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back to the basics, get back to fundamentals, get back to thinking that it’s practice. You got to go out and play right.”

Like they have all year, the Blue Devils successfully executed their coach’s instructions. Following a critical faceoff win by sophomore Sam Payton out of the timeout, Duke controlled the ball behind third-seeded Virginia’s cage and milked away the time standing between them and a repeat ACC tournament title to capture the crown 11-9.

Although the Blue Devils (15-1) reveled in the victory after the final whistle, they were also grateful to escape with their first tight win of the season.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. When Duke head coach John Danowski called a timeout in the closing minutes of Sunday’s ACC tide game against Virginia, he wanted to calm his players’ nerves.

After all, top-seeded Duke had just watched its commanding 11-3 lead disintegrate into a slim two-goal advantage.

“Relax,” Danowski said as his UVA jL. players huddled

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The coach and former playerwho helped establish Duke as a basketball powerhouse is headed to the Duke of the West.

Johnny Dawkins, men’s basketball associate head coach, accepted Stanford’s offer to become the Cardinal head coach Saturday, ending an 11-year tenure on the Duke bench Dawkins, an assistant coach for two seasons from 1997 to 1999, spent the last nine years as head coach Mike Johnny Dawkins Krzyzewski’s top associate. The former Blue Devil superstar graduated in 1986, setting the school record for most career points. He .held the scoring crown until 2006, when he was surpassed by JJ. Redick. A member of the Duke Sports Hall of Fame, Dawkins also had his No. 24 Jersey retired.

“In my 28 years at Duke, no one did more to build our program as a player, coach or a person than Johnny Dawkins,” Krzyzewski said in a statement. “He is as responsible as

TheBlue Devils celebrate their 11-9 win over Virginia in the ACC tournament final Sunday in Charlottesville, Va.Duke saw an 11-3 edge turn into a two-goal game in the last minute before hanging on for the win.

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Third Eye Blind's lead singer Stephan Jenkins performs for the Last Day ofClasses Wednesday on the Main West Quadrangle.The alternative rock band headlined a day-long concert that alsofeatured CarbonLeaf,The Rootsand Frontiers, a Journey cover band. SEE PAGE 8.

The Interfraternity Council will begin the process of expanding its membership to include two new fraternities next semester, an IFC press release announced Thursday.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Sigma Pi fraternity were selected after a nine-month search process that included written submissions from 10 national fraternities, said IFC Executive Vice President Jordan Giordano, ajunior who chaired the expansion committee; The IFC community voted to expand its membership last fall, Giordano said. He added that this year’s IFC rush made it clear that more fraternities were necessary.

“In the last round of recruitment there were 140 men who did not get a bid from any group, which shows that there is certainly demand for more fraternities,” he said.

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SCIENCE/TECH WORLD NEWS U.S. NEWS Austrian man daughter holds*rapes Gene therapy restores vision Hundreds flee SoCal wildfires

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candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that race is not the reason he is struggling to attract working-class votes and insisted he can win over uncommitted superdelegates by showing he is "best able to not just defeat John McCain, but also lead the country."

Obama also brushed asidea challenge from Hillary Rodham Clinton to debate before the May 6 primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.

"I'm not ducking. We've had 21 debates," he saidinaninter-

VIENNA, Austria A woman who went was found by police over the 1984 missing in and told that she had investigators weekend been held by her father in a cellar, where she was repeatedly raped and gave birth to at least six children, police said Sunday.

Authorities said that the father may have told acquaintances and relatives that his daughter had joined a cult and disappeared.

Police said the father, Josef F., and his wife had been raising three of their daughter's children.The otherthree grew up in the cellar.

Scientists for the first time NEW YORK have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development experts called a major advance for the experimental technique.

Some vision was restored in four of the six young people who got the treatment, teams of researchers in the United States and Britain reported Sunday. Two of the volunteers who could only see hand motions were able to read a few lines of an eye chart within weeks.

3 killed in attack on Afghan prez ENTERTAINMENT "Baby Mama"delivers in top spot Militants firing rockKABUL, Afghanistan ets and automatic rifles attacked the Afghan president at a ceremony in Kabul Sunday, miss-

ing their target but killing three and wounding eight others.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault that sent President Hamid Karzai and foreign ambassadors scurrying for cover, underscoring the fragile grip of his U.S.-backed government.

ned fire as a 21-gun salute capital at an anniversary eerie mujahedeen victory over the n of Afghanistan.

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Continental Chairman and CEO Lawrence Kellner said that the Houston-based airline was better offalone than merging.

LOS ANGELES "Baby Mama," Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Universal Pictures laugher starring the "Saturday Night Live"duo crawled past Warner Bros.'"Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay," the goofy stoner flick that opened at N0.2 with $14.6 million.

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It sounds like her info is locked down and airtight.Butisit?

Turns out, even the privacy-conscious hand over personal information to perfect strangers. They do so every time they download and install what's known as an "application," one of thousands of mini-programs on a growing number of social networking sites that are designed by third-party developers.

Early Move-in Fall 2008 Student groups who participate in First-Year Orientation or who perform an essential university function prior to regular upperclass move-in on Thursday, August 21,2008 may be eligible for early move-in.

The deadline to request early move-in for a group is Friday, May 23,2008.

Have your group advisor visit rlhs.studentaffairs.duke.edu to apply!

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An early season SIERRA MADRE, Calif. wildfire slowly chewed its way through dense brush near Los Angeles Sunday, forcing more than 1,000 people from homes in thefoothills.

More than 400 firefighters attacked the 350acre fire, aided by two helicopters and waterdropping air tankers, said Elisa Weaver of the Arcadia Fire Department. Residents evacuated at least 550 homes Saturday night and Sunday, but none had burned.

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Dan Utech (left) and JasonGrumet (middle)—environmental advisers to presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, respectively—discussed theircandidates' positions on sustainabilityFriday in Love Auditorium.

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The environmental platforms of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are more alike than they are different, their respective environmental advisers said Friday afternoon when they spoke in Love Auditorium.

The May 6 Democratic presidential primaries in North Carolina have brought a flood of campaign efforts to the Triangle area.

Friday’s discussion, hosted by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the Nicholas School of the

Environment and Earth Sciences, was sandwiched between Chelsea Clinton’s visit to Duke last Tuesday and Obama’s planned visit to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tonight.

Dan Utech and Jason Grumet, environmental advisors to Clinton and Obama, respectively, spoke to a large crowd of mostly Nicholas School graduate students who gathered to hear the campaign members discuss key election issues including global warming, alternative fuels and marine conservation.

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Three current and former Duke lacrosse players who were not among those indicted in the March 2006 case amended April 18 their civil lawsuit against two of the 45 original defendants—the University and the city of Durham.

The (Durham) Herald-Sun reported Wednesday that senior Ryan McFadyen, Matt Wilson, Trinity ’O6, and Breck Archer alleged in the amended suit that the school was primarily concerned with protecting its image and that Board of Trustees Chair Robert Steel, Trinity ’73, controlled the school’s response.

The amended lawsuit also alleges the police investigation “deliberately avoided” investigative procedures that would have undermined Crystal Mangum’s al-

legations that three players attacked her.

Other defendants in the original lawsuit include former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong and the Durham Police Department.

Attorneys for both sides of the case have agreed to move back the date for Duke and Durham to respond to the allegations tojuly 2. The previous deadline was last Friday.

The original lawsuit, filed by Durham attorney Bob Ekstrand, alleged a conspiracy “to railroad 47 Duke University students as either principals or accomplices based upon the transparently false claim of rape, sexual offense and kidnapping made by a clinically unreliable accuser on March 14, 2006.”

—from staff reports

Judge delays decision on Nifong case Federal Bankruptcy Judge William Stocks has delayed a decision on whether former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong’s bankruptcy filing will stall a civil suit filed against him by three wrongly indicted former Duke men’s lacrosse players, The (Raleigh) News and Observer reported Friday.

Nifong filed for bankruptcy in January, putting theplayers’ lawsuit on hold. He appeared before Stocks Thursday morning asking that the players’ charges be tried in bankruptcy court. Nifong’s attomeyjim Craven told the judge the trial would be quicker and more cost efficient, according to a report Thursday on NBCl7.com.

Stock told Craven he would proceed with a single trial as long as the lawsuit did not include personal injury, The N&O re-

ported. Stocks noted that case law suggested personal injury cases should be heard in federal district court.

Attorneys for Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, Trinity ’O6, said they believe the case is a personal injury case.

“My client has had his reputation tarnished and has endured emotional and mental distress in this ordeal,” Seligmann ’s attorney David Rudolf said, according to NBCl7.com. Nifong has said he does not think he owes “any of the three men a penny.”

The judge gave both parties two weeks to gather briefs. Documents from attorneys are due back in front of the judge May 9.

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Cable 13 will see its budget increase by SI6K to approximately S66K after facing cuts this year. Other Union committees to face budget changes include Major Speakers—up s2lK—and Marketing—down S6K.

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Duke University Union’s annual budget for the 2008-2009 academic year will see an overall increase in funds—a change that will allow for growth in both larger campuswide events and smaller niche programming, DUU officials said.

Next year’s budget will increase by approximately $43,308, raising the total to $633,000. As a result, it will be possible to cover the full needs of several committees, said President Chamindra Goonewardene, a junior.

He said the Union was able to strike an appropriate balance between large events, committees that cater toward smaller audiences and the Union’s own media committees. Smaller committees like Jazz at the Mary Lou, Freewater Productions, Campus Concerts and Smalltown Records all received funding that would cover their full need, according to the budget statement.

“1 don’t think anybody was shorthanded,” Goonewardene said. “I think most committees got the amount of money they wanted, so we can look forward to a good year of programming.”

The most significant budget cut was in the Marketing Committee, which had a budget drop to $lO,OOO from $16,500. The cut was made because this past year’s allocation was considered to be too large, said Executive Vice President Bryant Moquist, a junior.

Major Attractions, LiveEnt, Joe College Day and Special Projects all will receive the same amount of money as this past year, Union officials said. The Major Speakers Committee was allocated the largest budget increase, with a jump from $20,000 to

$41,250.

The budget also includes a $16,000 in-

crease for Cable 13, which suffered from budget cuts last year and has needed equipment repairs and a “long-overdue studio renovation,” according to the budget statement.

“We now have money to repair equipment, so it’s like we finally have a load off our shoulders,” said Cable 13 President Jonathan Karp, a senior. “We finally got our

priorities straight.”

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Senior Ashley Flucas, who took “Separation/Inclusion” and “The Press and

William Raspberry, Knight professor of the practice of journalism and public Public Interest” with Raspberry, said he policy studies, is retiring this month after often used engaging hypothetical situaspending more than 13 years at a post he tions in order to illustrate his points. ”He takes what you say and uses it to intended to keep only for five.

“I’ve had two jobs in my life—both of forward the conversation,” Flucas said.

Flucas added that his Socratic-style them were the best jobs in the world for me,” he said. teaching took some getting used to, but it Before beginning kept classes interesting. his career as a professor, Sophomore Katie Stiner, who took Raspberry’s “Separation/Inclusion” class, Raspberry was a columsaid she considered Raspberry’s teaching nist for the Washington Post, a job he held for style rather unique.

“It was interesting that you never really nearly 40 years undl his retirement in 2005. knew what he thought about a topic,” she When he signed on to said. “But, because of that, I learned how Duke’s faculty, he was I felt about a lot of issues I hadn’t fresh off winning the thought about before.”

1994 Pulitzer Prize for Raspberry said he plans to spend his William Raspberry retirement doing memoir-type writing Commentary.

“Duke gave me a chance to try [teaching] and working closely with Baby Steps, a without retiring,” he said, noting that he had program he launched in August 2003, designed to teach parents of preschool previously considered teaching in retirement His post at the University allowed him children in his hometown of Okolona, Miss., how to prepare their kids for to continue living in Washington, D.C. learning.

Raspberry said teaching seemed worth“Generally, those who come unprewhile because it afforded the opportunity to impart things he had learned. “You pared to school do so because of what fails to hapthink you know pen at home,” some things you life—jobs in my “I’ve had two would like to pass Raspberry said, both of them were the best on,” he said, adding that he hopes to end a During class, me.” the world for jobs in said generational cyRaspberry he tries to take William Raspberry cle of disadvantaged children away a variety of public policy professor and different views by improving from his stuWashington Post columnist their learning dents. prospects.

Raspberry “Being said he hopes around bright young people whose view of the world is to eventually duplicate the program in differentfrom my own helps me to collect similar communities elsewhere. different vantage points on the world,” he said. “I try not to correct their views, or

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HIV center to partner on research The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology located at Duke University recently announced its collaboration with the privately funded International AIDS Vaccine Initiative to strengthen the fight against AIDS. CHAVI, which draws researchers from Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 30 other universities, and lAVI agreed to work together under the belief that the need to find a cure for HIV/ AIDS was too great for solitary research.

The collaboration between CHAVI and lAVI will bring together government, foundation and private-donor funding to fight a disease that has killed more than 25 million people since the early 1980s.

CHAVI Director Dr. Barton Haynes, who is also a professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, said one of the main benefits of the partnership is that larger studies that take a long time to complete can now be donefaster with combined data from CHAVI and lAVI. Under the agreement, subjects from CHAVI and lAVI whose bodies respond to HIV in a similar manner will be combined into a much bigger sample group to allow researchers to perform genetic tests and see how the virus is controlled, he said.

“That’s the point of the partnership—to quit competing directly,” Haynes said.

“We’re going to combine studies [and] share any credit that comes with the goal of answering the question faster.”

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Student charged with DWI Durham Police Department officers charged a senior with driving while intoxicated Saturday morning after the student lost control ofhis car and crashed into a tree.

He had been driving 80 mph on Buchanan Street, where the speed limit is 30 mph. Although he was not wearing a seat belt, he suffered only minor injuries from the wreck and was soon released from the hospital. No one else was hurt in the incident.

Senior Jonathan Feinberg is one of three men minoring in women's studies.There are no male majors.

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Senior Jonathan Feinberg was browsing through ACES to bookbag classes for his second semester freshman year when he found the perfect course.

“There was a class called ‘Money, Sex and Power,’ and I thought to myself, those are three great things. I gotta be in that class,” he said.

After his first experience in the women’s studies department, Feinberg was hooked.

Currently, Feinberg and fellow seniors Andrew Booth and Nick Arrive

are the only undergraduate men pursuing minors in women’s studies.

The last male women’s studies major graduated in 2006, said Lillian Spiller, administrative coordinator for the women’s studies department. The departments currendy has 19 majors and 18 minors.

“It is important to consider the fact that this is a relatively small program with a small major and minor, and so the percentage of male-female students is perhaps more important than the numbers themselves,” Ranjana Khanna, SEE STUDIES ON PAGE 7

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A male student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hit a female Duke student on the head during the last Day of Classes celebration Wednesday. The Duke student obtained a warrant from die magistrate’s office after die suspect was idendfied.

Catalytic vanishing act Two graduate students were robbed of the catalytic converters from their cars Thursday while the vehicles were parked in the gravel lot near Duke University Road and Anderson Street.

Miniature theft A golf cart belonging to Residential Life and Housing Services was stolen Thursday from the Union and Towerview lot. The cart was later found.

Punches on the Plaza Two contract employees were issued trespass warnings for engaging in minor physical affray on the West Campus Plaza Wednesday.

Mirror, mirror on the... floor?

A mirror in the men’s restroom in the Bryan Center was found shattered on the floor early Thursday morning.

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ENVIRONMENT fro. pages Both speakers addressed the need for alternative energy sources, including corn-based fuels, cleaner-burning coal and farm waste.

They added that the energy problems facing the United States are also issues for the world at large. Keeping jobs in the U.S. and working with other countries in a respectable manner to improve environmental standards is crucial, they said.

“We have to work with them and not suggest that lowcarbon living comes at the cost of healthcare, education, etc.,” Grumet said.

The speakers also focused on the availability of water, which is important to North Carolina in light of the recent drought.

“There are two issues: supply and quality,” Utech said when listing the environmental damages done by the Bush administration. “There’s a lot of work to do to reverse the damage that’s been done.”

When it comes to global changes, Grumet insisted that

“We need a president who’s going to shake the Etch a Sketch pretty hard,” he said Utech outlined Clinton’s record of accomplishment in the Senate and her membership in the Committee on Environment and Public Works. He also encouraged interested students to come to Washington, D.C., to help tackle environmental issues, such as the ones the candidates hope to address if elected.

“We do face enormous challenges, but I’m very optimistic about what the future holds,” Utech said.

Grumet said Obama plans to control greenhouse gas emissions by allowing people and companies to buy the resources that they specifically needed in order to reduce wasted energy resources.

He stressed that environmental conservation is a specific challenge for the upcoming generation and that although the government needs to increase its efforts, the challenge is ultimately up to individuals.

“This is a different scope and scale than anything we’ve ever come up against,” he said. “I think there’s a real yearning in this country to be involved.”

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SAE will begin its recolonization process in Spring 2009 and Sigma Pi will most likely begin to colonize in Spring 2011, said IFC President Lee Hathaway, a junior.

“Sigma Alpha Epsilon is going to have a presence on campus in the Fall just getting the word out and publicizing that they will be recolonizing in the Spring,” he said.

Hathaway said no membersof the off-campus fraternity, Alpha Delta Phi—formerly chartered as SAE—would be able to join the new SAE chapter at Duke.

“They made that decision to join Alpha Delta Phi,” he said. “The last SAEs to join SAE graduated in 2005, so none of the current members were ever initiated under SAE. This new Sigma Pi group is looking only for unaffiliated men.”

SAE’s strong alumni network was one factor that impacted its selection, according to the press release. SAE was on campus at Duke from 1931 to 2002.

“Some of them have been very strong supporters or contributors to Duke over the years,” said SAE Regional Alumni Volunteer John Stringfellow, who helped compile a presentation to IFC. Hathaway said Sigma Pi Sigma Alpha Epsilon brought current student members of the fraternity from North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University to present their program offerings to IFC. “Sigma Pi was incredibly impressive, and they really pushed commitment to taking a group of diverse people,” he said.

Stringfellow said SAE wanted to recolonize a chapter at Duke to counteract some of the negative publicity of the former chapter that was removed by the IFC. He said despite the large number of SAE legacies who are current members of Alpha Delta Phi, none of these students could be initiated into another fraternity according to national policy. Stringfellow added that he does not expect members of Alpha Delta Phi would want to join the new SAE chapter.

Giordano said the strong alumni base was not the only reason SAE was selected, but he added that both fraternities offered impressive courses and campus improvement projects.

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“We have certainly considered the name change, as have most of the top-rated programs of this kind.”

Booth said the name of the department Margaret Taylor Smith director ofwomen’s studies, wrote in an e-mail. might not be the only thing keeping male Even so, the three men said they were students away. far outnumbered by female peers.

“I think it has something to do with ho“If you’re a guy, you’re not expected mophobia,” he said. “It’s kind of crappy to be interested in something like that,” that that’s away that illegitimately discourBooth said. “Honestly, it almost happened ages people from giving it a try.” by mistake. Before I knew it I had three But often being the only man in a class cross-listed courses, so I decided that two full of female students has not phased more was worth it. I never really originally them, Booth and Feinberg said. intended to be a women’s studies minor.”

“It never really felt that weird,” Feinberg Feinberg said he has tried to encourage said. “Sometimes there would be a situation male friends to where a teacher enroll in womwould say some“It never really felt that en’s studies classthing like, ‘All right es but without ladies’.... When I weird.... When I wasn’t there, wasn’t there, they much success.

Booth would know it. It was and they would know it. It was hard to skip class.”

Feinberg agreed hard to skip class.” that changing He added that the name of the Feinberg he never felt mardepartment to ginalized or preswomen’s studies minor sured to represent “gender studies” his entire gender. might attract a noted, more Booth genderbalanced pool of students however, that he occasionally feltresponsible “The word ‘women’ is almost pejorawhen learning about women’s oppression. tive among men,” Booth said. “By calling “Being a white male, there’s always this it ‘women’s,’ it’s actually possessive. I can sense of guilt that always comes with learnsee how it could not strike a man’s interest ing about subjugation,” he said. “But that’s when he’s going through ACES.” not to say that just because you belong to But administrators in the department this group, you yourself are not sympathetic or hopeful.” say a name change is not likely.

“I think students who are interested in Booth said women’s studies can benefit the program and are not coming in with students of both genders and that he has had an extremely rewarding experience preformed prejudice will not have a problem about the name, whether they are men with the department. or women, and as the academic side ofuni“Of all the courses I have taken at Duke, versities cannot ethically become corporanone have been more practical in terms tions marketing their offering to clients, I of my relationships and my perceptions,” do not think changing the name to attract he said. “In that way, it has been the most a clientele is a good policy,” Khanna said. gratifying thing I’ve ever indulged in.”

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BUDGET from page 4 Cameron Indoor Stadium, broadcasting University basketball games and providing opportunities for students to produce their own television shows as endeavors Cable 13 would take on next year.

The Coffeehouse received $6,000 more than this past year, and there are plans to refurbish the facility and increase its marketing campaign. Freewater Presentations was also allocated additional money because the committee plans to provide a Tuesday night film series.

A $7,000 leadership fund will be used next year to allow committee leaders to experience how professional programming bodies work outside of a university campus, Goonewardene said.

“DUU is a programming organization, but it’s also a development organization, in my opinion,” he said. “It gives you the opportunity to do something you can’t do anywhere else, like the opportunity to work with a record label, a radio station or a television station.”

The budget’s distribution between individual committees was approved by the University Union Board, which is DUU’s executive board, Goonewardene said.

He added that costs for large-scale programming events were rising year by year.

“Things are getting more and more expensive, and a band of the same caliber today would cost more than a band of the same quality two years ago,” Goonewardene said.

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My Family

My husband Clay and I have three children. Eliza graduated from Durham School of the Arts last year and is completing her first year at the College of Charleston. Travis is a ninth-grader at Durham School ofthe Arts, and Sam is a seventh-grader at Brogden Middle School.

Who I am

Active volunteer in Durham Public Schools through site-based committees and Parent Teacher Associations.

Current President of the Durham School of the Arts Foundation.

Founder and director of Partners for Youth, an award-winning mentoring program forat-risk 1419 year olds, since 1998.

Why I am Running For School Board To ensure that all of Durham’s children attend schools that are safe and nurturing centers for learning, staffed by highly qualified teachers.

To increase the academic achievement of all of our students while continuing to reduce the achievement gap.

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For a large proportion of this campus, I am the “camera guy.”

You may or may not jianghai ho have seen me appear at everything from senior column parties to protests over the past few years. And I hope that I’ve made an impact and that some of my photographs have captured fond memories for my friends.

Academically I’ve also been hit and run, majoring in both biology and music, which comes as a shock to many. I’ll admit that it’s a pretty unusual combination of majors. I guess having to switch from thinking about protein folding, Western blots and organogenesis to pondering the compositional process of a 16th century Latin motet and how to best express “Tauperlen heimlich trinken” in song is a suitably difficult challenge that I might not yet have surmounted.

But I digress.

The important thing here is not how many pictures I have taken of DeMarcus Nelson dunking, or how many times I’ve failed to put into practice the use of proper breath support. It’s that I’ve led a hit-and-run college career, and that I’ve emerged happier for it.

Whether or not I could have graduated with higher honors or perhaps compiled a better resume, I have used my four years here to pursue all three of my interests to the fullest, and I’ve grown enormously from the experience. I’ve graduated (pun unintended) from test-tube washer to graduate student, become a decent photographer and learned how to actually read, write and analyze music.

During the past four years, I’ve come to see that what is actually important is that we learn to push ourselves and explore our interests. So if you’ve always wanted to learn how to take pictures,- step out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself by joining the Chronicle’s photography department (shameless plug). If you’ve always wanted to learn how to sing, don’t be shy about auditioning for’lessons at the Department of Music (shameless plug No. 2). Same with anything else—go for it But whatever you do, don’t hide behind the shield of familiarity or inertia, and waste the incredible opportunity that college gives us all.

Seize the opportunity, reach for the sky and hit and run all you want. You might not reach the heavens, but riding high up on a cloud is still pretty darn fabulous.

Jianghai Ho is a Trinity senior and former photography editor ofThe Chronicle. Apart from the fact that he justsigned the next five to seven years of his life into indentured servitude at the graduate school, he is doing very well indeed. He would also like to thank The Chronicle and all the staffphotographersfor all the nom nom norns and pewpew pews.

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What I would have missed I

was a phone call away from never knowing any of you. When springtime rolled around in 2004, acceptance letters arrived in my mailbox from several schools I should have been ecstatic to attend. But there was one that I wanted more than all the others, and when I logged online to see if I had made the cut, I encountered the stomachpunch feeling that comes when you’re placed on a JOiHl IduClGI college waitlist. senior column Mindful of the long odds I faced at Duke, I quickly got over the disappointment and settled on Notre Dame—the school I had been groomed for through 14 years of Catholic education and a lifetime of Irish heritage. With my $5OO deposit, I officially became a member of the Fighting Irish.

But a few days later, the phone rang. Christoph Guttentag, the father of the Duke undergraduate community, had decided he wanted me in his family after all. For me, it was a no-brainer. Despite the cosmic pull I was supposed to feel toward Notre Dame, I knew Duke was where I belonged. Much to the chagrin of my father, who grew up idolizing ND like so many Catholic kids of his generation, I spurned the Golden Dome for the Gothic Wonderland, and haven’t stopped hearing about it since.

Since that day, every once in a while, I wonder what my life would be like had I never received that phone call. And even more so, I sometimes wonder if I made the right decision. I wonder if the kid who would graduate from Notre Dame May 18 would be more capable, more content, a better person and better “armed for life” (as a certain campus celebrity .

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would say), than the kid who will graduate from Duke May 11.

Of course, I will never know. But what I have come to realize is there are certain circumstances and exDuke that I periences that are so never would have had the opportunity to encounter them elsewhere.

If I did not come to Duke, I would have never

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Traveled around the country covering college

sports’ best teams. FSU men’s basketball fans storming the court twice during and after an upset of No. 1 Duke, men’s lacrosse coach John Danowski’s voice quivering as he described what his players meant to him after falling a goal short of the 2007 national title, Justin Papadakis’ back-to-back shootout saves to steal an ACC men’s soccer title from North Carolina—l saw and covered them all first-hand.

Played basketball in Cameron. Even in an intramural game, there is something supremely magical about running between those baselines and competing on the most hallowed stage the game can offer.

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military. I never imagined one of my last assignments for The Chronicle would involve 60 seconds of free fall strapped to an Army paratrooper.

Helped tear down goalposts. After Duke’s 16-13 win over Clemson my freshman year, I sat atop the crossbar until the sheer weight of students sent everything plummeting to the ground. To the girl who broke my fall: Thank you, and I’m sorry.

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Spent a weekend at Myrtle Beach. After the rigors of finals, nothing can substitute for the fulfillment gained from a weekend of bad decisions in the South’s trashiest beach town.

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Experienced a true TAILGATE, the most fantastically irresponsible University-sanctioned event I’ve seen. Considering the cornucopia of spandex and barely clothed beer-soaked bodies at our Saturday

Traversed the Notre Dame Stadium sideline feet from Irish football head coach Charlie Weis.

Actually, I might have experienced that one.

morning ragers, I’m not so sure the ND priests would go for it.

These flashes represent an incredibly small sample of the wealth of experiences I have had at this place.

But flashes define what we will take with us when we leave. They are what make Duke what it has become to each of us.

The only thing I can know for certain, at the end of a college career that almost wasn’t, is that it’s been a hell of a ride. And looking back, though I might change some things, I certainly wouldn’t want to be graduating as anything but a Blue Devil.

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Witnessed the fascinating way people cling to different social groups on this campus. There is something amusingly tragic about the middle-schoolish manner in which many students divide themselves in Duke’s party scene.

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Been involved in covering a major international media event. The lacrosse case touched us all in many different ways, but I will never forget how it brought me to realize the impact words—written, spoken, silenced—can truly have on people’s lives.

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Bring on the rain many people can say their most memorable sports experience occurred while sitting on the concrete floor of a field house restroom. The toilets at Koskinen Stadium, however, were exactly where I found myself on a stormy late-September night, when I leaned back against a clammy cinderblock wall, crossed my legs in front of me and began talking about cancer.

I hadn’t trekked up the hill to Koskinen to do an interview in a bathroom, but the woman ISUTGII KODyldrZ who sat across from me hadn’t come to Durham senior Column that night to sit on a dirty floor, either. Lisa McDonald made the trip to watch her daughter Christie, then a sophomore on the Duke women’s soccer team, play in her first home ACC match since the defender had a tumor removed from the left side of her brain in May. And although I had an interview scheduled with Christie for the next day about her surgery, I was simply there that night to cover the Duke-Boston College game.

The rain changed both of our plans. As the clock began to tick off the last five minutes in the first half, the wind picked up and rain drops started to fall. By the time the buzzer sounded it was pouring buckets.

Even with the halftime break, the ensuing lightning was clearly going to delay the second half, and possibly suspend the game. Most fans packed up and left the stadium for good. Huddled under a leaky scoring tent, I watched as the teams retreated to the locker rooms and spectators scrambled down the bleachers.

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Camaraderie develops pretty quickly when you’re all you want to do is curl up on a couch and watch the camped out with someone next to a row of sinks and clouds move and the sky change colors over the Chapel stalls. During our conversation, Lisa’s candid account steeples. But instead of wrapping up in a warm blanket, I was clutching my windbreaker tightly around my of her daughter’s diagnosis, surgery and recovery enabled me to gain an inside perspective on how Christie shoulders and freezing my toes off. Don’t ever let anyand her family handled the trying events of the past one tell you working for The Chronicle isn’t a tough few months. job sometimes.

Anecdotes and details ranged from serious conIf you truly take advantage of the infinite opportunities Duke affords, Duke is tough. And in my experience—incerns like Lisa’s fear of her daughter’s chance of facial paralysis to humorous recollections of events after clement weather aside—it’s the tough part that makes it the surgery. Over the hammering of rain against the rewarding. roof, there were more stories bounced off the walls of Working at The Chronicle, just like most things I’ve that bathroom than I done at Duke, has could possibly fit into been challenging, but the feature, but the I wouldn’t trade it for The toilets at Koskinen Stadium, easy flow of conversaany other experience. however, were exactly where I found tion increased Lisa’s It’s given me opportucomfort zone nities to take advanmyself on a stormy late-September night, In listening to the tage of the extensive when I leaned back against a clammy woman who knows resources available at cinderblock wall, crossed my legs in front Christie better than this University, and the chance to apprecianybody, I was able of me and began talking about cancer. to get an amazing acate listening to other count of Christie’s people’s stories and learn from them. developments before Most of all, though, it’s taught me that most of the I even met her. More importantly, however, I had the rare opportunity to share a sense of trust with Lisa that time, a little rain never hurt anyone. not only allowed me to better understand her story, but to expose the more human aspects of Christie’s experiLauren Kobylarz is a Trinity senior and the outgoing online ences as well. editor for The Chronicle. She is also a sports associate editor and I had wanted to pack up and go home more than Towerview contributor out

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going to enjoy being a Duke fan again.

For the past three years, I have shut off the part of my brain that pumps endorphins based on pressure man-to-man defense and starting quasi-four corners with eight minutes to go. I have put my fandom on hold.

For the sake of my budding journalistic integrity, I shelved my J-Will jersey and donned the stereotypical sweat-stained polo of an

objective sportswriter.

This wasn’t my plan. michael moore The first lime I even consenior column sidered where I wanted to to was when I college go decided I was going to play point guard for Duke. This proclamation came Feb. 28, 1998, after I’d just watched Wojo and the scrappy Blue Devils knock off the supremely talented Tar Heels in Cameron—still one of the best basketball games I’ve ever seen.

On my high school team, I tried to be a less-talented Shane Battier, which is to say that I clapped a lot and racked up more charges than points. But my Jon Scheyer-like frame and Eric Boaleng-esque quickness somehow did not catch Mike Krzyzewski’s eye. So my plan changed to either being a manager (quickly canned after hearing about the unforgiving schedule

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But as I got addicted to The Chronicle, that plan soon changed. I wanted to impart my infinite knowledge through writing about the team. Now I had a new kind of awe—I was asking Coach K questions.

This new access came with some drawbacks. Now, when I attended games as a student, my friends would yell at me for not jumping up and down. But the impassivity of press row had rubbed off on me, and all I wanted to do was watch the game. I couldn’t openly gag in the media room when visiting writers insinuated that Duke got every call. And I had to consider that Gerald Henderson just might have swung his elbow a little bit, even if I wanted to take a swing myself at the redneck UNC fan who pushed by me and another reporter in his attempt to rush the floor and attack G (an attempt that was quickly halted by a

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But home was the only place fandom really ever came out for me. That was where my brother, the world’s greatest antagonist, would don his UNC shirt and proclaim each Tar Heel a deity after every made shot. At home, I would pull as hard as I could for the Blue Devils, if just to shut him up Now, I’m going into financial journalism, at least for the time being. I’m back, baby. I get to make ridiculous claims about Brian Zoubek’s progress —and believe them; I get to kiss objectivity goodbye and openly express my disdain for Maryland.

There may be a day when I have to turn my fandom off again, but I hope the awe never goes away.

Two years ago, I sat in the Georgia Dome an hour before Duke was to play LSU in the Sweet Sixteen. I heard two writers to my left bellyaching about their travel schedule this time ofyear. My fellow Chronicle writer Alex Fanaroffheard them, too.

“If you ever go on to do this for a living,” he told me, “don’t ever forget how cool it is.”

Somehow, I don’t think I will.

Michael Moore is a Trinity senior. He is the co-editor of Towerview and theformer sports managing editor of The Chronicle.

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The slant-roof cave of 301 Flowers has been my Wednesday night home for the past year. I have spent time slaving away on content and layout, struggling over headlines and captions and worrying over correct AP style and exciting ledes. I can tell you that correct Chronicle style forbids first-person ledes, but this isn’t the Chronicle—this is recess.

For ten volumes, recess has been the campus’ arts and entertainment publication, but the publication almost ended as quickly as it began.

“At first we had no idea what we were doing, we just stumbled through it, we didn’t close till 5 a.m. and I skipped all my classes the next morning,” recess' first editor Adam Winer said about the first night of production during the school year. “The process was so demoralizing I almost walked away from it right there.”

Winer, Trinity ’9B, premiered the weekly section in The Chronicle’s summer sendhome issue for Volume 94. The section replaced the once-popular Chronicle arts section known as R&R, which had suffered a decline in both content and style in its final years. Rather than continue with a failing publication, Winer decided to start from scratch, keeping the focus on arts and entertainment but making it more accessible to readers.

“R&R had become a little too in and just plain bad.... We wan it to be a little more ma stream and not ‘too cool for school,’” Winer said The first years of recess featured a full-page photo on the cover and the articles were written and placed on the page in a more informal fashion, creating a purposeful contrast with the hard news ofThe Chronicle The leadership of recess prid. themselves on their semi-autonomous status and their indie magazine-like style.

However, the appearance of recess took a sharp turn in its sixth year when budget constraints cut the number of pages down from 16 to 12 and, eventually, to eight. Editors Dean Chapman and David Walters, both Trinity ’O4, decided to ditch the cover photo to save room for more content. The aesthetic change was accompanied by a stronger emphasis on arts Journalism with slightly more serious stories. The indie magazine became more like a Chronicle sub-section.

“It became a lot more news-like,” said Chapman, now is his final year at Columbia Law School. “We'

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MMMBoppers explore new sound Breaking down the break time

COURTESY HANSON

Hanson will perform at the Carolina Theatre in Durham on May 7.

Back in the summer of 1997, three bright-eyed teenagers dominated the airwaves with the infectious pop song “MMMBop.” Hanson has since put out three more albums, created their own record label, 3CG, and started their own charity project to help bring shoes to Africa.

Currently, the trio is touring around the country playing music from 2007’s The Walk. Taylor Hanson recently took a break from the band’s busy schedule to talk to recess' Andrew Hibbard.

Could you address more specifically what makes the record unique?

What you hear, obviously, right from the beginning of the record is two very unique things. One is just the chant of the African children’s choir. It sets the mood in a very

different way. That is partly something that influences the whole process. So that’s just the tone. It’s something different. And then musically, the sound of “Great Divide,” the sound of “Blue Sky,” songs like “Tearing It Down,” “Something Going Round,” I think those songs, they’re driven by sort of a musical riff or really the sound of the band playing together, kind of playing offeach other and it being really musically identifiable. The energy that’s on “Great Divide” —we talked about creating an identity not only with our voices or lyrics but wanting people to hear the record and be like ‘Oh, that sounds like Isaac Hanson the guitar player’ or ‘Oh, that sounds like Taylor Hanson’ the keyboard player.’ You hear it in style and in a tone that is unique just as players, just as guys in a band, not necessarily as vocalists, which I think is one of the more obvious calling cards of the band. So that was one of the things that came through and it comes to life more in songs like “Great Divide,” “Tear It Down,” and “Blue Sky.” The tone of those songs is a little darker and a little more pointed and it comes from just a lot of energy of us playing together and really just us wanting to sort of come out of this record with drop swinging.

In the decade-plus that you have been in the music industry, you’ve seen a lot of changes, from the decline of the record industry to the rise of piracy, music blogs, digital music and also personal changes. How have all these factors affected the way you make music?

I think it’s made me realize there’s so much out there.

The experience you create for your fans and the quality you put on your record and the connection you have with the music is that much more important because you really have to captivate people and you have to keep them with you. And I think that as a band we’ve gone through all kinds of changes in the business, but we’ve just tried to never follow, to never look at what was happening and SEE HANSON ON PAGE

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For those who need to take a breather or are fortunate enough to dodge the woes of having four finals crammed into Hell Week, look into the shows (Arcade Fire!) that are taking place in and around Durham. Fact: there is more to this city than Ninth Street and Shooters. For those ofyou sticking around for the summer, don’t look so miserable just yet. Below are highlights of some local events taking place in the next couple months.

Change does rock Even Canadians love Barack Obama. Rock giants Arcade Fire and Chapel Hill-locals Superchunk will be playing for the Obama Early Vote Rallies in Greensboro and Carrboro, May 1 and 2 respectively. Dubbed the “Change Rocks” concert, Obama is encouraging college students to partake in One-Stop Early voting, which allows unregistered and first-time voters to register and vote all at once. Tickets are free, but they must be picked up at one of the early-voting locations designated on Obama’s North Carolina Web site. As Win Butler of Arcade Fire stated, “This is a defining moment for this country. We want to encourage people to get up, get out and go vote.” Rocking out to politics has never sounded so good.

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5:30 p.m.: Vanin has “already been in the office for four hours.” Alex has not yet arrived; layout pages are missing; David Graham is fuming. Things are right on schedule.

6:15: Bryan Sayler arrives with all the music reviews and features set but one... which has yet to be written.

6:20: Irem begins to work on photos (read: snatch pics from Google). She promptly informs Baishi that she has a formal to gel to and needs to leave by 9 p.m.

The two break open a beer and get to work.

6:35: Alex arrives in lime to see Sayler heading out. We have little to no idea what is running in the paper tomorrow.

6:45: Alex heads out for “a quick dinner.” Irem starts watching Gossip Girls.

7:03: Nancy and Varun licgin a cat-fight about the China-Tibet issue. Spuming more traditionalargument styles, the two communicate solely through bird calls. Baishi wins.

8:45; Alex returns. He and Varun play darts to decide which stories to run.

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abouthowfar behind everything is. Alex gets pissy and sulks for (lie next hour. A mound of paper shifts in die back room to reveal a napping film editorAndrew Hibbard.

11:15: After a series of furtive-yetlonging glances, Alex and Varun hug it out. Scan Moroney nods approvingly.

11:36: The Recess staff is graced, midway dirough check-listing, with the silky smoodi presence of His Lordship David Graham. David precedes to correct all of Alex’s mistakes, netde Varun with slight jibes and, muttering somediing about [INSERT JAZZ PIANIST HERE ], disappears.

1:26 a.m.: Six restarted computers and two nervous break-downs later, Varun and Alex ask Sean for help.

1:27: Pages are sent! Another week of near-disaster has been artfully avoided courtesy of your friendly, neighborhood recess staff.

—Alex Warr

These are the last words that I will write for the Chronicle.

Well, technically not true. I mean, I am writing all of these words that appear after that ominous statement—and not to mention that I haven’t started on the feature that is going to appear on page one.

Also, I figure that even though I am about the leave the Chronicle, it will not necessarily leave me for a while. Maybe I will write a column next year as a “hip recent grad talking about the ‘real world.’” When I am 70,1 will surely construct a rant-y diatribe about the “good of days” and how real news stories involve strippers and lacrosse players.

This year, for me and recess, has been full of good memories. It made me realize that while I can often write a funny line, I am definitely not a consummate journalist. I look back at some of the past Editors—David Walters, Greg Veis, Adam Winer—who all have great arts and entertainment journalism ca-

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reshape our band for a particular style or trend. I think the evolution we have made is to try to cater more and more to feeling our core fan base, feeling our live touring and our approach with our fans around the world that are the ones who have stuck around since the beginning. So our thinking and our approach has always been music first; stay focused on it, slay focused on the best possible quality and delivering that over and over. And as we go forward and see all these changes in the music business, I think we’ve just said it’s that much more important to stay involved and engaged with our fans, to slay focused on putting don’t have any people within the company out great records, to not get lazy. to tell them what a sure thing is. So bands You chronicled the experience of leaving Island/Def Jam and forming 3CG with have to decide, do you self-destruct and your documentary, Strong Enough to Break. stay in this world or wait for the business you have found yourself in try and help How was that experience? we’re yourself succeed or do you branch out and That documentary was something really proud of. It was kind of an accident look for other alternatives? Ultimately, our because when we started that process, story came down to us saying, “We can’t do we didn’t know for sure what was going this. We can’t spend two and half years on a rap label that doesn’t have an interest to unfold. We had had tensions with the label and it had been building. The film in this band’s career." We made the decireally began showing the process that a lot sion to part ways. What was important to of bands go through with a lot of major the film for us for people from the outside labels, which is disjointed. You’re dealing and also other artists was to realize that with people that don’t have a background this luis been kind of an epidemic of the in music. There’s a waste of money and music business. Bands and labels just betime that goes on. The story shows our ing unable to work together because the one example of what goes on that many system has become so corporate. People bands have gone through, which was aren’t willing to lake risks because they're not paying attention to the bands they ‘Wow, here we are writing songs endlesshave signed and understanding what the and ly without a goal, spending money goals are. two and half to over years trying spending Do you hope at any point to expand get an album made and ultimately sort of 3CG to more artists? the the that crossroads that says this is way We do. What a label does has become music industry is, this is the way a lot of harder to define because records themlabels operate.’ They’re just kind of waiting around for a good sure thing but they selves are such a limited medium. They

reers and I am kind of awestruck Maybe I should give myself a little more credit. I also don’t feel like I am fit to be a McKinsey business consultant next year —this feeling especially strikes me when Econ students talk about hedge funds and personal investing—but they hired me. I didn’t think I was good enough to be a photographer—but the Chronicle kept asking me to take photos.

I think we are often surprised about how multi-talented and impressive our peel's are, which makes us lose perspective on our own skills. I refused to let my senior column devolve into a sappy advice-fest, but now I feel wistful enough to dispense some parting words.

We are all pretty awesome kids here in the Gothic Wonderland. We can do whatever we want, from saving children to recording rock albums, if we just take the time to reach for it.

Now I am going to go gag myself with a spoon for that.

—Varan Leila, Editor... one last time

shouldn’t be as limited as they are but it’s become that way because the outlets for buying records are so unappealing to the audience. For a label, we’re trying to figure out what we are offering to a band and how can we do it well. Our goal has been to really learn from our experience and not sign a band until we can we help offer something that is going to make a difference for a band. The goal is not just to bring other bands in because we want to but we actually want to do it well.

Your work with Africa and TOMS Shoes has been really interesting. How did you get into that and what do you plan on doing in the future?

What we’ve been doing with regard to the barefoot mile walks and just getting people involved in looking at AIDS and poverty in Africa, it really comes down to talking about our generation as those who can lake action directly. We kind of had a realization and it kind of hit a personal core that we really need to try. Everyone has to start with what they have. Our goals have been to continue to host these onemile barefoot walks throughout our tour

and then encourage others to set up those same events in order to bring people together to unify behind not an awareness campaign but action. Each one of us has these simple actions we can take not just in a donation, but in the role we’re each going to play in solving big problems. One of the things was simply providing a pair of shoes. TOMS Shoes is partnered with us. They donate a pair of shoes every time you buy one. Our campaign is about action, so it’s so powerful for people to go buy a pair of shoes and know that that pair of shoes is providing another pair.

We helped TOMS sell over 50,000 pairs of shoes and we were really honored to bring over those shoes after the last tour in November and deliver those shoes one at a time. Basically the campaign has been all about unifying individuals behind the idea of poverty in Africa by taking simple actions, and it’s been incredible to see. We really just want to see a growing wave of people finding away to reexamine their ability to make an impact.

What can we expect from your show?

Basically, Hanson shows are—l don’t know how better to say it—it’s a rock ‘n’ roll show. It’s loud. It’s fun. We like to just constantly go and have the audience lose themselves in two hours of music. It’s a mix of everything we’ve put out over the past decade and also songs we’ve been influenced by since the beginning. Mostly, for us, no matter what we’re doing, to talk about independent music or trying to make a difference in Africa, we’re a band. So there’s nothing that replaces the energy of a live performance with passionate fans.

Hanson will play at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach on May 6 and at the Carolina Theatre in Durham on Wednesday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the Myrtle Beach shoiu are $19.50 and $34.00f0r the Durham shoiu.

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Since their good old days with Second City, Saturday Night Lives Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have played their comic genius off one another to great avail, and theirperformances in Baby Mama are no"exception.

In this comedy, written and directed by fellow SNL alum Michael McCullers, Fey and Poehler take their witty partnership to the next level with a little help from modem science.

Kate Holbrook (Fey) is a 37-year-old, successful businesswoman, who has finally decided her single status will have no further bearing on her chance to be a mommy. That is, untilKate leams of her slim chances at adoption and her evidently problematic “T-shaped” uterus. She enlists the help of a surrogacy agency, who for the small sum of $lOO,OOO, will provide her with the oven for her dream bun.

Enter Angie (Poehler), a high-school drop out with a stripper’s wardrobe and many an unwholesome habit—in short, she is white trash personified. Angie prompdy agrees to serve as her surrogate mother. However, Kate gets more than she bargained for when Angie, after discovering that her common-law husband Carl (Dax Shepard) has been sleeping around, shows up on Kate’s doorstep hoping for a place to stay.

As these two women from utterly opposite ends of the social spectrum try to cohabitate, the audience recognizes the time-old tale of conflicting characters who end up learning a lot from one another. Yet, while tire plot may be cliche, Fey and Poehler, along with the aid of SNL veteran Steve Martin (who plays Fey’s hilarious tree-hugging boss), provide the film with comedic charm that steers it away from uniformity. Some of the twists in the plot do seem a bit forced, while certain moments with great comedic potential are not stretched far enough (look for: birthing class teacher with speech impediment).

However, Baby Mama is truly refreshing in its highly atypical exploration offemalefriendships and similarly as an innovative commentary on the issues facing the modem woman and family. Fey and Poehler make this highly controversial topic digestible with laughter and bring a feminine freshness to the frenzy of Apotowian testosterone that dominates the genre today. Whoever said women aren’t funny owes these hormonal comedi-femmes a serious apology.

—Emily Ackerman

associated with Hollywood. Killer threatening via phone call? Check. Signing a bankable star to play die same role, but in a lesser script?

Check. Rainy Seattle as a backdrop? Check.

It begins with die medculous murder—the sort done with ropes and* pulleys—of a young woman in 1997 Seatde. Jump to die present The psychopathic mind behind the original murder (and subsequent copies) has finally been caught and is on deadi row, mainly because of die testimony of forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm (A1 Pacino). Dr. Gramm, who dons perfecdy messy “academic” hair throughout, teaches criminal psychology to bright students (Leelee Sobicski and The OCs Benjamin McKenzie) at a local graduate university, with the help of his faithful/lustful teaching assistant (Alicia Witt).

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From tons of weed to President Bush to President Bush smoking tons of weed, this sequel to Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle follows the continuing adventures and mishaps of the beloved title characters.

Like the original, Escape from Guantanamo Bay relies heavily on an absurd number of misfortunes for laughs.

Where the first is silly through and through, directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg overlaid heavily political satire to go along with the base comedy this time around.

The movie kicks off when Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) decide to go to Amsterdam to rendezvous with Harold’s major crush, Maria. Things go very awry when they are mistaken for terrorists and are sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. From, there, as the film’s tagline suggests, instead of hitting the joint,

they run from the joint.

Despite their fugitive status, Harold and Kumar still manage to find plenty of time to get high. Being the collegestudent oriented comedy it is, the film features not only cumulus clouds of weed being smoked, but other vices such as mushrooms and drunk driving (both done by Neil Patrick Harris in his cameo, without which this movie wouldn’tbe a proper sequel).

Following the precedent of the first film and flicks such as Eurotrip, this movie features plenty of gratuitous nudity. Whereas a lot of directors only put in topless girls, Hurwitz and Schlossberg satisfy the presumably male audience beyond expectations by featuring bottomless girls too (front and back). That’s not to say this film is sexist, however. There are two ways to accidentally see a pants-less male; audience members should expect the worse way.

Beyond that though, this film does take a semi-serious look at questions of bigotry, racial profiling and post 9/11 America. The fact that it debuted at number two for the weekend illustrates that audiences are able to view these topics without (serious) offense.

—Braden Hendricks

PANDA FORCE

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Even a few decades ago, being known as a “college band” was sort of a qualifying prefix; there is a hint of youthful promise, but there are also lower expectations associated with being pre-professional. The stakes were raised by precocious bands like Dispatch, Phish, MGMT and more recently Vampire Weekend—all bands formed in college. In fact, the concept of a “garage band” is essentially obsolete; with the advent of MySpace and iTunes, bands that would have once remained anonymous have achieved rock star status.

Within the Duke community the music scene is especially vibrant, with standouts such as Stella by Starlight and Smooch and the Big Hug. Another band seeking similar success is Panda Force, whose recent EP, Moon Soccer, shows signs of promise.

If bands’ names were

Before he arrives lo class, however, Jack receives an ominous phone call, and a creepy Scrmmtype voice tells him he has, gasp, 88minutes to live. “Tick lock doc,” the caller says in a mocking voice. Ooh, the caller can rhyme too.

Soon after die threat, lack leams that one of his students was found murdered in the same fashion and the convicted killer (an eerie Neal McDonough) gives an interview on live TV that points the finger at Jack. Jack starts to question his students and all those around him, including his lesbian-friend and secretary Shelley (Amy Brenneman), Special Agent policeman-friend Frank Parks (William Forsythe) and the dean of the school (Deborah Kara Unger). He receives reminders of his remaining dme wherever he goes, whether it be scrawled on his class notes, wiped on his freshly-dewed car or received by phone—via 1-800-DEATH-IS-EMINENT. Jack’s chase through this maze of deception, misinformation and threats might sound exciting, but don’tbe fooled: the plot moves at a hypocritically languid paceand litde suspense is ever successfully built The more intense, dramatic scenes feature some fake and pitiful acting, with the exception of Brenneman, who gives the film’s only memorable performance.

Gramm might be more bewildered by how much money he has amassed as a professor and doctor (he drives a Porshce and has a penthouse apartment) than by all the danger he is in. His character ultimately is a poor and tired version of a Pacino stereotype that has been around for ages and has been perfected. It’s as if Pacino wishes he could justfilm Heat again.

—Charlie McSpadden

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descriptors for their sound, the Soulless Dogs’ new record Loose Canmmry would be a terribly bor-

ing affair. Thankfully, this campus blues/ gospel/jazz/rock/

Though only six songs long, the disc makes an immediate im-

pression

“Just Roll” could be mistaken for a mellower track by Incubus, just as “Lost at Sea” sounds like a track that might have been written by Guster. Panda Force takes the distinct task of shying away from the indie sound that has become associated with college rock and instead opt for a more traditional, classic rock sound. It works. They stick to the basics,

with a steady rhythm between the songs, and don’t get over-ambitious with their vocals or instrumentation

As a young group comprised of young members, Panda Force offer a distinct voice among fierce competition. They may have to become more adventurous with their arrangements and compositions to progress from a good band to a great one, but they have time to spare.

—AlexFankuchen

funk quartet has more soul than it knows what to do with At just more than 30 minutes, the band’s eight-track release on Small Town Records showcases their original sound and diverse influences Surprisingly, one of die band’s most dominant influences is not musical. Duke plays a large role in much of die album’s lyrical content. With a pointed song about the Duke hook-up scene to songs written about specific students, it is clear dial diis band is quite familiar

with the university they call home.

“Richard Feynman” might just be the Pratt student’s perfect anthem. Described by Dogs’ lead vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist Ben Shelton as “Warren Zevon meets the Band,” this bizarre track details a life of math integrals and strippers. It could be the birth a whole new genre of music—what Shelton calls “nerd gospel.”

This is a band that clearly likes to jam, and Imse. Cnnrumry shows this. From belx>p-iaspired sax to swirling guitars, the Soulless Dogs have a record that is grounded in its instrumentation. Shelton has an unnatural vocal talent that works well with the band’s sound.

What the future holds for these Dogs is unknown, but they have plenty of soul to bring them through it —Andrew Hibbard

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FHM and eventually worked his way into an assistant editor position at

ing as well as informative.”

Chapman’s

partner-in-

crime, Walters, made sure that though the section had become more sober, it retained some of its more surreal roots. Walters wrote a three-part feature on a service where users paid for a fake girlfriend, complete with phone calls and handwritten letters. The piece is part commentary on the dysfunctional nature of modem relationships and part product ofWalters’ admitted selfindulgent tendencies.

“There is a photo of me ‘sleeping’ with my fake girlfriend,” Walters explained. “I am naked under a bed sheet, holding a computer and smoking a cigarette—the shot is nasty.”

Walters, like many other recess staff members, decided to pursue a career in the arts after leaving Duke. After spending a summer as a South Carolina Governor’s School counselor, Walters moved to New York City, worked as an intern for

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Giving locals love Need a break from the studying tomorrow night? Cat’s Cradle is hosting Club is Open, a free monthly showcase of local musical talents sponsored by Wootini.

This is a great venue to discover up-andcoming indie acts of the Triangle area.

This month, Luego, Birds and Arrows and Gray Young will be playing, covering everything from southern rock to folk pop.

Club is Open starts at 9p. in. Cat’s Cradle is located at 300 E. Main St. in Carrboro.

Durham does diversity The 39th annual Bimbe Festival brings together music, food and crafts to demonstrate Durham’s cultural diversity. The concept of the festival is centered around that ofBimbe, an African harvest celebration in which villagers come together and give praise for a successful yield. There will be an eclectic mix of music, ranging from jazz to blues to Carribean, while the dance events highlight African-American traditions. In addition to a musical showcase, a variety of local hand-made crafts and food will be sold.

Bimbe Cultural Arts Festival will take place from May 17-18 at DurhamAthletic Path.

Dance, Dance For those looking for a little more class than So You Think You Can Dance?, Duke University will host the American Dance Festival, an acclaimed modern showcase that highlights top dance repertoires from performers all around the world.

To commemorate its 75th anniversary, ADF is focusing on modern dance’s past and present masterpieces for the first time. To accomplish this encompassing theme, two or more companies will share the stage for each performance in a series that they call “Split Scenes.” 60 works and 37 companies will be featured, including newly commissioned world-premiers, reconstructed classics and ADF debuts. For

the first time since 1982 the Japanese Festival will be included, which offers a widerange of Japanese pieces, including new work from Dairakudakan and Kochuten.

Less formal events such as musicians and faculty concerts supplement the dance showcases.

American Dance Festival will take place June sto July 19 in Reynolds Industries Theater, Baldwin Auditorium and Page Auditorium. Tickets go on sale May 5.

Getting a taste of the city To experience a more polished and sophisticated array of cuisine (the Faculty Commons doesn’t count), the Taste of Durham Festival offers a slice of refinement and a nice break from campus eateries. It’s sponsored by the Community Chest, a locally-oriented non-profit. International wine and beer tasting and local chef demonstrations are among some of the exciting events taking place. Adding to the variety of food is a showcase of music, including performances fro m renowned New York City Latin group Jose Conde y Ola Fresca and Ashvilie-based 10-piece ensemble The Afromotive.

Taste of Durham takes place May 24 at The Imperial Center, 4309 Emperor Blvd., Durham. 'Tickets are $4 pre-sale and $6 at the door.

Cartoon convention hopes to Animaze Closet Nando fans, get excited; Animazement 2008 is coming to town. Anime may not be the first thing that comes to mind when “The South” is mentioned, but the Pokemon craze had to be satiated somehow.

Since 1998, the convention has been drawing in anime fans with panels and workshops that span from voice-acting, learning Japanese to costume construction (yes, you know you want to look like a cute Asian with overly-spiked hair). Whether you’re a diehard fan or just want to use their game room to play video games, mark down Animazement on your calendar.

Animazement will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham from May 23-25.

Esquire.

Winer, who also worked for FHM until the magazine’s print edition folded in 2007, now appears on VHl’s Best Week Ever and does freelance

writing. Tim Perzyk, Trinity

’O2 and volume 4 editor, now works in digital media for NBC Universal’s Bravo network after earning an Master in Business Administration from Harvard.

“I didn’t plan on working [in entertainment] when I was in college,” Perzyk said. “I went to business school and realized it was the last chance to do what I really loved.”

Alumni like Chapman represent the other path for former editors. Corinne Low, Trinity ’O6 and editor in recess' eight year, is now finishing her second year at McKinsey and Company, a top consulting firm, and plans to attend Columbia University in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. in economics. Her immediate predecessor, Jon Schnaars, used his journalism and editing skills—honed at recess—in

his work as editor for a mental health news Web site. “recess really helped me at my new Job, because I had to lead a group of 20-30 volunteers and make sure we were all on the same page,” said Schnaars, who supervises a small group of writers and web designers in his current position.

Although there have been many changes to the section since its first issue, from tone to design, certain aspects have remained the same. The most evident is the satirical recurring piece known as the Sandbox, whichWiner said allowed for writing not seen anywhere else in the Chronicle.

A less tangible continuity has been recess' goal ofpro-

viding approachable arts journalism that is slightly more compelling than the more respectable, more straight-forward stories of its mother-publication.

“We wanted to prove that writing didn’t have to be dry, hard journalism,” Winer said. “It was supposed to be fun, especially when you got to write about awesome sh—.”

Seven years and no regrets Although I’m a proud member of the Class of 2008, I had my first article printed in recess all the way back in October of 2002. But how, you might ask, is this possible?

Alas, I am not a time-traveler from a galaxy far, far away. Nor did I embark on my illustrious journalistic career as a precocious high-school senior (ahem, Sarah Ball). lam simply one of those rare Dukies who took the time off—two and a half years, to be exact—to step outside of our gothically-wonderful bubble and take a look around The Real World I gotta tell ya, it’s a little different out there. For one thing, you have to work enough to pay your rent allison and that usually adds up senior to more than the 12 to 16 hours you’re used to spending in class. What’s more, there’s little demand for the hard-earned niche expertise you’ve been developing since freshman year, such as defending your beer pong championship title, wielding your fake ID with a poker face or posting six clever Facebook updates in two hours. Despite many internships and prestigious waitressing gigs, even my particular work history seems rather unsuited for the traditional resume. A sampling, using those all-important action verbs: Participated in Women’s Rugby for One Season to Increase Embarrassingly Low Pain Threshold (2002); Acquired 200 Facebook Friends within One Week of Site Debut (2004); Utilized the WEL Media Room for More Creative Purposes Than Film Screenings (2004-Present).

I'm told these experiences may not help me land that competitive consulting job, but perhaps the Career Center just isn’t capable of thinking outside of the box.

In my roughly seven years at Duke, I have seen many changes on our beloved campus, from the creation of Rostock Library and the Nasher Museum to the sad demise of Rick’s all-night diner and final—

to the bizarre construction known as The Plaza. There have been unequivocal improvements: once upon a time, Trent was a dorm and the Bell Tower wasn’t, Student Health ran even less efficiently and the Marketplace didn’t have custom omelets. Throughout our school’s continuing evolution, we remain a diverse community. I’ve met students from every state in the Union and at least twenty countries. I’ve attended cultural extravaganzas by ASA, BSA, ASO, Diya and Mi Gente. I’ve watched the arts scene grow stronger with Jazz at the Mary Lou and DUU programs. I’ve seen President Keohane shape the school in her vision and President Brodgianmo head in his. column As someone who (acembodied cidentally) the “Never Graduate” philosophy, I haye enjoyed being Duke’s female Van Wilder, taking in the full experience. I’ve lived in four dorms (Aycock, Pegram, Edens and Crowell) before moving off campus as a junior. I got to see Kanye West, Ludacris, Franz Ferdinand and Third Eye Blind without leaving West Campus. I’ve attended four sorority year-end formals, several Beer Trucks parties and even the 2008 Duke Reunion party, where I hung out with the super-hip Class of 1958. I’ve cheered for the Duke-UNC game from commons rooms, Sad’s and the sardinestyle crowds of the Cameron bleachers.

But I never imagined I would miss it all as much as I now realize I will.

While little may remain the same from your first semester at Duke, nothing can compare to the satisfaction of looking back on the semesters that follow. The fragments ofall those seemingly unrelated experiences combine to make this school what it is: an intense, challenging, fun and unique place to spend four years of your life (or seven). I’ll never regret a minute of it, and I imagine you won’t either.

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this column was one of the hardest things I’ve done during my time at Duke —both because I will miss my dear friends at The Chronicle so much, and because if you talk to them they’ll tell you that photographers like me are functionally illiterate and generally not very bright. I also had to axe several versions of this piece, including a 1000-word draft about why I am cooler than Chronicle Editor David Graham, and why his girlfriend should date me instead. Despite this setback, I stand by the asserIriohoart 61103 it Kl tion thatI am awesome, and David is not, senior column My two years at Duke (I’m one of those incredibly sweet transfer students that you’ve always wanted to meet) have spawned some of my favorite stories. Although Duke sports have recently been criticized on the pages of The Chronicle, I’ve enjoyed my time as a Duke fan. Maybe my standards are simply lower than those of my colleagues. Maybe I’m just relieved to be at a school whose only national championship team isn’t club hockey. In these last two years, I’ve sat on the floor of three Duke-UNC basketball games without ever entering a K-ville tent (suck it, Crazies). I stormed the field at Wallace Wade after Duke Football topped Northwestern on the road this year. And in last year’s -

NCAA Lacrosse semifinal I saw Duke beat Cornell with a play that included a face-off, two passes and a shot in 14 seconds. Despite not seeing our basketball team make it to the Final Four, I’ve seen some great sports moments at Duke. Oh, and Jon —sorry for putting 212 pictures of you making faces in the yearbook. I hope you thought that was funny.

Not all of my memories from Duke have been sportsrelated. In perhaps the least brilliant decision of my tenure here, I chose Duke’s Life Flight program as the subject of my final project for Ken Rogerson’s journalism class. Upon arriving at their offices in the hospital, I made small talk with one of the pilots, who was a former member of the Coast Guard: Me: “So, what did you do in the Coast Guard?”

Pilot: “A lot of search and rescue stuff. Rescue swimmer deployment. Have you seen ‘The Guardian?’ There’s a lot of Hollywood stuff, but the S&R is pretty accurate.”

Me: ‘Yeah, I used to be a lifeguard too.”

I made three flights with Duke’s airborne ambulance that day. The first was a simple refueling flight. The second involved flying to the Virginia border in order to airlift an infant who had been thrown from a minivan in an accident, which I initially thought would be the most exciting moment of the day.

On the third flight, one of our engines failed. I gotta say, this is up there in the all-time oh-shit moments of my life. I nearly drowned when I was in middle school, and on Sept. 1, 2005, I was standing in the remnants of a Motel 8 in Biloxi, Miss, while a guy held a knife to

my throat. Still, being Lord-knows-how-many-feet above the ground in a helicopter with only one functioning engine—while trying to complete a homework assignment—tops both of those.

The pilot quickly comforted me by declaring an emergency over the radio and making a hasty U-turn toward RDU. By listening to the chatter between the pilot and the tower, I learned that a National Guard helicopter was following us, so our wreckage could be located quickly. Awesome. As we approached RDU, the pilot assured me that everything was going to be fine.

I considered asking him why, in that case, fire trucks were screaming out onto the runway below us, but that thought was interrupted by his asking me to flip off a switch as we hit the ground, “just in case that No. 2 engine kicks up again.” He followed this by something muttered under his breath that I didn’t really understand, though I did pick out the word “explode.”

Thankfully, we landed without incident a few seconds later. I rode an ambulance back to Duke and then promptly decided that I had conducted enough research.

Anyway, if you’ve read this far you’re probably wondering what the point of this column is, or you recognize me from when I was trying to hit on you at Satisfaction a few weeks ago. What I’m trying to say is: Do you want to come back to my place?

Pete Kiehart is a Trinity senior. He is director ofphotography for Towerview.

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The Wayfarer Revolution This sentiment runs counter to several things I Duke of my freshman year was not cool enough heard as a freshman. One upperclassman told me that for the Wayfarer Revolution. But something happened between then and now that has transformed he often pined for his days on East Campus, when he met new friends incessantly, fell in with a seemingly indiscriminate an portion endless batch of girls, enrolled in the courses he enof the student body into joyed and drank more than he ever would again. In exemplars of Ray-Ban’s short, this guy felt way cooler as a freshman than he decades-old promise: Wear did in later years.

Wayfarers, be cool.

Another thing I heard—and continue to hear—is You weren’tcool enough that the physical lack of kegs on the Main West Quad for the Wayfarer Revolution and Greek organizations in the West Campus dorms either. You wore polarized are somehow single-handedly responsible for a deOakleys and run-of-the-mill Uaii ill Gy cline in social life. In other words, the University is Aviators, or—in the case of less cool because we can’t drink beer in a singular the femmes—various takes Column SGtllOr and specific space. on the philosophy that I would like to argue against these two claims. To the cheekbones benefit from UV protection. You were Southern cool and New England first, I say this: With each successive semester I have met cool and California cool, but you were not—and I must more and greater people, had better sex, taken increasstress this —Wayfarer cool. ingly rewarding classes and—without a doubt—imbibed I certainly wasn’t cool enough for the Revolution. I more alcohol.

To the second, I respond: There are thousands ofother wore 25-year-old Vuarnets, knew frighteningly little about the school, and as I met you, wondered aboutyour collars, places to drink this exponentially expanding volume of your frat tucks and the neoprene around your necks from beer with your exponentially expanding group of friends.

Kegs on the quad attempt to appropriate a historic and which you slung—ofcourse—your sunglasses. obsessed withyour shades because on represent, am they mythic “cool” that just isn’t worth the bother. Find new I one hand, a natural phenomenon: In four years, everything places, be cool there.

There are dozens of other factors that trip up my changes—l am different, you are different, Duke is different. argument. For example: To accept that we become But on die other hand, the change is specifically unique: Evincreasingly cooler is to reject that ties to Greek oreryone I know and everything I see is just that much cooler.

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Passionless In two weeks I’ll be graduating—leaving academia after 16+ years in the system. For the first time in my life, there will be no more classes, professors, tests or grades—no artificial benchmarks of success. If I fail, I’ll get back up and try again; if I succeed, I’ll receive the real benefits of my success, not just the letter “A” on a paper read by one professor.

To me, this is extremely liberating. But I’ve noticed others in my graduating class, friends included, who fob QOOdidttG look to the “real world”with Senior Column trepidation. A few don’t yet know what they want to do with their lives. That’s okay—we’re still young.

But many more know exactly what their career will be, yet have absolutely no passion for what they’re about to pursue. For these passionless pre-professionals, college was simply an economics equation to be optimized: Earn the best possible grades in order to get the highest paying job.

But hey—most of these people will make great money in careers like investment banking. Mission accomplished, right? .

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ganizations are a prime, determining factor in coolness. After the crescendo during sophomore year, most people, I’ve noticed, become less involved in their fraternities and sororities. Beginning in the study abroad semester, social lines become increasingly blurred. As mentioned before, good friends meet other good people, and out of convenience or desperation or newfound willingness, your network expands, and you are —on account of all your new, cool friends—typically much cooler yourself.

I’m sure that not everyone thinks that they’re cooler now than they were then. For though I think in generalizations, the relatively wide array of Duke students I have met and grown to know is, after all, a limited batch. But I want so badly to believe that an entire senior class, the subsequent classes to follow and the University that harbors them all, are —in at least some important regards —thinking of themselves as constantly growing toward a more satisfying place.

The cool that I speak of now is not the cool that I would have defined as a freshman. And that’s the kicker. We all think ofit differently; we all observe it from morphing vantages. That I believe it to be, doesn’t make it so—for there is no universal cool.

Except for Ray-Ban Wayfarers—which are no doubt the hippest f—ing shades in international cultural history.

Dan Riley is a Trinity senior. He is an associate editor for Towerview.

Pre-Professionals

Maybe. But what if you had the chance to pursue the thing that interests you the most as your career? What if work could be a source of happiness or add meaning to your life?

Too many ofmy peers at Duke are discarding, or never discover, their passion in life. They’re playing the academic game; trying to optimize their outcome by earning good grades. It doesn’t matter if your job interests you—just do it well and make a lot of money.

Unfortunately, the education system I was exposed to encourages this behavior by treating grades as incentives.

As early as elementary school, my parents incentivized good grades by rewarding me with allowances and video games when I brought home As. When I reached high school the incentive for maintaining a high GPA changed—now the goal was to get into a good college. But after I got into that great school, I started to fall off the track. Suddenly it was junior year and I found myself pursuing a major I hated. I stopped caring, stopped going to classes—l didn’t want to play the academic game anymore.

I took a step back from the rat race and thought about what makes me tick. What I found was simple: I enjoy creating. Whether through design, programming or writing, I find fulfillment in bringing new objects into the world. To that end, I started creating Web applications on the side, began writing about design and even started speaking at

conferences on design issues.

I called these “side projects.” But in reality, my classes were the side projects.

When I began looking for a job last year, my GPA was in the toilet. But I had a portfolio filled with self-started design projects, a blog with my ideas and an enthusiasm for design. I had no problem getting several job offers despite my bad grades. Not only will pursuing your interests bring you happiness, but it will likely provide employment too.

But you’ve got to have a passion. Don’t fake it. You’re only cheating yourself in the end—nobody is truly passionate about investment banking.

You’re the only person who decides how you’re going to spend your life, so invest the time to discover your passion.

Don’t accept the path laid before you by others. Don’t allow your parents, friends, university or aspirations towards money define what you’ll do in life. Just figure out what you enjoy doing and do it.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

—Steve Jobs Rob Goodlatte is a Trinity senior. He is a current Chronicle

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GoalieDan Loftus was named tournament MVP for stopping 17 shots Sunday in Duke's 11-9win over Virginia.

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The Blue CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Devils’ success throughout the season has largely been attributed to their offensive talent—namely, Matt Danowski, Zack Greer and Max Quinzani. But when Virginia was able to stymie Duke’s heralded attack in the ACC title game, the Blue Devils found themselves relying on a familiar, although sometimes forgotten, player.

Yes, the voters got it right. The ACC tournament’s Most Valuable Player was goalie Dan Loftus, and his play was the differanalysis ence between Duke’s second straight ACC tournament championship and what could have been a disastrous meltdown in Sunday’s contest.

“We kind of take it for granted how well he plays sometimes,” Danowski said. “He made some great stops in close—stops that really changed the momentum of the game.”

The Cavaliers outshot Duke 47-39, with more than half of their shots landing on target. But the senior turned away Virginia time and time again—collecting 17 stops in all—which allowed the Blue Devils to build what proved to be an insurmountable lead.

The Cavaliers dominated virtually every statistical category in the first half, generating golden opportunities off busted Duke clears

and 9-of-12 faceoff wins. When halftime rolled around, though, the Blue Devils were ahead 7-3, and Loftus was the reason.

On more than one occasion, the Cavaliers fired a shot that seemed so destined for the back of the net that the Virginia faithful had already risen to its feet to start celebrating.

But too often for the host team, the cheers quickly turned into disappointing sighs as Loftus somehow produced yet another save.

As Duke started to pull away in the second quarter, Loftus kept Virginia at bay with two remarkable stops. After Cavalier attackman Shamel Bratton dodged from the right side and came free directly in front of the cage, he whipped it low, but Loftus made himself big and managed to block it with his foot. Just a few minutes later, Virginia bounced one from a couple yards away in hopes of squeezing it between the goalie’s legs. Instead, the senior got his stick to the ball and knocked it down into, the dirt just several inches short of the goal line.

“They could have gone on even more of a run than they went on without him making stops in the cage like that,” Danowski said.

“He’s well deserving of tournament MVP, and he should have been All-ACC, in my mind.”

Even in the nail-biting fourth quarter, when the Cavaliers nearly completed a ferocious comeback that fell just two goals short of erasing an 11-3Duke lead, Loftus madejust enough SEE ANALYSIS ON PAGE 10

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The scene was all too familiar for the third-seeded Blue Devils.

Less than a year after Virginia achieved the greatest comeback in college lacrosse history against Duke in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament, the Blue Devils seemed primed to avenge 6 the season-ending loss. g DUKE But just like that fateful afternoon last year, the Blue Devils DUKE -9 IQ saw the win—and a shot at the UVA ACC championship—slip away from them In yet another crushing defeat, Duke fell to the secondseeded Cavaliers 10-9 Friday afternoon at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. The Blue Devils are now 0-2 against their conference foe this season.

Duke (10-7) came out wanting to set the tone early and gain the momentum over Virginia (13-3) —which it did, sprinting to a 7-1 first-half edge.

The team went on to finish the period with a comfortable 8-3 advantage. The Blue Devils dominated on both ends of the field, as the team scored the most goals on Virginia in a single stanza this season. Six different Duke players found the net in the first period, including attackers Megan Del Monte and Sarah Bullard, who each notched two scores.

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Playing in a critical weekend series against Maryland, the Blue Devils let a ninth-inning lead slip away in the rubber game Sunday at Jack Coombs Field.

But unlike last weekend against Clemson when the Duke bats fell silent after blowing a late lead and a storm eventually left the game as a tie, the Blue Devils (31-14-1, 8-14-1 in the ACC) rallied in the MARYLAND 12 bottom of the ninth and walked off with a 2-1 victory over the TerDUKE rapins (26-21, 8-16) when junior Nate Freiman was hit by a slugger MARYLAND 2 with the bases loaded. pitch ~TZ DUKE “I’m really proud of the way my team handled the situation,” MARYLAND *| head coach Sean McNally said.

DUKE “We were disappointed we gave up another lead in the ninth, but the fact that we found away to get a run across in the bottom of the inning is very encouraging.

“You always want to have a chance to win the series on Sunday. We had it again today and took advantage of the *

opportunity.”

The Blue Devils dropped the series opener Friday 12-8, but rebounded Saturday afternoon with a 10-2 win to set the stage for Sunday’s series-deciding match.

In the Sunday finale, Duke received an excellent outing SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE

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M.LAX from page 1 “It humbled us a little bit,” said goalie Dan Loftus, who took home tournament Most Valuable Player honors. “In the sense that we’ve been winning in bunches, and we had a team come storm back at the end. It’s just taught us we have to hunker down better.”

The Blue Devils controlled most of the first three quarters of the game by responding with an 11-2 run after the Cavaliers (132) scored first less than three minutes in.

But with the loud home crowd at its back, Virginia finally got on a roll in the closing period, as All-ACC attackman Ben Rubeor spurred the charge. Rubeor scored three times and set up another during Virginia’s 60 run to close the game that nearly propelled the Cavaliers to an improbable comeback.

The dramatic finish peaked with 1:42 remaining when former Blue Devil Peter lamade fed Brian Carroll, who fired a shot past Loftus to cut the deficit to three. Then die Cavaliers won the ensuing faceoff—their only successful draw of the quarter—and raced the ball up the field before finding Rubeor for Virginia’s second goal in 10 seconds.

“They outshot us, they outgroundballed us, and I think they outplayed us,” Danowski said. “I Just think we had a big enough lead that they just couldn’t come back because there wasn’t enough time.

But if the game was 65, or maybe 66, minutes, certainly Virginia may have won.”

After building a 7-3 lead at intermission, Duke showcased its dangerous offensive attack with a 44) run to begin die half. Virginia committed a series of undisciplined penaldes in the third quarter, and Duke capitalized.

The Blue Devils went 3-for-3 on their extra-man opportunities in the period, and the celebrated duo of Matt Danowski and Zack Greer, who had been held largely in check in the first half, combined for four

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Senior Matt Danowski made the All-tournament team by posting three goals and an assist in Duke's 11-9 win over Virginia Sunday in the ACC tournament final.

goals to stretch the Duke lead to 11-3.

Until then, Virginia had shut down the Duke transition game and neutralized Danowski and Greerwith its unique defensive system. Unlike most teams, the Cavaliers did not slide to double team a driving midfielder, limiting open chances for the star attackmen.

Fortunately, the Duke midfield picked up the scoring, contributing five of the seven first-half goals. Ned Grotty took advantage of the extra space twice, driving his man around the cage and firing quick shots past goalkeeper Bud Petit.

The total team effort was an encouraging sign for John Danowski, despite the Virginia comeback.

“We haven’t been in close games and today you saw it for the first time,” he said.

“If we don’t figure that out in a hurry, we could be an early exit in the tournament.”

ANALYSIS from page 9 plays to help the Blue Devils hold on.

Playing with a tremendous amount of momentum, Virginia converted on all three of its man-up opportunities. But Loftus did register two saves in the final period, and his presence in the cage forced the Cavaliers to take some tough shots, including two that were meant for the corners but caromed off the posts.

When the game was finally over, Loftus was just happy to celebrate the tournament victory with the rest ofhis team.

“It was pretty stressful. I think anybody would be lying to you if they said they weren’t a little nervous,” he said. “I’m just proud of the team.... I just came out here today and do what I usually do.”

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anyone for the success we’ve had for more than two decades.”

Dawkins’ departure represents the first shakeup in Duke’s coaching staff since 2000, when assistant coach Chris Collins joined Krzyzewski, Dawkins and assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski on the bench.

Wojciechowski was hired in 1999.

Dawkins, 44, succeeds former Stanford head coach Trent Johnson, who was hired

by Duke’s former Director of Athletics Joe Alieva at Louisiana State University April 9.

As the lead assistant for player development at Duke, Dawkins helped produce four National Players of the Year, and the Blue Devils won a national championship, six ACC regular-season titlesand seven ACC Tournament crowns during his tenure.

After his collegiate career, he enjoyed a nine-year NBA career with three differ-

But the five-goal lead was not enough put Virginia away for good. Unlike last year’s 10-goal comeback, the Cavaliers only needed seven to move on to the final round of the championship.

In the second half, the Blue Devils failed to stave off the Virginia offense, as the Cavaliers tied the game, 8-8, with 15 minutes remaining. Key goals from attackers Jenny Hauser, Megan O’Malley and midfielder Blair Weymouth brought Virginia back into the game in a dominant third-quarter performance.

Just after the Cavaliers pulled ahead for the first time, 9-8, Bullard’s third goal of the game gave Duke its first—and only— score of the second half.

With less than five minutes remaining, though, O’Malley found the back of the net for the third time, sealing the win for Virginia.

Despite finally gaining the upper hand in draw controls, the Blue Devils were unable to translate their offensive possessions into goals. Midfielders Emma Hamm and Jess Adam combined for eight of Duke’s 12 controls.

“I was really proud of our kids the way they handled the draw,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “That hurt us in the first game of the season against Virginia —we just felt like we never had the ball. The kids who were around the circle and that were in those scrum situations did a fantastic job.”

A balanced attack led the Blue Devils for much of the game, with six different players scoring for the Blue Devils.

Duke advanced to the semifinal match-

ent teams.

Dawkins has no head-coaching experience and has not coached for anyone but Krzyzewski, but Stanford’s academic and athletic prestige closely resembles Duke’s.

“The philosophies of the two programs both on the court and in the classroom

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“He will identify completely with what Stanford does... and will maintain its strong basketball tradition,” Krzyzewski said. “This is a great fit for both Stanford and Johnny.”

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up with Virginia with a 19-6 rout of Virginia Tech Thursday. The 19 goals were the second-most in ACC tournament history. Junior Carolyn Davis paced the squad in the win, posting a team-high four goals.

After the heartbreaking loss, the Blue Devils have one final contest remaining before the start of the NCAA tournament.

Duke will finish the regular season when it travels to Hanover, N.H. to take on No. 19 Dartmouth May 4.

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The Blue Devils squandered a 7-1 lead Friday in the ACC tournament semifinal, losing 10-9to Virginia.

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BASEBALL from page 9 from sophomore starter Jonathan Foreman, but the Blue Devils were held off the scoreboard until the seventh inning, when catcher Matt Williams knocked in the game’s first run with an RBI groundout. After seven shutout innings from Foreman, sophomore Alex Hassan came to the mound to try to close the door on the Terrapins. The right-hander retired Maryland in the eighth but allowed the tying run to score in the ninth.

The Terrapins stuck with reliever Dan Gentzler, who

had already thrown one and two-thirds innings, for the bottom of the ninth, and the righty gave up a leadoff single to sophomore third baseman Ryan McCurdy.

With one out and McCurdy at second after freshman shortstop Jake Lemmerman’s sacrifice bunt, freshman Tom Luciano fought off pitch after pitch from Gentzler with two strikes before eventually striking out. But Luciano’s at-bat may have tired out the Terrapin hurler.

After a two-out intentional walk to Hassan, Gentzler got ahead of Williams 0-2, but hit the Duke catcher to load the bases for Freiman. Gentzler’s first two pitches sailed way outside to the Duke first baseman and with the count at 3-1, Gentzler threw a pitch too far inside that caught Freiman’s jersey and forced in the winning run. “[Luciano’s] at-bat was enormous,” Williams said. “He stayed in there and kept battling for us. He made their pitcher throw a lot of pitches and all of his pitches. When I was up there, he threw two good pitches to me, but then I got in my two-strike stance and his next pitch was right at me.”

Duke now has six ACC contests left, with a pair of threegame series on the road at Wake Forest and Virginia Tech in the two weekends after the exam break.

Only eight of 12 ACC teams qualify the ACC tournament in Jacksonville, Fla., but with the series win this weekend, Duke now controls its own destiny as it battles with six teams—including the Demon Deacons and Hokies —for the final two spots in the field.

“All you can ask for is to have the chance to play your way into the tournament,” Williams said. “This is great—we’ve been resilient all year and it is nice to not have to sit around and hope someone else loses so we can get in.”

Duke earns high marks at Penn Relays Freshman Amy Matulewicz tossed the javelin 147 feet and three inches, good for the top prize in the javelin this weekend at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. The throw was a personal best for Matulewicz and second all-time in the Duke record books. It also qualified her for the NCAA regionals.

On the men’s side, redshirt freshman John Austin reached 219 feet in the javelin, taking home the third place medal. It was his third-best throw of the season, and it qualified him for the NCAA regionals and IC4A’s for the fifth consecutive time.

The women’s 4xBoo-relay team placed second overall with a time of 8:53.68. Junior Molly Lehman, sophomores Katie Doswell and Emily Sherrard and freshman Devotia Moore earned a bid to the ECAC’s with their high finish.

Trio of Tar Heels declares without agents Sophomores Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington declared themselves eligible for the NBA Draft Friday, and junior Danny Green followed suit Saturday. None of the three players hired agents, and they can all return to college if they obey pre-draft procedures.

Ellington, the Tar Heels’ second-leading scorer last year, averaged 16.6 points and 4.5 rebounds. Lawson averaged 12.7 points, but missed seven games in the middle of the season due to injury. Green was North Carolina’s fourth-leading scorer, posting 11.5 points per game.

Junior Tyler Hansbrough, the defending National Player of the Year, will remain at North Carolina for his senior year, he announced Friday.

Mcßoberts’ squad wins NBA D-League Former Blue Devil Josh Mcßoberts and the Idaho Stampede beat Quin Snyder’s Austin Toros 108-101 in the deciding game of the NBA D-League Finals in Boise, Idaho Friday night.

Mcßoberts notched 10 points, including a momentum-swinging alley-oop to solidify the championship.

Snyder played for Duke for four years and graduated in 1989. He also coached at Duke from 1993-1999.

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Duke in the Green Zone: London, Paris and Madrid.

With this in mind, we After hearing optimistic assessments of the inter-secthought it fitting to comment on the several Duke tarian competition in Iraq study abroad programs that from Pentagon military andid not make the cut for alysts on CBS, ABC, FOX next Fall. and CNN, Duke planned Duke in Central Caman Arabic-education and pus: Canceled due to safety civic engagement program concerns. Plans are in the for Baghdad. When not in class, students would works for a specially focused biolog)' program on be teaching English, play-

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Administrators axed the proposed program when they decided the students’ heavily barricaded living quarters would prevent them from “really getting out there and engaging with Iraqi citizens.” Or getting out of the compound at all, really.

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Duke at Red Lobster: Canceled March 28, 2008, despite widespread student demand for a C-Food bus.

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I will begin law school in the fall, following the versatile yet entirely predictable path of so many Duke graduates. Not only will I obtain the most flexible advanced degree possible, but I will do so immediately after graduation. And where is my law school of choice located? New York City, where I will have access to a plethora of career opportunities and will be around most of my graduating class—-Just in case making new friends proves too (gasp!) risky.

Maybe I am simply keeping my options open, but the notion that I am risk-averse makes even more sense when I consider another phenomenon—l have never experienced senioritis.

Okay, now pause for a second while anyone who has witnessed me waste hours in the library zoning out on iTunes, checking my horoscope or video chatting the person next to me stops to laugh.

Done yet? I didn’t think so, but let me explain.

When I was in high school, I somehow escaped that virulent syndrome that affects overachievers and slackers alike, and of course it was all about risk aversion. In the back ofmy mind, I knew Duke just might fulfill its promise of rescinding my acceptance if I, God forbid, got an A-minus.

Granted this was all before the days ofYouTube, Facebook and Gmail chat, so efficiency was much less of an upward battle, but the truth is that even as graduation approached, I still wanted to do my best. I really was that Type-A. Four years later, the Tracy Flick in me has taken on an entirely new persona thanks to risk aversion. In high school, my risk aversion generated a fear that I would fail to maintain an academic standard. Today, it feeds on the concern that once law school (I hear it’s kind of hard) and then the real world arrive, I will no longer have fun. I’ve made the best friends of my life in college, and I value every second I have left. Thus, I go out when I know I shouldn’t, and I don’t start homework

when I know I should, and I waste time whenever I can because, let’s face it, procrastination is fun.

Senioritis, right? Wrong.

I don’t suffer from senioritis, and here’s the catch: you don’t either. That nagging force that draws you to Charlie’s on Tuesday when you have a 10:05 a.m. midterm Wednesday isn’t senioritis. We Dukies love the term “senioritis” because it makes us feel cool and lets us deny that we’re reallyjust a bunch of high school nerds in a little Gothic bubble where what is “cool” is completely relative.

Duke “senioritis” is a unique condition. It’s an isolated strain of the disease driven not by apathy but instead by the same Type-A, risk-averse qualities that got you into Duke in the first place. I’ve witnessed three clear symptoms of our particular ailment.

First, though the stereotypical senior is characterized by a lazy, I-have-a-job-so-I-could-not-careless attitude, senioritis at Duke is an active pursuit.

Senior year is less about letting the ball drop and more about taking part in every quintessentially Duke experience that comes our way. It’s risk aversion. Never again will we have the opportunity to climb the Chapel or wear obnoxious costumes to every possible event, so why risk missing out?

Second, Duke senioritis is planned... compulsively.

To quote a message I received from a friend about two weeks ago, “Oh my god, Katherine, LDOC is in a week-and-a-half. We need to start coordinating our drinking schedules immediately.” To fit all your aspirations into one last semester while maintaining the essential facade of a jaded senior, organization and time-management are key. Early in the semester, my friends and I made a to-do list of absolutely everything we needed to accomplish before May. But that’s not all. We then created a listserv that we have used religiously to schedule dinners, plan costumes (see above) and generallyl facilitate procrastination.

Finally, Duke senioritis isn’t really senioritis. Yes, we all work less than we used to. But finals are here, and now we realize that those sophomores who actually did the reading may not have been crazy, and that “honors seminar” is code for tangible “thesis,” not a class you may or may not have to attend once a week. Thus, the risk-aversion sets back in. Sure we could all get Bs. But let’sface it, we’ll be a lot happier with As, so we beeline to Bostock, motivated only by the lure ofSati’s as soon as we’re finished. For me, the greatest motivation is knowing my friends are waiting in the library for me, ready to take a “break” before we’ve actually started working.

And that, my friends, is Duke senioritis. If you disagree, you can find me watching YouTube in first-floor Bostock. Feel free to interrupt.

Katherine Madhvaine is a Trinity senior. She is a former University editor and current features editor of The Chronicle.

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A senior column Ah,

the senior column. Time to say something profound.

The funny thing is that most Chronicle seniors dread these things. After years of hiding behind bylines, we have to emerge from the shadows and have our headshots attached t0'750 words that perfectly encapsulate four years of Facebook photos.

Sorry to disappoint.

OK. Now that the pressure’s off I want to talk ITICCdrtVIGy about Shooters. More specificahy, I want to ’fess up senior COitlttin about something that’s been weighing pretty heavily on me for the past few weeks: I’ve only been to Shooters three times. And two of those times were during the summer, when the bull was out of commission and Durhamites outnumbered Dukies.

(Senior Suggestion No. 1: Stay in Durham one summer.)

Of course, this means that I’ve only been to Shooters once during the school year. But—to my defense—l danced in the cage. You see, Rich—a good friend ofmine from high school—decided he would take a break from oh-so-dull D.C. and see Durham. His one request: “We need to go to that place that was in the Rolling Stone article.” You know, the nightclub where “Sex & Scandal” happens at Duke.

(Senior Suggestion No. 2: Don’t believe everything you read in newspapers/magazines/blogs. Luckily this rule doesn’t apply to The Chronicle because, as I was told many times as editor: “Nobody reads the [expletive deleted] Chronicle!”)

But back to the senior column at hand So Rich gets into town and we go out to a few must-see Duke scenes and get to Shootahs around 1:30 a.m. Hose Rich.

But he’s OK. He’s from Yonkers and D.C., and he’s been to Amsterdam. Besides, he went to Regis. He’ll-survive.

About five minutes later, I get an eloquent text message: “look up in cage good up here.” I look up in the cage.

I’m guessing there’s something good up there.

Sure enough, I see Rich dancing shirtless with a group of my own fellow Dukies and a guy in a banana suit. It was one of those priceless Kodak/Facebook moments. Needless to say, I joined him for what was probably one of the more memorable experiences of my Duke career, tapped off by a 3 a.m. trip to Cook Out. Naturally.

But why am I using my final column as a Chronicler to talk about Shooters? Good question.

I mean, this is sacred space. I could have taken this opportunity to announce my official resignation as a sports journalist or talked about how this is, you know, “not a senior column.” But I was never a “sports journalist,” which makes resignation near impossible, and I’m not Andrew Yaffe, which makes aggrandizing self-deception more difficult. (It’s OK. We worked 80 hours a week together last year. Besides, he has incredible hair.)

I could have gone on any number ofdiatribes about puddles, fat cats, language/math/science T-reqs or the free iPods every member of the senior class got freshman year and then saw break by mid-sophomore year. And then there’s the fact that we never won a basketball championship.

I could have also waxed nostalgic about this paper no one reads. Because, in all seriousness, I don’t know what I’ll do when I can’t make the two-flight trek up to 301 Flowers every day and say “Hi” to Roily.

You see, when you sit in the editor’s desk in 301 Flow-

ers, there’s this odd sense that you’re a part of something much bigger —that you’re “standing on the shoulders of giants,” as Newton put it. For a full year, The Chronicle allowed me to appreciate what it’s like to get the most out

ofeach and every day.

Or I could have spoken about the giant among giants: Matt Sclafani, the former Chronicle editor whose legacy first brought me up to 301 Flowers freshman year. This was a 2Tyear-old guy whose compassion, work ethic and dedication to The Chronicle led him to blueline pages from a hospital bed while he was dying of cancer in the early ’9os.

These were the people who looked over our shoulders at three o’clock in the morning. I’m still honored to think that I was the 102nd editor in this line.

So, why Shooters?

Why not? For one, I doubt you would still be reading if I had started with a quote from Schopenhauer.

But more importantly, Shooters—like having Hasnain Zaidi as a Facebook friend—is one of those things all Dukies have in common. Like white alumni tents and hazy LDOCs, it’s one of those experiences that you can’t quite capture in a Facebook album or a senior column. And it’s an experience that I would have taken for granted if not for the fact that a friend had decided to make a weekend trip down to Durham. I guess that fact is one of those “senior regrets.”

And as for the senior column thing. We 11...

(Senior Suggestion No. 3: Try writing a senior column sometime before you graduate. Preferably as a senior.)

Ryan McCartney is a Trinity senior. He is current editorial editor and former

page managing editor, former editorial page editor-in-chief

Witchhunt

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April Fool’s Day, The Chronicle ran a spoof headline: “China Invades Duke, SAT Scores Rise.”

Now, I like a good joke as well as the next guy, but this headline made me nervous. I will explain why.

After graduating from Duke in 1985, I returned to China where I had studied abroad and lived scott savitt and worked as a journalnext ist there for the 18 guest Commentary years. I covered the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and did not return to the U.S. until I was finally put in jail for 30 days for my unwelcome reporting and then was expelled. So I know something about Chinese sensitivities.

Following the tragic events in 1989, in which I witnessed dozens of people shot and corpses in hospitals (I have photographic evidence) and in which the Chinese Red Cross told me 2,000 people had died before the Chinese military took over the hospitals and no more death figures were released, the Chinese government redoubled their efforts to inculcate a patriotic education in young Chinese, so that no large-scale movement like that led by the students of 1989 would repeat itself.

Throughout their education all Chinese are relentlessly reminded of China’s “Guo Chi” [national humiliation] —almost two centuries of occupation, invasion, and colonization by foreign powers including the U.S. —that turned China into “the sick man of Asia” and only ended with the victory of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Revolution in 1949, the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, and the expulsion of all foreigners from China. China had finally, in the words of Mao, “Stood up,” and would not be bullied by foreigners anymore. This powerful resentment against China’s former colonizers is never far below the surface of every Chinese person I know. It is understandable, although I believe that the Chinese government has cynically manipulated the patriotism of this young generation to deflect criticism from their own failed policies in Tibet, on the environment, even in the planning of this present Olympics torch relay, and onto foreign countries and their “biased” media who are trying to harm, weaken and divide China just like they did beginning two centuries ago.

This was the context in which the tragic events involving Duke freshman Grace Wang took place at the

candlelight vigil for Tibet on April 9. To American eyes, what Wang did —try to get two sides in a protest/counterprotest who were shouting at each other to talk, was the most natural, harmless, constitutionally-protected action in the world. What her Chinese classmates saw was a “traitor” (what they were calling her during the protest) who refused to unquestioningly and obediently toe the party line, join with her countrymen and point the finger of accusation at the suspected and mistrusted foreigner, as they have been drilled to do from childhood. Therefore Wang was a threat to her classmates, an obstacle to China’s rise to becoming a superpower and finally shedding the mantle of two hundred years of humiliation.

She had to be made an example of.

Most Chronicle readers know what ensued. Wang received death threats, her family’s address was publicized on a Duke University Web site, her home was vandalized and a bucket of feces was dumped in front of the door and her parents have been driven into hiding —where they remain today. This is the extreme manifestation of this resentment and extreme nationalism that the Chinese government encourages to keep their youth focused on the shortcomings of others and not turn their attention on the failings of their own unelected rulers. Indeed, the Communist Party’s official mouthpiece, China Central Television, posted a photograph of Grace Wang on its Web site with the caption: “The Most Hideous Overseas Chinese Student.” So the Chinese government is not just tolerating this vilification, they are actively inciting it.

What is happening to Wang is a witchhunt and it is being manipulated by the Chinese government. Chinese students have been protesting all over the U.S. in recent days—against CNN and against the Olympic torch relay being disrupted —and I sense a backlash against this activity in America coming. These people are not U.S. citizens but they are acting in this unaccustomed way in the U.S. It is a sad, scary realization of the Chronicle headline.

Background context of what happened to Wang is that since the recent tragic events in Tibet broke out starting on March 10 (the anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s 1959 fleeing into exile in India from Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese occupation), there was an exchange of political views on the Duke Chinese Students and Scholars Association Web site, dukechina.org and their listserv, china@duke.edu.

The messages got increasingly abusive and profane, many aimed at me for positing a less than rosy view of China’s custodianship ofTibet over the past half-century and some Chinese friends of mine who dared to defend me (not all Chinese accept the Chinese government’s sanitized version of history). I told DCSSA President Li Zhizhong as early as the middle of March—three weeks before the attacks on Grace Wang —that if he did not take some action and post a warning that profane or personal attacks would not be tolerated on the listserv and enforce that and remove those messages from the archive on the Duke-China Web site where they were posted prominently on the home page, that it would just encourage more abuse and that the anonymous attacks would only escalate as the Tibet-China conflict got more heated. Zhizhong told me that he would see what he could do, but he did nothing. And of course when the events at the protest on April 9 happened, my prediction proved true and those same people turned their anonymous attacks on Wang, and we have all seen the tragic results.

What we are witnessing here on the Duke campus is a microcosm of the international tension between the People’s Republic of China and its western trading partners. It is a clash of world views, a conflict of values that many experts consider very dangerous and are very worried about. What was done to Wang in unacceptable, period. But it is important for all sides to reflect on the complex factors that contributed to it happening, so it does not happen at Duke again. It is useful for as many people as possible to become aware of this specific sensibility and historical grudge of so many Chinese people because they are now our class- and community-mates.

Conversely, these Chinese guests must recognize that they are not in China but in the U.S., and come to understand that a very different standard of constitutionally-protected free speech and free expression pertains here. Only in this way can we avoid repeating the tragedy that has happened to our fellow Duke community member Wang, and promote international peace and harmony, in keeping with the “One World, One Dream” slogan of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Scott Savitt, Trinity ’B3, is a former foreign correspondent United Press International and the Los Angeles Times in Beijing. He is a friend of Grace Wang and has been advising her as well as commenting on the case for the media.

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