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Recruiters fromfirms representing nonprofit, finance, technology and other industries meet with studentsWednesday at the Career Fair in the Bryan Center.

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then that the substances were not drugs and alleged that police officers had entered their room to view the substances without permission. The RLHS protocol is meant to serve as a clarification and guideline for resident assistants and residence coordinators rather than debut new policies or changes, said Terry Lynch, RLHS assistant dean for staff development and Central Campus. “It helps us as far as having some level of consistency between our RA teams in handling situations,” Wasiolek said. [Another] one of the issues we had was that students didn’t know frankly what their rights were. They were unfamiliar with our policy.” According to the protocol, if the amount of the substance DUPD confiscates does not indicate that it was meant

Residence Life and Housing Services officials implemented a revised protocol this Fall for residence hall staff and Duke police to follow when responding to suspicion of drug use. It was drafted in April in response to “several incidents” last year concerning suspected drug use, particularly involving marijuana, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. In April, Duke University Police Department officers confiscated “leafy-green vegetable matter,” white powder and pills from a room in Randolph Dormitory. The

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for distribution, then police must forward the report to Judicial Affairs and “generally citations will not be issued.” Otherwise, DUPD may follow their criminal procedures to investigate the suspects. Furthermore, RAs must contact DUPD if they are suspicious of drug use, rather than confronting students or attempting to enter their room. If suspected residents are not in their rooms Or refuse to open the door when police officers arrive, DUPD must notify them by shouting through the door that a police report will be filed, which will be forwarded to Judicial Affairs, and RLHS administrative staff may enter the room on another visit for suspicion of drugs. An RLHS assistant dean must send the latter statement in an e-mail to residents.

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minimize the impact to student groups and maximize the bang for our buck,” he said in an interview after the meeting. The Readership Program and The Chanticleer are some programs that may be considered for cuts, said Giordano, a senior. He added that plans are still in their infancy. Created by former University President Nan Keohane in 2000, the Readership Program offers students free newspapers—The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and The (Raleigh) News and Observer—at various locations on campus. DSC spends about $25,000 annually toward the initiative, which Campus Council also funds. The program, however, might be a student favorite, said Vice Presidentfor Athletics want to

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Carpooling changes Blue Zone lot Duke receives SI4M to build tech center by

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The Blue Zone carpool lot is the most popular among students, but the carpool initiative has yet to curb every concern it set out to address. The carpool lot—the first lot on the left-hand side of the Blue Zone, with the shortest walk to campus—was created to encourage undergraduates living offcampus to use fewer vehicles. The lot was implemented this semester, and passes are free if at least four people register to carpool. Students have currently registered for -between 30 and 40 of the original 132 spaces set aside for the lot, said senior Sunny Kantha, Duke Student Government executive vice president, who started the carpooling initiative last Spring to address traffic congestion and environmental concerns. Senior Sneha Mehta said the registration process for the carpool pass was simple. She mentioned that she has not had

The carpooling initiative, which reserves Blue Zone spaces for students living off-campus, has caused difficultiesfor studentswithoutthe pass.

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Duke will soon be home to the new Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology, the University announced Wednesday. The National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency have designated $14.4 million for the creation of CEINT, which will be headquartered at Duke to test the environmental effects ofnanotechnology in enclosed units throughout Duke Forest SEE CENTER ON PAGE 4

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The guidelines, however, have not been publicly released to students. RLHS officials introduced the protocol to RAs at their general training in August. Several students said the policy should

ics and Campus Services Mike Lefevre, a sophomore. He added that DSG will prioritize students’ preferences for campus programs and then decide which programs to cut down on. “I don’t know what people expected,” Lefevre said. “We didn’t get the money, we weren’t lying, we really meant we needed the money. But this is so preliminary that I haven’t even sat down to begin to have my own opinions yet—we haven’t even come close to making a decision.” Giordano said DSG plans to assess all student groups and their needs to determine appropriate funding allocations, but financial changes will be spread according to assessments DSG plans to make, so that not just one group bears the impact.

be made known to those living on campus. “Students should know what RAs and RCs can or can’t do. We already know what police do, there are laws for that,” senior Jonathan Jou said. “Legal action might be incurred, and if it’s on paper, it’s a lot easier to defend yourself.” Sophomore GeoffSilver said he thought the policy was important enough to be announced rather than “go under the radar” until it may be violated. DUPD officials were involved in shaping the guidelines, said Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander. The protocol provides greater clarification on which situations should be handled by the administration and which should be handled by law enforcement, she added. “Sometimes, just because something is a violation of law doesn’t necessarily mean you have to arrest someone on it,” Graham said. “That philosophy wasn’t really clear.” An RA in Randolph Dorm who asked not to be named said he was not aware of the newly written guidelines. He added that when confronted with an incident of suspicious drug use, residence staff usually go by how police tell them to act. “I think most RAs probably aren’t too concerned about it because in the end we will only open a door if the police ask us to open it, so as long as DUPD knows about it, whether or not RAs know about it doesn’t really matter,” he wrote in an e-mail.

The Chanticleer’s $134,850 budget is the Student Organization Finance Committee’s single largest annual expenditure. During the Sept. 10 Senate meeting, DSC announced plans to gradually decrease funding for the yearbook by $75,000 over three years. Giordanonoted Wednesday that DSC and the Chanticleer leaders had been discussing changes for several months. Vice President for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins also spoke at the meeting to debrief the Senate on recent developments regarding DSC initiatives such as ZipCars—a campus-wide car rental service—and a bus-tracking system. These initiatives were part ofDSG’s original proposal for the referendum. “We reviewed [ZipCars] over the summer and ran into a number of technical glitches,” he said. “We’re still ultimately interested in bringing Zip Cars to Duke.”, Dawkins also addressed concerns about

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DSG President Jordan Giordano, a senior, speaks to the Senate about potential funding cuts for certain studentgroups and initiatives at the organization's weeklymeeting Wednesday.

CARPOOL from page 1 lems finding spots in the lot during afternoons and evenings, but has had difficulty parking in the morning. Some students said they are dissatisfied with the available space and signage in the lot. . “The biggest issue is when every spot in the first lot of the Blue Zone is taken,” senior Anand Sundaram said. “That is definitely something they need to fix.... I’ve noticed people without carpooling passes have parked in the carpooling spots.” He mentioned that he is unsure of whether or not students without passes ignored parking regulations or simply

did not see the signs designating the carpool lot. Sundaram said he has already posted complaints and called the office of Parking and Transportation Services. Kantha acknowledged that there are some problems with the initiative, saying it is still early in the school year and PTS is developing solutions for student demands. “We’re still working on making sure there are enough designated spots for carpoolers,” he said. “PTS will address the carpool lot issues within the next week or week and a half.” Carpool spaces will be adjusted based on ongoing demand, said Parking Services Manager Chuck Landis. He added that PTS has requested that Duke Police focus on enforcing regulations for the new carpool lot. He

safety on Central Campus. He said Duke University Police Department employs a total of 60 to 65 police officers and 170 security personnel, and at any given time there are about 30 officers on duty. In other business: The Senate voted to support Campus Council’s proposed resolution to overhaul the current ban on lofting in dorm rooms imposed by Residence Life and Housing Services this Fall. “We’re proposing a new resolution that highlights and debunks the [claim] that lofts are a fire hazard—because that’s simply not true—and articulate to our administration that this has student support,” said Campus Council Vice President Kevin Thompson, a senior. To improve communication between the student government and the student body, DSC will publish a newsletter every other Monday informing students of committee accomplishments and plans. DSG Public Relations Director of Publications Wonnie Song, a sophomore, said the single-sheet newsletter may be on newsstands within the next week to provide a “constant flow of information” to students.

“We didn’t get the money, we weren’t lying, we really meant we needed the money” Mike Lefevre, sophomore and vp for athletics and campus services

noted that additional signs will be added to make the carpool lot boundaries clearer. “Our expectation is enforcement will be thorough to ensure carpool spaces remain available for intended users,” Landis wrote in an e-mail. Mehta added that she believes carpooling has been convenient and less expensive than driving individually for her group thus far. Landis said he is pleased about the increasing numbers of carpoolers as a result of the initiative. “We are working with various campus groups on additional alternative programs for consideration and hope to continue the trend of reducing the number of single-occupant vehicles at Duke,” he added

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Program to focus on public health by

Jessica Lighter THE CHRONICLE

In an effort to reduce health disparities in North Carolina, the Duke Global Health Institute has partnered with the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund to create the North Carolina Health Disparities Fellowship Program, which will train public health and social work professionals. “[Health disparities] is a new and emerging field of public health,” NCHWTF Executive Director Vandana Shah said. “We want to be able to train the next generation ofhealth care and public and social workers.” The program is part of NCHWTF’s Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative and is seeking individuals who have at least a bachelor’s degree and a few years of experience in working in the area of health disparities, especially with minority populations. Shah said she envisions that fellows will be working in community and faith-based organizations, as well as in local governments implementing health programs. “These fellows are already working with these people in their community,” said Geelea Seaford, communications director for Duke’s Center for Health Policy. “This is expanding their knowledge and giving them the tools to provide additional and improved services.” During their first of two years, fellows will take four weeks of classes at Duke and several state universities, as well as develop their own projects. In their second year, students will implement the projects they have devised. Students will also travel to different parts of the community to see specific programs in action. The first class will be admitted by the end of the year and the program will begin in January with up to five students, Shah said. “It’s no different from solving problems around the world.” said Dr. Dennis Clement, senior advisor at DGHI. “We have [problems] in Durham and North Carolina and we want to solve some of these as well.”

Beverly Mclver, a local artist known for her portraits exploring self-discovery, presents her work at the Mary Lou Williams Center Wednesday.

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Facebook may no longer be a place exclusively devoted to procrastination, but instead a useful way to notify college students about possible emergency threats on their campuses. The University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Maryland at College Park are two universities that have started to experiment with social networks as a way to relay informationabout incidents on campus, safety drills and emergency preparedness. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said Duke would not rule out the use of social networking technology if students thought it would be helpful. But he noted that the University is concentrating on refining existing voice-alert and text-messaging systems. “At this point, our priority is with making execution

flawless,” Moneta wrote in an e-mail. “We’re engaged in various drills, meeting frequently to talk through conditions and consequences and developing localized plans at the school, department and unit levels.” MaJ. Jay Gruber, assistant director of the UMD Department of Public Safety, helped launch an emergency awareness Facebook group at the end of June. The group,

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rently has 259 members and contains detailed information about emergency messages the university releases. Gruber said he got the idea to utilize social networks as part of an emergency preparedness program from UCLA. “Students are not using conventional media outlets to receive their information,” Gruber said. “They are getting SEE ALERTS ON PAGE 4

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their media [in] additional ways through additional sources, and Facebook is one the most popular ways of social networking.” Maryland students can also report suspicious behavior on a discussion board, allowing for two-way communication, Gruber said. The UMD Department of Public Safety can then investigate when appropriate. Some Duke students and Moneta said sending emergency information via Facebook would do no harm but could be redundant. “For the people who are constantly logged onto Facebook, alerts would probably reach them quickly,” senior Dan Haaren said. “But aren’t alerts also sent out via e-mail already, and aren’t the same people who are always checking their Facebook always checking their e-mail as well?”

Nanoparticles are much smaller than human cells, and their properties can differ from larger objects made from the same material. These “wonderful and unique” properties could hold the keys to scientific advancements, including the hydrogen car, cancer therapy, medical imaging and more efficient energy transmission, said Mark Wiesner, director of CEINT and James*L. Meriam Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke. Whether or not these particles will damage the environment, though, is still unknown. Testing the technology in a live ecosystem is where Duke Forest comes in. “We want to do comparisons between what happens in the highly idealized lab systems against what happens in the real world,”

Wiesner said. “When you put these materials in complex systems, they behave differendy.” The research team plans to build 32 large terrariums—called mesocosms—in the forest, so the potentially hazardous materials will not be transmitted into the larger environment. But the enclosed sections will simulate open-air systems because they will be affected by temperature changes and will allow materials such as pollen and seeds to enter. This grant signifies governmental agencies’ priority to assess potential environmental damage in order to avoid problems similar to the past —like when DDT was released to combat malaria—but it also carries the potential for adverse environmental effects, Wiesner said. CEINT will draw on the collaboration of internationally known toxicology and ecosystem biology specialists from institutions such as Carnegie Mellon Univer-

“This center will define envi-

ronmental nanotechnology.” Gregory Lowery, CEINT deputy director sity, Howard University, Virginia Tech, the University of Kentucky, Clemson University and North Carolina State University. CEINT Deputy Director Gregory Lowry from Carnegie Mellon said the grant of nearly $l5 million to be used over a course of three years is especially noteworthy because research funds are increasingly scarce. “This center will define, environmental nanotechnology,” Lowry said. “The ability to manipulate properties at the molecular scale opens up an incredible amount of opportunities to advance science and medicine.”

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In the past, Duke has struck recruiting gold from the ranks of the Long Island Fury, an elite, amateur club team in the highly competitive Women’s Premier Soccer League. This year, the Blue Devils can add one more to that tally. Freshman Cody MIQWGGK Newman and senior Lorraine Quinn both donned fury uniforms |

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national championship team, Newman and Quinn gained valuable preparation for Duke by lining up against the best competition day-in and day-out. “Playing in that league has given me a lot of experience because it’s a similar level,” Newman said. “You’re playing with a lot of great college players, and it’s a fast pace. [The league has] enabled us to get used to that. Not too many people can get a chance to go to a final four, let alone win it.” That league experience will particularly help as Duke starts play in the country’s top conference. Newman, a freshman, is counting on her club preparation to ease the transition SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 6

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Former captain finds new role with Duke by

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Carrie DeMange had a chance few volleyball players ever get: to play professionally in Europe. But instead of jetting off to Germany, DeMange decided to come back to her alma mater. Back to the University where she holds the all-time kills record, back to the program where she is remembered as one of the most dominant players in Blue Devil history. For the 2007 ACC Player of the Year, a week with the Fighting Kangaroos, a professional German team, was

enough. “When I got over there, I wasn’t sure because I’d never been abroad and never experienced a different culture,” DeMange said. “I wasn’t sure about my transition time, but I just wasn’t happy when I was practicing. I was hoping the volleyball aspect would help the cultural aspect, but the culture shock just got to me. “It was definitely a life experience that I needed, and I needed to see if it was something I was fit to do, but I just wanted to come home the entire time.” And once DeMange returned from Europe in the summer, she stepped in to the newly created Director of Volleyball Operations position at Duke. For the former middle blocker, the administrative position is the first step toward her dream job as a college head coach. And although her position prevents her from providing any coaching

to the team, the Ohio native is getting the opportunity to see the inner work-

ings of a Division I program. “You don’trealize as a student-athlete how much goes on behind the scene,” DeMange said. ‘You just don’t realize what the coaches do during the day, all the work that has to be done. Seeing everything definitely makes you respect y the coaches because their job is more than just the coaching aspect of it.” It isn’t always easy, however, for DeMange to keep quiet on the bench. DeMange can only watch games from the sidelines, as NCAA rules bar teams from having more than three coaches. “It’s hard. The first example that I had was that my teeth hurt after a game because I was biting my teeth so hard because I couldn’t say anything,” DeMange said. “Not being able to talk to them is hard and they can’t even turn to me and say anything. It’s definitely a different transition and something I’m still getting used to.” Although DeMange can’t assist with any coaching strategies, the former Blue Devil is more than just another familiar face for head coach Jolene Nagel. “I thinkI squealed with delight [when I found out], but I wanted to make sure she made the decision for the right reasons,” Nagel said. “Just having her presence and easygoing personality and continued support for the team is huge for all of us. The kids are able to take advantage of her, not necessarily with SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 7

Cody Newman, 2007 graduate Rebecca Moros and Lorraine Quinn played for the same club team inhigh school.

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Blue Devils welcome stadium renovations by

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When Duke head coach Beth Bozman was lured away from Princeton in 2003, then-Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva promised her that the Blue Devils would have a new stadium upon her hiring. Five years have elapsed, but finally, Williams Field is more like Williams Stadium. What used to be Just a turf field on the outskirts of East Campus is now something entirely new. Soon, fans will enter Williams Field through a brick-pillared entrance and will be greeted with a state-of-the-art scoreboard—as well as their own bathrooms. In addition, the new digs boast bleachers that can seat 1,600 and, opening in October, will be ready just in time for Duke to host the ACC tournament Nov. 6 through Nov. 9. “You feel like you are a champion team,” Bozman said of the renovations. “You feel like you belong here. It’s a great facility for field hockey, and not many

schools have that.” But it was not one that came immediately with Bozman’s arrival at Duke. After leaving her post at Princeton to lead the Blue Devils, Bozman guided Duke to four national semifinal appearances in her first four years on the Job. Now, the perennial powerhouse has a home to fit its prowess. “This is a very exciting time for Duke Field Hockey,” said Jacki Silar, the former Duke head coach and current associate director of athletics and senior women’s administrator, who has overseen much of the project. “With the renovations to Williams Field, Duke University’s facility will be viewed as one of the premiere field hockey stadiums in the country. This facility is of tremendous importance to our program as we recruit the top student-athletes in the country.” SEE FIELD HOCKEY ON PAGE 7

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The Long Island Fury club in the Women's Premier Soccer League has sent three players to the Blue Devil program, including freshman Cody Newman (left) and senior preseason All-American Lorraine Quinn (right).

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Quinn. “Whether it’s while I’m playing,

from high school to college soccer, where there is a marked difference in the intensity and physicality of play. “College level weeds out club players that didn’t compete at the highest level,” Quinn said. “So you now have the best of the best, and especially in the ACC, you have the best of the best. “That was a great experience for Cody, to play against a little bit higher level, more physical and just get her ready for the college game and die ACC.” In addition to her preparation with the Fury, Newman will be able to draw from Quinn’s advice and insight. Quinn has offered her guidance to Newman, her friend from their Fury days, since before they joined up at Duke. Now, teammates once again, Quinn has taken Newman under her wing.

telling me what I need to be doing—it’s been a great help.” The Blue Devils hope Newman and Quinn’s close friendship translates to chemistry on the field as well. And as Quinn points out, the two played together for three summers before Newman ever stepped foot on the pitch for Duke. “It gives us a chance to know each other... know the type of runs we like to make, know our strengths and weaknesses,” Quinn said. “So when we’re on the field here, we know what type of balls to give each other.” And the connection has already proven fruitful for Duke. Newman is tied for third on the team in goals, with two, while Quinn has posted one tally from her playmaking position in the midfield. Before it lured Newman and Quinn, Duke recruited Moros, one of the top

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players to come through the program in recent years. Now, after working with the three players, the Blue Devil coaching staff knows it can count on Fury players to have certain skills, such as being good on the ball and having great knowledge and passion for the game. “They all are very good students,” head coach Robbie Church said of the Fur)' trio. “They all take their academics seriously, they take their athletics seriously... and they, all three of them, are very good soccer players.” And with so much talent successfully migrating from Long Island to Durham, it seems Duke is eager to keep searching in the same region. “Once you start getting [players] and they turn out well, you continue to go back to an area,” Church said. “That’s definitely an area thatwe’d like to continue to get players from.”

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Dear readers, share with us our joy: we at recess have just become privy to one of the great moments in literature’s fabled history. As you certainly have heard, The Hills’ Lauren Conrad has recently been signed to a three-book deal with publisher HarperCollins, and recess has obtained a manuscript of the first novel, tentatively titled “A Remembrance of Things Prada”. We are proud—nay, honored—to share with you this exclusive excerpt: It was the best dressed of times; it was the worst dressed of times. The rivalry between the Montagues Mon tags and the Conrads had reached a fever pitch. I was truly miserable, was summertime in fair Lo; Angeles, so il was too hot I even accessorize. I had to bf a farewell to Armani, not U mention headwear. Red hunt ing hats are so totally hot right now. I couldn’t’ wait to get away and Just chillax at my Uncle Tom’s beach house. I had just finished talking with my BFF when I had a total OMG moment: a ‘WTF?’ tex message from my ex-boyfriem Fortunately, it turned out t( MAAN (much ado about m ing). I was really looking ward to my date that night wi my dreamy crush, Brodeo. Alas, it seemed like it would never be, as the loathsonv

Heidiago always seemed to intervene just when things were gettingdnteresting. Ever since I cheated on him, I feel like I have been walking around wearing a giant, scarlet/magenta ‘C’... for Chanel. Brodeo and I are more star-crossed than the red carpet at the VMAs. Even worse, I felt like I friggin’ stalker. I was just getting flooded with calls from this one totes sketch dude, Humbert Humbert, and I had to completely block him from my Blackberry. To cap it off, I saw that Britney got trashed in the tabloids. So it goes. rtunately, I had a fabulunch with my friend, Lo, ugh the menu was a little re (How do you whip :?). I even got to use my hew m American Express card! I tely adore that thing. Don’t wrong; all credit cards are But some credit cards are equal than others. . must admit, sometimes worry that Lo might have in eadng disorder. I heard her in die bathroom after lunch, and it sounded like The Great Gags-by in there, lat’s a girl to do? I totally need a place to myself, like >m of my own. With a view. Exhausted, I hopped in a b, confused and looking for arity. I texted Brodeo: 2B R 2B? —Jordan Axt (Count all 20!)

It’s remarkable how much can change from one weekend to the next. It seems like the best options for music these last couple of weeks have been the Campus Concert Series and... well, not much else. Last weekend I had to resort to walking the railroad tracks with a bottle of wine (no, I’m not kidding, and no, I’m not a hobo). This weekend will be totally different. I’m an unabashed cheerleader for Duke Performances. Their season starts tonight with the severely underrated Laurie Anderson performing her latest major work, Homeland. She’s notable for being-one of the few artists whose greatest music is clearly a period piece from the 1980s—synthesizers and all—but is still powerful and has redemptive value. Suffice it to say she wasn’t wearing purple legwarmers th«n, and isn’t now, either. Anderson will bring her ironic, wry commentary to the project, which promises to be filled with anti-Bush invective but still offer poignancy. Students and Durham residents alike should be excited that a major performance like this one is playing here. Friday night, I recommend Charlie Hunter and Tamango, the second show of Duke

Performances’ season. If you’ve never seen or heard of Charlie Hunter, put down this paper and YouTube that shit now. Dude plays an eight-string guitar—three bass strings, five guitar strings—and plays both parts simultaneously. You have to see it to believe it, because hearing is not enough. He’ll be appearing with Tamango, a French Guianaborn tap dancer who Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald rates as the best in the world. And of course, both of these will set a student back a combined !|lO. Night Three: Go to OSAF in the morning and get free tickets for the Bull Durham Blues Festival. This year’s lineup is not as hard-hitting as last year’s fantastic Buddy Guy/Booker T. and the MGs roster, but Taj Mahal’s Saturday headlining performance is not to be missed. Despite his peculiar name, Mahal is one of the most skilled acoustic bluesmen and interpreters of the Piedmont blues. Plus he had a song in Blues Brothers. Now, enough of my preaching. Go forth and listen! —David Graham

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Mural series celebrates Durham by

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Hundreds of Durham residents and Duke students came together over colorful pastels and spray paints during the past year in a community effort called Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life. The Center for Documentary Studies, in collaboration with the Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project and the Office of Community Affairs, sponsored the creation of 14 murals intended to represent facets of Durham. Artist and project coordinatorBrett Cook led a tour of the murals Saturday to celebrate the debut of the largescale murals, which are the final installment of Face Up. True to its nature, the artwork is not in an isolated gallery or museum but part of the community itself. The project has three main focuses: people in the community, images of divinity and Pauli Murray, a Durham native who was a successful civil rights lawyer and later became the nation’s first black female Episcopal priest. The murals are scattered throughout town, situated in visible cultural landmarks, from thewalls of elementary schools to the Institute for Southern Studies on Chapel Hill Street Face Up's roots stem from a simple premise: bring members of the community together through art. Along with '

Cook, CDS staffers Barbara Lau, community documentary programs director, and Exhibitions Director Courtney Reid-Eaton first conceived of the project in 2005. Based on Cook’s earlier community projects in places such as Washington, D.C., Reid-Eaton believed his approach was in line with their vision. Cook wanted to involve others in the process of creating the murals. After he created an outline drawing and projected the images onto non-woven fabric, hundreds of Durham residents filled in the outline with oil pastels. The fabric was then plastered to building walls and sealed with a coat of varnish. Sophomore Ghisly Echezuria, who heard about the project from a professor, emphasized that the beauty of Face Up was the method “[lt’s] not about the final product,” she said. “The art really is the process of getting there.” One interesting highlight of Saturday’s tour was an emphasis on Murray. The local figure lived most of her life in Durham, where she served as a historian, attorney, poet, civil rights activist, teacher, author and Episcopalian priest. Her strong beliefs in justice and community SEE MURALS ON PAGE 7

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to see the taste’ Polish-American filmmakerLech Majewski has been: hailed as a modem master. By combining his other artistic interests—painting uniting making installation, and more—Majewski s work demonstrates a rarely seen artistic ethic that merited a mid-career retrospective at the Museum ofModem Art in New York. In preparation for his Sept. 23 visit to Duke, recess ’Andrew Hibbard spoke with Majewski about his art, the state of modem cinema and more. How have your different artistic interests affected your filmmaking? Because I’m a painter and a poet, it’s much more natural for me to work an image. I think the image should be more of a contemplative nature than it is now in the cinema. I feel as though the cinema now has this TV aesthetic or antiaesthetic. The image has to be full-functional. You have to see the taste. I think if you go back to the movies from the 30s and 40s, you’ll see a level ofvery interesting incarnations coming from the image that are not just information. How do you feel about modem cinema? I don’t get the idea of “modem” or “postmodern.” I have

I am much more happy watching the old movies and the movies thatdealtwith much more respect of the cinema language and the creation of images going with the film. I lived in LA next to a [Producers’ Guild of America] screening and every second day I saw a new movie coming and I just couldn’t differentiatebetween those movies. They were strictly starry action vehicles. I don’tremember them. They were like the stream of the same shot. And from now and then you get an outstanding movie like Barton Fink which is unusual, carefully craftecf and everything seems to flow. With The Gardenof Earthly Delights, did you find it difficult to adapt your own novel into your own film? to say

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Apparently Gossip Girl is every parent’s nightmare: a mind-blowingly inappropriate, nasty piece of work—and it’s very bad for you. But when dysfunctional parenting, social sabotage and romantic flip-flopping are as commonplace as personal drivers, designer pea coats and $2OO meals at Butter, it’s not hard to see why Gossip Girlsucceeds as a modern soap opera. So continues life on the Upper East Side, as New York’s most privileged prep-schoolers find themselves dealing with the unresolved issues that arose during last season’s disappointing finale. Season two welcomes back our old favorites: D and S, C and B, N and V... but we wouldn’t be surprised to see our letter tiles mixed up a bit, especially since “cheating” and “lying” are such prominent words in the Gossip Girl dictionary. And in case the regular crew weren’t wealthy and spoiled,enough for you, the show introduces a Duchess and a Lord to the mix.

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Perhaps the most unique aspect of Gossip Girlis its narrator, whoseknack for text-speak holds special appeal to the tween crowd. Like a good lover, Gossip Girl keeps you engaged and guessing, all without being a tease. It con..jdnj stantly gives you what you want: lusty hook-ups, witty /££■ -O cutthroat one-liners, and backstabbing y teenage melodrama. Similar to an hourlong TMZ or E! Hollywood Special, the show recycles JB the cultural phenomenon of gawking at celebrities by letting you into a privileged world and immersing you in the shameless deeds of jfl beautiful people. —Baishi Wu

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Cappie-Casey-Malove triangle. The best thing about the season so far is having the return of the old Rusty. Having recov ered from his break up with Jen K. an reconciled with be: friend Calvin, Rusty i back to his nerdy-bu endearing ways. Though it’s no 0. or Gossip Girl, this s< son of Greek promii the usual diet of keggi hook-ups and pledgin Jinks balanced with a dose of innocent making it a worthwl guilty, pleasure. —Na

•outhern California has long been center stage for high school-based dramas. A tradition that began in with the landmark Beverly Hills, 0 has now come full circle with the 90210. The updated version of the classic ;ries is part sequel, part reimagining. Instead of the Walshes moving from Minneapolis, the new version gives us the Wilsons from Kansas an equally chummy family headed Zest Beverly Hills High’s new princiHarry (Melrose Place’s Rob Estes). wise, instead of twins Brenda and idon, we get sister and adopted k brother Annie and Dixon. One i-Caucasian character. TV’s come ng way since 1990. The new series also reunites us with Kelly Taylor (Jen—

nie Garth) and Brenda Walsh (Shannon Doherty). As a testament to how unexciting 90210 is, watching Garth—now a guid' ance counselor at her'alma mater—fhrt with the hot teacher is the most exciting plot line the show has to offer, and this is only a product of the nostalgia value Otherwise, the show is just an excuse to feature spoiled teens driving expensive cars and getting into catfights for one hour a week. Gossip Girl is a fais better source for high school melodrama. It’s not that the original was a great show, but it at least provided entertainment value and characters who were remotely interesting. The new 902105. justboring, and withoutJason Priestl'' sideburns, it’s just not the same. —Andrew Hibm

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They could have landed on a lot of planets. Luckily, they landed on Earth. The band brings its own unique image and infectious music to Duke this weekend. Lead singer Marshall Galactic answered a few questions for recess music editor Jordan Axt about the band's sound, origin and aspirations. How would you describe your style of music? We usually call it some sort of synthy party-punk. But we also call our music “rock operas” because a lot of our songs follows a narrative structure. What are some of the narratives you focus on? Our narratives focus on small, character-driven stories. One of our songs is a true story, actually. It’s about the daughter of a warlord who came down to Earth, and this warlord told me that I had to give his daughter guitar lessons or he would destroy the planet. It was a hard decision, but I gave her the guitar lessons. Your website describes your style of music as “robot rock.” What is it and why should humans listen to it? One of our songs is about how I have actually made love to a robot, so I think that we a band are in tune with what robots want and need. But while I think that robots would enjoy listening to robot rock, our music is actually for humans. It’s to make things easier for when robots rule the world. Can you tell me more about the origins of your band? Well, we are originally from the planet Betelgeuse. We came down to Earth and enrolled in high school in Forth Worth, Texas. What can human Duke students expect from your show on Friday? Excitement. Rock. Lights. A small bit of cursing,' but not too much cursing. We stick to a narrative structure, but we are definitely a rock band. Does your music sound like the music of the future? I don’t really know what the future holds. Just because I am from a different planet does not mean I know anything about the future. TheFrontier Brothers play theArmadillo Grill Friday at 8 p.rn. as part of the Campus Concert Series. Admission is free.

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�� Brass Knuckles, Nelly’s fifth studio release, meets all the apparent requirements for today’s rap album. An Akonprovided chorus? Check (“Body On Me”). A dance floor anthem with Fergie? Check (“Party People”). How about Nelly’s own specialty, the product-obsessed track where the rapper boasts about his fashion sense and expendable income? Check (“Steppin’ on MyJ’z”). Although Brass Knuckles makes for decent club music, it fails to produce anything new or exciting. In its entirety, the album results in an almost never-ending onslaught of horniness and rep disparaging. Nelly attempts some subject diversity with “Self-Esteem,” a “never-quit” song that touches on issues of racism and the current war. He speaks for today’s soldiers when he boldly claims, “I pledge allegiance all the way to Iraq/But ain’t nobody pledgin’ to me when I get back.” However, “Self-Esteem” is hardly a deep social critique and ends up confusing the consistency of the rest of the album, where most tracks match the theme of “U Ain’t Him” —a fervent attack on wannabe gangsters. Ultimately, Brass Knuckles is bereft ofany concrete identity. Each track features at least one collaborator, a tactic that often overpowers Nelly’s presence on his own album. One wonders if the A-list roster of Brass Knuckles is only a studio device to disguise the lazy lyrics and unoriginal rhythms it offers. Since Sweat/Suit, Nelly has acted in a movie, bought a professional basketball team and played in the World Series of Poker. The quality of Brass Knuckles begs the question: Has making music become Nelly’s newest side project? —Tina Siadak

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�� It’s official; class has replaced sex as the new theme of R&B. Ne-Yo’s third album, Year of the Gentleman, pays tribute to the unparalleled style of the Rat Pack. I think it’s safe to assume Sinatra and Davis Jr., are sharing a chuckle in heaven. Like every other R&B artist, Ne-Yo makes his case as the perfect boyfriend, but the differencebetween this and anything you might hear from T-Pain’s Auto-Tune is you actually believe Ne-Yo. Gentleman begins in a club; Ne-Yo meets the girl of his dreams, but something’s not right. Our suave protagonist deals with arguments in “Mad,” suggestions of negligence in “Miss Independent” and, finally, infidelity on “Lie to Me,” all the while trying to put a positive spin on a bad situation with his trademark smooth speak. .

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But it’s all about the rhythm on Year of the Gentleman. Case in point: “Single” fades in just-like any other R&B ballad until the quarter-note bass line pops. Suddenly, an otherwise cliche song about “being your boyfriend” is transformed into what may very well be the foundation for the best club hit this year. Get on that, Girl Talk. Production really shines on “So You Can Cry.” After a dreary acoustic guitar introduction, upbeat drums kick in, and you can’t help feeling happier. But still, Ne-Yo laments, “I’ll ask the sun to shine away from you today so you can cry/If that’s what you want, all right.” CuteSure, it may appear to be another sappy R&B album, but all in all, Ne-Yo’s Gentleman shows us that there’s more to romance than just getting the girl back to your room. Are relationships really, dare I say, complex entities? I guess R. Kelly had it all wrong: it’s not all about just “feelin’ on your booty.” —Alex Reinstein

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�� Trust me, I was as skeptical as you are right now. Sure, Wayne Brady was entertaining on “Whose Line is it Anyway?,” but now he wants to be an R&B artist? I couldn’t wait to rip this apart. So you can imagine my embarrassment when, coming out of a lapse in attention, I found myfoot tapping to a song about the mythical condition of“friends with benefits.” Wayne Brady is a decent singer with a versatile voice. There. I said it. What’s really surprising are the classy, albeit safely unoriginal, musical choices Brady makes as executive producer. I expected a lot more cheesiness. “I Ain’t Movin’” is an'adequate take on the Motown formula, complete with a drum-roll intro, call-and-response vocals and a playful organ riff. However, adaptation later turns into mere copying. In an attempt to honor Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Brady simply replicates the vintage vocal stylings ofhis idol. With such little departure from Cooke, why not just listen to the original? Unfortunately, the second half of the album sees Brady’s ’6os soul vibe wither into a Norah Jones-esque adult contemporary feel. A slowed and semisoulful cover of the Beades’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” drags at times. The passion Brady exhibits at first fades into boredom, as he resorts to moaning and crooning to his middle-aged housewife audience. What gives this away as a Wayne Brady album are the lyrics. Ever wonder how many ILove The 80s cultural references could be made over one Motown block party groove? “Back in the Day” might shed some light, especially when you consider the priceless chorus: “I loved you since Thundercats.” Although the lyrics are amusing at best, I agree with Wayne when he claims in his blog, “Not only can Wayne Brady choke a bitch, but he can sing.” —Sam Schlinkert

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� �� Say what you will about the social powers of the documentary style, the fact is that most documentarians are white males. It’s a sad, undemocratic fact of a medium lauded for its lofty ambitions of telling the unheard, unpopular version of things. Even in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, most of the accounts we have seen have been told from the outsider’s perspective. Trouble the Water, winnerof the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries at 2008’s Sundance and Full Frame film festivals, provides an alternative narrative—that of first-hand survivors. Shot partially on a commercial handheld camera, Waterfollows husband and wife Scott and Kimberly Roberts from before the storm to its aftermath. From the opening

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were principles that Cook hoped to convey in the murals. “We want to encourage that same greatness that’s in Pauli Murray in all of us,” he said. Lygia Yarborough and Stephanie Davis, two distant cousins of Murray, expressed their gratitude and pride in her recognition during the tour. One of their favorite murals is a portrait of Murray on the wall of a once-segregated restaurant that Yarborough and Davis used to walk past as children. “It is very inspiring,” Davis said. Cookfelt the project was a success because ofits medley ofcollective efforts: some did designs, others drew pictures and a few even wrote their names. “Literally and figuratively, this is something that everyone can see themselves in,” he said. Although the project was cosponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies, only a handful ofDuke students participated in the mural walk. “I think it’s a pity that [students] don’t get to know Durham,” Echezuria said. “There are so many opportunities out there.” Lau said she agreed, and said she encourages students to become more engaged with the city around them. “I want students to get excited about venturing out of the ‘Duke bubble’ and exploring Durham,” she said. “Students are part of the Durham community and not just the Duke community. They may not always see themselves as [a part of] Durham but they are.”

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When I wrote the novel, I didn’t think it was a movie. But The. Garden of Earthly Delights came from my own analysis of personal experience. It had nothing to with writing a movie. But once the novel was published, somebody was pointing out to me, “Why don’t you make a movie out of it?” I said I didn’t write it as a screenplay and then I stopped to think and I thought maybe subconsciously I sort of included the main character to make the movie. In some ofyour films, your main focus is artists. Is this some sort of self-exploration on camera? It’s a hidden value. It allows me to speak about myself. But in general I think an artist or a person who writes or who plays an instrument is a more interesting character than a cop and a robber and someone who knocks people down and brandishes a gun and shoots at everything that moves. Kinetically, the other character seems to be more watchable but I don’t think they have anything to do with life. The best-paid cinema is of the escape. But I believe in a cinema that is going towards yourself or meeting yourself or meeting other people. So I know I would be paid much m ore money and my films would be much more watchable |f 1 allowed people to escape from themselves. My direction 18 opposite. I want people to go into themselves. How has your background in Poland and the United States affected your art? By this time, I am no more Polish than I am American. 1 am in between. It allows me to be kind of a stranger in those places and watch from a distance. It’s not a bad situation. It goes to objectivity. What are you working on right now? I never speak on what I am working on. That is a taboo m my life. I don’t think one should say a word about what °ne works on until it’s done.

scenes foreshadowing the disaster to gutwrenching footage of the Robertses shacked up in their attic with total strangers ranging in age from eight days old to 80, Water provides a never-before-seen perspective on how people survived Katrina. Of course, the story doesn’t end when the rain stopped. The Robertses roam the streets of New Orleans, documenting the harrowing stories of Katrina survivors and the racism and classism of the city, state and federal governments. Not only is each story tragic and affecting in its own right, the film as a whole is largely devoid ofCaucasian sto-

rytellers. The film, inherendy political, uses smartly chosen news clips from Iraq, former FEMA director Mike Brown and President George W. Bush. As one of the film’s subjects says, “There is a war going on and it’s not in Iraq. It’s in New Orleans.” —Andrew Hibbard

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DeMange has stepped away from the net for now, but her playing days are not necessarily behind her. In addition to her coaching for the Triangle Volleyball Club for the second consecutive spring season, DeMange plans on joining up with fellow Blue Devil alumna and childhood friend Ali Hausfeld in a women’s adult league in the area. And in the summer, DeMange will hit the sand to play

beach volleyball. But regardless of whether she’s playing, coaching or standing silently on the sidelines, DeMange knows shq will

always be involved in the sport. “I love playing volleyball. It’s my passion. It’s what I lived for my entire life,” DeMange said.” “It’s what I grew up. My mom was a setter in high school and it was just part of my family for so long that I can’t see myself stepping away from it. Coaching allows me to give back what I’ve learned and from my experience.”

The revamped Williams Field on East Campusis now equipped with a bigger grandstand, a press box and home and visitors'locker rooms.

FIELD HOCKEY from page 5 And the improvements to Williams Field will do more than simply help recruiting. They have already boosted player morale, as the Blue Devils feel the field equals their quality of play. “We look more professional—notjust like an intramural team anymore,” senior midfielder Marian Dickinson said. “It used to be just a turf in the middle of nothing. Now I think it’s really coming together, reflecting the quality of the team we have here at Duke.”

In addition to the external features, the new field has

player-enhancing facilities, including locker rooms and a team room where players and coaches can sit and analyze film. The old locker rooms were housed in nearby Brodie Recreation Center. There is also a new press box at the top of the bleach; ers on the opposite side of the field from the team benches. It has three sections: home, visitor and media. The uppermost section is equipped with video capabilities. All in all, the fulfillment of one of Bozman’s goals might lead to another: winning the program’s first national championship.

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gradually displace independent students on West even more than they are now. Additionally, independent students might feel pressured to join a group simply in order to avoid Central Campus, and so some groups will become excuses to live on West rather than real associations. Perhaps the greatest cause for concern about this new TLG-based plan is that it lacks sustainability. Right now, there are no barriers to a student who wants to start his own

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such groups could be part of the solution. The quad model is broken and West is divided, but the solution is not a residential college system because of architecture—and not a TLG system because of logic. Another major concern prompted by the proliferation ofTLGs is that these groups will

TLG. If there did exist a desire among the student body for more groups, they would have been created by now. Without student demand these new TLGs will slowly die from the same malaise that plagued the Leadership and Civic Engagement Living Group, which discontinued after one year. Advocates for TLGs insist that New Campus will reshape the University’s housing environment and enable the space for TLGs to coexist and thrive alongside SLGs, fraternities, and blocks of independent students. The completion of that campus is too far away and the details are too abstract to have any faith in this proposal. The West Campus housing model is bad. But adding themed living groups would make it worse.

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to access to housing, social space and funding. Although this Madisonian pluralism may look good in theory, it would not be an improvement to the University’s broken residential quad model. What’s more, the implementation of TLGs is an ad hoc solution to a much bigger problem. That much bigger problem—and itis a real problem—is the self-segregation of the student body along the lines of race and socio-economic status. The consequence of the TLG project, however, will be an even more sophisticated model of segregation, with TLGs completing the balkanization that SLGs began long ago. When exclusive groups that wall themselves off from everyone else is part of the problem, it is hard to understand how more

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what

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seems to pride itself on, is this perfected balance between academics and athletics, scholasticism and social life, that naive young ’uns like myself are easily drawn to.

My coming to

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Duke was, however, atypical in that I had never watched a Duke basketball game prior to my arrival, and although the nameJJ. Redick rings a bell, to this day I wouldn’t recognize him if I saw him. Just writing that sentence felt so incredibly blasphemous. Anyway, point being I’m not an avid sports fan; I’ve always relegated sports to . this very separate sphere from my educational experience. But after spending two years here, I feel like I was fed a bit offalse advertisement. For one, Duke is far from striking a perfect balance between its glorification ofathletics and its claim to academic excellence. More and more it seems that if one sector is thriving, something’s got to give on the other end. I entered Duke in the midst of lingering frustrations from all sides after the Duke lacrosse case; this was post “Group of88,” when the student body was adorned in Duke lacrosse gear in proclamation of their support for the victimized team members. Needless to say„criticism of student athletes remains a touchy subject, but in lieu of an investigation and trial that appeared to be more of a spectacle than anything else, we disregarded the reality that Duke does have a problem with athletes and accountability. That same year, 34 students were penalized for collaborating on a take home test. Considered “the largest cheating incident in the history of the Fuqua School of Business,” 15 of those students received a one year suspension and a failing grade. The firm ruling was consistent with Duke’s stance on the Community Standard. So imagine my surprise when Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili was arrested on gun charges, simple assault and driving while impaired—to sit out only the season opener. After serving his “punishment” for his crimes, Tauiliili was welcomed back onto the field with open arms. Later, he was elected President of the National

Pan-Hellenic Council, as if to reward his reck less behavior. What I’ve witnessed is an administration and a student body that is willing to shortchange its commitment to character and integrity for a winning season, or, in too many cases, a losing season with a spoEadic win here or there. The terms character and integrity have evolved into empty cliches, void of any real meaning or substantial set of expectations for behavior. Personally, I can’t envision an educational experience without integrity and ethics at its foundation, and I thought thatthis university shared that vision. This is not to say that any athletics program is void of ethical values and standards, but I find it incredibly naive, or just plain dishonest, to claim that the glorification of athletes and sports culture at Duke, particularly in the arena ofmale athletics teams, has hot been at the cost of fairness and accountability in numerous cases. I am not ignorant of the revenue that athletics brings to this university, but I don’t believe one should be ignorant of its enormous costs. I’m not usually one to bite the hand that feeds me, but I can’t help but feel a bit freaked out by the fanaticism and low expectations. Confined to patriarchal environments where the only end goal is a win, these men are privileged in so many respects on this campus —socially, academically and financially—in exchange fora major commitment of time and energy to sports. In exchange for their labor, we are willing to lower the standards of conduct and character to which we hold the rest of the student body accountable. The sense of entitlement and invincibility that is part and parcel of that environment, contrasted by the disempowerment that is felt by so many marginalized members of the Duke community, makes for a social disaster. Here it seems like male athletes can do no wrong, and even when they do, a worshipping student body continues to support them and the administration turns a blind eye. In terms of accountability and responsibility, it is a frustrating double standard. With that said, I challenge the University to recalibrate its value system before it loses the little ethical credibility it has left to claim, and that the student body be an active voice in holding its members and administration accountable. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best, “intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education.” I supp°se somewhere in the midst of our Cameron Craziness we lost sight of that. Nana Duffuor is a Trinity junior. Her column ruM every other Thursday.

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During

my four years at Duke, the most vivid academic memories I had were authentic experiences—trawling on the Susan Hudson at Beaufort, expl

nivorous plants in Bio 26 and listening to various

guest speakers around campus. Even in high school, I was able to explore the exangela jiang periential dimenI be tweakln sion of education by participating in service trips and traveling to different parks. I took such valuable lessons for granted; my students, however, are not so fortunate. With a total offour trees in the surrounding neighborhood of my school, my inner-city students rarely have opportunities to interact with nature. In fad:, the most authentic experience my students had last year was a pure accident. For many teachers working with few resources available for their students, DonorsChoose.org is a frequented Web site. Last year, I got two projects funded through them—one was science journals and the other was four dozen Southern frogs for dissection. Upon receiving notification of my funded frog project, I prepared my studentsfor the highlyanticipated arrival of preserved frogs. Two weeks later, an announcement over the intercom asked me to report immediately to the main office, and a security guard was on his way to watch my class. When I opened the door to the main office, I realized something went extremely wrong with the order, because 48 live frogs were sitting in a comer of the office. One bag of potting soil, multiple trips to PetSmart to buy 200 live crickets at a time, some fearless coworkers willing to chase down frogs and three large plastic containers later, the frogs were contained in my classroom. My students were extremely excited—some because they thought we were going to gas the frogs in class and others because they got to observe some frogs eating crickets. I e-mailed all of my friends in Teach for America and was able to donate many class pets to different science teachers. The secretary in my school took three, and she informed me last week that all of her frogs are still kicking. The assistant principal kept two in her office; however, one “croaked” after his eye fell out. I even had a couple of students come to school with their parents to take some frogs home. One of my students gave me daily updates on his frog Fifi until Fifi escaped when he left the lid off. Fortunately, DonorsChoose.org is an amazing organization, and sent me an additional 48 preserved frogs that were ready for dissection. My students wrote thank-you letters to the donors who funded the project, and it was obvious how appreciative all of the students were of the experience. They wrote about how they felt like surgeons, and how they overcame their fears of the frogs and learned things they would “never forget.” Even this year, my students are continuing to talk about how “raw” the frog experience was for them. Though I am extremely glad that my students were able to enjoy such an authentic learning experience, I am saddened abouthow infrequendy these experiences are made available to them. For those of you reading this column on campus, I challenge you to take advantage of all the amazing resources Duke has to offer. Go listen to a recital put on by the music department, take part in a community service activity in the Durham community or simply read a book in the gardens while watching the ducks swim.

Angela Jiang, Trinity 'Ol, is a second-year teacher with Teach for America in Chicago. Her column runs wery other Thursday.

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been spending all day with my eyes glued to my iPhone, television, computer and even (lawd almighty, do they still exist??) newspapers. Why, you ask? Well, it’s because Wall Street has been caught with its pants down and even Gordon Gecko is feeling the bum. While greed might still be good, not much else is in the (formerly) hallowed halls of mOIIiQGGn Lehman Brothers. (Warning: This is not frankie says relax meant to be a strong hnancial analysis of the situation. This is The Chronicle editorial pages and my column is named “Frankie says relax.” If you’ve come to me for your economic troubles, I’m deeply concerned for your mental well-being.) Jokes aside, it is a very serious economic situation that will affect the job market for most students here at Duke. It’s not exactly Hooveryilles and Shantytowns, but it is bad. Hardest hit will be current seniors—of which I am one (I can’t wait for the glut of law school applications that I’m going to luckily be a part of). The politicians are trying to reassure us, but as much as they’re trying, it’s not working too well. It’s all platitudes that are meant to reassure a panicking people. The fact is, however, they do anything but, as evidenced by my mother. “Tariq! The market is imploding,” said Mom. “Why Mom, I’m not even looking into finance—l read history.” “That doesn’t matter—why the hell didn’t you do med

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school like I asked you to?” Great. Not only has this economic meltdown hacked the job market to pieces, it’s also re-awoken the beast inside my mother—one that I am somewhat convinced was only dormant. Actually that’s a lie and before Mom writes a letter to the editor stating that I am a bad journalist (correction: I am a columnist) I must admit that I am slightly regretting not picking some pre-professional track that has a constant job market. Do what you love, my foot—do something that exists is the new mantra. I’m overreacting. There is really no need to overreact, but let’s be honest, I think we all want to because it helps us expel already latent fears that we have about facing the real world through a slightly more palatable voice. The sad fact is that jobs await us, and yeah, there might not be as many as before, but we’re still in good shape. We do go to Duke, not all of us are entirely without intelligence. I think the one thing that I can take out of this whole economic debacle is that I’ve learned how to have faith in my own strengths. The world out there might be more fragile then we thought, but we ourselves are as strong as we make ourselves to be. That is in our control, or at least more in our control then anything else in this world. It’s time that we had more faith in ourselves then in our financial institutions. We will get jobs. Maybe it will take longer. Maybe it won’t be at an I-Bank, maybe it will. In all seriousness, anyone who still wants to work at ajj. I-Bank now has to be at least somewhat certifiable. Let’s open our horizons and try and find something new. But before that, we all just need to take a deep breath, and in the immortal words of Frankie, relax.

Tariq Mohideen is Thursday.

Trinity senior. His column runs every other

letterstotheeditor Input solicited for Judicial Affairs policies In response toLauren Maisel’s Sept. 15 letter, ‘Judicial Affairs’ policies need more student input,” I would like to clarify theprocess used this past year for changing judicial policy. Duke’s Office of Judicial Affairs modifies the Duke Community Standard in Practice: A Guide for Undergraduates based upon feedback from students, faculty and staff. The changes for this year came from students, faculty and staffwho participated in the disciplinary process previously, and student organizations such as the GreekJudicial Board and Duke Student Government The timing of the changes is a function of logistics. As an official Duke bulletin, the new edition must be ready for print in July. The summer provides a natural break when there is time to reconsider the DCS Guide text based on the full experiences and insights of the previous year, and to implement these changes. Each change is approved outside the Office of Judicial Affairs by the Appellate Board and the vice president for student affairs. As Maisel noted, the changes are good changes, and they are minor clarifications of existing policy or modifications explicitly to the advantage of the students. The Office of Judicial Affairs welcomes input from the Duke community, and explicitly seeks it out every spring, before any changes to judicial policy are made, via Chronicle ads requesting suggestions. Communication with the University community will be enhanced this year by the recently formed Undergraduate Judicial Board Outreach committee, which is available to work with any interested or concerned Duke community members and organizations. The first priority will always be fairness for the students who come through Judicial Affairs. I invite all students, faculty and staff to make suggestions, bring us concerns and help us make the DCS Guide the best it can be. E-mail, call or drop by 107 West Union. We would love to hear from you. Toni Helhling Pratt ’O9 Vice Chair, Undergraduate JudicialBoard

Redundancy results inreality... right? If something is false, the more times you say it, the closer to the truth it becomes. Right? Lately that appears to be the mentality upon which the Republican Party has been operating. This policy was once again tirelessly at work in Oliver Sherouse’s Sept. 12 column, “Inspired by conservatism.” This column featured two dialogues that the Republicans have been tirelessly rehashing this election cycle. Overused Point No. 1: Liberals are a bunch of chain sipping, organic food eadng, hybrid driving elitists who are out to ruin the good old U.S. of A.

Seriously?! Aren’t we past this by now? Sure, most highly educated people are Democrats, but so are the poorest of the poor. Furthermore, Democrats promote policies to try and end poverty, whereas Republicans choose to blame poverty on the individual. Yet, somehow, through fighting against gay marriage and sex education, Republicans are just average folks promoting “small town values” (another one of those vague terms). So what if Sen. Barack Obama makes a comment about the price of arugula? Does that really make him an elitist? Am I an elitist because I don’t own a cbwboy hat and happen to enjoy reading? Let me pull out my dictionary and find the actual definition of “elitist.” Oh, I’m sorry, does using a dictionary make me an elitist now? We seem to be using that term rather loosely. It has become a catchall phrase the Republicans use to basically mean “an individual expressing views contrary to Republican ideals.” Overused Point No. 2: Sen. John McCain is a maverick and will bring change to Washington. Though this might have been the case before his failed presidential attempt, he now dances to the tune of the religious right. When a man has voted with President George W. Bush upwards of 95 percent of the time, he shouldn’t even be even allowed to use the word “change.” Yet, McCain and his supporters are somehow able to ignore this fact in favor of trying to keep up with the buzzword of the day, change. Aren’t elitists supposed to ignore popular opinion? To give McCain the benefit of the doubt, let’s look at these “maverick” concepts: lifting the ban on offshore drilling, overturning Roe v. Wade, restoring gun rights... I suppose that could be called “change” given that we are flexibly defining our terms. In this context, one could define change as “more of the same and much of the old.” As I Vatched the both parties’ nominating conventions (yes, we liberals do listen to other views besides our own) I couldn’t help but notice the wide discrepancy in the demographics. During the Republican Nominating Convention, the camera constandy panned to white men wearing cowboy hats. In contrast, the Democratic National Convention featured a diverse group of people, many of whom were waving American flags. This is the change we need—showing pride for our country and combining theT>est of the old traditions with the innovations of the future. So, to all you Republicans out there, I beg of you, stop rehashing these overused, blatandy false ideas. In election about change, shouldn’t we actually start talking about new ideas? Kendra Hinton Trinity T1

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