Friday murder of engineering graduate student Abhijit Mahato.

Audience members at the nearly full forum in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences’s Schiciano Auditorium posed questions to a panel of Duke officials: Associate Vice President ofCampus Safety and Security Aaron Graves, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Vice President ofCampus ServicesKernel Dawkins, Assistant Director of the International House Lisa Giragosian and Durham Police Chiefjose Lopez.

Though the audience was comprised of mostly international graduate students, prominent members of the Durham community and several members of the Durham Police Department were also present.

Graves emphasized that students must remember that we still live in a relatively safe community.

“The issue is not the occurrence ofcrime right now—it’s that people are fearful that they may be victimized, so it is important that we maintain a presence in our community to make people feel safer,” Graves said.

Though the question-and-answer period ran over the allotted time for discussion, some students were disappointed with the lack of

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A high-speed police chase into Wake County Tuesday night ended in the arrest of Stephen Oates, who was charged Wednesday with the murder of engineering graduate student Abhijit Mahato.

Oates, along with three others, was also charged in connection with one of several recent armed robberies near campus.

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez announced at a security forum on campus Wednesday night that Oates, 19, had been charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon in the shooting death of Mahato, whose body was found at his home at The Anderson Apartments Friday.

Oates was also charged Tuesday night with a Nov. 19 armed robbery. He was previously charged in 2005 and 2006 with breaking and entering and with assault on a female in 2006. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning.

“The Durham Police Department is going to continue with its investigation of the homicide to ensure that we get anyone and everyone involved in it,” Lopez said at the forum. “We’re going to continue our patrols and redirecting them toward these robberies and investigating the robberies that have already occurred. We’re also going to be working with this community on the crime-prevention aspect ofit.”

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Durham Police Chief JoseLopez announced the arrest of a suspect in the Mahatomurder at a forum Wednesday. detail in the responses from the panel.

“There were answers that politicians would give,” said Rawad Saleh, a first-year graduate student in civil and environmental engineering.

Saleh added that he was disappointed to find that panelists did not explain thorough, long-term plans for security.

“Duke felt like after the tragic incident,

they had to show something,” he said. “I think that everything will die out in a couple of weeks.”

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Despite the considerable buzz it created among students and administrators on campus, the University has had less success heralding its recent drastic overhaul of financial aid to a key demographic: everyone else.

Although the major changes at an elite university might have been expected to gamer much attention after their Dec. 8 launch, they were drowned out in the national media by a slew of similar changes taking place at other universities.

Chief among these, Harvard University grabbed headlines just two days after the Duke announcement by committing to a complete elimination ofloans from all financial aid packages and an increase in the amount of grants provided for middle- and upper-income families.

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A summary of recent major developments in the "alms race": March 19,2007: Davidson replaces loans with grants July 19: Amherst eliminates all loans Nov. 1: Williams nixes all loans Dec. 8: Duke eliminates some parental contributions and replaces some loans with grants Dec. 10: Harvard eliminates loans and increases grants Dec. 17: UPenn eliminates undergrad student loans Dec. 19: Tufts announces it will replace loans with grants for some families Jan. 15, 2008: Yale cuts the cost of attending by a third to a half for all students on aid Jan. 22: Dartmouth eliminates tuition from families earning less than $75,000 a year.

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ROCK HILL,S.C. Democrat Barack Obama questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton's candor and trustworthiness Wednesday, saying she has indulged in double-talk on bankruptcy laws, trade and other issues.

Questions about the candidates' honesty and consistency have been paramount since Monday's testy presidential debate between the Democratic candidates. Obama, campaigning exclusively in the state ahead of Saturday's Democratic primary, is portraying Sen. Clinton as an old-school politician willing to shade the truth.

Gov't agrees on stimulus plan Pushing deficit concerns WASHINGTON aside, Democratic and Republican leaders appeared close to agreement with the White House Wednesday night on emergency tax cuts and benefit increases to jolt the economy out of its slump.

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Pressler filed a defamation suit Wednesday against the University.

The suit alleges that John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, intentionally made slanderous comments about Pressler after his coaching contract with the University was cancelled in 2006.

The suit also claims thatBumess intended his comments to be spread to “the general public, through ‘Newsday,’ The Associated Press and on the Internet for all the world to see.”

“As we have said before, Mr. Pressler reached Mike Pressler a fair and final financial setdement with Duke University in 2007,” Pamela Bernard, vice president and general counsel for the University, said in a statement “There is no merit to this lawsuit, and it is yet another attempt to reopen a setded matter.”

Pressler originally filed a breach of contract suit against the University, which he said violated a 2007 confidential financial setdementwhen Bumess told reporters from Newsday thatthe differencebetween Pressler and current coach John Danowski was “night and day.” He filed a motion to amend the suit to charges of slander last week.

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In response to high student demand, Tommy’s Rubs and Grubs will be delivering to on-campus locations starting in the next couple weeks, manager David Dennis said Wednesday.

The diner, well-known for its highcalorie meals and late-night fare, will deliver to students Monday to Friday from 5 to 10 p.m., Dennis said.

He added that many students living far from the restaurant, particularly on East Campus, requested the service to avoid the long walk.

“There’s no parking [on campus], so you don’t want to walk all the way from Central or East campus[es] to get a sandwich and then walk all the way back,” Dennis explained.

The eatery had plans to start the service four or five months ago, he said, but had to delay it because of a SEE TOMMY’S ON PAGE

bryonic cells from male skin cells and immature egg cells was published online last Thursday not in leading journals Nature or Science, but in Stem Cells, a publication by Durham-based AlphaMed Press.

The new research by Stemagen, a private California lab, contributes to efforts to produce embryonic stem cells that can be used to replace damaged or diseased

human tissues, but some researchers have questioned the research team’s decision to publish in the journal Stem Cells.

“Research in embryonic stem cells is often published in the journal Nature or Science,” said Dr. John Chute, associate professor of medicine in cellular therapy.

But George Kendall, AlphaMed director of operations and business development, said although Stem Cells is a fairly young journal—it has only been published for 26 years—it is very reputable in its field.

“Stem Cells is one of the oldest journals dedicated to the subject [of stem cell research],” Kendall added. “Over the past year we have been getting an increasing number of submissions, and I’m sure that is one of the reasons they submitted.”

Stemagen chose to submit the study to Stem Cells because of its high impact

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rial was able to undergo reprogramming within the oocyst, and develop into a full

factor—a number representing citations to a publication that is commonly used to measure a journal’s importance in its field, said Roman Jimenez, Stemagen’s director of corporate communications.

He added that the authors submitted the paper only to Stem Cells.

Stem Cells’ impact factor increased from 6.094 in 2006 by about 30 percent to 7.924 in 2007, a jump Kendall said is

A Korean scientist—Hwang Wooto have been able to create cell lines from similar cloned human embryos in a paper published in Science a few years ago. The study was declared fraudulent and had to be retracted.

Kendall said AlphaMed took care to validate Stemagen’s study.

“It did go through very rigorous peer review to ensure that all of the research was accurate,” he said.

Although Stemagen did not create cell lines from the embryos, it did use DNA testing to prove that the embryos were in fact clones of the two men who donated skin cells. Jimenez said Stemagen’s next step is to create these cell lines.

fledged embryo.”

significant.

Chute, however, said the researchers may have chosen to publish their work in Stem Cells because their study is similar to past publications by otherscientists.

“Conceptually, somatic cell nuclear transfer is not new,” Chute said. “The real advance here is that adult nuclear mate-

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Tuesday when DPD Cpl. DA Ferrell attempted to pull over a white Taurus station wagon with Florida plates on Fayetteville Street The vehicle matched the description of one used in a previous armed robbery.

Oates, William Smith, 20, and two 14year-olds were charged with felony fleeing to elude. They were also charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the Sunday holdup of a Duke employee and his wife.

The couple reported that they were robbed at gunpoint outside their Poplar Manor apartment on Lambeth Circle around 10 p.m. Sunday.

The quartet also may be suspects in other robberies in the area, including an

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incident involving a Duke graduate student just three hours earlier at the Poplar West Apartments.

More than 90 robberies have been reported since the new year, compared to 101 robberies reported in Durham for all ofJanuary 2007.

Qery Report statistics for 2007-2008 from the Duke University Police Department show that there were five robberies near Duke in 2006, downfrom eight in 2005 and 20 in 2004. None occurred directly on campus, and no murders were reported in the vicinity in the past three years.

University officials said police would maintain the heightened level of patrols.

“Even though there have been some arrests made, as you can see that there have been 90 robberies within the city of Durham and so we feel that this will be an ongoing problem,” said Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security.

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The Duke Student Government Senate discussed DukeEngage Wednesday night in an effort to offer feedback to the program’s directors.

Sarah Trent, assistant director of programs at the Duke Center for Civic Engagement and DukeEngage, explained at DSG’s meeting the various ways students could become involved in civic engagement during the summer.

She said Duke Engage will fund approximately 300 students to participate either in individual projects with a community partner, group projects led byfaculty or third-party programs.

Members of the Senate asked Trent about potential procedures for getting students out of politically unstable countries.

Trent said students will undergo training at Duke to best prepare themselves for

potential danger.

“What you need to know in Durham is not what you need to know some place abroad, but everyone will have some training in tandem with risk management so students will know how to keep themselves best safe,” she said. “We also hire someone to be in every country with every student who is in a Duke program. These on-theground program coordinators would often be a graduate student whose primary responsibilities are health and safety.”

President Paul Slattery, a senior, spoke about revising University policies regarding judicial affairs and urged members of the Senate to get involved in the process.

“At Stanford [University], students generated their own judicial process,” he said.

“We need that kind of groundswell here.”

He asked members of the Senate to respond to peers’ experiences with the Office of Judicial Affairs in order to generate change in their current practices.

“The point is getting broad student input,” Slattery said. “For thisprocess to be legitimate, I need you and your friends contributing. I can’t tell you enough how important it is to hear from other students. I can’t tell you enough how important it is to hear from a diversity of perspectives and experiences.”

Slattery explained the need for students to be given a right to remain silent and a right to discovery after receiving a notification letter about their misdemeanor.

“The initial notification letter should expose which specific policy a student violated,” he said. “Right now it is a broad area and we would like students to actually know what they did.”

In other business: Slattery and Vice President for Academic Affairs Gina Ireland, a senior, spoke about the need for majors unions at Duke.

“Majors unions could serve as a mediator between students within the major and the department,” Slattery said.

He explained that with a majors union, students could look into curriculum design, creation of research programs and hiring practices for teaching assistants.

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Larry Moneta,vice president forstudent affairs, talkedwith landlords to ensureapartments wouldbe safefor students.

AID from page 1 Duke’s changes, which eliminate parental contributions for families earning less than $60,000 a year as well as replacing all loans with grants for families earning less than $40,000, echo ones Harvard made in 2006, whicheliminated contributions from parents under the $60,000-income mark but—at the time—still included loans.

More than a half-dozen schools have announced changes to their financial aid structures recently: Davidson College announced the replacement of all loans with grants March 19, 2007; Amherst College eliminatedloans entirelyJuly 19; Williams College eliminatedall loans Nov. 1; the University of Pennsylvania followed Harvard in eliminating undergraduate student loans entirely Dec. 17; Tufts University announced it would replace loans with grants for families earning less than $40,000 Dec. 19; Yale University cut the cost of attending by, on average, a third to a half for all students receiving aid Jan. 15; Dartmouth College eliminated tuition from families earning less than $75,000 a year Jan. 22.

Harvard, however, was not the first top-tier school to nix loans. That distinction goes to Princeton, which did so in 2001.

Though all the schools have emphasized theircommitment to making a top-tier education available to qualified students, regardless of income, pressure from Congress helped precipitate the recent flurry of announcements, said Donald Heller, director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education and a professor of education at Pennsylvania State University.

University endowments are tax-exempt, and senators such as Charles Grassley, R-lowa, and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y, have suggested that this status should be taken away unless prominent schools start spending 5 percent yearly, which is the requirement for tax-exempt private foundations but not universities. Heller said that recent initiatives by schools are partly in response to these outside pressures.

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Healso encouraged the audience to dial tionally crime heavy.

311 to report any areas that need lighting The panel said many projects to increase campus safety are in the works for throughout the city. the short- and long-term future.

In addition to reevaluating transportation, Duke authorities have also met with More security changes will be made, and landlords from several apartment complexthe Duke University Police Department es around campus to help improve off-camis completely reassessing the safety needs of graduate and undergraduate students, pus safety, Moneta said.

“We had a very lengthy conversation about Graves added.

“It is likely that many of the institutions, particularly the ones with large endowments like Harvard, Yale and Duke, are hoping to get Sen. Grassley off of their backs by announcing these new initiatives in financial aid,” he added.

Educational consultant Steven Roy Goodman suggested in a Dec. 31 editorial in the Boston Globe that Harvard is actually saving $245 million a year by visibly increasing spending on financial aid, but keeping endowment use at 4.3 percent—and not the 5 percent suggested by Grassley and Clinton.

Jim Belvin, director of Duke’s Undergraduate Financial Aid Office, acknowledged that Congress has expressed worry about the cost of higher education, butalso said the University’s changes were the result of the school’s own initiative and concerns.

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Though such changes are still underway,

“The metaphor of a ‘financial arms race’ does describe well what we are seeing, but it is not new.”

Donald Heller We think it will make a huge differenceand will allow students to matriculate who might otherwise not even be able to consider it because of the costs,” he said. “It’s more an effort to do the right thing than an inane competition to see who can spend the most money or outbid each other for students.”

Smaller colleges have expressed concern that they will fellbehind in an aid arms race or “alms race,” and that not all students will benefit as schools struggle to keep up in the competition.

Robert Massa, vice president for enrollmentandstudent life at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., has been a outspoken critic of the aids oneupsmanship, and said colleges like Dickinson lacking sizable endowments are forced to increase tuition from students not receiving financial aid to provide the added benefits.

“The metaphor of a ‘financial arms race’ does describe well

what we are seeing, but it is not new,” Heller said. “Outside of those three dozen or so institutions that had not been involved in the merit-aid game, the arms race has already been well underway. But now some of those institutions are clearlyjumping into the fray, which will likely lead to an increase in the spiral.”

Heller questioned, however, the benefit to students, particularly those from lower-income backgrounds.

“This maybe to the advantage of the wealthierstudents, but it will likely be to the detriment of lower- and truly middle-income students, for whom it will now be harder to get into selective institutions and for whom there may be less financial aid available.”

In a competitive paradigm, however, some in the Duke administration point out that differences in endowment size make comparisons difficult. “[Harvard, Princeton and Yale’s] resources so exceed those at other schools, [that] it’s really hard to discuss what their options are,” Belvin said.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, at the endof 2005, the schools with the two largest endowments, Harvard and Yale, had more than $25 billion and $l5 billion, respectively.

Duke, ranked 16th with almost $4 billion, was limited in its options for revamping the financial aid system.

“We took the steps we thought were the best approach and distributed the benefits between current families and students once they graduated,” Provost Peter Lange said.

He added that fairly and evenly spreading the additional funding between adding grants and replacing loans was a main priority as the administration deliberated on how best to appropriate additional funding for financial aid.

Yearly reviews will analyze how the University’s changes are affecting enrollment, including the percentage of lower-income students matriculating.

“Impact isn’t instantaneous,” Lange said. “Impact occurs over time... probably three or four years. There are so many schools, so many variables, it’s going to be very hard to determine how people are going to make decisions. It’s a fabulous sort of natural experiment.”

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Duke University seniorand hip-hop musician Keith Nimene, also known as Black Keef, draws inspiration from a variety ofrap and rock artists.

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Although it’s tempting to judge senior Keith Nimene merely by his appearance, one would be quite misled. A musician, writer and designer, he is a man cloaked with many layers.

He never ceases to amaze even those closest to him with the scope of his talents. An aspiring rapper who goes by the stage name Black Keef, he lets his music and fashion speak loudly, despite his initial quiet demeanor.

An English major, Nimene has always had a love of words that can be easily seen in his poems and raps.

At the age of 13, he was influenced by Lil’ Wayne and started rapping in his spare time. Since then, the Houston music scene has been the biggest influence on his personal style.

The typical history lesson wouldn’t cite Memphis and Muscle Shoals as historical sites, nor Solomon Burke and Maceo Parker as contributing professors. But this isn’t just any history lesson—it’s the history of soul, and it’s coming to the classroom of Durham for a special sevenconcert semester. For six weeks Duke will be the host of Soul Power, a festival that combines seven concerts with conversations, talks, a Nasher exhibition and a DJ performance to channel the past traditions and new directions ofAmerican soul music.

As far as past traditions go, Gospel music is the predecessor ofmodern hip-hop, R&B and what are today called “neo-soul” artists like Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, D’Angelo and Joss Stone. Confronted with how to do this undeniably rich history justice, director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald saw the SoulPowerfestival as away capture what is essentially the wellspring of soul music.

“We were trying to book a series that looked at soul music and tried to put it in some historical context with regards to what came before, what was its peak and how it impacts the music that comes after it,” explained Greenwald.

In addition to its musical importance, the Soul Power SEE SOUL POWER ON PAGE 7

From Led Zeppelin and the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Phunkadelic and Nas, the wide range of musical talents that Nimene draws inspiration from is reflected through his blend of rock and hip-hop.

“I think there’s a strong blues culture, and it resonates in modem hip-hop,” Nimene said. “There are different flows, [but] they evolved over time. I think I’m trying to bring it back to black music.”

He recently released his first underground album, The Samples. The 15-trackcollection touches upon everything from sexism and crime to college life and partying.

In his song, “Black Prez,” Nimene gives a “person-offthe-street’s” perspective of the flaws of our government.

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Duke Performances'Soul Power seriesfeatures rising star Don Byron.

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Three years ago, David Paletz became the director of Duke University’s Film/Video/Digital Program (FVD), but he felt there was a lack of filmmakers coming to the university. Now, he has somewhat remedied the situation by bringing acclaimed filmmaker Mary Harron, perhaps most famous for directing American Psycho, to Duke for a five-day

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Independent film director Mary Harronisbest known for American Psycho.

Harron’s visit, which begins Jan. 27 and lasts until Jan. 31, is part of the new FVD Filmmaker Residency Program created

by Paletz as an effort to bring more filmmakers to Duke. “[FVD] did not bring enough people to Duke who could talk about the profession and what they did and how they make movies,” Paletz said. “So I devised two things that have come to fruition this semester. One is bringing filmmakers like Mary Harron, not just for one day.”

Paletz’s other residency program was to bring documentarian Ted Bogosian, Trinity ’73, to teach a weekly seminar, allowing FVD students to be exposed to a filmmaker by trade for the entire semester.

“It’s great to have another Dukie talk to Dukies,” Paletz said.

Harron’s visit is important, however, because it shows

Duke’s ability to draw veritable filmmakers. In addition to directing American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol and The Notorious Bettie Page, she has served as a writer, producer and executive producer on a slew offilms. Harron also comes from a background in journalism where she covered the punk scene in the ’7os and ’Bos. Paletz said he worked for about a year to find someone to inaugurate theprogram. During the year, he established strict guidelines for the filmmaker.

“For the first person, I didn’t want an independent filmmaker whose films you see at Full Frame maybe or elsewhere but don’t get national attention... and I didn’t want a confirmed, well-known Hollywood person,” he said. “However, I was looking for someone who was an independent filmmaker and who takes quirky, very unusual subjects and makes them commercial. And I don’t mean makes them commercial in a negative way, but all of her three films have had national distribution, and I thought that’s something really odd and unusual.”

For Paletz, Harron was also a good choice because of her sex “Filmmaking is... traditionally seen in Hollywood as a SEE HARRON ON PAGE

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Editor’s Note 18: An Unplanned Farewell This is not the space for an obituary.

Usually Sandbox and Editor’s Note are spots for random humor and my musings, respectively. However, sometimes things happen that make you pause and drop your silliness guard for a little bit.

This past week has seen the death of two film celebrities, both on opposite ends of their career.

Very few people remember the name Brad Renfro. I first remember seeing Renfro as Huck Finn in the 1995 Disney flick Tom and Huck—we watched it in my English class. Much like his character, Renfro led a troubled, unsettling life. As a teenager he was arrested for drug possession and trying to steal a yacht—celebrity crimes are always more surreal —and just two years ago he got in trouble for driving under the influence and trying to buy heroin. Although the cause of death has yet to be determined, it is not hard to imagine that this lifestyle led to his young death at 25 years old.

Even though his death came as a surprise to many, it was not necessarily a shock. Renfro’s unused talent—which, from watching Apt Pupil and Ghost World is clearly there—combined with the tribulations of being a child actor led to a cycle that was most certainly directed toward destruction.

Though Renfro’s death went unnoticed

by most, Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger’s passing caused a collective gasp across the entertainment world. By 6:00 p.m. on Jan. 22 I had been texted three times, called twice and stopped on campus and informed five times that the Aussie actor had been found dead.

As of Wednesday evening the cause of death is inconclusive, with further tissue studies neededing to be conducted. Police reports indicate that sleeping pills were found next to Ledger’s body, but the cause or the reason is still in the air.

The actor was well loved for his various movie roles by many different groups. Girls loved the hunk {lO Things I HateAbout You).

Guys were stoked about the Joker (The Dark Night). Even the gay community adored Ledger {Brokeback Mountain) Celebrity mourning is one of the strangest parts of pop culture. 99 percent of the people who will be mourning Ledger will have never met him and yet their sadness is as genuine and heartfelt as possible. Certain celebrities have the ability to profoundly affect people with their roles, even if they weren’t necessarily heavy or “deep.” When celebrities or any talented individuals die so young it cuts the entertainment world deep and the loss ofLedger is a wound that will not heal for a while.

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Durham’s first wine bar takes its name quite seriously.

Six Plates offers just that, six seasonal small plates with six paired wines make up the bulk of the menu. A pizza-like flatbread and the occasional dessert round out the kitchen’s nighdy offerings. Although the bar’s raison d’etre is its wide selection'bf value-oriented wines by the

botde and boutique beers, its culinary offerings are what make the genre-busting eatery unique.

Six Plates, though a wine bar by name, is not so easily defined. It may best be called a lounge-restaurant, but

there are no servers who work the floor—all orders are taken at the bar—and seating is limited. Proprietor MatthewBeason has created a casual-yet-chic space that favors cozy couches over tightly spaced tables and a vibe more buzzing than boisterous.

Beason oversees the long granite bar and front of the house, and chefTom Domville runs the kitchen and devises the short menu that changes every several weeks. Close collaboration between Beason and Domville allows for intelligent food and wine pairings that help demystify the oft-daunting food-wine divide. For this reason alone, Six Plates is a worthy stop for its ability to strip wine of much ofits stereotypical pretense.

The menu itself features the local produce that has become de rigueur of the area’s recent restaurant openings, but what sets Six Plates apart is its contemporary take on American cuisine. Perhaps this style of cooking would not be particularly distinctive in the likes of New York or Chicago, but in Durham, Six Plates’ offerings, while limited, are refreshingly creative. Comfort foods like sloppy joes and chicken potpie are recast with a lighter, eclectic touch. The former showcase a spiced mixture of ground

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The wine program is at once novel yet slighdy frustrating. The emphasis on botdes below $5O is commendable for those looking to try as many varietals as possible with minimal financial hardship. The fact that only six wines are offered by the glass each evening, however, is limiting.

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rible match, and the audience learns of her The wedding and the romantic comedy crippling flaw: she cannot speak up for herwere born to be together. From Four Weddings self. Cynical writer Kevin Doyle (James Marsand a Funeral to The Wedding Date, they run the den) comes into Jane’s life and helps her gamut from enjoyably cutesy to painfully bad. try to overcome this fault. Marsden owns his part, perfectly balancing cynicism and leadThankfully, 27 Dresses falls among the former.

Penned by Aline Brosh McKenna ( The ing-man charm.

Much to the audience’s surprise, however, Devil Wears Prada ), Dresses is plenty formulaic, but endearing without being too sacJane learns that Doyle, who writes under a pen charine. Moreover, McKenna and director name, is the romantic commitments writer she faithfully reads in the Sunday paper. McKenna Anne Fletcher pace the film perfectly, making the best ofevery convention of the genre mockingly tries to bring something new to the and lampooning the banalities of weddings genre through Marsden’s cynicism, an attempt (“YMCA” and “The Electric Slide” make that yields mix results. Obvious conflict ensues.

What will happen to these star-crossed lovers scene-stealing cameos).

The film follows chronic bridesmaid Jane who boast surprisingly good chemistry?

Fear not. McKennadelivers the happily-ever(Katherine Heigl) who has racked up a closet full of 27 ugly dresses, but can’t seem to find after everyone wants. With a grand gesture to her way into a white gown. Jane is effectively win over the most callous of hearts, everyone gets their happy ending, and there may or may the same role Heigl played in Knocked Up hard-working and trapped by her job—but this not be a wedding with hilarious application of the film’s title. time, she is in love with her mountain-climbDresses is predictable and sugary sweet. The ing, nice-guy boss George (Edward Bums), stars are gorgeous, and the declarations oflove who gives a performance to rival Dermot Mulunbelievably impossible. But, above all, it is disroney’s dullest.

Jane’s vain, fashion model sister, Tess (Malin armingly cute and enjoyable, the best anyone Akerman), comes to town, however, and makes can hope for in a romantic comedy.

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male occupation, and here’s a woman producer, director and screenwriter,” he said.

Harron’s main films address the role of gender in three unique manners and time periods.

“As a filmmaker, I grew up in a particular time when the role of women changed very much,” Harron said. “I was always interested in stories of women against their time because their lives changed so much according to what time they lived in, you know? Bettie Page’s life would have been very different if she had been bom later. And to an extent all our lives are conditioned by die time we live in.”

Though Harron is known for wearing multiple hats, she said directing is still her favorite part of filmmaking.

“My favorite tiling is directing films because they’re mine, and I get to write them or co-write them, so they’re the most personal tilings I get to do,” Harron said. “Television is doing somebody else’s scripts. It’s more like being an old-Hollywood studio director when they give you someone else’s Western, and you would go shoot it.”

As a part of Harron’s residency, she will be visiting multiple classes and meeting with Duke faculty and students from all different disciplines. Paletz is also trying to get her to hold one-on-one conferences with students looking to go into the

film industry.

“We anticipate that at the end of her stay she will be quite tired,” Paletz said.

A major part of her visit will be a retrospective of her di-

In one of the best scenes, Wendy drags Jon and her father to a posh nursing home, causing Jon to erupt

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����� The Savages is a funny title. It sounds like an inane comedy about Cro-Magnons bonking each other on the head. In fact, it is something entirely different.

From writer/director Tamara Jenkins {The Slum of Beverly Hills), The Savages is a carefully crafted tale of family and death that leaves a strong, if not puzzling impact.

Most directly, the title refers to the film’s three main characters. Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a professor in Buffalo teaching absurdist theater and Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) is his younger sister, a playwright in the Village (i.e. a temp). The two siblings are forced to come together to tend to their dying father, Lenny (Philip Bosco). Undoubtedly, the talent of Hoffman and Linney blaze the screen. Bosco, however, deserves the most praise for his stunning portrayal of a dementia patient.

What complicates the film is the depressing childhood Lenny, essentially a single father, gave his children.

Though this seems a trite back story, it is made interesting by the fact that Jon and Wendy, armed with Zocor, Percocet and anti-depressants because of their childhood, are forced to give the best care they can to a man who cared little for them. This twist brings out the worst ofboth characters.

nursing home’s nice settings are just to assuage the family and Lenny is going to die. He reveals his characters unfeeling rationality and we see Wendy’s inability to accept reality. In

lesser actors’ hands, these traits would go unnoticed, but thankfully, Linney and Hoffman deliver the goods.

About an hour into the movie, things seem to drag and we wonder, “When is Lenny going to die, already?” Though this portion lasts for about 20 minutes, the actual death does come and the film’s strengths shine. Instead of histrionic tears and a grandiose score, Jenkins just turns the death into a short montage that quickly returns the two characters to their daily lives. We soon learn, however, that this death is not tragedy but catharsis.

Most films would drag out the death, but Jenkins knows her film is about Jon and Wendy reckoning with their father and each other, not the father’s death. The final 10 minutes surprise the audience, but are executed perfectly. It is the ending that the characters both need and deserve. The Savages is certainly no cavemen film.

Instead, it is a deeply emotional film about a family with a savage past. With two of film’s best leads and a quiedy powerful script, it is a true gem.

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“I think rather than getting to talk to them about their most recent film or one film,” said Hank Okazaki, program-

ming coordinator for Screen/Society. “What’s nice about having a retrospective and having the person there for a question-and-answer for each film is you get

to

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person’s career trajectory and their sense of artistic development and how their approach, the things they are interested

in... have developed over time.

For her visit to Duke, Harron will be fresh off a stint as a juror for the dramatic film competition at Sundance with the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Sandra Oh. Because the Jurors cannot talk about the films until after the festival, Harron described them as being “shipwrecked for a week

together.”

Nonetheless, the experience allows Harron to be more immersed in film in a different way than she is used to. Also, given the writers’ strike, Harron has not been working for

the past few months and is thus out of her normal filmmaking rhythm.

“I’m not as busy as I would have been... so it seemed like a good opportunity because I’m not filming right now,” she said.

Though this is the first semester of the Filmmaker in Residency Program, Paletz hopes that it will continue and expand in future years because there is a demand for it.

“I think there’s a tremendous interest in film and filmmaking at Duke and I think that’s very useful to be able to talk to filmmakers and filmmakers who can talk intelligendy about their films,” he said.

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SUPER FURRY ANIMALS HEY VENUS! ROUGH TRADE

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Though no longer a concept album, the record still features a story arc. It peaks in tempo near the beginning and slowly transitions into a mellower style with the gentle vocals and slow guitar of tracks such as “Suckers!” and “Let the Wolves Howl at the Moon.” The songs are sprinkled with the various experimental influences that you have come to expect from the Furries over the years, like electrical beeps and distorted vocals.

The track that inspired the Hey Venus! name, “Into the Night,” represents the entire album with its catchy pop hooks and clever lyrics (you must be clever to integrate the words “Professorsaurus” and

his Super Furries, Hey Venus! celebrates the band’s move to Rough Trade Records by essentially paying homage to their late ’9os beginnings as a classic Britpop band.

A departure from the psychedelic phantoms and lasers of their two previous records, Hey Venus! was originally meant to act as a concept album following a young woman’s move to the big city. It begins with the appropriately-titled with “The Gateway Song,” followed by two “Milky Way”).

Fans expecting trippy power poppy singles in “Run-Away” and “Show Your Hand” that pop similar to the band’s recent sound more like the generic pop releases may be a little disapsongs one would find on the pointed, and are possibly better radio than those of such a hisoff listening to Of Montreal. But torically experimental band. But the album, although a bit brief, one cannot deny the Phil Specis a good reminder of why Super tor sound that the Furries carry Furry tunes have always manthrough their singles, which are aged to get stuck in our heads.

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����� My grandfather always used to tell me, “For an artist to make a cover album, it takes determination and a sense of history. To make two cover albums, it takes passion and perhaps a lack of ingenuity.” Okay, so maybe he never told me that. But I still think these words apply to Jukebox, the eighth album—and second cover album —by Cat Power (Charlyn “Chan” Marshall).

What’s interesting about cover albums is that the most important aspect is not necessarily the individual songs, but the collection of tracks the artist chose to cover.

And what comes across most obviously in Jukebox is a diverse group of artists all sharing the same decade, as a full nine of the 12 tracks are from the ’7os. However, these are not simply songs that Marshall grew up with (all had been released by the time Marshall was

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that Natasha could not be my favorite Bedingfreld. That honor goes to Daniel, whose classic song “Gotta Get Thru This” will always hold a special place in my heart. That said, Natasha’s new album Pocketful of Sunshine does a strong job of keeping the listener engaged and entertained throughout, despite lacking much substance or ingenuity. It truly is a vapid pop record, but as far as vapid pop records go, it keeps the energy high and the majority of the tunes very listenable.

The greatest fault of the album is that, as the running time goes on, it reveals itself to have two distinct identities. One is a

heavily-produced, light-hearted

record, full of decent grooves and catchy choruses. Surprisingly enough, most of these songs succeed, putting her voice front and center with backup vocals, steady drums and pleasant guitar and piano melodies propping her up.

It is the production that keeps many of the songs interesting. Alongside its refreshing tambourine intro, lining one of the album’s best songs, “Say

It Again,” is a synth reminiscent of the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Also a success is “Freckles,” a little confidencebooster of a song that manages to not be dragged under by its cliched inner-beauty theme. In fact, the half-KT Tunstall, halfImogen Heap sound of her better songs actually makes the theme uplifting.

Enjoying these harmless tunes is made more difficult when Bedingfreld begins to take herself seriously. This raises the album’s alter-ego, a slate of songs that attempt to tell stories and be hits without making any effort to disguise their naked ambition. The lyrics here never manage to ascend above the inane. Main offender “Backyard”’s lyric of “Your lasso, my tiara/My wand, your plastic bazooka” is a prime example of the bizarre wordplay that plagues her narrative songs. This side of the album, which alternates between being synth-heavy and sparely acoustic, comes across as a failing attempt to replicate some of Lily Allen’s charm.

Despite their weaknesses, however, these songs still don’t manage to overwhelm the album’s many interesting pop pieces. Natasha’s words perhaps best say how most listeners’ will feel about the album: “I’m in like with you/Not in love with you.”

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before anyone else and started the Japanese hype long before Pokemon. But his band, Weezer, hgis long outlived their glory days. Their last album was depressingly bland, even by mainstream standards.

And so, perhaps in an effort to redeem his status as rock’s golden boy, he has released his first solo album, fittingly named Alone: Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. Filled with unrefined personal record-

nine). Instead, her selection reveals a musical appreciation that is not shared by her fellow 2007 Brit Award nominees Pink, Beyonce and Nelly Furtado.

In Jukebox, Marshall is proving her versatility as an artist by taking a wide array of performers (Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan) and fitting their work into her own minimalist style. Lee Clayton’s “Silver Stallion” is a haunting track that lingers with the listener that somehow contrasts nicely with the upbeat and smooth version of George Jackson’s “Aretha, Sing

One for Me”. The next track, “Lost Someone,” still manages to convey the passion (and pleading) that makes a James Brown song a James Brown song.

However, Jukebox tends to slip into long stretches where it’s difficult to tell where one song ends and another begins. By fitting old classics to her own style, Marshall blends her tracks together almost to the point of banality. While she shows some ingenuity and courage in her song selection, the lasting impression is that Jukebox may be broken.

—Jordan Axt

ings dating as far back as 1992, the CD is full of surprisingly quirky

“So many squares where you can go, so few promises,” “Chess” masterfully turns a board game into a metaphor for relationships.

“Blast Off’ and “Superffiend” are more reminiscent ofolder Weezer songs, with ungamished strumming and dominant vocals. Robotic vocals and the layering of voices make the songs even more intriguing. Rivers even succeeds with his more laid-backrendition of “Buddy Holly,” an impressive feat Offering a variety of silly and genuine mixes, Rivers does well with his first solo album, although it’s not entirely new material.

Longing Weezer fans may not need to keep fishing for hope, after all.

—Jessie Tang

covers that are refreshing to even the most skeptical listeners.

In one of the earlier tracks, “The World We Love So Much,” the exasperated singing and simple string of repetitive notes are earnest and completely stripped, one of the reasons why we fell in love with him in the first place.

The raw energy that explodes through “The Bomb” turns even hilariously horrible rap (yes, Rivers raps) into a funky, psychedelic hair-in-the-face anthem.

To balance out the whiny quality ofcertain tracks, a sizable batch of silly songs is a good contrast to the melodrama that plagues some of the othertracks. With lyrics like

LUEGO I KNOW, I KNOW SELF-RELEASED

����� Campus band (sort of) Luego returns to campus Saturday night to release their new EP, I Know, I Know, at the Duke Coffeehouse before kicking off a regional tour.

The band—led by quirky, blonde-locked singer and guitarist Patrick Phelan, Trinity ’o7—is back with their second EP in less than a year. Where some of the band’s older songs were grandiose and crisp, this crop is subalso solidly in the tradition of iddued, gendy rollicking and softer iosyncratic American folk singers around the edges. and will be an acquired taste for Since last spring, the band has many listeners. parted ways with guitarist and seThe Luego on I Know is still nior Sonny Byrd, who has himself very much an Americana band, garnered attention as frontman but the more-prominent strings for mtvU-award-winners Stella by brew a mix of quiet turmoil and Starlight. The void he left on the anguish under the lyrics; the front line has been filled by Dan comparison is reductive, but Carlin’s cello. think Wilco’s “Jesus, Etc.” (to be The earlier EP, Cobblestones, resure, Jeff Tweedy ranks highly ceived a slighdy too-harsh review in Luego’s pantheon of influin this publication from a critic ences). Gone are the sweeping who will remain nameless. Some vistas of the last disc, replaced of the weaknesses voiced then still by introspective thoughtfulness. remain. Phelan’s voice, for examAlso diminished are the jammier ple, is powerfully evocative, but is passages; I Know is a taut set of

five songs, clocking in at 20:41.

There’s no sing-a-long like “Cobblestones” that will implant itself in the brain on I Know, but it’s also more even and consistent than Cobblestones, and several tracks—the falsetto-crooned “Get Under You” in particular—stand out. And Luego still makes great music for a sunny afternoon in Durham.

—David Graham

Luego hosts a CD release partyfori Know, I Know Saturday at theDuke Coffeehouse with special guests Warm in the Wake. Tickets are $7; the show is at 9:30 p.m.

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Digital Collage weaves art with artifact at Brown GaDery by

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Students who normally walk past the Bryan Center’s Brown Gallery without so much as a glance in, may now be enticed to turn off their iPods and enter. Characterized by vibrant color and enigmatic layered imagery, artist David Wilson’s digital collages and assemblages are now on display in the new exhibition, Heavy Burden: Digital Collage Examination ofAfrican-American Forced Labor.

Wilson’s art consists of pictures, overlaid with relevant historical documents and images, that chronicle various aspects of slavery.

“Each piece is a combination of seven to 10 different photographs, and some of my own work is incorporated,” Wilson said.

The results are visually complex, photograph-like prints accented by washes of bright color.

“I start with archival resources, usually that I find online, that deal with slavery and reconstruction,” the artist said. “And I take those photographs that are copyright free and that are very powerful, and I work them into a collage medium as if I were doing it on paper.”

The exhibition also showcases Wilson’s assemblages, which consist primarily of stacks of blocks that feature different images on each side.

“The assemblages are a new medium for me, so I can’t say what’s going on—they sprung to life on their own. I like hard angles and shapes in my work, and so working in 3-D, a block serves that purpose,” Wilson said. “The blocks are great because each side is its own canvas. So when they’re all together they make multiple images and

multiple meanings.”

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Jam band Perpetual Since their formation in 1997, Perpetual Groove (aka PGroove) has been a mainstay of the live music circuit. Playing a carefully crafted psychadelic/rock fusion, they’ve garnered a huge fan base while headlining shows across the country, recess ’s Tom Aten recently spoke with keyboardist Matt McDonald about the band’s current (exhaustively long) tour, their upcoming show at Cat’s Cradle and the inherent benefits of a certain pejorative term.

I know that sometimes you guys get stuck with the label of being “just a jam band,” which is something that most bands—l think—aren’t too happy about. How do you all react to that, and how would you classify yourselves?

The thing about this whole jam band label is that it is double edged, but if you look at the fans and the musicians that are part of it, they really are some of the best people around and they listen to live music that changes and really is interesting because it has a life and a soul and a conversation to it. That’s what happens with improvisation—it’s very inclusive with the audience.

So if the audience is giving it back, the band takes more and more with it. So the positive side of being labeled a jam band is that it means that you’re part of a group of musicians that are pretty well respected for their use of improvisation. The attitude as far as Perpetual Groove is concerned has always been more of a rock-and-roll, highimage approach, with peaks and crests that don’t just plow in your face. Peaks and valleys are important in the experience. But it’s not really a term that we’re trying to get away from—it just is what it is. But as far as fans and the association with the musicians, it’s a good thing.

I’ve seen you guys plenty of times, and I have to say that the fans are really right with you guys and right on top ofyou guys.

It’s one of the best parts about it.

It’s having those really dedicated fans, and seeing that people that are into lots of different music, that’s what they have most in common. The fans themselves may not have that much in common with each oth-

specific facts of slavery the piece is meant to address. The issues Wilson emphasizes range from the dehumanizing effect of slave auctions in “Heavy Burden VI; To Be Sold and Let” to the sometimes unacknowledged intricacies of the slave-master relationship in “Heavy Burden XII: Bella Domestic (House Servant) The majority of the works focus on portraits of slaves, juxtaposing the humanity of the figures with coldly impersonal historical documents. This instills past events with new emotional relevance. For example, in “Heavy Burden XVI: Cotton Moon (Up Before Daybreak)” the quiet solemnity of the female slave pictured commands the viewer’s respect.

“The overall subject matter of slavery can help anyone who’s interested to get an idea of how to endure and persevere and at the same time preserve your dignity,” Wilson said.

The exhibition opened on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and will intentionally be displayed during the upcoming Black History Month.

“I wanted [the exhibition] around this period, and it worked well with the artist,” said Beatrice Crosti, head of the Visual Arts Committee and manager of the Brown Gallery.

In addition to the relevance of the exhibition’s content, Crosti chose to display Heavy Burden because Wilson’s work is done in a unique medium that the gallery has not previously presented.

“I try to do a whole variety of exhibitions, and I try to use every kind of medium,” she said.

The change of medium proves to be refreshing, and Wilson’s work, with its significant content unconventionally displayed, manages to add some interesting color to the sometimes-monochromatic Brown gallery.

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er, but they enjoy all ofit.

A lot of the energy and the fan’s reactions has to do with the song selection and how the set list is crafted. I know you guys are playing a different set list every night and that you have a lot of songs to choose from. How do you guys decide what you’ll play? Is the set list something you create before the show, saying how do we get from here to here and see what happens in between or is it something you make on the fly?

We usually do have a set list now, but its very rare for it not to change or alter at all. We always go up there with a road map drawn out, usually a couple of us will do it. It’s usually Adam, our bassist, and myself that will spend the most time on it together.

Along those lines, I picked up the set lists for the past three times you guys coming out. UVELOVEDIE is a studio alplayed Cat’s Cradle. Is the venue and the bum and this is a live album in that it was audience you think is going to be there a recorded in front of a live audience—l factor? I look at those sets and it seems like know thatTree Sound Studios is known for there are a lot of older songs or rarer songs creating live albums—but could you talk a that people consider a bust-out played at bit about the process of recording this alCat’s Cradle. Is there something special bum and what people can expect?

At Tree Sound, you have several studios about that venue to you guys?

Cat’s Cradle, I don’t know about a inside of one complex so we’ve done our personal connection, but it’s definitely albums in say, Studio A and Studio M, and our favorite venue in all of the Raleigh- you sit in rooms for what you’re looking Durham-Chapel Hill area. I think it’s the for. What they also have is this room called room that... It just sounds great there, the Cave. The Cave is a room, but its set up there’s a good vibe, the crowds have alfor live performance and live rehearsal, so ways been good. As far as bust-outs and you see a lot of bands come in there and stuff like that, I think what’s happened do what you’d call preproduction, working in the past year or so is that we’ve finally on song structure, especially more the topgotten enough material that there’s stuff -40, more accessible stuff. So you see people that we’ve spent enough time on that we come in and rehearse there. What we did play them more than others just because is went in and did a performance—there’s we enjoy what happens during them. But a stage and everything—we sold 150 tickets we’ve been trying to keep it more varied through our website and that was that. We lately, playing some older stuff and, you had kegs ofbeer, and they got to check and know, we’ve been writing a lot of new the studio, which was an intimate, unique stuff. That’s just a continual thing that experience. I think you’ll probably see us do it again real soon, because it was about keeps happening.

You guys came out with a new studio altwo years ago now" when we recorded it. bum, UVELOVEDIE, last year and, at the It was before we had a lot of gear we have end of February, Echoes From The Cave is now, and it was just different. It’s cool as a

snap shot of where we were as a band and where we are two years later. We’re hoping to do something like it again this summer.

So you’re in Atlanta on Friday and then here. All together, the tour has 41 dates?

That’s something that we’re not so much talking about. People can come to their own conclusions, as far as I’m concerned.

Well, I know this is a really long tour for you. So, if you don’t mind me asking, all this time traveling, what’s the music that you’re spending your time listening to on your own.

So much different stuff, it really depends on the mood I’m in. I’ve been listening to a lot of bands like Rotary Downs, some of the new Cold War Kids stuff that’s being released, and I always have a pretty healthy diet of industrial music. I’ve listening to a remixed Nine Inch Nails album. But, you know, Ben Folds, Nick Drake. I’ve actually been listening to a lot of Nick Drake lately. A lot of Nick Drake and a lot of the National has been in the rotation.

Perpetual Groove will be playing Cat’s Cradle this Saturday at 10 p.m. Tickets are $l5.

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Hendrick’s Nasher exhibition, The Birth of Cool, which attempts to capture the essence of the movement in more than one medium.

“The soul aesthetic has to do with politics and music while merging into visual arts. It’s not a museum piece, it’s alive on its own,” said Greenwald.

This weekend’s performance includes one of the Philly soul scene’s most prominent contributors, King Britt and the SylklSO Collective. Britt’s success with the Grammy Award-winning Digable Planets have earned him international prominence as a DJ and mixer.

Getting his start at Silk City in Philadelphia, Britt watched such heavyweight artists as Jill Scott, The Roots and Erykah Badu pass through on their way to the top.

The SylklSO Collective became the house band for the club in the early ‘9os in one of the most prominent hubs of soul music.

This Saturday, King Britt calls together the SylklSO Collective featuring Lady Alma Horton and Jaguar Wright for the world premiere of a Philly Soul Tribute.

“King is interesting because he was real-

ly part of that neo soul resurgence in Philly.

Most of those artists came from there. He has really been exploring how a DJ fits into soul, and how you look at that classic sound and make it new,” said Greenwald. jaguar Wright, who is featured as a vocalist with the Collective, is famous in her own right for both her solo career and as singing backup for Jay-Z’s Unplugged performance.

The Soul Power festival is a history lesson cloaked in the fabulous furs and majesty of King Solomon Burke and the influential civil rights soundtrack ofMavis Staples. It is not only the legendary music of the Blind Boys ofAlabama and the Dixie Hummingbirds that takes part in the discourse, but also the evolved “neo-soul” and hip-hop of Puestlove of the Roots and Durham’s own Ninth Wonder. The goals of the festival are to trace the musical traditions of the South from gospel to hip-hop, with soul as the ever-present link.

“We want our students and community to understand that this is a music with a deep lineage and history to which the musicians adhere,” Greenwald said.

“Whether you’re listening to Amy Winehouse, The Roots or Anthony Hamilton, there’s a history to that music that keeps re-inventing itself.”

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The Soul Power series features artists such as the Dixie Hummingbirds (above) and Blind Boys ofAlabama.

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problem, usually I’m doin’ me, so hopefully I’m resolvin’.”

Junior Grant Bond, Nimene’s good friend and fraternity brother, feels that Nimene’s laid-back personality makes him

a refreshing person.

“On this campus, people are very high-strung and concerned [about something]—grades, investment banking, the environment,” Bond said. “When you talk to Keith, he’s so calming and he’ll bring you down [from the stress].”

Despite being extremely mellow, Nimene displays a great amount of passion and drive for what he loves.

“He’s the hardest working man alive,” Bond said. “He’s trying to get out there.

People talk about wanting to make it big, but he’s [truly] determined. One time, a couple of us were talking about music, and this guy said he wanted to listen to some of Keith’s stuff. Literally, out of his back pocket, Keith pulls out his CD.” Friend and DJ John Choi, who helped produce the tracks on Nimene’s album, feels that Nimene’s persistence has helped Choi himself grow as an artist and to be more open to unexpected ideas.

“He’ll [envision] a musical idea and just stick with it,” Choi said. “And sometimes he’ll have some sounds, and I’ll tell him there’s no way it can be incorporated. But after working with it for a while, we produce something that’s actually pretty good.”

Of course, in addition to his dedication and musical creativity, Nimene has an instinctual ability for flow and delivery.

“He’s motivated by his free-styling,” Choi said. “He’s a type of person that does not like to plan out musical ideas and [instead] just plays it. When he comes over to my place, he hears a beat [and] he’ll just start writing stuff down.”

Besides having natural talents, Nimene also expresses his creativity from

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Nimene also designs shoes as a creative release. head to toe. Adding to his varied musical talents—he also plays the guitar and bass in a couple of the tracks—Nimene is also known to express himself through his loud sense of fashion, most notably his airbrushed shoes.

Beginning sophomore year, he started coming up with designs to tag his kicks with. These “shoe tattoos” are inspired by everything. For example, his freshmanyear experience of playing videogames in Gilbert-Addoms largely influenced his first creation, a pair ofAdidas featuring Mario and Luigi. His latest sneaker concept, an image contrasting urban life with rural scenery, expresses how torn he was when he had to move out of his hometown of Houston to a suburb outside the city.

“For me, I don’t like having the same thing other people have,” Nimene said.

“I want to make it so that when you see a person’s shoes, you can tell what they do.

It’s for self-promotion.”

Whether through his style, music or writing, Nimene expresses everything in a manner that is wholly representative ofhimself.

“I try to keep [my material] somewhat intellectual and Teal,’” Nimene said. “I try not to be like ‘da hood’ because I’m not a gangster. But at the same time, I don’t try to be like bohemian or overlyconscious. I’m not a perfect person, so I try to keep it honest.”

Cloverfield “stars” talk about monsters and mystery The recent release of Cloverfield doing something like this. was the culmination of months of How much of the dialogue hype and clever advertising. As the in the film was adlibbing off the number of questions and speculation script? How much of an opportugrew, so did the buzz. From the monity did you or the others have a ment of its unleashing, J.f. Abrams’ chance to do that? creature has enjoyed monstrous sucTJ. Miller: Every time you cess, raking in a voracious $46.1 laugh at one of the lines that Hud million over the MartinLuther King says, I wrote that line. Every time fr. Day weekend alone on a reputed you don’t like something that I $3O million budget. said, that’s someone else’s fault.

In a recent conference call with Seriously, though, the skeleton recess’ Braden Hendricks, three of of the script was fantastic. Drew Cloverfield ’s low-profile cast dis- Goddard [author of the screencussed the experience of shooting this play] is really, really funny; really, pioneering film and the vision off.f. really good at creating a characAbrams. They are Mike Vogel (Jason), ter in a script. Also, Matt Reeves TJ. Miller (Hud) and Lizzy Caplan knows that I come from improvi(Marlena). sation and that that’s part of what Miss Caplan she agreed to do I bring to every project that I do. this film without really knowing So I did improvise a lot. And he what it was about. Mr. Vogel and let me improvise on my own and Mr. Miller, did you guys likewise Lizzy and I improvised in the film sign onto the film withoutknowa lot together. I’m the comedian ing about it? that they brought in to make this Mike Vogel: Well, keep in part funny and have that aspect of mind we’re out there trying to the film be successful, so I hope work. There was, however, somethat I did that. Plus, you know, thing about the ambiguity of that’s what I want to do because this film. I think when we were I think some people react in the all initially told it was a monster way that Mike Vogel does which film; there was sort of a hesita- is to be really, really hot and take tion because it’s been done badcharge. Other people who are ly a lot of times. I think what the kind of funny and awkward are saving grace of it is the vision of going to react in away that you JJ. Abrams, the vision of Matt would laugh at. It’s funny. My Reeves and those types of charwhole thing with this movie is that acters that make you feel safe in I wanted to see a monster movie

where people reacted like you really would. And I think that everybody in the film does that. Hud’s a funny character and he’s going to react in a funny way.

How was it to actually watch yourself on the big screen, being attacked, and how does it feel to see that?

Lizzy Caplan: The first time I saw the movie it was a rougher cut and I left and kind of had a mininervous breakdown because I really cannot stomach watching myself do anything on screen ever. It could have been a monster movie or a commercial for lollipops. I think I’m just super critical of myself and there’s always ten better readings that I think I could have done. A friend ofmine called me recently to calm me down and tell me that when I see myself on screen I think there is a 3% difference between what I think is good and what I think is absolutely terrible, and that nobody else even notices.

TJM: I think everybody was happy with their performance because it’s such a different movie to make, and it’s so hard to act in a film that is a style that you’ve never seen before. So we did the best we could because we, and by that I mean the director, the producers, all the actors, the crew, we were all figuring this out as we

went along. That was a challenge.

And I think we were successful in that sense. I think me more than anybody else.

What moments inspire you when choosing to participate in a particular Him, selecting a film role?

MV: You know, I think it’s a lot of things. Having to feed yourself and survive. Another one being the creative aspect of it and you hope that eventually

those two worlds collide. I think for me what I set out to do in all this is just to not stay constant. I think of a boxer not staying in one place-constandy bobbing and weaving-you try and keep your resume as diversified as possible. There’s definitely been some films I’ve done in the same genre but by and large I’ve been able to do things that are just different. And that’s what I want to continue doing.

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DIMITROV NAMED ACC PLAYER OF WEEK Junior Kiril Dimitrov was named ACC Player of the Week after going undefeated and winning the singles title at this weekend's Duke Invitational.

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At the conclusion of the Blue Devils’

ACC opener last season, the fans inside

Cameron Indoor Stadium were shocked into silence: Unranked Virginia Tech had just defeated then-No. 5 Duke 69-67 in overtime.

More than a year later, the fourthranked Blue Devils (15-1, 3-0 in the ACC) have a chance for revenge when they clash with the Hokies (11-7, 2-2) in Blacksburg, Va. at 7 p.m.

“It sticks in your mind,” sophomore Gerald Henderson said of last year’s loss.

“A game that we lost on our home court, that’s something you always think about.

We’re definitely looking to go into their home court and beat them.”

One of the keys for Duke to come out of Cassell Coliseum with its fourth conference victory could be improvement in crashing the glass.

In their win against Clemson Saturday, the Blue Devils were outrebounded 42-26.

The Tigers’ two post players, James Mays and Trevor Booker, had six and 10 rebounds, respectively, which was more than any Duke player recorded.

The Blue Devils are aware that they cannot afford to keep losing the rebounding battle.

“If we keep playing the way we’re play-

ing right now, rebounding isn’t going to get any better,” sophomore guard Jon Scheyer said. “When we play teams bigger than us or smaller than us, we need to win the rebounding game.”

An intriguing individual matchup in this contest is Virginia Tech’s athletic Deron Washington against the 6-foot-4 Henderson. Henderson, of course, has made a living this year by using his quickness to shed defenders and finish with highlight-reel dunks. The 6-foot-7 Washington, though, has had some jaw-dropping slams, including a one-handed flush against Georgia Tech where he simply made the shot blocker obsolete. And, in last year’s win against Duke, Washington jumped over guard Greg Paulus on his way to another high-flying slam.

While both players are capable, Henderson acknowledges that his counterpart has “out-dunked” him.

“He’s dunked on quite a few people career,” Henderson said. “I’ve had his in some cool dunks this year but I haven’t really dunked on anyone like he has. I’m looking forward to going up against him and the whole Virginia Tech team and trying to see what kind of athletic game it’ll be.”

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Sometimes, people have to feel out the beat before adjusting and hitting the dance floor. Luckily for the Blue Devils, they feel like they have their groove on now. “[With] a lot of spots filled by different people, it has taken a while for us all to connect and learn how everyone plays together,” junior center Chante Black said. “So, finally it is starting to come around. It has just been a long process with the new coaching staff and also new players stepping into new roles. It has been an adjustment with that. So, [we are] finally starting to click.”

No. 10 Duke (14-4, 3-1 in the ACC) looks to continue bopping to the beat against No. 23 Georgia Tech (16-3, 3-2) Thursday night at 7 p.m. in Atlanta. To break Georgia Tech’s 18-game home winning streak, the Blue Devils will once again have to turn in a strong defensive effort, as they did in their last game against N.C. State. In that game, Duke forced 24 turnovers and recorded 15 steals.

The Yellow Jackets are fresh off a 95-point offensive explosion in a double-overtime loss against No. 4 Maryland, who downed Duke earlier that week. After holding the ACC’s leading scorer, N.C. State’s Khadijah Whittington, to only seven points last game, the Blue Devils are feeling confident in their ability to similarly shut down the Yellow Jackets.

Head coach Joanne P. McCallie, however, is looking to extend that defensive momentum into all aspects of the game.

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Gallic said. ‘You have to be creative, and that was a good thing for us against N.C. State.”

The Duke offense certainly could use a face lift. After connecting on less than 50 percent of their field goals and only 19 percent of their S-point attempts, the Blue Devils look to improve tonight to avoid dropping their fourth of six matchups against ranked squads.

The offensive piece Duke is most concerned about, though, is junior preseason All-ACC selection Abby Waner. Waner shot 10-for-40from the field and l-for-19 from behind the arc in the previous three games. Despite her star’s struggles, McCallie is still not concerned and is looking at the slump from a different perspective.

“I am a golfer and, I mean, if you are a golfer, it’s like putting,” McCallie said. “As a golfer, you know you have to work on your putting, but sometimes you have got to go to your chipping and go work in the sand a little bit. So I feel like those things are fine and have a way of working themselves out.”

To her credit, Waner is not simply sitting around and waiting for her shot to fall on its own. She is hitting the driving range, and working out the kinks in her swing, being proactive about reversing herfortune by putting in extra time and getting extra repetitions, On Tuesday morning, when the gym was otherwise deserted, Waner took 3-pointer after 3-pointer and free throw after free throw. They swished in with ease, and she did not miss an attempt for several minutes.

That’s exactly the type of shooting rhythm Duke will need from Waner Thursday night against Georgia Tech—especially if the Blue Devils plan on dancing their way back to Durham.

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Before officially being hired as head football coach, David Cutcliffe met with Joe Alieva in the Director of Athletics’ Cameron Indoor Stadium office.

Waiting to begin the interview, the thenTennessee offensive coordinator scanned the walls, taking in the Duke memorabilia.

Among the framed covers of Sports Illustrateds from Duke Basketball’s national championship wins, Cutcliffe saw something else that piqued his interest: a picture of Wallace Wade Stadium filled to capacity.

In one moment, the coach thought of the potential for interest in Duke Football as he was sure the picture was from the Steve Spurrier Era. Then Cutcliffe looked closer and saw Mick Jagger on the field—realizing the photograph was not taken at a football game, but rather a 2005 Rolling Stones concert.

Generating fan and student interest for football games is one of the biggest challenges facing the former Mississippi head coach. But it’s one he has attacked already, nearly eight months before his first game, and one that he will seemingly stop at nothing to overcome.

“IfI have to go up to Tailgate myself and put them on the sidelines to get them in there, I’ll do that,” Cutcliffe said. “I certainly want the fans—mostly the Duke students—to enjoy it On Jan. 15, Cutcliffe sent out an e-mail to students with the subject line “Are you ready for some football?” In it, the newlyhired head coach expressed his desire for the students to enjoy the entirety of football Saturdays, not just the tailgate. ”

Cutcliffe also recorded a voice message that went to all season-ticket holders just days after his hiring.

Bart Smith, Duke’s Director of Promotions, attributed Cutcliffe’s personality and resume as reasons for generating excitement “He certainly has a very strong interest in getting the Duke student body involved and coming to football games,” Smith said.

“We’ve just tried to put together a plan to put him out in the community more.”

To do that, Smith said, the Department of Athletics has been looking for opportunities for the coach to meet students.

Last Saturday, Cutcliffe and his entire staff were introduced at halftime of the Duke basketball game against Clemson.

Cutcliffe originally had planned to greet each Cameron Crazie at the entrance of Cameron Indoor Stadium before tipoff, but because of the inclement weather, he was kept inside. Smith said that at future home basketball games, Cutcliffe will try to greet fans at the gate.

The Department of Athletics has also taken advantage of the buzz created by Cutcliffe’s arrival. Smith said the school has launched a three-month campaign into March in which it has aggressively marketed the chance to buy season tickets early.

Smith added that he and Cutcliffe expect to meet soon after National Signing Day Feb. 6 to discuss plans to market the spring football game. Cutcliffe also mentioned the possibility of bringing two of his most successful quarterbacks, Peyton and Eli Manning, to visit “All over campus, [the excitement] is genuine and it’s strong,” Smith said.

Cutcliffe said that he has “two or three

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Head coach David Cutcliffe has been working hard promoting Duke football on campus in addition to recruiting. traditions” and a few surprises that he wanted to bring to gamedays in the fall.

The coach acknowledged, however, that the best marketing tool will be a successful team on the field. And with a squad that has lost 25 straight ACC contests, Cutcliffe

knows he has his work cut out for him But just as it seems the former Tennessee offensive coordinator will do whatever it takes to win on the field, it appears he will also do whatever it takes to get fans inside Wallace Wade for home games.

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M. BBALL from page 7 be sharp, as Virginia Tech has yet to lose a home game this season. The Hokies are already gearing up to welcome the Blue Devils, as the fans are preparing the “Orange Effect,” one of the promotions at the game.

Duke, in addition, has struggled recently on the road. In their last three outings away from Cameron, the Blue Devils have gutted out close wins against Temple and Florida State and suffered their only loss of the season against Pittsburgh in Madison to

Square Garden.

Nevertheless, Duke is optimistic about the start to this season, especially in comparison to last year. In addition to being

undefeated in the ACC, the Blue Devils are ranked nationally in the top five again.

They know that the team that fell last year to Virginia Tech does not resemble this year’s squad, which also sits atop the conference standings.

“I think we’ve set ourselves up to be in good position for this week,” Scheyer said.

“We have an opportunity to go TO in our next game. Obviously we’re taking it one game at a time, but we’re really in control right now.”

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Although Duke doesn't use a traditional frontcourt, Singler can bang inside with the best players in the conference. Virginia Tech's Washington holds that elite status, but if Singler draws Washington outside, he could neutralize the Hokies' edge.

The Blue Devils' guards have lifted them to the top ofthe ACC, and even though two of Virginia Tech's leading scorers are guards, Duke should be able to curb the Hokies' backcourt.

Paulus and Henderson combined for 25 points in Duke's weekend win over Clemson.

Sophomore Jon Scheyer has adapted particularly well to his new sixth man position, averaging 11.4 points per game, fourth on the team.

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should the system fail.

We understand that part of the problem is situational—Room Fix online was felled by a system error and the Few Quadrangle renovation has changed the playing field. But an organization like RLHS needs to take responsibility for its crucial role student life.

In the past few years, RLHS has been a largely reactionary body, but with heightened security concerns and the long-delayed plans for a new Central Campus, RLHS needs to become proactive.

Dining, which is like RLHS on a cost-recovery model, has proven that it is possible to work efficiendy and take into account student needs. With the recent price hikes across campus eateries, it made a

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ontherecord The metaphor of a “financial arms race does describe well what we are seeing, but it is not new. ”

Donald Heller, director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University, on the recent changes in financial aid at schools across the country. See story page 1.

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I was in high school I used to volunteer at a day-care center, and one day I asked the little boys and girls the Big Question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

Molly wanted to be a veterinarian, Tom wanted to be a baseball player and little Jimmy had high aspirationsfor himself. He thought for a moment quite seriously, lookedup at me and

replied, “I want to be an astronaut But if that doesn’t work out, I want to be a

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Though RLHS’ actions are more constrained, it also lacks the innovation and initiative to act upon student opinion that Dining Services exemplifies.

Though students are often frustrated with campus services, there is always an innate understanding that they act for the good of Duke students. But after the last few years, we must increasingly question whether RLHS really has our best interests in mind. It is this doubt, more than any one policy, that is the real crux of the issue.

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caterpillar.”

stacy chudwin

A sound back-up stage of fools plan, youngJimmy.

Now that we college students are returning from Winter Break, horrifyingly, it is already time to start sending out resumes for summer jobs. And more importantly, time to start thinking about what we want to be when we grow up.

For a very large percentage of the Duke population, the answer is investment banking or consulting. I find it hard to believe that i-banking and consulting were the childhood dreams of any of these students, so where did these choices come from?

Some students genuinely expect to feel fulfilled by the challenging analysis and number-crunching of investment banking and the difficult problemsolving and traveling lifestyle of consulting. Others, however, have a different plan in mind—one that sounds a little something like this: Tm going to make a couple million i-banking for a while after college, retire at the age of 25 and spend the rest ofmy life playing video games.”

Or: ‘Yeah, I think I’m gonna do consulting for a few years, make my moneyand then go teach underprivileged, AIDS-afflicted children in Africa.”

Although investment banking and consulting seem to be the holy grails for Duke grads, very few seem to want to stay in them for the long haul. They seem torealize that there are some less-tharvsavory aspects of these jobs. Is theretruth to this?Are the starting salaries and resume-boosting capabilities of these jobs really worth the consequences? I decided to go to die source and interview some recent college graduates to find out Names have been changed to protect the employed.

Paul is a 2Syearold Duke alum who now works as a consultant While first employed with MicroStrategy, he now worksfor the charmingly namedBooz Allen Hamilton (I don’tknow aboutyou, but I have always wanted to work for Booz, bar har). Whatmotivated Paul to become a consultantand when didhe discover this career path?

“Um, some time senior year when I realized I didn’t want to be an i-banker or go to grad school,” he wrote in an e-mail. Sound reasoning, I suppose.

Over all, Paul is pleased with his job, though he and many of his coworkers doubt that they will remain in consulting long term. In feet, the reason Paul switched companies is because he could not tolerate the constant traveling and living out of a suitcase that came with MicroStrategy, which he “did not realize [he] would dislike so much.”

What’s more, Paul also noted that his work as a consultant has reminded him “how many idiots are in the worldrunning things sometimes, which is frustrating to deal with.”

Ouch.

Meanwhile, Bartholomew (remember, names have been changed), is a 24-year-old Northwestern alum who now works in private equity, but worked as an investment banker at Robert W. Baird for a couple years after graduating.

Bartholomew spoke highly ofhis i-banking days. “[lt was] an attractive opportunity to quickly develop finance and accounting skills, work with talented individuals and gain general business experience right out of college,” he wrote in an e-mail. However, the 16hour workdays, lack of a social life and tedious work ultimately led Bartholomew to make the switch to private equity. He told me most of his peers also planned on changing career paths after two or three years.

So, what advice would Bartholomew give to students thinking about entering a career in investment banking?

“Spend some time thinking about what the lifestyle will actually be like—the banking lifestyle isn’t suitedfor everyone and you don’t want to be stuck in a situation where you won’tfind the lifestyle tolerable,” he wrote.

Paul and Bartholomew both seem to imply that while consulting and investment banking are a quick way to gather up money and career experience, this same quickness can ultimately lead to bum-outand unhappiness. These companies take fresh young recruits straight out of collegeand bleed them dry. But for some recent grads, it is a risk they are willing to take.

In retrospect, I think my preschool friend Jimmy is destined for a career as an investment banking or a consultant Aside from creepily having a fail-back plan at the tender age of four, are caterpillars and young investment bankers/consultants so different?

They worm about the corporate world, try to gather up as much of the green stuff as quickly as possible, and then create the biggest, prettiest chrysalis for themselves that they can—a chrysalis from which they secretly hope they can emerge one day as a nice big grown-up butterfly, one free from the tethers offinancial constraints and practicality, one free to seek out the career and life path that is really of their own choosing.

Stacy Chudwin is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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Armed Durham Residents; I understand that this city is not currendy facing its brightest economic conditions. Legitimate jobs are hard to come by, and who wants to toil away for $5.85 an hour anyway? Godknows I sure don’t.

Fear not, my monetarily unfortunate friends, because I have a perfectly great solution for all ofyour cash-flow woes.

Why work for Duke when you can simply take the money of the unsuspecting, fearful and mostly wealthy undergraduates at this University? dan belzer It’s not that complicated. w.w.j.d.

You have guns and bandanas, while we’ve got a serious drinking problem, nice cars and daddy’s money stuffed into our purses and wallets. More importantly, Duke does very little to help protect its students from pistol-toting opportunists.

A large, mostly affluent, subset of our upperclassmen lives in unprotected luxury apartment complexes flanked by low-income housing and outside the range of the Duke University Police Department. And we all know how much the Durham Police Department cares about protecting Duke students from anything besides their own excessive noise.

Candy from a baby? I think so.

It has become apparent that lately some of you have been catching on to this phenomenal economic opportunity.

Forgive me ifI am not completely updated on the official statistics, but I think we are up to one murder, threerobberies and 18 car break-ins... in the last week. Well, those are all fine and good,

but the strategic planning has been mediocre at best Why focus on the cheap apartment complexes? All that work for an iPod and an empty wallet? It’s about time to step your game up.

First off, you are targeting the wrong types of students. Most grad students are not the rich sons and daughters of privilege like the undergrads. They usually live poor, mainly off of loans, and rarely drive nice cars. They present veryminimal upside.

The real money is in us young’uns. I know those shiny new complexes can be intimidating, but the hefty reward and the lack of able resistance should assuage those worries.

The old man “guarding” Partners is hardly a deterrent.

Second, the message has been sent. We are scared of you. We will gladly hand over all our possessions and/or souls at the sight of a “black coat with brown fur trim”—let alone shiny steel.

Lasdy, due to our inept and unreliable Safeßides program, students often find themselves stuck walking alone from offcampus houses and venues. Most of these students have been drinking. It’s not rocket science. Grab and go, baby.

I hope you have found this helpful. GoodLuck!

Sincerely,

Daniel Belzer 21 Meadowlark Rd. Durham, N.C. 27705

(It’s the house with all the SUVs and we keep the front door unlocked.)

Dan Belzer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Thursday.

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of us who arrived on campus prior to Fall 2006 selves are the ones who need help. Although Duke outwardly remember the Uniand controversially intervened on behalfofresidents of Trinversity’s purchase of ity Park—who have only a proximate connection to the Uni12 housesand three vacant versity—it has thus far refused to do the same for us. lots immediately adjacent Instances of police misconduct are as well-documented and to East Campus. perhaps more numerous than those of student misbehavior At the time, the Univerin the areas surrounding East Campus. Such incidents range sity was forthright about from differentialtreatment apparent from data on multiple arthe primary motive behind «* rests to numerous violations ofstudents’ constitutional rights. the $3.7-million deal: stopThere’s the oft-told tale of DPD Sgt. Mark Gottlieb, who elliott wolf arrested 10 times more Duke students than he did other ping parties in the Trinity Park neighborhood that members of the community, and his alleged criminal misq.e.d. attracted the ire of neighhandling of the lacrosse investigation. There’s also tales bors, Durham Police Deof 2005 ALE raids that netted more than 140 students for partment officers and Alcohol Law Enforcement agents. underage alcohol possession in violation of the students’ Following increased on-campus enforcement of the Fourth and 14th Amendment rights. drinking age and the arrival of residence coordinators in Although Gottlieb was recendy reassigned in order to 2003, hundreds of students flocked to house parties in the prevent further interactions with Duke students, such incidents continue. surrounding community that lasted long into the night.

“If the students had been angels and had parties not [exAccording to court records and the individuals involved, ceeding] 20 in number, this would not have happened,” said ALE agents followed, pulled over, individually interrogated JeffPotter, Duke’s director ofreal estate administration. (without counsel) and cited four students on the basis of their To prevent similar occurrences, Duke required the “youthful appearance” and the purchase of beer by the two new owners to sign covenants obliging them to occupy the 21-year-old students riding in the car. After a short hearing in houses themselves (i.e., not rent them to students) and December, a North Carolina District Court judge ruled that work with the University to develop and execute a plan to the detainment of the students occurred in contravention of rehabilitate the damage done by decades of neglect. the Fourth Amendment and threw out the charges.

Now, nearly two years after the February 2006 purchase, Although Duke is not in a position to prevent every occurthe University has unloaded all of the properties except rence of police misconduct perpetrated against its students, for the house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. “Of the 12 houses, it could express some interest before and after the fact we’ve sold nine of them, two are under contract and one is Unfortunately, Duke has never made a single public rather infamous,” Potter said. statement condemning any specific action by DPD or ALE. With the near-completion of the deal, we also now know In addition, the Office of Judicial Affairs has adjudicated the full cost of the transaction. every student cited by Gottlieb, other DPD officers or AT E Potter said Duke expects to earn a total of $2.4 million in violation of their rights. from the sale of the houses, constituting a $1.2-million loss.

If anything, Duke is making the situation worse by proIf the $3.6 million spent on the houses had been invested viding law enforcement officers with a means to punish in our endowment, it would have grown to $5.4 million students without treating them fairly or respecting basic today, adding an opportunity cost of approximately $l.B constitutional rights. million to the entire transaction.

As is the case in Trinity Park, one group (this time, law All in all, the University spent $3.1 million and provoked enforcement), is harming another (this time, the students), the ire of the undergraduate population in order to turn and the University is in a position to intervene. Having set around the properties. This was a cost that was almost enthe precedent that it did in 2006, the University’s reluctirely home by the students. Money that could have been tance to act in this matter is all the more distressing. used for our benefit was spent on the transaction; houses Academic programs, financial aid, new buildings, auxiliary available to seniors wishing to live off-campus are scarcer services and everything else the University affords us are tangible than they were previously; social outlets, frequented by signs ofDuke’s monumental commitment to undergraduates. hundreds of students, were eliminated.

I just wish chutzpah could be included in that list as well.

But the deal is done, and the costs are sunk.

Of current import is the University’s unwillingness to take Elliott Wolf is a Trinity senior. His column runs every such costly and controversial steps when the students themother Thursday.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24,2008 I 11

For safety. parking is key

It

is always difficult, when a personal frustration leads

to the consideration of larger systemic issues, to put

one’s own selfish interests aside and focus on the bigger picture So let me air my own little gripe now: I got a $2OO parking ticket last week precisely 16 minutes after I left my car on the curb in front of Few Quadrangle, a favorite spot of many students for unloading groceries and the like.

Beyond the annoyance of the ticket, I’m concerned sarah oWell about the safety issues raised in my experience COliitTin with parking at Duke.

Particularly in light of the tragic death of Abhijit Mahato and the string of robberies near campus recently, safety should be a priority for the Duke administration and students alike. I have found that the parking system at Duke is more than just annoying; it hampers my and others’ sense of security.

Like many other Duke students, I am involved in extracurricular activities that require me to be on campus in the evenings. Living on Central Campus, Ijoin my neighbors and the many off-campus students who find that the availability of parking on West is limited to an extreme. Sometimes students feel they have to choose between parking illegally—and praying they won’t get a ticket—and parking where they have to walk a distance in the dark. As a 5’2,” 20-year-old female, this is not one of my favorite activities and doesn’t measure up to any standard ofsafety for any student.

I know that Duke students are talented at complaining but not always at seeking alternatives to problematic situations. Since I’m trying to push a real issue here and not just achieve some kind of whining catharsis for myself, I’ve thought of a few possible remedies to the issue of parking and campus safety. In the spirit of fairness and cooperation—the latter being especially important to security—l have some recommendations for the powers that be at Duke and for myself and my fellow students.

To the Duke administration, Duke University Police Department, Parking and Transportation Services and anyone else important: There seems to me to be many parking lots on West Campus that are restricted to special passes. Why not open these up to students in the evenings, when the normal workday is over and those of us who don’t live on West come to participate in groups and activities? More options for parking close to campus could help avoid dangerous situations and make campus security’s job easier.

Also, I know that buses are an alternative to driving for those of us who live on East and Central, but especially on Central, those bus stops feel awfully remote and unprotected. Well-lit bus stops with visible security patrol nearby would make me, for one, feel much more comfortable taking a C 4 in the evenings rather than driving.

Finally—and this goes not just for parking but for all campus rules—enforcement needs to be consistent if it is to be effective. I can’t count how many times I’ve used that fateful curb in front of Few for brief parking needs, and yet it took a year and a half for anyone even to mention that I couldn’t do that—and it took the form of a $2OO ticket. If I had received a warning a year and a half ago, I never would have parked there again.

And now for the students: Seeing as how parking on West would still be limited even if more lots were open, try and minimize the number of cars invading campus in the evenings. Carpool. Ask a friend on her way to run an errand to drop you off, then bum a ride home. Ride the bus if you feel comfortable. I know that there are times when you need a car on campus, but if it can be avoided, that’s one more parking spot for someone else and one less headache for you.

Also, where parking rules are enforced consistently, we students need to obey them. I know some of those reserved spots look tempting when you’re late for class, but are five minutes really worth a citation?

Again, this isn’t just about parking—safety on campus means that rules need to be enforced, but they also need to be followed. We can’t expect to be kept safe by campus security if we don’t help them out a little. Safety requires cooperation on both sides.

And yeah, my appeal was rejected. I’m out $2OO bucks, but maybe with a little help we can all make this campus safer—and maybe avoid parking fines, too.

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Sarah Howell is a Trinity junior.

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