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Steve Nowicki will welcome a second placard to his desk The deanofundergraduate education can add the title of vice provost for undergraduate education to his resume, Provost Peter Lange announced Wednesday. “Nowicki’s responsibility spans several schools,” Lange said. “That’s the biggest reason [for the added title].” Lange said the titular expansion had been discussed for some time, as Nowicki’s purview encompasses both undergraduate schools and their programming, but administrators wanted to wait until Fall to make it official. Nowicki joined the University as an assistant professor in 1989,and theAnne T.'and Robert M. Bass fellow has taught in the departments of biology, psychology and neurobiology since
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The Class of 2012 matriculated this year an updated version of the Duke Community Standard. Every year, the Office of Judicial Affairs publishes a revised guide based on feedback from the previous year. The current version boasts changes ranging from a more stringent alcohol policy to an altered disciplinary process. Students were alerted to the release of the update via e-mail Wednesday. Stephen Bryan, director of Judicial Affairs and associate dean of students, said the additions to the code were meant to clarify previously vague policies. The DCS now explicitly states that groups are in violation of the alcohol policy if they provide alcohol to students under the age of 21, and modified the entry on jurisdiction to note that the University reserves the right to respond to any allegation of misconduct, on- or off-campus. “This year’s edition has no major changes,” Bryan said. “We clarified some things to
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Junior Raisa Ledesma arrived in Dublin, Ireland foreseeing community engagement beyond just office work. Although Ledesma said she often spoke with the refugees her DukeEngage program served—one of her favorite parts of the job—she added that her summer in Dublin did not ultimately fulfill her expectations for community service “What I was expecting out of my placement was working with the community itself,” she said. “I ended up in a sort of umbrella organization that worked as a support for ethnic communities. The most inter„
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action I got was with people who came in and were filling out applications or using computers.” Student response to DukeEngage’s community impact varied by site—and perhaps by need. The foremost goal of DukeEngage is to identify challenges in a target community and address them accordingly, said Eric Mlyn, director of Duke Engage and director of the Duke Center for Civic Engagement. “We are responding to a need that the community has expressed. It’s No. 1 and instrumental,” he said. And some participants said they felt the programs did make a difference in their host areas. In Hyderabad, India, junior Mathavi Jothimurugesan taught English to fourth and fifth graders, and she praised the program for instilling useful
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Freshmen were not the only new addition to show up on campus last week—an employee newsletter made
its debut in Webmail inboxes. The newsletter—entitled The Week at Duke—is sent every Thursday to employees and provides news and events going on at Duke in a fun, attractive and easy-to-read manner, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “The purpose and goal [of the newsletter] is to provide a snapshot of important information for members of the Duke community,” he said. “It is based on research we’ve done over the past year about what people are interested in receiving and how, when and in what form they want to receive it.”
A recent survey ofDuke employees and faculty also showed high demand for a weekly newsletter, said David Jarmul, associate vice president of news and communications. “A large committee studied international communications here about three years ago, and one of the main conclusions was that many people who work at Duke felt simultaneously overwhelmed with information and yet uninformed about what was going on in the campus,” said Jarmul, who also headed the group that designed the newsletter. The Week at Duke will replace the eDuke newsletter, which was distributed at Duke for the past six years and will slowly be phased out, Jarmul said. The eDuke newsletter had a weekly and monthly version, and provided summaries of event and research news at Duke.
Sally Allison, manager of the Professional Development Institute in Human Resources, said she thought that the new presentation of the newsletter was more professional and the graphics were more appealing. Although work on the newsletter did not begin until this past summer, it is part of an extensive revision of die University’s internal communication system that has been taking place over the last couple ofyears, Schoenfeld said. He added that preliminary versions of the newsletter were sent out to random employees, who provided feedback on the different formats of length and content. Jarmul said that since the newsletter’s launch Aug. 21, the Office of News and Communications had received only positive feedback from employees.
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not directly for the community,” he said. it’s hard to see that happen.” Participants in the Ireland program Although DukeEngage promotes itself as “civic engagement,” some participants in were originally supposed to design a menthe intemship-like programs—such as those toring project, but the group could not get in Dublin and Seattle—said they did not the program off the ground because they directly engage *■■■could not establish in their commu- “My hope is that Students aren’t key contacts, Ledesma said. As a result, nity but acknowlOnly doing Othce Work, DUt it S she said she mostly edged that they had helped m performed adminhard tO S6C that happen.” istrative tasks. some way. Although some Eric Mlyn, Senior Scott like Ledesma said who particiEren, Hirprtnr director nfßuhpFmrnfrp oj uuneungage they found intern pated in the Seatship work in their tie program, said menial, programs involved his work spreading the message of the organization Eren said he applied for the Seattle prowith which he had partnered, the Austin gram specifically because it was designed Foundation, which serves inner-city youth. as an internship, adding that he enjoyed “We knew it was doing something for learning public policy and management the organization we were working with, but skills through his work.
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It would have been only natural for Mike Krzyzewski to feel relief after his Olympic basketball team beat Spain to win the gold medal Sunday, especially after enduring a three-year gauntlet of expectations, pressure and redemption. But that emotion never overcame Krzyzewski, he said Wednesday at a press conference. And he doesn’t plan on allowing relief to seep into any future Duke celebrations, either. “Sometimes being here at Duke, because we’ve been very, very successful and won a 10t... [people] expect you to be perfect,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s like, what, we haven’t gone to the Final Four? What, we haven’t won a national championship? It’s very spoiled and it ruins it a little bit—really, a lot—and so part of that then becomes you win and sometimes you’re just relieved to win. “At the end of the Spain game, where most people would say, ‘Weren’t you relieved?’ No, I wasn’t. I was exhilarated. It was euphoric. It was the way it should be, and that’s the way it’s going to be for the rest of my career at Duke.” Krzyzewski—who did not rule out apotential second stint as Team USA coach on “Pardon the Interruption” Wednesday but deemed it unlikely—discussed the ways in which his time leading the national team changed him as a person and as a coach. His experience with legions of foreign media, including donning a microphone during games and opening the last 30 minutes of his practices, were differentfrom his routine at Duke. But the principal change seemed to be his insistence on seizing the day, a philosophy SEE KRZYZEWSKI ON PAGE
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Speaking in front of a gathering oflocal media Wednesday about his gold medal experience in Beijing, Mike Krzyzewski declared that for the past three years, he has lived USA Basketball every day. But that brief but lucrative stage in the coach’s career pales in comparison to the past 28 years in which his daily life has revolved around Duke Basketball. So it was only fitting that Krzyzewski’s Blue Devil players gathered with him the night before he left for Beijing and were waiting to greet him at his home when he returned to Durham Monday.
Krzyzewski called the two meetings good “bookends” for his storybookjourney across the world with the Olympic team. While the Duke coaching staff was overseas bulling up the national team, though, the players they left behind were following Team USA with intensity—and forging a group bonding experience of their own. The Blue Devils came to Scharf Hall at 2:30 a.m. Sunday to watch the gold medal game between the United States and Spain, enjoying the sights and sounds of the game and devouring a freshly catered breakfast from a local Durham eatery. And for the first time since coming to Duke, the players got the chance to oh-
serve their coach as spectators. “It was exciting watching him,” sophomore Nolan Smith said. “He’s real laid back from the standpoint that he wants to let his players play. “He had Chris Paul and Jason Kidd as point guards who are very intelligent—since I’m a point guard, watching them, they were running the show out there and Coach K was just kind of pointing at them.... They looked like they had fun playing -with him, and I can’t wait for him get back.” While Smith focused on Team USA’s SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 6
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Ranked in the top five of almost every Division' I-AA poll, James Madison is far from a season-opening pushover. Two years ago, Duke opened up against Division I-AA Richmond at home and suffered a surprising 13-0 defeat at the hands of the Spiders, another one of the college football subdivision’s powerhouses. But this season, the Blue Devils recognize the difficulties the Dukes will pose Saturday in the first £ame of the David Cutcliffe era—no matter what division they play in. “We couldn’t have a tougher'opponent,” Cutcliffe said. “They’re used to winning. These guys are going to come in here and play, and theyTe going to play their rear ends off... Anybody we play right now gets
our hands full, but especially a team like that knows how to win.” And the Dukes—not Duke—may have the best player on the field Saturday in Rodney Landers, whom Cutcliffe dubbed the Tim Tebow ofDivision I-AA. Led by their fifth-year senior quarterback, the Dukes (8-4 in 2007) posted 410 yards of offense per game last season against legitimate opponents including North Carolina and Appalachian State, the darling of Division I-AA that upset Michigan on last season’s opening day. Working out of a spread offense and utilizing the option, Landers averaged over 100 yards of rushing by himself in 2007. The success of therun game is the product ofLanders’
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Just days after leading Team USA to a gold medal in Beijing, Mike Krzyzewski met with the media Wednesday.
KRZYZEWSKI from pages that appears to.berooted in nabbing gold. “So whatever you want to do, whether it be the student newspaper, local, national [media]... you can throw all that stuff out—it ain’t going to work,” he said. “Live the moment. Write about the moment. Because I’m not going to cooperate with any of thatother stuff. For the rest of my career, I’m not going to do that relief thing. I’m going to go after it, I’m going to do it. And if somebody doesn’t go to the Final Four during their four years at Duke, then that’s just too damnbad. “But our team is going to have fun. It’s going to be represented, and we’re going to have an opportunity to growjust like our Olympic team did.” Cridcism of Krzyzewski’s Team USA involvement has swirled in the last three years, as fan circles and the media have called into
question whether the staffs national team responsibilities have affected the Blue Devils, who have lost on the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament in the past two seasons. The fact that Team USA won the gold medal will almost definitely help the University and the basketball program, but Krzyzewski said the end result was irrelevant.
“Doing those two things at the same time afforded me an amazing opportunity to grow,” Krzyzewski said. “For Duke, for me, for our country, for the kids I coach—l’m a better coach for them and a better person as a result and was while I was coaching. “It’s Just that because we didn’t go to the NCAA Final Four the last two years because we had two young teams and because we got beat, all of a sudden there’s a reason?... That was wrong. The people who wrote about those things, they were wrong.”
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athleticism and elusiveness combined with the squad’s offensive line, paced by preseason All-American Scott Lemn at center. The Dukes surrendered a mere six sacks in theirentire campaign last year—about 16 fewer than the average Division I-AA squad. The Blue Devils gave up 45 in 2007. “Nobody can get their hands on [Landers],” Cutcliffe said. “They’re going to run the option.... They are a very multiple offensive football team that can power you or finesse you, either one.” Defensively, James Madison is less imposing. Stopping the run is the team’s first priority and consequendy, the Dukes load the box at the line of scrimmage, utilizing an eight-man front scheme. More than anything, James Madison has proven it can win on a consistent basis. Over thelast 13years, theDukes have made the postseason six times, a feat their Saturday counterparts wish they could claim.
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The Dukes' senior quarterback Rodney Landers is the Tim Tebow of Division l-AA, and James Madison's offensive attack starts with the ground game. But on the defensive end, the Dukes could be vulnerable to an aerial assault how they read stuff and what they do in certain situations,” he said. “A lot of the plays that they did run we do run, so it definitely helps us as a team.” Now, for the first time in three years, Krzyzewski only has one dayjob and looks to apply what he learned on the international courts to Duke’s play at Cameron Indoor Stadium. And his players get their coach in person, not via satellite.
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There is no song of the summer ing at you Annie Leibowitz, you perv). 2008. Panic accordingly. Finally, after his well-publicized BonnaThis time last year, just after you roo snafu, the public (or squid-brains) grew tired of cranking dat Soulja Boy SIMPLY WASN’T READY FOR ANand outlining all the reasons as to why OTHER KANYE WEST SMASH HIT!!! The lack of a song of the summer you were hot (but before you were sick of asking people how their summers only reveals that we live in a nation dewent), you knew precisely what you centralized by the internet. We used to wanted to hear. The party reached an be able to rely on the mass media (thank eerie calm as our favorite Barbadian you, Clear Channel Radio) force-feedsinger belted “You have my heart/And ing us some over-synthesized, erotic we’ll never be worlds apart.” Two or club anthem, complete with flashy muthree Jay-Z verses later, and you were sic videos. But no more. Things done in love. Yes, “Umbrella-ella-ella (ey ey)” changed. was the song of summer 2007. It was unYou see, America has long been avoidable. And it was fantastic. In 2006, known as a melting pot of sorts. Yet, we were “Crazy”. Before that, we were that diverse pot was always unified by a all “Hollaback Girls”. Bouillabaisse ofpop music. Yet, 2008, with all its promise and And that is why we turn to our pop intrigue, has given us no undisputed stars of the country. These soldiers of champion of the charts. Don’t get me the synthesizer need to save the Ameriwrong, there were plenty of contendcan public from our internet-obsessed, ers. But, like the eternal disappointPitchfork-loving selves. The American ment Eight Belles, each faded just when people yearn for a song of the summer things were getting serious. Katy Perry’s as a gentle reminder that we can all col“I Kissed A Girl,” while steamy, set the lectively obsess over some catchy single feminist movement back to 1882 and before eventually growing sick of their raised serious questions regarding the sound, pronouncing them lame and legitimacy of women’s suffrage in this then fondly reminiscing about it on major election year. Li’l Wayne’s “LolliVHl’s “I Love the New Millennium”. pop” was heavy on the sexual innuendo You might like LCD Soundsystem while but light on appeal to the ignorantI enjoy Justice, but at least we all know white-female-12-to-16 demographic. the words to “Golddigger.” The Jonas Brothers had the opposite Having no official song of the sumproblem; a hit amongst tweens, but mer launches us into some form of sure to put a damper on your Cristalpost-modern wasteland of pop culture. popping festivities. As for Miley, any To hell with April, June to August are hopes for “7 Things” were dashed by now officially the crudest months. Billy Ray’s poor parenting (we’re look—Jordan Axt
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reached his third decade—can associate with McCain, who’s recently been preempting jokes about his age. Now, you may say that the gentleman from Arizona has nearly 40 years on the gentleman from Puerto Rico, but relevance in hip-hop is even more fleeting than politics. Ask Big Daddy Kane, If you can find him. The would-be wits over at The Wall Street Journal, a publication that we hear frequently aspires to match recess’ gravitas, have gone for the cheap gag. They point out that Daddy Yankee sometimes raps about “Gasolina,” and John McCain also speaks about gasoline frequently. To be honest, however, McCain’s proposals—though bold and innovative—simply aren’t as danceable as Daddy Yankee’s. But I digress. The point is, the WSJ needs to quit taking the easy way out. Surely, these people understand the importance of this election, the issues at stake for America in a changing world. For them to resort to cheap punning at a time like this is disappointing. It’s a sign of the degradation of the nation’s newspapers. I, for one, am stumped as to how the Journal has fallen this far. You’d think they were owned by the same person as Fox News or something! —David Graham, editor
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After years of toil, most graduate students come to terms with the fact that their dissertation will probably be relegated to a certain bookshelf in a certain library, its only hope a citation by some fellow graduate student in the years to come. Sarah Schroth, however, has seen her dissertation lead to the rediscovery of the rich and vibrant art created during the reign of King Philip 111 of Spain (r. 1578-1621), an era that had been dismissed among art historians until now. With the Boston Museum ofFine Arts as a partner and approximately 17 differentlenders, “El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III” is not only a huge unveiling and discovery in the fine-art community but also the Nasher Museum of Art’s first blockbuster exhibit. The Raleigh News & Observer reported that the museum spent |2 million on the exhibit, significantly more than it did for its own opening. In order to break even, the Nasher hopes to attract 100,000visitors by the closing of the show. After succeeding his father, Philip 11, who left a very impressive mark both in his support of the arts and his political maneuvers, Philip 111 was overshadowed by his father and later his son, with the era’s art being comparatively neglected.
“This is the first major exhibit of art produced in Spain between 1598 and 1621 because there just hasn’t been much interest in this era before,” said Sarah Schroth, the Nasher’s Nancy Hanks senior curator. “Some of these pieces and artists have never been showcased outside of their churches, much less in America.” During her time as a graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Schroth scoured many of Spain’s archives looking for documentation of the art commissioned and collected by Philip 111. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon a centuries-old inventory belonging to the Duke ofLerma that she realized she had found proof ofrich and innovative art masterpieces never before recognized. The Duke ofLerma was the chief minister and court favorite of Philip 111, and although it had been known that he was a patron of the fine arts, his extensive collection of more than 2,700 works came as a surprise even to Schroth. “From his inventory, we were able to reconstruct this missing chapter of art in Spain,” she said. “We’re sort of restoring the reputations of these undiscovered artists and giving them their much-deserved spot in the limelight.” SEE EL GRECO ON PAGE 7
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We live in a colorful world, but look no further than the Private Investigations exhibit at Durham’s Through This Lens photo gallery for proof that all an artist really needs is black and white. Investigations is comprised of photographs taken by nine members of the Triangle Black and White Photography Group. Their pictures are characterized by “a desire to isolate subject matter from the visual clutter around us,” according to the exhibit’s brochure, all were created using non-digital photographic processes reminiscent of bygone eras. Displaying such a large number of artists’ work in the exhibit makes it diverse and multifaceted. “It’s very difficult to try andfind an encompassing theme unless they’re given some assignment, which we didn’t do, and that’s why we called it Private Investigations —to suggest that it was left up to the individual,” said gallery director Roylee Duvall.
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"Train Tracks with Warehouse" by Mitch Rosen is one of the photos on display in Private Investigations.
The group’s decision to only use black-and-white provides much more than just a surface aesthetic character. “I think sometimes black-and-white images reveal shapes and textures that are completely lost with color,” Duvall said. “When you think about Orson Welles and some of SEE LENS ON PAGE 7
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Aside from El Greco and Velazquez, who bookend the exhibit, none of the other artists featured have earned historic renown, and most had been altogether forgotten. A few of the pieces were recovered from dank basements and courtyard cloisters. Along with over 100 paintings, there are three sculptures in the exhibit. Sprawling across two of the Nasher’s five pavilions, the works are largely divided into a secular and a religious set. The pieces in both halls feature immaculate details, vivid colors and a striking mastery of naturalistic painting. The first paintings to greet visitors is “Saint James (Santiago el Mayor)” by El Greco, one of Spain’s most famous artists. The large piece is a perfect example of the naturalistic style of the time; but beyond that, it is an uncompleted work. Its right side is clearly unfinished, with the hand still a blurry rendition in need of refinement, and the white cloth only hinting at the beginnings of textured fabric. “The vision of Saint John,” also by El Greco, is an even greater work-in-progress that lends more depth and life. Touring the exhibit with Schroth last week in a sneak preview prior to the exhibition’s opening, President Richard Brodhead and Cindy Brodhead remarked on how the art was not only visually enticing but also a statement reflective of the artistic method of the time. “It’s amazing that you get some insight into his creation process with these pieces,” Richard Brodhead jsaid. Also featured are still-life paintings and portraits by the lesser known but equally masterful artists. The details are intricate, tempting viewers to reach into the work to confirm the textural details they see, while the character of each subject is also clearly presented. “There’s such softness in-the faces,” Cindy Brodhead said. ‘You can almost feel the relationship between the artist and the subject. Anybody coming to the show, it seems to me, will just be drawn in.” Starting with El Greco and ending with one work by Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, another renowned Spanish painter of the time, the exhibit is a unique artistic exploration and historic unveiling 20 years in the making. “I’m so proud to see someone’s educational curiosity explored and presented in away that allows others to follow,” Richard Brodhead said. But for Schroth, this exhibit is more than just her own
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I’m glad I was able to capture them.” Others pursued only one theme through their work. Tim Telkamp focused on a Civil War-era appearance for his three photos, produced using mid-1800s technology. This technique lends one of his images, “Dock and Cattails in the Breeze,” an ethereal quality that resonates from the swaying reeds. Taking a differentapproach, Ten Eselson’s portraits of rock faces are characterized by striking definition in their details. Similarly, Mitch Rosen isolates one element—architectural structures—from their surroundings. The buildings, abandoned and desolate, have a corpse-like quality that hints at a removal from the world. Although each artist managed to pursue his or her own unique ideas, all of the photographs are unified by their black-and-white authenticity. This lends Private Investigations a powerful anti-modernity that resonates beyond the differences between the pictures themselves. Private Investigations is currently showing at Through this Lens Gallery, 303 E. Chapel Hill Street, through Sept. 16.
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During a quiet hour, it states,
noise must be soft enough that it cannot be heard two doors down, while during a regular hour no noise may be made that can be heard three doors down. To impose this paperthin distinction, there are the resident assistants, who wield no enforcement mechanism other than persuasion and who will only encourage quiet when complained to—as they surely do already. Of course, this is not to say that the policy should be stricter. The idea, in addition to being ill-designed, should never have been proposed in the first place. And where this initiative crosses over from the trivial to the dangerous is in whatit suggests rather than what it is in itself. What this proposal indi-
is the general intrusion of RLHS policy into student life. Like the new lofting policy, the sleep hours policy appeared on the books before students ever knew about it. In keeping with the paternalistic theme, the policy attempts to regulate by fiat the daily habits of responsible adults who should be left to agree on their own solutions. And, sure, there’s a vote involved but no option to vote against the sleep hours altogether—that choice has already been made. Students should not doze off as another University policy assumes a seat at the tableof futility. Instead, all implicated student organizations should wake up, whenever they want, and call this initiative what it is—nothing, but bad. cates
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smartly realize that students do not sleep enough and that is bad. At this point, however, the productive phase of its work ended. The reason this policy will not work is, first, that it is looking in the wrong place. The reason that students don’t sleep enough during the week is that they have things to do—meetings, homework, sports, video games—not that their surrounding dorm is too loud. No one is lying quietly in bed on a Tuesday at 11 p.m., arms crossed and eyes shut, with blaring noise all around just wishing that it was a Courtesy Sleeping Hour. And no one is waking up at 8 a.m. and making much noise either. Moreover, the policy is so weak as to be meaningless.
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a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a cliched opening to my first column of the year. These days it seems nothing is more overused than superhero catchphrases—Why so serious? Hulk Smash! With great power comes greatblah blah blah. Naturally, I blame the film industry. This summer at the multiplexes we were bombarded with all sorts of superheroes, from Batman to Iron david distenfeld Man to The Zohan but seriously However, after watching The Dark Knight, I kind of wished that Duke had its own superhero. I mean, I’d like to be able to look out my window, see a costumed figure run across the quad and know that it’s not just someone trying to get to Tailgate. Now don’t tell me that we already have the Blue Devil mascot. That thing’s only power is getting people to clap in unison. If that alone makes him a superhero, then that also makes the song “Cha Cha Real Smooth” a superhero. What I’m talking about is a superhero specifically designed to deal with the problems facing this school’s campus. Maybe something like “The Incredible Lawyer.” But seriously, even without a Duke superhero we wouldn’t be able escape those caped crusaders. Not that we’d actually want to, though. As a culture, we just can’t get enough of our tights-wearing good guys. Of course, there are countless reasons why we love superheroes. They have dozens of technologically advanced gadgets. They assume geeky alter egos during the day. They can make $l5B million in a single weekend. But enough about Bill Gates. In truth, I believe the real reason we are obsessed with superheroes is simple: They can do things ordinary folks find impossible. This year’s Olympics were the highest-rated Games of all time, perhaps because of that very reason —there were so many superhuman performances. Even after they’re over, the debate still rages on about who was the best athlete of the games. Conventional wisdom suggests that half-man, half-tilapia Michael Phelps is king with his eight gold medals. Others might argue that the Jamaican Flash Gordon, Usain Bolt, dashes past the competition. My sister would probably say that female Chinese gymnast Deng Linlin gave the best performance—fooling millions of people into thinking she was actually 16.
However, my pick as the real superhero of the games is... Russia’s Andrey Moiseev. Now I know what you’re thinking: Why is a Bond villain competing in the Olympics? Well, the answer is simple. Mr. Moiseev is actually the gold-medal winner of the modem pentathlon a one-day event that combines fencing, cross-country running, freestyle swimming, horseback show jumping and pistol shooting. Seriously. It’s basically the Olympic equivalent of a Pu Pu platter. The event has more diversity than the cover photo ofa Duke University brochure. It pretty much puts T.G.I. Friday’s Three-For-All Appetizer sampler to shame with its sheer variety. I mean, most people haven’t even thought about those five sports in the same sentence much less in the same day-long event. And yet, Mr. Moiseev does it all and does it better than anyone else. By the way, how do you discover that you’d make a good modem pentathlete? Hey Mom, this horseback riding thing is going pretty well, but what I’d really like to do is shoot stuff, too. The century-old Olympic competition isn’t really as random as it seems. The modern pentathlon was originally created as a contest to simulate the skills of a soldier behind enemy lines. Of course, for modem day soldiers knowing how to wield a sword is about as useful as knowing how to serve a shuttlecock. Although I may ridicule the modem pentathlon incessantly, it’s actually an ingenious way of determining the best in a given field. I love the idea of choosing five random, yet marginally related, skills and having competitors duke it out for overall bragging rights. For example, it seems like John McCain is having trouble picking his running mate, which is completely understandable—my grandfather often has trouble picking out which pair of socks to wear. Well, Sen. McCain could create a modem pentathlon designed to find the perfect Republican Vice President. This competition would include, among other events, speech making, baby holding and, of course, pistol shooting. You could even apply the awesome modem pentathlon format to Duke. All students would have to take five types of classes from a variety of subject areas, such as natural sciences, mathematics, the arts, the—wait a second. As Duke students, we already have to complete a modem academic pentathlon of sorts, which I guess by my column’s logic makes us all like superheroes. Well, in that case, just remember that with great power comes great... never mind. —
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you noticed the sidewalks getting a little bit more crowded? Those airplane seats just not as cozy? Fast food bags slightly more prevalent than they used to be? Less kids out on the playground? America is fat. In 2004, two-thirds ofAmericans were overweight. By 2007, 49 states had obesity rates over 20 percent, and a majority of states had more than 25 percent of its population categorized as obese. Compare this to the data from just ten years before, when only three states had obesity rates of higher elad gross than 20 percent. Old news. We’ve heard this smile one already. Quit eating the dollar-menu hamburgers, go run a little bit and everything will be OK But these instructions are not being adhered to. We know that greasy food combined with inactivity makes us fat We know that we should hit the gym a few times a week. We know that we don’t even have to go overboard to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Yet to no avail. So, in the face of this epidemic, I propose a drastic plan. Ladies and gentlemen of America, it is time to get it on. Sex. Sex can incorporate so many aspects of cardiovascular exercise and weight training that it is a tool we cannot afford to overlook. Stamina and endurance, or perhaps speed and quickness, are tested through the rigors of pushing, pulling, touching, lifting, rubbing, grabbing and thrusting. Talk about a calorie burn! But why stop with the generic sexual act? Consider this the health-promoting, fat-eliminating Kama Sutra of the 21st century. 1) The Catch Me I’m Falling: Partner A stands with back to bed, bent at the hips arid holding on to Partner B, who has feet on the bed and is falling toward the floor away from, while facing, Partner A. Perfect for those who can’t make it out to skydiving, or a Partner B who just can’t get enough of a good blood rush. Calories burned—Partner A; 100.8, Partner B: 96 2) The Texas Hold-Him: Partner A stands strong holding onto Partner B. Partner B wraps arms around Partner As neck and pulls legs up and around Partner As torso. Fold those cards, put away the chips and go find a different kind of flush. Calories burned—Partner A 100.8, Partner B: 66 3) Tit for Tat Partner A grabs Partner B from behind while Partner B bends over with hands on a stool placed in front of Partner B. Both partners form a two-layered arch. Game Theory in application. Just make sure the parameters are set correctly, or this could spell the end ofcivil relations. Calories burned—Partner A 75.4, Partner B: 56 4) The Joan ofArch: Partner A forms an arch with body, back toward the ground, while Partner B kneels on the floor with head between Partner As legs. Body armor and sword optional. Calories burned—Partner A 88, Partner B: 72 5) You Do the Hokey Pokey and Y0u...: Partner A stands with back to Partner B, separated by a few feet. Yes; even abstaining will get you a work out. Calories burned—A; 19 B: 13.6 (due to muscle mass difference, with Partner A being the larger partner) The names of, and calories burned during, each position can be found in the “Position of the Day Playbook,” written by the staff ofNerve.com. One of their editors, Sam Apple, estimates that the duration of each sexual act is somewhere around eight minutes. But not every night is a night for love. Or maybe you have just gotten bored of the hokey pokey, but choose not to have sex. Nothing wrong with that! Squat your partner. Bench press your lover. Challenge your special friend to a pushup and crunches competition. Form a running relay team with another couple. Do whatever you need to do to combat the challenges of overwhelming obesity. The answer isn’t always in cutting calories. To attain that physically fit body, you need to become physically active and eat a full and balanced diet filled with purposeful foods rather than junk. You can even accomplish these two goals at the same time—bring some broccoli into the bedroom. Since we can’t find away to get to the gym, or the health food aisle, maybe it’s time to attack this problem in a different light We seem to be doing fine with the baby-making, so why not give it a shot 5 Elad Gross is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other
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Do you want to be a doctor because you like science? Science teachers like science. Scientists like science. Paleontologists like science. Do you want to be a doctor because it’ll make your Mom/Dad/Grandma happy? Mom and Dad and Grandma will love you whether or not you’re a doctor, and if you’re not doing this for yourself, you’ll never get it done. And that’s kind of the point. It’s not why every member of every admissions committee you ever meet will ask you why you want to be a doctor—that’s because they’re sadists, obvi—but it is why you need a real, true answer for yourself. You can make up some kind of lie, and if your grades and scores are good enough, you’ll fool an admissions committee into letting you in. But if you can’t answer the question truthfully, you’ll hate med School. So think about it. Ask yourself: Why do I want to be a doctor and not anything else in the world? It’s not that being a doctor is some sort of special calling; it’s just that becoming one is going to cost you a whole lot of work and a whole lot of money. If you think you might want to be a computer programmer, you can get a job the day after you graduate with Google or something. If you don’t like it there, then you can leave. No harm, no foul, and you’ve probably made yourself a couple bucks. If you think you might want to be a doctor, and you go to medical school and then you decide that you don’t like it, you’ve just flushed four years and $160,000 (plus living expenses) down the toilet and subjected yourself to a lot of unnecessary work and stress. (That’s not entirely true. I’m not trying to scare you. An M.D. is always worth having even if you decide you don’t want to be a doctor. It’s just that there are probably easier ways to get where you want to go.) As for me, I went to med school because my dream of becoming a Major League baseball player crashed and burned when my second grade coach put me 15th in the batting order and because David Bowie made being an astronaut seem boring. Also, my first favorite toy was the Fisher Price doctor set. (Come on, you think I’d give you all the answers?) Serious advice: Spend some time thinking about what it means to be sick and what being a doctor means. Take a class or two that looks into medicine or sickness from an unconventional angle. Read a book—like “On Doctoring” by Richard Reynolds and John Stone—to get a sense of what doctors mean to patients. Think about what makes your desire to be a doctor unique. Alex Fanaroff, Trinity ’O7, is a second-year medical student. His column runs every other Thursday.
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