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The Duke Student GovernmentSenate approved a measure to increase the $222 annual studentactivities fee by a total of $lOO over the course of the next two years at its first meeting ofthe academic year Wednesday night By voting for a $25 hike, the Senate also approved funding for all three new initiatives under consideration by DSG: low-cost legal counseling, a car-rental service and a bus tracking system. Undergraduates will vote on the activities fee ,ncrease in a referen .lonianGiordano dum Sept. 15. The referendum will propose to increase the current per-semester fee of $lll by $25—to $136 per semester—for the 2009-2010 academic year and another $25—to $l6l per semester—for the following year. Three different fee increases were proposed Wednesday night—a $lO, $l5 or $25 incremental hike per semester. All three -
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Arthur Leopold had some explaining to do. The freshman failed to attend a single class last week. But the culprit was not a broken alarm clock or a late C-l bus. Leopold willingly traded a few of his first days of college for the ultimate political extracurricular: a trip to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. “It’s like the Olympics of politics,” he said. “It’s really thrilling to have the chance to see it all.” And see it he did. A New York delegate and the youngest member of Sen. Barack Obama’s finance committee, Leopold was front and center on the convention floor for the DNC’s biggest moments —including Obama’s Aug. 28 acceptance speech before a c heering crowd of more than 84,000.
And Leopold was not the only DNC attendee with ties to the University. While the rest of the country has followed the events in Denver and St. Paul, Minn. the site of this week’s Republican National Convention—from afar, several Dukies caught the action first hand. From volunteers and interns to delegates and members of the press, these political enthusiasts filled many roles as they immersed themselves in the excitement of two presidential nominations. “I think over the last three days I’ve had a total of six hours of sleep,” said Betsy Albright, a graduate student in the Nicholas School ofEnvironment, in an interview with The Chronicle Aug. 27. Albright, a DNC delegate from North Carolina, said she spent her days at the convention in a blur of delegate luncheons, meetings with elected officials and cheering as the party’s stars —
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South Korea said SEOUL, South Korea North had begun rethat Korea Wednesday facilities. the U.S. played its nuclear But storing it down, saying the country apparently only moved some equipment out of storage. The North said last week it had stopped dismantling its nuclear reactor Aug. 14 because Washington had not held up its end of their disarmament deal —promise to remove North Korea from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.At the same time, the North threatened to restore the nuclear facility. The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said in a report that North Korea had already removed"essential"equipmentfrom its nuclear facilities by the time it decided to stop disabling them last month.
19 sq. mile ice chunk breaks offshelf TORONTO A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, toldThe Associated Press that the 4,500-yearold Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean,
NASSAU, Bahamas Tropical Storm Hanna j knocked out power to the southern Bahamas on Wednesday and officialsfrom Nassau to South Carolina warned residents to preparefor possible evacuations as it moves north and grows into a hurricane. The storm, packing 65-mph winds, turned to the northwest after lingering for days near Haiti, where it caused flooding that killed 26 people. As Hanna took aim at the heart of this Atlantic archipelago, islanders were also tracking two other storms churning westward in the open ocean—Hurricane Ikeand Tropical Storm Josephine. The U.S. Hurricane Center said it is too early to say whether Ike will threaten land. It is the third major hurricane of the Atlantic season, after Bertha and Gustav. Ike is moving westnorthwest near 18 mph. Forecasters say Josephine, the tropical storm behind Ike, is weakening..
WASHINGTON Pushing back against an increasingly aggressive Moscow, President Bush said Wednesday the U.S. will send an extra $1 billion to Georgia to help the pro-Western former Soviet republic in the wake of Russia's invasion. "Georgia has a strong economic foundation and leaders with an impressive record of reform," Bush said in a statement. "Our additional economic assistance will help the people of Georgia recover from the assault on their country, and continue to build a prosperous and competitive economy." Vice President Dick Cheney, due in Georgia on Thursday, planned to make the massive aid package a major highlight of his discussions with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Cheney is on a tour of three former Soviet republics that are wary of Russia's intentions in what Moscow likes to call its "near abroad" sphere of influence and what Cheney termed while in Azerbaijan "the shadow of the Russian invasion of Georgia."
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Thousands of people who NEW ORLEANS fled Hurricane Gustav forced the city to reluctantly open its doors Wednesday, while President Bush returned to the site of one of the biggest failures of his presidency to show that the government had turned a corner since its bungled response to Katrina. Faced withtraffic backups on paths into the city, Mayor Ray Nagin gave up checking ID badges and automobile placards designed to keep residents out until early Thursday. Those who returned said if the city was safe enough for repair crews and health care workers, it was safe enough for them, too.
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Cadillacs mingled with Caravans in the parking lots of East Campus as Duke’s freshman class moved in two weeks ago. The average family income of a Duke student is more than three times the national average, based on a breakdown of demographics in a report published in May 2006 by the Campus Life and Learning Project and in the 2002 U.S. Census, respectively. Although report researcher Kenneth Spenner, a professor of sociology, said Duke’s average income is normal among its peer schools, some said the statistics reinforce a common perception of Duke students as privileged and may point to a culture ofaffluence on campus. “I had never heard ofNorth Face or Uggs before coming to Duke,” said senior Molly Eggleton. “You have to buy the uniform.” She added that socioeconomic barriers exist at Duke, especially within the Greek system. Some students, however, said affluence among the student body is less of a social force. “I don’t feel pressured at all to look a certain way,” freshman Dani Schocken said. Administrators have striven to increase socioeconomic diversity with new financial aid policies for some students, saying they are concerned about how the makeup of the student body may be affecting the experience of current students on financial aid. “Dean Nowicki has made it a really high priority to ensure that students who receive financial aid find Duke a welcoming place,” said Susan Kaufman, the director of Communications for the Office of Undergraduate Education. “This is some-
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After three years of demand for more economical and accessible public transportation, Duke is now offering its faculty, staff and students a cheaper “ticket to ride.” The University began selling bus passes to its affiliates at a more than 60-percent discount Friday following pressure from a May petition signed by more than 100 Duke employees to offer transportation discounts or vouchers. The discount applies to Durham Area Transit Authority buses—fees for a monthly pass decreased from $36 to $12—as well as Triangle Transit Authority and Capital Area Transit buses —fees for a regional pass decreased from
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thing that does need more attention.” Senior Chad Tudenggongbu, an international student from Tibet, came to the United States expecting wealth. Nonethe-' less, he said he did sense a contrast beyond Duke’s walls. “You go off campus and then you see another side of America, and you kind of wonder, ‘What happened there?’” he said. Marketplace staffer Shareema Whitely said she is not surprised by Duke’s high average family income, “It’s Duke,” Whitely said. “We know
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“This will minimize economic and ecological problems and maximize health benefits and safety,” said Blanca Gonzalez, an administrative secretary in radiology at the Duke University Medical Center and author of the petition. Gonzalez, who rides the free-fare Robertson bus daily to and from work, saidshe would definitely commute via public transportation if it were discounted. She added that some Duke employees living in Chapel Hill get up before 5 a.m. to walk to the Robertson bus stop to avoid paying the TTA busTee.
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Embattled BANGKOK, Thailand Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej called the political crisis in Thailand a shameful embarrassment for the country but vowed not to resign or dissolve Parliament, saying Thursday it was his job to protect democracy. Samak vowed in a live radio broadcast that he would not bow to demands of antigovernment protesters, a stance likely to inflame a national crisis that started Aug. 26 when thousands of activists occupied the grounds ofhis office compound. “I am not resigning. I have to protect the democracy of this country,” said Samak, who has not been able to enter his office since the protesters set up camp on the grounds of Government House. “I am outside, and I can’t work properly,” he said, noting several times that the world was watching Thailand. “Is it shameful? Yes.” But he added, to “resign won’t mean anything, even if I dissolve the Parlia-
ment.” News of the planned radio broadcast leaked Wednesday night, fueling speculation that Samak’s resignation was imminent. The front-page of the Englishlanguage Nation newspaper ran with the banner headline Thursday: “Samak on the Brink of Exit.” The announcement came after Samak imposed a state of emergency in Bangkok on Tuesday after bloody rioting between his supporters and opponents left one person dead and dozens injured. The anti-government protesters have publicly humiliated Samak by defying the
Freshman alcohol emergency A student in Jarvis Dormitory called Duke police early Wednesday morning reporting a medical emergency for her roommate, who was intoxicated.
Trip and fall A student reported that he injured his nose after tripping at a retaining wall on Ninth Street early Wednesday morning. On-scene call A student who reported feeling faint and having a rapid heart beat was looked after on scene in the Bryan Center Circle by Duke University and Durham County Emergency Medical Services.
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Anti-government supporters look on during a speech by ThaiPrime Minister Samak Sundaraveji Thursday in Bangkok,Thailand In a live radio speech Samak vowed not to resign and to stay on to protect democracy. emergency decree and remaining at his office compound after the army chief declined to use force to remove them. Protesters jeered, booed and repeatedly shouted, “Samak Get Out!” as his radio address was broadcast over speakers at Government House. One of the leaders, Chamlong Srimuang, addressed the crowd afterward, predicting that more people would join their ranks. “After this, we will have more people coming to join us here,” Chamlong said. “Brothers, I call on you to stay here. Stay with us until he is gone. We can’t leave the Government House empty-handed. We want nothing less than victory!” Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag resigned
In retrospect A man unaffiliated with the University alleged Tuesday morning that he was assaulted in the Iron Duke Parking Blue Zone while attending the football game Saturday against James Madison University.
Wednesday, a move widely viewed as a sign that Samak was losing support from his own government. Samak said Tej, a respected diplomat who was appointed to his post July 27 to help ease political tensions, sent him a letter saying he had been “pressured by many sides,” including his wife who said she “could not tolerate him working for a government that had been treated con-
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Arrest and development A man unaffiliated with the Medical Center, who had an outstanding warrant held by Durham Police Department, got into a verbal confrontation with a patient in Duke North Hospital Tuesday night. DPD took the man to the county jail. Vocal abuse An employee at Duke North reported receiving harrassing phone calls. Hit and run The gate arm to the public policy lot was reportedly broken, and the vehicle suspected to cause the damage was identified.
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Digital initiative pushes for broader use of video cameras by
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The Duke Digital Initiative plans to provide students and faculty with a new supply of small appliances for their big ideas. This year, DDl’s efforts to keep cutting-edge technology within the reach of students and faculty have involved making video cameras more available for academic purposes. Although DDI video equipment has been accessible for faculty during the past two years, its use previously required an application and advance planning. Now, a pool of equipment is available for both student and faculty use on a short-term or experimental basis. Julian Lombardi, assistant vice president of the Office of Information Technology, said the three-year-old
DDI is focusing on Video cameras as a new way to share information. “We want to encourage people to use the newest types of media in their academic work,” he said. “[Video] is a very powerful way to communicate knowledge when used effectively.” The cameras, which are available at The Link in Perkins Library, have been used by several individual students prior to this year for academic purposes as well as DukeEngage projects, said Samantha Earp, head of instructional media and language technology services at Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology. She added that she expects the number of students SEE DIGITAL ON PAGE 7
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“[The Robertson bus] leaves from the [Morehead] Planetarium, and it depends if you can get there on time in the morning because parking is a problem and people don’t usually live in that area,” Gonzalez said. “[The TTA bus] is pretty expensive.” The move to offer discounted bus fares for Duke faculty and staff members follows similar efforts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, where university affiliates ride TTA and CAT buses for free. In addition, each UNC student pays $66 per year to ensure that Chapel Hill Transit’s service is completely farefree within city lines for all riders. Duke subsidized bus fares for its employees and students after several neighboring universities, but discussions about the fare preceded the petition, said Chuck Catotti, Duke’s acting director of Parking and Transportation Services. “It was a matter of trying to find a program that would work for us and the community,” Catotti said. “There have been a lot of employees requesting this since I’ve first become involved with transit here at Duke.” Mirta Mihovilovic, a senior research scientist in neurology at DUMC, said she had been working toward bus pass discounts for two and a halfyears, sending Duke administrators letters calling for an employee break in public transportation costs. She said her main motives for supporting the issue included protecting the environment and encouraging employee fitness. “When I realized that we had a lot of single-passenger cars and high levels of pollution in the area, I thought we could promote mass transit,” Mihovilovic said.
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DSG from page 1 increases would go toward increasing funding for student groups, but they would be combined differently with the three DSG-led projects. Thirteen members, the majority, voted for a hike of $25 per semester —or $5O per year—which was the increase posited in the initial proposal by DSG executive board members, and would include funding of student groups in addition to the three projects. Five members voted for an increase of $l5 per semester—or $3O per year —which would include funding for only one project, and one representative voted for the hike of $lO per semester—or $2O per year—which would not include funding for any of the three initiadves. Following this vote on the amount of the proposed hike, representadves voted on a measure calling for the student body referendum to allow students to rank the three DSG projects in order of their preferences. All members but one approved the motion. The per-semester student acdvides fee increased by about 7.8 percent for the 2008-2009 academic year, from $lO3 each semester last year to the current $lll semester fee. Approximately 44 percent of the current fee is allocated to DSG, and the student government’s pordon of the fee has not been upped in seven years, said DSG President Jordan Giordano, a senior. Giordano said the Senate’s campaign to convince the student body to approve the additional fee will begin immediately. “We have a pretty big campaign set out starling [Thursday],” Giordano said. “We will be launching a Web site. We are going to be tabling. We are going to e-mail ever)’ president of every organization on campus." Giordano also mentioned the importance of educating freshmen about the potential increase in student fees as they are the students who will be voting in the largest numbers. If the student body does not approve the referendum, DSG will once again have to extract money from their surplus fund, which contains 560.000, Giordano said. In the past, DSG has been withdrawing $20,000 to $40,000 from the fund annuallv. Giordanosaid he felt that having a full-time lawyer and legal secretary' on campus is a particularly important initiative. “We feel that it is a service students want and need," he said. DSG also hopes to bring Zipcar, a car rental program active on 35 college campuses, to Duke undergraduates. Through this service, students over the age of 18 would be able to rent cars at $5 an hour or $55 a day. “There will be cars positioned in a few lots around campus,” Student Affairs Senator Clarke Hitch, a sophomore, said. “The rates are a lot cheaper than if you rented from a traditional car rental place.” DSG plans to start with 10 Zipcars on campus. Senators said this would be an environmentally friendly choice, adding that introducing Zipcars would remove '2O cars from campus each day. Finally, a bus tracking system accessible by cell phones and computers would keep students up to date on the locations of various buses on campus. The Senate also voted on including a survey on the ballot in which students would be able to rank the importance of student legal services, Zipcars and a bus tracking system. Vice President ofAcademic Affairs Chelsea Goldstein, ajunior, said this was an important addition'to the referendum. “If everyone is going to pay an additional fee, their voices should count,” she said.
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INCOME from page 3 Duke’s particularly high average family income is an indication of the greater educational opportunity afforded by the wealthy, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Gutlentag explained. “What [the statistics] reflect to me is that there is unequal educational opportunity at the pre-K through [grade] 12 level in the United States,” Guttentag said. In much of Duke’s admissions criteria, increased economic resources do give some students an advantage despite the fact that Duke is a need-blind institution, he said. Guttentag stressed that a goal of Undergraduate Admissions is to ensure that potential applicants are informed about financial aid opportunities. “The task is to say to a lot of families, ‘You need to trust this will work out’,” Guttentag said.
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that paved the way for the bloodless coup that removed Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin, a telecommunications tycoon, recently fled to Britain to escape corruption charges. The protesters say Samak is Thaksin’s stooge and is running the government for him by proxy. The alliance —a mix of royalists, wealthy and middleclass urban residents, and union activists—argues that Western-style democracy doesn’t work for Thailand. It says the ballot box gives too much weight to the impoverished rural majority, who protesters say are susceptible to vote buying that breeds corruption. It wants Parliament to be revamped so most lawmakers are appointed rather than elected. Army chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda has insisted the military will not stage a new coup. Anupong also has made it clear that if troops are ordered into Bangkok’s streets, they will be armed only with riot shields and batons, and will not use force—roughly the same position taken by Samak since the crisis began. Even if peace can be maintained, the government’s failure to resolve the deadlock—and take Back its own offices—makes the business community skittish.
using the cameras to increase significantly this year because now that students can check out the equipment directly. Earp added that the cameras will be lent free of charge. “Borrowing the equipment is like borrowing a library book,” she wrote in an e-mail. Camera equipment available to students through DDI includes Flip video cameras, web cameras, standard deflation hard drive video camera kits and miniDV video camera kits. A number of professors who have used the video technology in the past said it has enhanced the academic environment of their classes. Naokso Kurokawa, a lecturer in the department ofAsian and Middle Eastern Studies, gave her students a project last year in which they made videos in Japanese using the camera equipment. She praised the technology, adding that she plans to incorporate it into her future classes. “The cameras allowed students to be creative with their use of language and reinforced language skills more than a written project,” she said. Mbaye Lo, a professor in the Duke Islamic Studies Center and director of DukeEngage in Cairo, used DDI video equipment to document his DukeEngage project this past summer. He mentioned that the CIT staff was extremely helpful in training him to use the cameras and edit his videos. Lo, who teaches Arabic, also said the technology has been useful in his language courses. “Since adopting technology into the classroom has become the hallmark of an ideal [2lst] century classroom, the [Department] of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is now promoting this approach in all its six language programs,” he wrote in an e-mail. “With these cameras, instructors are able to tie practice to theory as well as [illustrate] to students the two main images of language acquisition in the classroom and language production outside the classroom.”
Retiring Director of Financial Aid Jim Belvin has said that although there may be competition from other schools to tap low-income talent, Duke has made it a priority. Recently, the University implemented new financial aid policies, which both Guttentag and Belvin said they hope will affect the situation. “Without a doubt I think the demographics will change,” Belvin said. “There is no question that our new policy will be more welcoming oflow- and middle-income families.” The CL&L report’s data was gathered through student survey, indicating that the accuracy of the figures may not be completely reliable. The survey asked students to pick from a number of graduated income categories, instead of asking students to report their specific family income. “Accuracy is going to vary by item,” Spenner said, though he reiterated his confidence in the report’s methodology.
modernity, colonialism, wars, national division,military occupation, dictatorships, hyper-development, and global displacements will be examined through (re)presentations in cinematic and literary texts. We consider the shifting location of Korea in regional and global contexts of ongoing imperialisms and wars, through old and new dynamics within Asia as well as in exacerbating encounters with the putative “West. Throughout the course, we shall interrogate the power dynamics and the boundaries of coloniality/modernity, history/memory, sex/gender, occupation/war. ’’
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country early in the week about Hurricane Gustav. But the somber tone of Monday’s proceedings —headlined by first lady Laura Bush and Cindy McCain’s request for relief donationsfrom delegates—gave way to more typical convention festivities as concern over the storm abated, Bobadilla said. Bobadilla did not have to explain to professors why he skipped class this week—his study abroad program in England does net begin until October —but he and other Duke attendees at both conventions said their unique vacations dropped more than a few jaws among friends and family back home. colleagues] are so jazzed I’m here [at the DNC],” said Pam Spaulding, the information technolog)' manager for Duke University Press and the creator of Pam’s House Blend, a blog reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in North Carolina and around the country. Though the blog logs thousands bf hits each day and has won awards for its reporting, Spaulding’s attendance at the convention was never a given. First she had to apply for press credentials, which were awarded to only 120 bloggers. Then there Attendance at the DNC last week includedfreshman Arthur Leopold and graduate student Betsy Albright—was the dizzying proposition of financing both N.C. delegates. Several Duke students are also attending the RNC in St Paul this week. a trip to Denver for Spaulding and four of her contributing writers. can reportjust as well as old and traditional Though attendees said they enjoyed the So Spaulding added a donation page to media,” she said. energy of the expressed her blog and made a plea to her readers. By For his part, Samuel Tasher, a senior concern about what would happen to that the time the conenthusiasm when the conventions end and rector of the Colarrived, vention country faces two more months ofelec“[The convention] is a lot of lege Republicans, the the call to “send tion politics. “[The convention] is a lot of hooplah,” the Blend to Denhooplah.... I just hope people said he felt like he “got to help said Faulkner Fox, a lecturing fellow in the ver” had netted understand that the hooplah write history.” English department and a North Carolina more than $5,000 for travel and lodgTasher spent last delegate at the DNC. “I just hope people isn’t an end in itself.” week in St. Paul understand that the hooplah isn’t an end ing. And the writFaulkner Fox, working as a staff in itself. The hooplah is to get people enerers repaid the debt with extensive covmember for the gized to go home and work.” N. C. Democratic delegate RNC As for Leopold, now that he is back on erage —including platform committee as it video clips, intercampus he said he plans to continue camviews and analysis drafted its presipaigning for Obama and other Democratic dential platform. He said there was “a lot candidates. pieces from each day of the convention “It’s amazing just to be here and to be of excitement” among Republicans at the But first things first: He has some homeable to report and show that new media convention about the upcoming elections. work to catch up on.
of whole grains are pasta and wheat bread, Apadula added. “You really have to be careful about what you’re eating because you can just go in the Marketplace and go crazy,” freshman Caroline Long said of the “all-you-can-eat” buffet afforded by a single Marketplace card swipe. A former volleyball player, Long added that she tries to work out on the elliptical at the gym four to five times per week to regulate her weight. Freshman Daren Miller also said he' has continued his active lifestyle at Duke and has even made some healthful improvements. “Being limited to the Marketplace has made me eat healthier because there aren’t as many fast food options,” Miller said.
The Marketplace can be helpful in maintaining a healthy weight and nutritional intake, depending on what isconsumed.
Long admitted, however, that she and her roommate indulge in the proverbial collegiate latenight snacking, especially after a night out. Mindlessly eating while studying is another common habit among students, Apadula said. In order to curb unhealthy snacking, Apadula said Student Health has labelled foods in the East Campus Store, the Lobby Shop and Uncle Harry’s that are high-quality munchies—such as hummus and carrots, dried fruit, yogurt, cheese sticks and whole grain crackers. Overall, Duke students seem to have a handle on the physical aspects of their health, despite occasional According to the Fall 2006 National College Health Assessment, only 2.8 percent of Duke students said they were overweight, compared to the national college average of 4 percent. Duke’s obesity rate is far less than the national average of all adults 20 or older, weighing in at a hefty 34 percent. Alphin said she also wants students to understand that health is not just about eating right and exercising regularly. “It’s about our mental health, emotional well-being, social health and spiritual health as well,” she said. “They all connect sooner or later, so when we’re not doing well in one or two of those areas, we do feel it over time.”
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In a statement of Chad Johnson-esque levels of delusion, Young Jeezy offered the humble opinion that Michael Phelps, he of the eight gold medals and fish-like physique, is the “Young Jeezy of swimming.” Inspired by the venerable wisdom of Jeezy-san’s metaphor, recess decided to explore other surprising connections in the world ofentertainment. “Gossip Girl is the Katy Perry of television.” Now, this isn’t necessarily saying that Gossip Girl reaches the previously untouched levels of awfulness that “I Kissed a Girl” achieved, but both do share an uncanny ability to get tweener moms in an uproar. Plus, quality of the show aside, the CW’s new promotional campaign shares the same trashy “edginess” that must be responsible for why anyone listens to Perry. I kissed a Gossip Girl, indeed. “Judd Apatow is the Thom Yorke of film.” Both men can’t miss these days, and every show Yorke puts on stars the same supporting cast, just as every Apatow movie features Rogen, Rudd, Baruchel, etc. Although Apatow hasn’t quite yet attained the Ghandi-like levels of reverence that Yorke enjoys, he’s also not insane, a quality that Thom and Jeezy certainly share. “El Greco is the Lil Wayne of art.” Best artist in the
Nasher, best rapper in the world. Next. “Robert Downey, Jr. is the Barack Obama of film.” Both men have made waves in the world of race recently: Downeyjr. by playing an Australian playing a black man, and Obama by playing a black man running for president. Both are firsts, and both are doing fantastic jobs. Hopefully Oliver Stone will cast Downeyjr. somewhere in W., and the comparison will be complete. Also, the two share highly controversial histories with cocaine, although Downey Jr.’s probably done more coke than the entire Democratic Party combined. But this does raise an important question: Is there anyone in the world right now who shares the same level of fame and success that Phelps does? He triumphed on the world’s largest stage with little real competition (although Milorad Cavic might beg to differ), and people are seriously discussing him as the greatest Olympian ever. Jeezy can’t even lay claim to being the best artist from his own city, an honor that would likely be earned by Outkast. Or, uh, Soulja Boy. The only way to truly resolve this problem is to make rapping an Olympic event, which would allow the world to find out who really has the best freestyle. —Kevin Lincoln
■[editor'snote] Here in the recess Situation Room, we’re eating crow, and it tastes delicious. Actually, I think that’s just because we’re mixing it with our Sitar. Sitar six days a week is the best decision you’ve ever made, Jim Wulforst. But we digress. It appears that in last week’s issue, we may have made a misstatement in this space. It has come to our attention that we claimed that the Wall Street Journal was in fact of inferior quality to The Chronicle. This despite the fact that The Chronicle has been referred to as “the tower of campus thought and action.” I don’t believe the Journal has ever been called the tower of anything, except totally sweet hand-drawn headshots. I appreciate the efforts of those who stepped forward—such as commenters on The Chronicle’s website—to point out my error. Just as the media is the watchdog of government, readers are the watchdogs of the media, and we couldn’t do it without you. Now that I’ve had the veil pulled away from my eyes, I’d like to point out a few things that have bothered me ever since I adopted the new, humorless, righteous stance of my correctors. For example —and this may be a shock to you—Stephen Colbert isn’t really a very good newsman. Have you
ever noticed this? He doesn’t ask good questions, he tries make it all about himself and many ofhis gags are pale imitations of Bill O’Reilly. Another disturbing example—the typical sort offilth we can expect out of the liberal Hollywood establishment—is this old movie called Dr. Strangelove. The director, some cat named Kubrick, apparendy thinks that nuclear war is funny. At least, that’s the best I can figure it out. He also seems to think that one rogue officer could start a war, and that a nuclear war might destroy the whole world. I’m sure that, you, like me, will be utterly flabbergasted by this. Another good example of the depraved morals of Hollywood, for you history buffs out there, is Charlie Chaplin’s paean to Adolph Hider, The Great Dictator. It’s disgusdng, and Chaplin ought to have been hung for being a traitor. Another one that really gets my goat (if you’ll pardon the pun) is a book that was foisted upon me in middle school, Animal Farm. That Orwell guy must have been some sort of PETA freak, calling for animals to be given the ability to govern. I wager that he wasn’t beaten enough when he was a child. And please, don’t get me started on this Jonathan Swift guy. The sick bastard apparendy has a taste for Irish babies. —David Graham to
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The 65-show tour ran from May 13 to Aug. 22 and was the first large scale jaunt for the local group, which had previously kept their performances in the South. They traveled from venue to venue by van, equipment in tow and food and lodging improvised. “When you’re in a van with four people, and oftentimes you go to a place where you don’t know a soul, it’s pretty strange,” said singer, guitarist and leader Patrick Phelan, Trinity ’O7. Forced to rely on couchsurfing.com and hospitable showgoers, the band surprisingly managed to find housing in all but one locale. The high price of gas, the group’s “only real expense,” Phelan said, made it very difficult to turn a profit on the tour, an obstacle faced by many small bands. The problem was large enough to merit ajuly 6 Washington Post article prominently featuring Luego. Aside from fuel issues, the article also detailed an incident in Baltimore where the van was robbed of a cashbox containing $4OO and an iPod among other things. Expenses became easier to manage about 40 shows in, when Phelan chose to halve the size of the band. “I let go of Spike [Brehm, a senior] on the bass and Dan [Carlin, Trinity ’o7] on the cello, because we were losing money and there were just artistic differences,” Phelan said. Writing on the band’s MySpace page, Phelan expressed his gratitude for fond memories playing together and thanked Brehm and Carlin for their support. “We wanted it to be about collaboration, but he wanted it to be a follow-the-lcaderkind ofthing,” said Brehm. “He had musical dreams in his head, but we didn’t fit into them.” The change reduced the band lojust Phelan and drummer Chris DiMarco, enabling them to tour in Phelan’s Honda Element and make six times more money, by Phelan’s estimate. Various players filled in on bass and cello for
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some of the remaining performances, but Phelan said he enjoyed the new dynamic of playing with only DiMarco. “We had to work really hard to keep the people and keep them interested,” he said. “But the performances were actually more compelling, because Chris and I were on the same page.” DiMarco saw the experience as very beneficial for the two. “We both had to come a long way musically, especially
Located in Tuscany, Arezzo is often cited as the birthplace of the Italian renaissance, making it the perfect site to study art. Film/Video/Digital Associate Director Josh Gibson had that opportunity this summer. Gibson spent a portion of his summer at Arezzo’s Accademia Dell’Arte teaching students from Duke and Davidson College about film production and theory. Previously, the school offered programs on acdng, studio arts and dance, but 2008 was film’s inaugural year. His course focused on Italian neo-realist films. Popular in Italy during the and 19505, the style characterized some of the films of famed Italian directors Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini. “The class itself was based on the fluidity between documentary and fiction,” Gibson said. “[ltalian neo-realism] is sort of the utilization of a real location, bringing the camera out of the set, into the world and using non-actors.” Students spent the first part of the course working on personal documentaries about people or places in Arezzo. At the end of the course, all the participants collaborated on a 13-minute film called La Vita dellPozzo. The film is the fruit of the students’ study and is what Gibson calls a “morality tale” from Giovanni Boccaccio’s TheDecameron. It tells the story of Tofano, a drunkard who finds out his wife is cheating on him. Set on the street that fifteenth-century poet Petrarch lived on, La Vita dell Pozzo incorporates three narrative styles. A tour guide tells a formal version of the story while two Italian men relay it to one another. Filmmakers also intertwined a reenactment of Boccaccio’s tale performed by students into the piece. “We knew that our film was going to kick off the Arezzo Art Festival, so for us it was important to capitalize on the area,” said senior Matt Tolson, one of the participants. Senior Jessica Dreyfuss said that the program allowed
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yawning. Don’t get me wrong; the album has glimmers of hope. The theme of man struggling to cope with an increasingly technological world creates interesting implications. The fact that Eno and Byrne call their creation an electronic album could be considered valiant, as they stare down that which aims to replace them. On the other hand, some may see the move as waving a white flag, the two musicians reluctandy accepting the new avantgarde and refusing to make the effort to define it on their own terms. It seems as if Byrne and Eno may have The band has since added a permabassist, Josh Rose, and is working hard on putting out their first full-length album. The record, currently titled TapedTogether Stories, is expected to be ready by January. Phelan says Stories is the first of two LPs he is preparing. He expects it to have more of a rock ’n’ roll feel than nent
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bitten off more than they can chew. In trying to create an album that is rooted in their past successes while embracing a new form of expression, the result is an unsatisfactory amalgamation. On the title track, “Everything That Happens,” Byrne explains it pretty well: “Nothing has changed, but nothing’s the same/and every tomorrow will be yesterday.” “Strange Overtones” showcases Byrne’s eerie vocals and Eno’s funky beats, and believe me, it sounds great. But again, Eno makes my job easy: “This groove is out of fashion/These beats are 20 years old.” Ultimately, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is haunted by the creators’ previous masterpiece, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. “I Feel My Stuff” is probably as good as it gets on this one. In its six minutes of changing tempo and feel, Eno and Byrne do try to experiment, but it’s all the same experiment we saw from them decades ago... which means it’s no longer an experiment, guys. The results are in, and it’s mediocre by a landslide. Definitely nothing worth blogging about. —Alex Reinstein
Luego’s previous work. The band said recording the album is a far different experience than touring, largely because of the band members’ commitnow that they’ve returned home. “Any space we can find to fill, we’re doing our recording,” DiMarco said. But the band is still performing, and
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her to work with new technology. “Our motivation was to make a great film in less than a week,” she said. “Since we knew we were going to have an English and Italian audience, we got to use a subtide program I’ve never used before." Screening the film at the Art Festival was a highlight for Gibson and the students, and an event that Gibson said “really [made] the students feel like they’ve done something significant.” Gibson hopes the program will become officially sponsored by Duke in the next few years. He added that he came into the program not knowing what to expect but left pleased with the whole experience. “During the school year, it’s really hard for these collaborative, interdisciplinary relationships to materialize, but at a place like that where everyone is living together-dancers, film students, theater students-they’re all sort of cross-pollinating, and a lot of interesting work is emerging,” he said. Gibson added that one of the best aspects of the program was being in Italy. “The place was so inspiring,” he said. “It was a renaissance villa overlooking this medieval city of Arezzo, surrounded by vineyards and olive groves and wild poppies everywhere. Anywhere you point the camera there was something glorious to see. It was an amazing environment to teach and leam.”
Yin Diesel is an actor with talent. But much like Ben Kingsley, he possesses a knack for taking on terrible roles. Since appearing in The Pacifier, Diesel’s films have become characterized as mediocre, but even by the Diesel standard, Babylon, A.D. severely underwhelms. Adapted from a science fiction novel called Babylon Babies, the film is supposed to be a futuristic thriller focused on the dangers of genetic manipulation in a declining society. Mercenary Toorop (Diesel), is contracted by a Russian gangster to smug-
gle a mysterious and attractive young woman from Mongolia to the United States. Also along for the ride is the girl’s karate-chopping guardian, Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh). On the treacherousjoumey, Diesel encounters many dangers including thugs with guns, thugs without guns, the arctic cold and his own character’s unerring ability to lead the group into harm’s way. It seems silly at first, but then one realizes Diesel has to have some excuse to fight throughout the movie. And aside from shameless product placements, that is the only real purpose of the film. Diesel really isn’t at fault for how terrible the movie is, but then who is? Common sense suggests the director, Mathieu Kassovitz. After all, it would
seem that as the director, Kassovitz would have the opportunity to bring a coherent story to life instead of plastering a series of brawls onto a widescreen. Apparently that assumption would be mistaken. According to an interview with SciFi Scanner, Kassovitz’s vision for the movie—which he spent five years working on—was compromised by studio, executives. This resulted in Kassovitz calling the movie “pure violence and stupidity.” The sunny side to all this is that those same studio bigwigs thankfully cut the film down to 93 minutes. That said, unless you are the type that gets a kick from bad movies, try to think of all the better things you could do with 93 minutes. —Braden Hendricks
their hair down and take their glasses off—cue makeover montage—they become busty, callow bombshells. Though the film follows a formulaic plot line, it is not the great pitfall of the movie. Writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith crafted a script that boils down to one weak one-liner after the next. For what should have been an easy comedy, The Home Bunny is incredibly not funny. Painful even. The film’s only strength comes from its lead. Faris pours herself into
every bad Joke and makes the most of an abysmal script. Her physical commitment will especially win over the audience’s sympathy. But not even her endless and effortless charm and comedic skills can save the movie. The House Bunny should have been Paris’ breakout role—her very own Legally Blonde. And it may prove to be. But you cannot leave the multiplex without thinking Paris deserves better than a late-summer popcorn flick. —Andrew Hibbard
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Now Kerr has returned to Koskinen Stadium, still instructing and looking to motivate a Blue Devil team with championship aspirations. But this time, he’s coaching from the sidelines rather than the pitch. “It’s a dream come true,” Kerr said. “Coming back as the head coach is a complete honor, and to follow in the footsteps of Coach Rennie is a big challenge for me.... I loved it at Harvard. The people were great—the administration, the players, the coaching staff and everything else was fantastic. So I wasn’t necessarily looking to leave, but you can’t turn down an opportunity to come back to Duke.” Not that his task in Durham will be simple. Kerr succeeds a coach who put the Blue Devils on the national radar, taking a team with only one previous trip to the NCAA tournament 20 times in his 29 years. Rennie, a five-time ACC Coach of the Year and the winningest coach in conference history, went 410-161-34 during his legendary career at Duke. It would be impossible to ignore Rennie’s influence, so Kerr will by no means brush aside what his former coach did for the program. “You never forget what he did because he did great,” Kerr said. “He’s done a lot for the game and a lot for this school, so it’s not going to be easy.” But Kerr hasn’t hesitated to bring his own style to Rennie’s former team. He’s an attack-minded,
risk-oriented coach who stresses pushing the ball and crashing the net to
scoring opportunities. His last two Harvard teams averaged 2.4 goals per game, half a goal better than Duke’s average last year. “He wants us to play exciting soccer this year,” senior captain Graham Dugoni said. “He wants us to get forward, take chances, be up and down the field. He really stresses fitness a lot, so we’re going to be fun to watch.” Kerr has already begun implementing his new tactics. Although his scheme is a change for the Blue Devils, they’ve welcomed the more offensively oriented system create
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“It’s a dream come true.... You can’t turn down an opportunity to come back to Duke.” —John Kerr, head coach
FOOTBALL I SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
Loss to Blue Devils could boost Wildcats by
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When it comes to Saturday’s 7 p.m. game Wade Stadium, both Northwestern and Duke are preaching from the same book. The Blue Devils and Wildcats are both maintaining that last season’s contest—a 20-14 Duke win in Evanston, 111., (he team’s only victory of the year —means little in respect to this year’s game and that the current squads are starkly different from the 2007 teams. “Last year’s over—nothing we can do about it now,” Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald said Tuesday on tlye Big Ten teleconference. “It’s out of Our control. We learned a lot from it, and you move on.” It was a game in which the Wildcats statistically dominated Duke—even without star running back Tyrell Sutton, who finished with 185 all-purpose yards in the team’s opening game last Saturday against Syracuse, a 30-10 Wildcat win. In the 2007 matchup, Northwestern battered the Blue Devil defense, accumulating more than 500 yards of total offense and putting together six drives ofmore than 55 yards each. Still, the team only managed to score at Wallace
twice, turned the ball over twice and could score in the final minute of the game with four plays inside the 10-yard line, allowing Duke to escape with the win. The unexpected loss started a threegame losing streak for the Wildcats, who closed the season 6-6, and effectively kept them out of the postseason. Which is exactly why Duke head coach David Cutcliffe expects Northwestern’s players to have the loss in the back of their minds. “Northwestern is pretty pumped up trying to steal one back that they probably felt like kept them from playing in a bowl game,” Cutcliffe said Tuesday. “It’s going to be a really heated [game]. I love these [games]—two very similar universities under similar circumstances.” Cutcliffe is certainly right to allude to the resemblances between the two programs. Both Northwestern and Duke are premier academic schools intent on competing and winning in tough BCS conferences against schools with lower academic standards. And to do so, both teams have made significant changes to their coaching staffs. not
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Duke's win at Northwestern last year kept the Wildcats out of a bowl gameand could fuel the visitors this week.
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VOLLEYBALL
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-Before Kerri Walsh was a two-time gold medalist in beach volleyball and a household name every four years during the Olympics, she was a tall, lanky, promising prospect. .And before millions across the world watched as she dominated on the sand with partner Misty May-Treanor, Duke head coach Jolene Nagel had a hand in her early development. Fifteen years ago, Walsh trained under Nagel in indoor vol-
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Festival, a program intended to develop athletes for Olympic sports. Walsh was only 17, but the 6-foot-2 rising high school senior stood out among the team composed mostly of collegiate players. For Nagel, it was clear she was watching an Olympian in the making. “I think everybody [saw a future Olympian] withKerri Walsh,” Nagel said. “She’s a good 6-foot-2 and she was that tall going into her senior year in high school. She was phenomenal then—gifted —and she’s just a team player, as well. It’s exciting to see someone like that bloom and still be playing now. You knew she was
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special.” Nagel began as a venue coordinator, eventually moving on to becoming a head coach in 1995. With the coachesfrom each division at the festival able to use a lottery system to select the players who qualified, Nagel’s team picked Walsh with one of its first picks because of her size and hitting
strength.
“Kerri was tall, thin as can be,” Nagel said. “Longest arms and longest legs you’ve ever seen and that’s why it was so neat to watch her because she had such a whip on the ball. “It’s so unusual to see a kid at her age that good. She certainly had mastered her hitting and was well on her way.” Soon after their brief encounter, Walsh went on to play indoor volleyball at Stan-
ford, capturing two national championships in 1996 and 1997. The acclaimed outside hitter and middle blocker went on to be named the Co-National Player of the Year in 1999. But before all of the glory, before all of the medals and hours of NBC coverage, Walsh was an undiscovered phenom, competing against players who were nearly out of college. It was a briefbrush with sublime greatness for Nagel, but the chance to coach one of volleyball’s best players of all-time
proved unforgettable. “She probably would still remember me, but it was 13 years ago I had that wonderful opportunity of coaching her,” Nagel said. “And it probably taught me more than she possibly learned.”
Duke brought in Gutcliffe in December, and he revamped most of the staff. In Evanston, the Wildcats hired new offensive and defensive coordinators—Mick McCall and Mike Hankwitz, respectively. “Northwestern is a really good football team,” Gutcliffe said. “They are a really wellcoached football team. They are extremely well conditioned.... Their offense really works fast. They try to take you to the wall.” As Gutcliffe can likely affirm, changing the culture and direction of a program is no easy task. Nevertheless, it is one which both the Wildcats and Blue Devils have strived for over the last year. Hankwitz said training and teaching his defensive recruits has been a long and thorough process. Northwestern, like Duke, has trouble attracting the highest-rated high school talent and often has to start with the basics in practice—molding its raw, athletic crop into polished, disciplined football players. “We were a young team last year, so we really felt like we had to develop great fundamentals,” Hankwitz said. “We have to teach them how to play football and be effective....’ Then we just felt like we needed to evaluate our talentand find what we can do best.” The off-season process and progress of the Blue Devils and the Wildcats have been remarkably similar—and so are their goals. Both teams are trying to prove once and for all that they can win at the highest level. As far as Duke and Northwestern are concerned, this weekend’s game matters most in determining the future of their respective football programs. The past has nothing to with it “We’re a new team, and we’re taking the next step,” Hankwitz said. Sounds like something Northwestern’s opponent has been preaching of late.
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THE KERR FILE
John
KERR Head Coach Duke ’B6 Kerr won the 1986 Hermann Trophy, awarded annually to the nation’s best college soccer player, after leading the Blue Devils to their first
championship. national He coached for nine years at Harvard after s'tints in professional leagues and replaces legendary head coach John Rennie, his mentor, at the helm of the young Blue Devils this season.
KERR from page 9
John Kerr, a former Blue Devil who captained the University's first national championship team in 1986,returns to his alma mater this year to replace John Rennie.
Kerr’s strategy has been received so well in part because of the potential to create a more explosive offense. But the team has also taken to it because of the new head coach’s attention to detail. “He has very defined roles for all his players,” senior captain Darrius Barnes said. “He knows exacdy what he wants
each player to do, and everybody knows what their expectation is going into the game and practices and things like that, It all fits into the grand scheme of what he wants us to do.” Kerr acknowledges that his new team will have some growing pains—in addition to adjusting to a new coach and a new style,
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phy: have fun “The main thrust of being a student-athlete is the journey. It’s not just the destinadon,” Kerr said. “For me, it was one of the best dmes of my life being a student-athlete at Duke, and I want to make sure that every player that comes through our program has that same feeling."
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Judicial Affairs still cause for concern The University added that it reserves the right to respond mer, the Office of Judicial to any allegations of misconAffairs had made changes to duct for off-campus violathe University judicial policy. tions. And finally, the appeals And while the exact substance process was changed so that of these reappeals for editorial administravisions was tive hearings benign, the larger process that produced now go directly to the Underthem—that is, what these graduate Judicial Board rathchanges represented rather er than the Appeals Board. than what they were—was Setting aside the substance of these amendments, the alarming. Thus the impormanner in which this policy tance of this minor announcement goes beyond the letter of was re-formulated was disturbthe new law and should send ing. No student groups were a wake-up call to all students: notified or consulted regarding the changes, not even the OJA is back to its old tricks. The changes were actually Undergraduate Judicial Board. Instead, administrators in OJA clarifications more than transformations.Where it was silent simply re-wrote the codes that before, the Duke Community protect studentrights in the abStandard guide now explicitly sence ofsignificant input, comstates that groups are in violamunication or oversight Last year, Duke Student tion of policy if they provide alcohol to students under 21. Government President Paul Last week The Chronicle
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ates and faculty and finally to present concrete recommendations on how to alter the current judicial process. Committee head Noah Pickus emphasized the importance of this committee last year; “We want to make sure we have a sensible discussion about [judicial affairs] paired with data and information about policies and practices both at Duke and as compared to other institutions.” Unfortunately, and without compelling reason, this “sensible discussion” never really happened. In the heat of the lacrosse-related lawsuits filed against the University, the University Counsel demanded that the committee be “temporarily disbanded.” Since the March termination, no other forms of review or discussion of this crucial issue, which had gained so much campus
support last year, have been continued whatsoever. It now seems as if there will be no careful, transparent and external evaluation of the OJA practices that are supposed to protect the rights of students. Which brings us back to the
changes to Judicial policy that make it painfully clear that OJA is back to business as usual, as if nothing had happened, probably hoping that widespread amnesia has set in over student leaders. And so far student leaders, namely current DSG President Jordan Giordano, have indeed forgotten what they were so close to accomplishing just last year. What will it take for student leaders to resume the cause of students’ rights? For if they do not advocate for serious change of the judicial policy, then the path to reform will remain a bridge to nowhere. recent
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school year can be an extremely unnerving experience for students and teachers alike. I never really thought about how teachers felt before the first day of school, but now that I’m a secondyear teacher with Teach for America in Chicago, I know that they feel nauseous, excited and hopeful. Nauseous cUlgdcl ffJlcUlg about the 170 new faces and names ibe tweakin
remember, excited for a fresh start and hopeful that my students will achieve more than they ever thought they would. These feelings I have show me that teachers and students have a lot in common at this time of the year. Reason No. 1: Trying too much. Did you sign up for almost every club at the Activities Fair on the East Campus Quad freshman year? I signed up for so many that I was guaranteed an unwanted e-mail for every day of my Duke career and beyond. For anyone who visited my classroom at the beginning of my first year last year, it was obvious that I had more procedures and classroom management strategies than clubs I had signed up for four years prior—and just like the clubs, I had issues being consistent or sticking to most of them. As a result, I had raffle tickets in my pockets, stickers under my arm, a rubber stamp in my hand and a clipboard to keep tallies of it all. My classroom was as chaotic as my inbox had been. Reason No. 2: Forming relationships. I met two of my closest friends at Duke on the East Campus Quad Party during freshman orientation. Yes, amid all those superficial conversations when you forget nine out of 10 people you meet, there is a chance to make some really great friends. The beginning of the year is the best time to form these relationships. Yesterday, I finished making the phone calls to all the new students I have in my homeroom. Getting to know my students’ parents early gives me and the students extra support throughout the year—an extremely useful resource. My favorite conversation was when a student picked up the phone, pretending to be the parent. Me: “May I please speak with D’s parent or guardto
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yesterday!” Reason No. 3: Facing new challenges. The in my life when I realized I actually needed to consistently study was upon receiving my first mid-term progress report at Duke. Balancing new levels of work with new friends was a minor crisis at the time. It wasn’t until 1 exited the Gothic Wonderland that I saw how minor it was. The walls in the school where I teach are still filled with asbestos. The first day of school last year, I did not have a roster and my homeroom stayed in my room for more than four hours. (I ended up teaching Chinese to them to relieve their boredom.) I also had a double-bookedclassroom, where I taught freshman biology while a co-worker taught sophomore environmental science in the same room at the same time for an entire class period. The solution to this problem was giving me a third classroom to teach in, so I wheeled my cart with beakers of HCI and containers of preserved frogs to three different rooms throughout the school year. This example may be one where being a student is not as difficult as being a teacher—but there are challenges for both nonetheless. Reason No. 4: A new pair of shoes. I don’t really know why, but I always find myself in a shoe store before the school year starts. Hot new shoes for students may just be away for them to show off or make new friends, but they are the most essential part of a teacher’s wardrobe. I got a comment on my shoes at least once a day, and the day I wore my boots with the fur, I got to hear impersonations of Flo Rida all day. Most importantly, I truly paid for the days where I wore shoes that didn’t fit perfectly, because the next day I hobbled around the room and students asked why I was “tweakin/tweekin.” According to urbandictionary.com, tweekin means “actin funny; wildin’ out; trippin hard.” Teacher or student, this time of the year is exciting for all of us. There are new things to try, relationships to forge, challenges to face, all with a nice pair of shoes to carry us through. I look forward to sharing my second year of teaching with you. moment
Angela Jiang, Trinity ’O7, is a second-year teacher with Teach for America in Chicago. Her column runs every other Thursday.
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lettertotheeditor The old tax-and-waste DSG It’s time for a new Duke Student Government that’s fiscally responsible. The DSG’s “Big Three” of projects they plan to fund with the activity fee increase all seem to be extravagant wastes of money meant to make DSG look better instead of actually helping out the student body. First, DSG’s low-cost attorney proposal is simply a program that will make the vast majority of students subsidize the mistakes of a few individuals. Second, the bus-tracking system is unnecessary. It’s hard not to find a C-l on either East or West campus during school hours and in case no one’s noticed, the bus schedule is easily accessible and accurate. How about we save $79,000 and instead just print up some laminated schedules for everyone. Finally, our favorite proposal: ZipCars. Has social interaction fallen so much at Duke that students these days no longer have friends to bum rides from? And do we really need 10 cars? UNC only has four Zip Cars on campus and last we checked Duke has less than half the number of undergraduates. Rice has two, Vanderbilt has five and the University of
Miami only has three. We would love to know how DSG came up with the idea that Duke could support 10 cars. What stands out most is that this seems to be an' initiative led by seniors who are going to pass on the cost of their proposals. DSG seems obsessed with “leaving a mark” regardless of how many students it actually benefits. Perhaps we should focus on fixing existing facilities on campus, such as actually putting nets on the Central tennis courts, instead of introducing new and unnecessary programs. When the cost of education is rapidly outpacing inflation, we would hope our own student leadership refrains from adding to this burden. Instead, how about DSG focuses on getting the most out of their current budget? Vote no on the DSG referendum Sept. 15.
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cifically in Memphis focuses on young, low-income mothers; however, recent studies show that the phenomenon of infant mortality among black women is one that occurs across class lines and education levels. Studies also show that among many contributing factors, stress and inadequate prenatal care play a major role in the high number of miscarriages. Currently in the United States, black babies die at three times the rate of white babies, and black women are three to four times more likely to die giving birth than white or Latina women. My question is when are the needs of these women going to be addressed in the national conversation on women’s reproductive issues? Moreover, why haven’t feminists taken this issue up? The problem doesn’t stop there. Although the foreclosure crisis has been at the forefront of political debate, the consequences of a failing economy for women ofcolor have been utterly invisible. The image of Ed McMahon as the poster-boy for the foreclosure crisis is all too deceiving given that the concentration of high-cost, sub-prime mortgage loans are in predominantly black and/or Latino neighborhoods. Numerous economists have spoken to the fact that currently women are the greatest victims of a failing economy. A recent study mandated by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York discounts the common perception that women voluntarily leave the workplace to care for their families, exposing the reality that women are actually being pushed out of the workforce. In a country where women of color are more likely to be the sole breadwinners or major financial contributors to their families, and women struggle to make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes (for women of color, it’s even less), we should be engaged and vocal in economic issues, and our needs should be a major priority in any economic reform platform. The economy, health care, reproductive rights and options—these are the issues for women of color to claim as their own and take a visible stance on. In a country where our policy is primarily driven by the decisions and motivations of old, wealthy white men, now is as good a time as any, perhaps a better time than any, to hold our decision-makers accountable. At this point I’m pretty sure McCain has sufficiently scared off women of color. What worries me about Obama’s approach is this romantic fallacy of universal issues of which we are all victims. It may be true that certain issues affect all Americans, or at least the majority, but it is also true that they affect Americans disproportionately, and who is being hit the hardest and bearing the brunt of suffering matters. So for women of color, who have come to exist as the doormat of United States politics and policy, if ever there was a time to make demands, the time is now. Our vote should come at no small price. Let’s make these men work for it.
love being a senior. There, I said it. Now maybe I haven’t fully come to terms with the reality that I’ll be out of here in less than 280 days (much less with the fact that I have theLSAT in 32 days). But I have decided that it’s better to enjoy this time with the bravado and sense of entitlement that I feel every senior owes himself. Probably the sweetest thing about being a senior are my, for lack of a better word, “digs” on campus. I currently live in what might be the most key, balling, sick-nasty room on West, fresh with an attached bathroom and a walk-in closet that is actually larger than the 90-sq.foot tenement I had last year in Craven. Raskolnikov never had it so bad, but right now, I’ve never had it so good. So why do I feel an overwhelming sense of guilt at tariq mohideen my good fortune? No, it’s not because I’m a frankie says relax liberal. It’s not as if I have an especially giant guiltcomplex either, considering the fact that I’m on the record numerous times stating that I want to enter politics after I graduate. My guilt began when halfway through my first shower I sat down on the attached chair that was provided for me and began to think. During my imitation of Rodin’s Thinker, it hit me that I did not belong in this room. In fact, this was a room for someone who needed it—someone with disabilities. The large closet, attached bathroom with handles and wide, open spaces were clearly built with a wheelchair in mind, not a beer pong table. This was, actually, the second disabled-access room that I had stayed in at Duke this semester and the third room in general thathad been assigned to me since three weeks ago. Long story short, maintenance issues in my original room pushed me temporarily to my first disabled-access room, after which I was moved to my current room. I later learned that the reason I moved rooms a second time was because the room that I currently stay in is actually quite inconvenientfor someone in a wheelchair to access. You know, sort of like building a nicotine cessation lab at a university thatlets you buy cigarettes on FLEX.... Greater accessibility at Duke is the exception, not the rule. Most buildings have disabled-access points in the basements or atthe back entrance and only a few of the dormitories here are truly disabledaccessible. For every Kilgo there is a Craven and for every Keohane there is a Crowell. Not only does this limit accessibility to thewonderful “old-style” rooms in Craven, it also prevents access to things as simple as the closest ePrint or vending machine. Even dormitories that are built with disabled students in mind have concerns —such as my room in Kilgo or the feet that getting to Keohane necessitates navigating around Few (or what used to be Few). Of course, if you’d like to complain about this, there is the Student Disability Access Office that is conveniently located on Oregon Street in Central Campus. Ifyou’re coming from East or West, that’s just a bus ride to Alexander Street followed by a walk to Oregon Street. For your information, Oregon Street—and with it, the Student Disability Access Office —is currently inaccessible by a bus. I’m not trying to say that we don’t do anything—we, and the Student Disability Access Office, do quite a bit with w hat we have to work with. What I am saying, though, is that we could and should do better. The University does offer shuttle services and room remodeling, but this does not change the fact that greater access is the exception. I don’t mean to lecture, but I do mean to raise this issue for discussion, because I think it’s important. I understand that University spokespeople have assured us that disability access will be tantamount to the New West Campus. But seeing that four years ago I was told I was going to be living in “New Central” and not in my current room, you might well understand why I strongly believe we need to take more intermediary measures to improve accessibility. From things as simple as ramps to more shuttle services or Safeßides that can actually transport those with disabilities, it’s not as difficult as it may sound. I’m not going to be in this room forever, and I’ll happily vacate it whenever someone who needs it comes along. Hopefully, by that time whatever issues of accessibility existed with the room will have been resolved. Until then, I’ll be praying that I never have to set foot in Craven again.
Nana Duffuor is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.
Tariq Mohideen is Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.
Tristan Patterson Trinity ’O9
Haoming Wang Trinity ’O9
What's in it for women of color? Upon
hearing the news that the beauty-pageant-winner-turned-PTA-mom-turned-Alaskan-governor Sarah Palin would be Senator John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 election, my initial reaction was shock. Moments later, I came to my senses and realized how utterly unsurprising the choice was and what it meant for female voters. For one thing, McCain’s choice signals a foolish assumption that “female voters”—and by female 113113. QUIIUOr voters I mean white female voters —will minority report align themselves with anyone with a uterus. McCain’s pick of a female running mate, not to mention Senator Joe Biden’s touting of his Violence Against Women Act, tell women one very important thing: These candidates are still shamelessly vying for our votes. Whether you rallied around Senator Hillary Hinton’s campaign or not, she has made this year’s presidential race unique in that women have become a highly sought-after constituency, and we are in a position to make major demands. Before anyone can even begin to celebrate this victory for womanhood, one must address one very serious setback: The discussion of women’s issues throughout this election, and the competition among candidates for women’s votes, has completely neglected women of color. With the feminist movement just now beginning to integrate the voices of women of color into their agenda, and being a highly diverse demographic that lacks the political pull of white women, women of color have managed to fall under the radar. Nothing new here, but the moment for women, irrespective of race, to voice their concerns and make demands of these candidates is a unique and opportune occasion that we must take advantage of. Much as in years past, this year’s hot-button issue for women has been—surprise, surprise!—abortion. Feminists have managed to keep the topic at the top of the political agenda, making it the major issue affecting female reproductive rights. The centrality of abortion to the 2008 election should come as no surprise. This may: ABC News recently reported that “of the 23 richest countries, the United States has the highest rate ofinfant mortality. And in Shelby County, Tenn., which encompasses Memphis, the state health department says a baby dies every 43 hours a rate higher than that of any other major city. The habies most at risk come from impoverished parts of town with largely black populations.” Babyland, an ABC special on infant mortality spe-
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