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Gubernatorial nomineesPat McCrory (left), a Republican, and Michael Munger (right), a Libertarian, end theirdebate Wednesday. Democrat Bev Perdue did not attend

Munger turning heads in N.C. race as Libertarian choice

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For Professor Michael Munger, the decision to run for North Carolina governor was simple. “I was motivated by my dissatisfaction with the direction of the nation and state,” he said. “The best way to change this was to run for office.” Munger, chair of the political science department and professor of economics, currendy holds a 3.9 percent stake as the Libertarian candidate in the state’s gubernatorial race, according to an Oct. 8 Pollster.com poll. As a third-party candidate, Munger could have an effect on the outcome of the election as he gains votes against his two opponents, Democratic Lt. Gov Bev Perdue and Republican Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory.

Two of the three candidates for governor of North Carolina

squared offfor the second time in a live, televised debateWednesday night Although the Democratic candidate failed to attend, a Duke professor was more than willing to provide an opposing view. Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican, and Libertarian candidate Mike Munger, chair of the political science department, sparred for approximately an hour on a variety of issues including immigration, taxes and energy. Another topic of discussion was the absence of Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, who declined the invitation for both debates sponsored by UNC-TV. ‘Woody Allen once said 80 percent of success is showing up. Bev Perdue has Med that test,” McCrory said.

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Judicial citations rose in past year by

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The Office of Judicial Affairs saw a 25 in the number of students reported through the disciplinary system during the 2007-2008 academicyear. A total of 721 students were reported compared to the five-year average of 578 students, according to disciplinary statistics released Sept. 23. .Of this number, 55 percent of the cases in 2007-2008 concluded with informal resolutions, which are typically not reflected on students’ permanent records. Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of judicial affairs, said the increased number of students reported can be attributed partially to stronger compercent increase

munication between the residence halls and the Office of JudicialAffairs. But Bryan noted that the number ofoffcampus reports filed by localand federallaw enforcement agencies more than tripled, accounting for most of the 25 percent leap in the total number ofstudents reported. Although just more than half of adjudicated students were reported by non-Duke authorities, the high number of off-campus infractions probably does not indicate a spike in student activity, Bryan said. Communication between the University and Durham Police Department has improved in recent years, meaning that officers are sending more reports of incidents to the Office of JudicialAffairs but not necessarily citing students more frequently, he added. “[The University is] educating Durham police that we do expect our students to

conduct themselves in a manner that’s befitting to Duke,” he said. “As [DPD’s] awareness with campus increases, some officers are choosing not to cite students because they know the University can follow up.” Despite the statistical leap, senior Kevin Brightly said he has not witnessed more students being reprimanded at off-campus parties over the past two years. “I’m not at every off-campus party every weekend, but I saw no change in the frequency of kids being cited,” he said. “I’ve never been cited for anything—l’ve always broken the law without getting caught.” Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander, added that contrary to some students’ perceptions, communication between SEE CITATIONS ON PAGE

President Richard Brodhead departs for India Thursday morning, leaving the Allen Building far behind but keeping its international ambitions close to heart. M I don’t think anyone would dispute that with India’s size, its economic and political strength and its vast pool of talented students and academics, itis a place from which we can learn a great deal,” he said in a statement. “At the same time, we are building lasting relationships that will help secure a shared future of teaching and learning with India.” Brodhead’s trip will nurture a number of existing ties between Duke and India, including the University’s service-learning and study abroad programs, the Terry Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy’s collaboration with theIndian Administrative Service and a Talent Identifica-tion Program conducted last year. Brodhead will return from his visit—his first to the country OcL 17. The president will be accompanied by Blair Sheppard, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Prasad Kasibhatla, associate dean for international programs at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Sanford Director Bruce Kuniholm and Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. In particular, Brodhead and Sheppard will receive input on the Cross-Continent MBA —

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President Richard Brodhead will travel to India today to develop Duke's relationship with the country.

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MUNICH, Germany A German farmer who received the world's first complete double arm transplant said Wednesday that incredulity gave way to joy when he woke from surgery to discover he had arms again. Karl Merk, who lost his arms in a farming accident six years ago, said he at first could not believe that the transplant appeared to have been succesful. "It was really overwhelming when I saw that I had arms again,"said the 54-year-old, who wore a sleeveless black shirt showing clearly where his new arms had been grafted.

Today at Duke,,. Linguistics Symposium 0016 W in Divinity School, sto 6:30 p.m. Monica Heller, University of Toronto, will examine some of the paradoxical consequences of the increasing centrality of communication.

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BUDAPEST, Hungary NATO allies must INDIANAPOLIS—DemocratBarackObama's camsend either more forces or more money for the paign criticized Republican John McCain's mortgage bailout plan Wednesday, saying it would cause the fight in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates will argue this week as he meets with NATO defense government to lose money by paying too much for bad loans. ministers. McCain's proposal to spend $3OO billion in federal funds The main objective, Gates said, is to increase the size of the to buy distressed mortgages was a highlight of Tuesday's Afghan Army, and it will take trainers—or more money—to presidential debate, and it seemed to catch Obama offguard. do that. At first, Obama's campaign said he had made similar proposals, and there was nothing new in McCain's remarks. have comsignificant troop "My view is for those who do not But after McCain aides offered more details Wednesday, mitments in Afghanistan... to consider and contribute to the cost Obama's campaign shifted gears. of expanding the size of the Afghan army," Gates said. Wednesday, he made his pitch to southeastern European Deadly Tennessee mail shooting nations, urging leaders to shift their military efforts from Iraq KNOXVILLE, Tenn. where their forces are more as A customer opened to Afghanistan, urgently needed forces. a crowded shopping mall Wednesday trainers for the Afghan security \Wr fire in with defense a afternoon, killing clothing store employee But in meetings Thursday and Friday NATO he take a viewand them before he was shot and wounded by police officers,authorlonger term press officials, is likely to about their future ities said.Witnesses said the gunfire sent people "stampedto think commitments to the struggling, for cover. ing" wartorn nation. The employee was shot multiple times around 4:20 p.m. EDI after a confrontation with the customer and died at a Central banks announce rate cuts Knoxville Center Mall, police spokesman Darrell Deßusk WASHINGTON Wall Street bounced highsaid. No other injuries were reported. er and lower Wednesday trying to make up its mind about an unprecedented coordinated interest rate cut by central banks around the world. In the end, it settled on a familiar feeling—fear—and plunged again. The Federal Reserve, desperately trying to jump-start the lending that keeps the U.S. economy moving, dropped its closely watched federal funds rate to 1.5 percent. The cut from 2 percent took the rate to its lowest level in more than four years. Central banks in England, China, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland and the European Central Bank also cut rates after a series of high-stakes phone calls over several days —compiled from wire reports between Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and his counterparts.

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Operation Bull’s Eye, the Durham Police Department’s two-year effort to reduce crime in a two-square-mile area in East Durham, concluded this summer after seeing a significant reduction in crime. But the initiative may not continue. “We are pleased with the results ofBull’s Eye, particularly the 28.3 percent drop in violent crime in the Bull’s Eye area,” Kammie Michael, public information officer and public relations coordinator for DPD, wrote in an e-mail. She added that the number of non-violent crimes—such as drug possessions and prostitution calls—also decreased in the area, which is centered near South Alston and Morning Glory avenues, about 3 miles from East Campus. Bull’s Eye’s efforts consisted of two yearlong phases from May 2006 to July—a oneyear surveillance period of crime patterns followed by a one-year period of increased police presence within the area. Yet despite having positive results, city officials said there is not enough funding to continue the program in the current city budget. “It is just a matter of deployed resources,” Durham City Councilman Michael Woodard said. “We have a limited number of officers and a limited number offunds.” He added that officers are not being moved out of the area, but there will just be fewer officers at any given time. “The increase was not a result of moving police officers from one place to another,” Woodard said. “It was rather an increase in overtime for officers already assigned to the area.” Overtime pay cost about $275,000 for

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Operation Bull's Eye, a Durham Police Department effort to reduce crime in a crime-ridden area three miles from East Campus, ended recently with improved circumstances in the targeted area. officers during Bull’s Eye, according to The (Durham) Herald-Sun. DPD officials said, however, they already have a plan in place to compensate for the operation’s end. “We are planning to remain in the area,” Michael said. “DPD has its High Enforcement Abatement Team that focus on high crime areas and the district commanders can use them as necessary.” Some Duke students, however, said even with the drop in crime, they do not consider Durham to be any safer.

Junior Justine Jackson-Ricketts—who works off-campus at Erwin Mills Center—said she still worries about being safe, “It doesn’t make me feel comfortable walking around Durham alone, unless it is in one of those public areas,” she said. Indeed, Duke administrators said it is hard to assess the direct effect that Bull’s Eye had on the safety of Duke students because it is difficult to correlate the information

Duke Student Government has created a new panel that will allow students to have more say in changes to the University’s judicial policies and procedures, DSG announced in a statement Wednesday. The Judicial Affairs Student Advisory Group—composed of students at large and representatives from a number of campus groups—will make formal recommendations regarding all proposed changes to Judicial Affairs policy. “It’s important to formalize student involvement to make sure that students are always included in the procedures they are expected to live by,” said DSG Vice President for Student Affairs Lauren Maisel, a senior. “This is a feat for students—it will institutionalize student involvement injudicial affairs.” DSG President Jordan Giordano, a senior, said the ideafor the group did not arise from any particular incident, but rather was the result of a desire for increased student input on changes made to policy. The group will convene at least three times throughout the year and will include representatives from organizations such as Honor Council, Campus Council and the Greek Judicial Board. Administrators in the Office of Judicial Affairs will

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JUDICIAL from page 3 also participate in the panel’s discussions, and Valerie Kolko, senior program coordinator for the Office of Judicial Affairs, will chair the group. All proposed policy changes must be approved by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. The creation of this advisory group will allow members to be more informed of the disciplinary processes and help their constituents understand them better as well, Stephen Bryan, director of Judicial Affairs and associate dean of students, wrote in an e-mail. “I think this benefits students in that it fosters greater transparency of the disciplinary system by removing the mystery ofhow policy and procedure changes are affected,” he said. Maisel said aspects of the advisory group stemmed from recent changes to judicial policy, noting that it was difficult to know how much students were able to voice their opinions in the process. “It’s the campus need that is the impetus driving the proposal,” she said. “I think it was just a really great collaborative effort in the groups involved in that proposal, and I’m excited that it’ll happen.” Maisel added that the group will be able to consider proposals and recommendations months before they are finalized. A Judicial Affairs task force —comprised of students, faculty and staff—was created last year by Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki to re-evaluate the undergraduate disciplinary system on a more global

scale. Nowicki disbanded the 15-member group last Spring because of ongoing litigation against the University. Bryan noted that the student advisory group has a narrower charge than the task force. Despite its smallerscope, the group can achieve its goal ofbeing more involved and effective in providing feedback ifit is“utilized to its fullest extent with students who truly represent the greater interests and voices of the undergraduate community,” Kolko said. Talks of creating the Judicial Affairs Student Advisory Group started over the

“We thought this was the best route to constantly adapt to changes on campus and changes in the

world.”

—Jordan Giordano, senior and president ofDSG summer, and planning began at the beginning of the semester through meetings with administrators, Giordano said.

“In everyone’s opinion, there should be a constant conversation about judicial affairs,” he said. “We thought this was the best route to constantly adapt to changes on campus and changes in the world.” To foster transparency, minutes of the Judicial Affairs Student Advisory Group meetings will also be made available to the Duke community.

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Aaron Graves, associate vice president of Campus Safety andSecurity, and Jose Lopez, chief ofthe Durham Police Department, speak to DSG Wednesday about methodsused by DUPD and DPD to ensure campus safety.

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Wednesday night.

Officials from the Duke University and Durham Police departments discussed repairing student perceptions of DPD, increasing safety on and around campus and combating attrition. DPD Chief Jose Lopez and Aaron Graves, associate vice president of campus safety and security, spoke at length about the relationship between their departments. “I think it is very important that the Durham police has a positive relationship with Duke,” Lopez said. “We need to work together to solve the issues that involve the city ofDurham and the campus.” He stressed the need for effective communication between the two departments, as DUPD’s jurisdiction extends off campus. “My patrol officers and the Duke officers know each other, interact with each other and depend on each other for their safety,” Lopez said. High attrition rates in both departments were also addressed. Over the last five years, DUPD has lost about 35 officers, Graves said. Currently, 67 commissioned police officers make up the force. “A lot of the time, officers don’t get the same amount of action in a campus setting as they do in a municipality,” he said. Addressing concerns that a dwindling force may impact campus safety, Graves said the department is “taking compensatory measures to make sure that the Duke

campus remains safe.” DPD has not been immune to high rates of turnover, either. “I interview anybody who is leaving the organization to find out why [they are doing so],” Lopez said. “For the majority of the time, it is for financial reasons.” Regarding an increasingly negative perception of DPD officers on campus, Lopez said that in reality, the majority of interactions between students and officers are positive. A 25 percent increase in student citations for 2007-2008 may help explain this negative perception. “When students get caught doing something illegal, they try to get themselves out of trouble and often [complain],” Lopez said. He added thatDPD investigates all complaints, including allegations against officers.

In other business: Senior Meredith McCoy was elected the new chief justice of the DSG Judiciary. Sophomore Carissa Mueller and freshmen Ymgyi Shen and Matt Straus were also elected new associate justices. Head line Monitor Joel Burrill, a senior, presented an overview of tenting policy changes. The new policies, which include a line monitor buddy system and trash checks, will be voted on at DSG’s next meeting. In addition, Student Organization Finance Committee Chair Sam Halls, a junior, presented a new SOFC protocol that raises the amount of money that can be requested by a student group without Senate approval from $l,OOO to $1,500.

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MUNGER from page 1 “Munger has been requalifying the Libertarian party in North Carolina. If he becomes prominent enough, he will get attention and following,” said John Aldrich,

Pfizer-Pratt University professor of political science. “He is differ-

ent from most Libertarians. He is

against gun control, pro-choice and anti-death penalty. His policies are across the spectrum.” This

unconventionality

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made Munger a versatile candidate, and some said his success could propel theLibertarian Party forward on the national political scene—and in the Gothic Wonderland. Local and national politics The Libertarian Party gained traction in national politics this past year with the success of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, Med ’6l. Bob Barr, a former Republican representative from Georgia, entered the presidential race in May. CNN reported then that he could be a “headache” for McCain, as he lures conservative voters who might otherwise vote Republican. He is currently on the ballot in 45 states, according to the Libertarian Party Web site. Munger’s views, however, take cues from the left and right, while consistently opposing government interference in the lives of Americans —he called the North Carolina government a “corrupt cartel.” “I’m viewed as a leftist sometimes. My support is highest

among African Americans.... [And I’ve] received contributions from Duke faculty,” he said. Munger’s varied views on critical issues could possibly take attention and votes from both Perdue and McCrory, Aldrich said. “He is against government involvement in our lives, and that involvement can come from both Republicans and Democrats.... He only wants to use government for the most necessary reasons,” Aldrich said. With strong opinions on fiscal responsibility, Munger may bolster his electability in this time of internationalfinancial crisis. In a Sept. 23 editorial for The Charlotte Observer, he criticized the then uncertain federal bailout ofWall Street. “The point is that you can’t take money away from taxpayers who earned it, give it to the financiers who squandered it and call that a good policy,” he wrote. Closer to home Freshman Logan Hoy, who is a Libertarian, said Munger’s candidacy couldboost theLibertarian party both on a large and small scale. “Munger’s possible success could help organize and give a voice to Libertarians around the state and country,” Hoy said. He added, however, that on campus Munger has not necessarily increased activity among studentLibertarians. “If Munger were in the spotlight at Duke... more Libertarians would want to get together and organize,” he said.

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Michael Munger,the Libertarian candidate for N.C. governor and a Duke professor, has about 4 percent support according to recent polling data. Perhaps the idea of an organization is counter-intuitive to some student Libertarians, Hoy and Munger said. Munger explained that Libertarians usually do not form party groups, which may be why an officialLibertarian student group does not exist on campus. “Libertarians want to be left alone,” he added. He noted, however, that the Duke Conservative Union is “pretty much Libertarian.” But some said the relative success of Libertarian candidates could have an effect on mobilizing this particular demographic at the University. Hoy said he is interested in

making this a reality. “I’m considering getting Libertarians together and starting an organization, but they tend to be disorganized,” Hoy said. “Libertarians don’t outwardlyidentify themselves, and they don’t try to find others.” Despite the stress ofrunning a campaign, Munger has remained focused on his teaching. In the middle of campaign season last month, he travelled to Australia as a keynote speaker at an international conference on recycling. He emphasized that the trip would be beneficial to his teaching. “I can’t take time off to run [my campaign]. I’m teaching classes,” he said.

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program site in New Delhi, Schoenfeld said. The president will dine withMalvinder andShivinder Singh, two prominent Indian businessmen and Fuqua graduates, who will also serve on the New Delhi site’s advisory board, Schoenfeld added. “University leaders will get very valuable input on the program, plans for the best way to position the program and also a number of other initiatives as well,” Schoenfeld said, noting the Nicholas School’s research agreement with the Tata Energy and Resources Institute and Duke University Hospital System’s possible biomedical research partnerships. “This is more than just a single-purpose trip.” To prepare for his visit, Brodhead met Wednesday with 10 of the nearly 300 Indian-born graduate and undergraduate students who attend Duke, an on-campus foreign constituency upped only by China. Schoenfield said Duke aspires to be among the first choices of Indian students seeking an American education, and he added that the students Brodhead consulted noted that the University has considerable prestige in their homeland. “We have a very strong brand name that realistically is not as übiquitous as Harvard’s, for sure, but certainly is much higher than other universities’,” Schoenfeld said. “This trip will definitely enhance Duke’s visibility in India, but it’s a large country and we still have a lot of work to do.”

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quired to come to the U.S. today. McCrory disagreed with Monger’s posi-

the University and DPD is not always geared toward punishing students. “We want to know if a student has been convicted of a crime just as much as if a student has been accused of a crime,” Graham said. “If a student has been robbed, we want to get them resources and make sure that case is being followed up on. We don’t just want to know about a student with beer in a red cup.” Students with beer in red cups, however, constituted a significant proportion of the total number of students reported last year —half of all infractions were alcoholrelated, 13 percent more than the five-year average. Bryan said he finds the 98 students

The Perdue campaign could not immediately be reached for comment. The candidates’ discussion was usually cordial and the two men often agreed with each other, but the debate also had some rather intense exchanges. One was over the issue of immigration. “There are lot of people who want to become Americans but they are not allowed to. We need a high wall, but we also need a wide gate,” Munger said. Munger told the audience that he was the descendant of immigrants, noting that his ancestors had immigrated to Connecticut in 1651 without needing the forms re-

tion on the issue. McCrory said he would ask the federal government for money to build a detention center for illegal immigrants who are arrested. The center would hold immigrants until they could be deported. Monger rejected the idea of considering a human being “illegal,” calling this classification “inhumane” and “unjust.” The two men’s stances also differed on taxes. McCrory supports tax breaks for companies that will bring jobs to North Carolina. Munger opposes them. “If we pay a company to come to the state, then they are coming for the wrong reasons and they will leave,” Munger said. Munger also accused McCrory of rais-

“We don’t just want to know about a student with beer in a red cup.” Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander granted “amnesty” because they required evaluation by medical personnel —a fiveyear high—to be particularly alarming. In addition, a record-breaking 61 of those students were treated for alcohol-related injury or illness. “I don’t know if the number can be attributed to a greater number of students reaching out for help or if there’s greater incidence of binge drinking,” he said. Although the proportion of academic dishonesty cases remained consistent, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said she is concerned with the number of foreign students who have continued to be involved in these infractions, noting that 32 percent of the students involved in academic dishonesty last year were not U.S. citizens, compared to the fiveyear average of 19 percent before last year. Different cultural expectations may contribute to these reports of dishonesty, Wasiolek said, adding that she believes most of the cases stemmed from foreign students misunderstanding expectations at Duke. “I do know that from a cultural standpoint, there are a number of students from countries where they are much more accustomed to doing collaborative work than they are sometimes allowed to do here,” she said, adding that Duke plans to continue to work with foreign students on these issues. Overall, male students and freshmen represented the majority of disciplinary cases: Men were involved in 77 percent of cases, and freshmen were involved in 35 percent. Most students and instructors rated Duke’s disciplinary process as well above average, Wasiolek said in a statement Sept. 23.

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Gubernatorialcandidates Pat McCrory (left) and Michael Munger (right) debated Wednesday without Democrat Bev Perdue.The hour-long exchange focused on immigration, taxes and energy policy.

ing the sales tax while mayor of Charlotte to pay for various improvement projects, including the $250 million Charlotte Bobcats Arena—recendy renamed Time Warner Cable Arena—which opened in 2005. McCrory said he did not raise the sales tax,

but instead noted that the voters approved the increase when they passed a ballot measure. McCrory told The Chronicle after the debate that he would not support any ballot measures that would increase taxes. “Right now my goal is to reduce taxes,” he said. “I’m concerned that we might be facing a budget disaster. I don’t believe we should be raising taxes or increasing spending in the midst of the economic turmoil.” On energy, the candidates largely agreed on the need for increasing oil production and alternative energy. Munger, however, said he rejected the idea that government should interfere to help reduce prices. “What is this we?” Munger asked twice during the debate when questioned about limiting consumption of natural resources. “We need a policy, but individuals need to decide how much they will use. If the price of gas is $4.50 a gallon, then people will drive more fuel-efficient cars. If water is free, then you just leave the tap on.” Both candidates agreed that the political process needs to be more open to other parties, adding that they would be willing to invite the Green Party candidate and others to debate. “If you ask Coke and Pepsi how many sodas we need, two would be plenty,” said Munger, who was excluded from a WRALsponsored debate Sept.9. “But Coke and Pepsi don’t get to write their own anti-trust laws.” McCrory, Munger andPerdue are all expected to debate in Charlotte next week.

OPERATION from page 3 gathered from East Durham to the area around the University. “Since we have such little crime statistically here at Duke, it is hard to attribute a shift in crime to any one thing,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said.

“As we move into the next budget year, we will see how we can increase the budget to put more patrol cars on the streets.... But for now, we have limited resources.” Michael Woodard, Durham city councilman Despite a grim-looking future, it is possible that next year’s city budget will give more funding to Bull’s Eye, Woodard said. “As we move into the next budget year, we will see how we can increase the budget to put more patrol cars on the streets,” said Woodard. “But for now, we have limited resources.”

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Operation Bull's Eye has led to a decrease In violent crimes in a two-squaremile area of East Durham known for its high crime rates.

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of men, caught in the flood of Ibankeralites fleeing out ofWall Street into the promised land of milk, honey and employment among the consultants. And then didst the editor cry out, “My Lord, my Lord, why hast thou forsaken me?” And his managing editors laughed imperiously, perched from their comfortable positions, with offers from private equity firms and second-round interviews all around. But then did an angel of the Lord come to succor the editor, and didst say unto him, “Why wouldst thou wish to betray thy longstated disdain, nay hatred for consulting and sell out, you vile creature?” And the editor found peace, and then didst he begin to salivate at the prospect of unemployment and relaxation, and not working 80 hour weeks. And then did he muse on the other worthless hacks who worked for recess, and didst remember that even with a large head, liking Ryan Adams and a good deal of pretension he couldst find success, and perhaps even wrangle frivolous Duke Conversations invites. And then did he rejoice. —David Graham, editor

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MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. The flounder skids to a stop on the pavement and the crowd gasps. “Git ’er done,” an onlooker cries. It is the second round of the Flounder Fling. The pressure is on and emotions are running high. The competitor, a skinnyboy of about nine, looks squeamishly at the dead fish as it’s handed back to him for another go. He turns it over slowly, wrinkling his nose as the slimy, blood-stained body jiggles in his hands. In the back of the crowd, a woman hisses impatiently, “What is with thesekids who don’t like to touch dead fish?” Before she can get an answer, the boy hurls the flounder toward the bucket several feet ahead of him. With a loud squelch, it lands square in its target. Welcome to the 22nd annual North Carolina Seafood Festival. Walking through the gates is like an entering an alternate universe—the South. Not the New Jersey South. The real, old, rural, authentic South. Thousands have come before us, descending each October on this otherwise sleepy seaside town on the Crystal Coast to support the region’s burgeoning seafood industry and the local nonprofits that set up shop to peddle all saltwater-related products and paraphernalia. As we inched our way through the traffic coming into Morehead City Saturday, parking attendants from local churches—the Baptists, the Presbyterians, the Methodists—tried to entice us to their makeshift lots in the grass near the festival.

We take our chances with the Episcopalians, handing a crumpled $5 bill to an energetic elderly woman at the entrance.

A teenage volunteer directs the SUVs and Volvos to open spaces. “Reverend John says we can take one more over here!” Past the gates, local vendors hawk culinary absurdities such as shark bites—a more leathery brand of the chicken nugget—and crab balls, with the old artery-clogging favorites on stand-by—funnel cake, stacks of flounder and, of course, hush puppies. One booth devoted solely to hot sauce promises “100% PAIN” in botded form, for those so inclined. The faint of heart can take their spice disguised as dessert at the hot sauce ice cream booth down the street. Yet another booth is a chapel constructed completely of tarp serving up madeto-order butterfly potatoes and sweet tea by the gallon, with proceeds going to the local Presbyterian church. But the classiest culinary fare came from an inconspicuous booth bleeding Duke blue. There, a group of Blue Devils from the Duke chapter of the American Fisheries Society grilled kebabs of locally caught shrimp and veggies as an alternative to the festival’s typical fried fare. Our cholesterol-filled arteries felt at ease. At the Clam Jam stage, a trio of teenage girls in turquiose T-shirts serenaded festival-goers with hymns. But 10, the sun had begun its descent, and three hours of narrow country highways filled with stoplights awaited us on our way back to the Gothic Wonderland. At the exit, a pair ofConfederate flags flapped on the edge of a booth that sold “natural sea sponges”—scruffy orange scraps of the dried ocean plant. A tempting offer. But some things just don’t make sense outside ofMorehead City.

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here that I fell in love with classics like “She’s Electric” and “Morning Glory.” Unfortunately, the group’s latest effort, Dig Out Your SouL fails to provide such easy singalongs. While Oasis sticks to the guitar-based rock and Beades-esque vocals that made them big when we were young, the album has a darker, less innocent tinge than the upbeat and relatable (What’s the Story) Morning Gloty ?. It’s difficult to tell whether this newfound sound reflects the state of the world or just the state of a tired ’9os band—as one might infer when lead singer Noel Gallagher laments, “I’m tired. Come get me off the merry-go-round.” Despite die fact that the band seems to have lost the pop formula it perfected a decade ago, Dig does have its bright spots. Listeners will be pulled in by the flow of guitars on tracks like “The Turning” and “Falling Dc»vn.” Here, Oasis proves that although diey may never reproduce our childhood anthems, they are still relevant. The chorus on the first ereLightfling,” sh&toVgV single, “Thfe

ativity. It’ll grow on you, but it’s no “Don’t Look Back.” With a uniform tempo and feel throughout, Dig Out Your Soul’s 12 tracks blend together, making it hard for listeners to pick one to revisit over and over again, like we all did with “Wonderwall.” Maybe I need a few pints in me, but I’m not going to be paying in pounds to hear this one. —Sam Schlinkert

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ploys liberally. The mu§ic is rhythmic, with guitar strums and poundin pulses. First single “No One Does

It Like You” exemplifies the band’s sound. Hand daps and chimes mix in with supporting “oohs” forming a vivid background for Rossen’s words. The chorus—“But I tried so hard/No one does it like you”—is but one example of the many strong lines he delivers on the album. However, the vocals still rarely outshine the music, On songs like opener “In Ear Park,” twinkling and rapid acoustic guitar picking begins immediately and remains the primary focus. Acoustic sounds are used particularly effectively throughout, as is percussion. The band incorporates a wide variety of instruments, creating an engag-

ing, novel sound. For instance, standout “Waves of Rye” incorporates piano and electric guitar in the intro, before they abruptly fall off to showcase Rossen’s voice. The slow buildup back to the song’s initial energy is effective, with the piano and guitar being steadily reintroduced and peaking near the end. The pinnacle finds Rossen crooning, “Heaven is 3 ballroom/with high ceilings,” surrounded by a sea of riff and backing vocals, proof the band can do loud just as well as soft. The album does have a couple of songs that fall flat in their attempts to mix up the formula. “Therapy Car Noise,” though short, merely manages to distract from the otherwise cohesive dynamic with a more abstract sound. But this aberration does little to detract from the otherwise pleasant experience of spending time i fl Ear Park. CJhHHHI —Kevin

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GIRL TALK: AMERICA’S COOLEST NERD that funky music, white Girl Talk, the Pittsburghhas a gift for showing Elton John. The former released his second album, Feed the Animals as a pay-what-youlike download, in June. The 14-track album samples more than 250 songs. In anticipation of his upcoming Cat’s Cradle performance, Gillis spoke with recess’ Kevin Lincoln. Gregg Cillis can play boy. Better known as based sample artist Lil Wayne his inner biomedical engineer

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Could you give me an idea about the creative process that you go through when you come up with a track, any track from Feed the Animals or Night Ripper? For both those albums, I built them as albums. So basically, I put them together as one piece ofmusic. The track separation at the end is somewhatarbitrary, almost an afterthought. Putting together the album as a whole, I spend just every day sampling little bits of music, cataloguing and chopping up samples, and then I just try out some different combinations. Occasionally, something sounds good to me that I feel like I can use in some way, and then I try to integrate that into my live show, where it’s all live sample triggering. If I come up with a little 30-second segment I like, I try to fit that into the set, take something out of the set, put the new thing in, so the live show is constantly evolving. I’m trying out new stuff all the time, changing it up the next week based on the response. And things slowly take shape, you know, this part should follow that part should follow that part, a lot of experimentation. And then eventually the music takes its own form. When I sit down to do an album, it’s like the whole thing is basically structured in my mind. For Feed the Animals, I knew exacdy how I was going to begin it and end it, and most of the combinations and a lot of the ideas were already solidified. It’s not very intuitive for me; it’s trial and error. For instance, most of the samples I sitdown at home and isolate never get used. I’d say over 75 percent of the samples that I worked with in the two years prior to Night Ripper are not on Night Ripper. It’s almost—l don’t want to say rare —but not as common to find samples that work. On Feed the Animals, there’s 300 samples.

It wasn’t like I sat down and picked 300 songs I wanted to use, in order to get those 300 samples I probably sampled a couple thousand songs. You went to Case Western Reserve University and studied biomedical engineering. Is Cleveland as boring as people say it is? Cleveland is very raw and exciting. I live in Pittsburgh, I’m from Pittsburgh, so technically you’re supposed to hate Cleveland. You know, rival city, I hate the Browns definitely, but Cleveland as a city is pretty wild. There was a very good underground music scene while I was there. And then of course, Bone Thugs ’n’ Harmony are from there, there’s a nice hip-hop scene that’s always been going on. Cleveland’s cool. I think there’s a lot of schools where you get attached to your college area and I definitely went out and played shows and attended a lot of shows in Cleveland, but Case Western is a completely separate world from Cleveland. The campus is just a very academic, kind of nerdy college, which is the opposite of its direct surroundings. I had a fantastic time there. I think a lot of college is who you run into, and I had a lot of good friends who helped shape the whole Girl Talk thing, especially in the early years. I had a good time in college. Do you have any good stories about ridiculous things happening at your shows? I’ve had multiple shows where people have had sex on stage. All of those situations have gone down like, people not really trying to be in the spodight having sex, just a lot of people on stage are getting into it to the point where they’re having sex on stage. That’s happened three or four times in the past year. I’ve seen lots of nudity, I’ve knocked my front tooth out at two separate shows, so I’ve had shows where

I’ve been performing toothless before. Lots of people dancing in costumes. I wish that would catch on more, even. I feel like when I travel to a city I can usually only get there once a year, a college once a year, and it’s definitely a festive atmosphere, so I see no reason why people shouldn’t just be dressed up at every show. I think if every show was treated like Halloween, it would be excellent. How is playing a festival different from getting in a club with a couple hundred people, or even a living room with 40 people? There’s ups and downs to both sides. For me, the heart and soul of what I do is playing in a cramped venue with a lot of people around, but those shows are also very intensive. I’ve played many shows where I haven’t been drinking or anything and I’ve vomited straight up after the show just from being exhausted. Also at the club shows I feel some degree of pressure to be able hang out with everyone. I have a standard in my mind of what the show should be like. I want to perform to a certain degree, I want to have a certain amount of interactivity with people on stage and me getting in the audience. It’s tough when someone’s paying a concert ticket just to see you and you’re headlining. Whereas with a festival, it’s a bit more like a walk in the park as far as performance-wise, because you can chill out a little bit more. At festivals, you can’t be concerned with interacting with every human being. The festivals are actually really easy on my mind; it’s fun, the set’s going to be abbreviated. It’s a big party really, these festivals. Girl Talk perform Monday, Oct. 13 at Cat’s Cradle, 300 E. Main St. in Carrboro. The show begins at 8:30 pm. Tickets are sold out.

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Showing that love can help heal a child after experiencing tragedy, the Love after Loss exhibit at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy portrays Ethiopian children finding new families after being or-

phaned by HIV/AIDS.

Artist Elena Rue, a member of the Louis Hine Documentary Fellows Program who studied at the Center for Documentary Studies in 2001, spent nine months in Ethiopia in 2006 through the program. The Hine Fellows program operates out of the Center for Documentary Studies and allows students with an interest in documentary studies to come to Durham for a year and take courses or travel for work. Rue, a 2001 graduate of Kenyon College, chose the latter in order to explore adoption in Ethiopia. “My older brother was adopted from

Thailand, so I’m very interested in adoption and photographing adoptive families,” Rue said. In Ethiopia, Rue worked with the Hope for Children program, which was created in 2001 to provide children affected by HIV/ AIDS a new and loving home. The organization “supports kids whose families have been affected but aren’t able to stay where they were,” she said. To capture the process and the livelihood of the adoption program, Rue became fluent in the local language and immersed herself in the culture to gain a more personal perspective. Now lining the walls of the Sanford Building, each photo is a window into a reality half a world away. There is sadness in the photos, but as the title suggests, there is a greater presence of love SEE LOVE LOSS ON PAGE

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lowed HurricaneKatrina. “[The water] represents a heavy shroud that’s on top of us, a vast ocean that we have to fight through every day,” Waddell said. “It’s is a metaphor- for a struggle that I think everybody at some point has to face.” She adds that although the art deals with a fictional story, it is still “hugely relevant whether you’re in the [Durham] neighborhood or at Duke.” Brooklyn-based Olujimi’s The Clouds Are After Me uses similar forces of nature to comment on the issue of crime in American society. The collection consists of a series of small paintings on vellum, a medium that appealed to him because of its fragility and imperfections. “Vellum moves and becomes wavy—it’s curved and buckled and warped,” he said. “That’s what I love about it.” The warped quality of the material complements the chaotic aspect ofcrimes. His paintings consist of “Wanted” and “Reward” posters with ominous, hovering clouds symbolizing the “antagonists.” To Olujimi, clouds depict the uncertainty and doubt pervasive in our culture. “No one really knows the true size or shape of a cloud,” he explains. “It’s an illusive invader. I tried to show that the fears, causes and answers [relating to crimes] are cloudy at best.” Even so, he added that it was difficult to fully explain the pieces, and he encouraged others to see the art themselves. “Whatever you [are expecting], it probably won’t look like that,” Olujimi said.

Branch Gallery downtown is enveloped in the art of the surreal this month. Its two fall exhibits, local artist StacyLynn Waddell’s water/weight and Kambui Olujimi’s The Clouds Are After Me, both deal with fantastic natural elements that serve as metaphors for harsher realities. Waddell’s artwork illustrates the story of a young girl who tries to escape from the bottom of the ocean. The exhibit consists of three parts, each a stage in the protagonist’s journey. First, large teardrops of collaged and burnt muslin feature tortured sentences such as “I am not the enemy,” “I will never tell” and “I knew it all along.” Waddell defies the traditional approach of simply painting the sentences; instead, she singed the letters through the fabric. “I was trying to find some method of working that I feltarticulated a lot of things I wanted to say about history, the landscape and my particular identity,” she said. “When you burn something, you break it down and it becomes something else. It’s a form of spiritualism and ritualism.” The next part, in which Waddell used her own hair to form a ladder, demonstrates the girl’s attempt to escape. “She shaves her head and builds this ladder,” Waddell explained. “But it’s still a futile attempt. It signals the sacrifices we have to make.” The exhibit finishes with a wall-sized piece called “Make Me a Sanctuary.” The work shows an ocean comprised of strips of overlapping muslin and canvas, accented with other materials like pipe cleaners, fabric and glitter. This culmination focuses on water, for Waddell a representation of conflict and tension. She said she was inspired

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tion and points-of-view. Rather than leaving cliffhangers, these transitions leave the audience confused or worse—bored. For all the hype surrounding it, Body ofLies is too anticlimactic to warrant attention. —Braden Hendricks

and relief. One example is a photo of a young child reuniting with his blind grandmother after his parents died of AIDS. As she traces the lines of his face, the contact provides mutual happiness and comfort that is readily apparent.

A reason for the exhibit’s location in Sanford is the Institute’s partnership with the Louis Hine Fellows program. “There has been a history [at Sanford] of looking at policy from a number of different perspectives and understanding [that] writing, photography, audio and film are other ways of engaging the world,” said Alex Harris, professor of the ractice of public policy and founder and creative director of the Hine Fellows Program. The CDS was actually conceived through an old series at Sanford focusing on documentary photography. Exhibits such as Rue’s help keep that tradition alive. “While the work of policy makers affect people on a macro scale, documentary photography brings out the personal side, showing how public policies affect individuals, families and communities,” wrote Director of Communications for the Institute Karen Kemp in an e-mail. As far as reaching an audience with the power to change the present, Sanford Institute is an ideal place since the students exposed to these photographs may be the ones influencing those very children through their work in public policy. “Documentary work is so amazing because it makes you think about the actual people instead of statistics,” Rue said. “I think it’s neat for people working at the Sanford Institute and the students there to be reminded of the individuals who are affected by global issues.”

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City ofEmberis proof that Bill Murray’s age has hurt the quality of the roles he chooses. Ember, the titular, post-apocalyptic, underground city, is on die brink of collapse after 200 years as mankind’s last home. The city’s lone power source, an enormous generator, has begun to fail, and the food stores have nearly dried up. With these losses, the only hope for the citizens of Ember rests upon two children—Lina Mayfleet (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon Harrow (Harry Treadaway) who set out to unlock ancient mysteries about the city and help save it. The child actors perform well despite the limitations of the script, but supporting actors Tim Robbins and Bill Murray are wasted. Their roles are small and—particularly Murray’s—seem unnatural at times. Unfortunately for the audience, this children’s-book-tumed-movie fails to have a plot that lives up to the headlining actors. The story lacks any tension as cliches crawl out of every gutter, and the entire scenario feels contrived. Additionally, the conclusion will leave the audience disappointed. Despite these shortcomings, the film succeeds as a flawed but entertaining children’s movie. Murray’s performance in this film provides him with something other than the Cubs’ playoff woes to be depressed about. —Caleb Seeley

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Moss’ scary, spin Without stars, Blue Devils serve scores aces look forward to new era VOLLEYBALL

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Rachael

Moss has a serve that few can emulate and even more fear. Standing several feet behind the baseline, the junior outside hitter unleashes a deadly jump serve that zips through the air at more than 60 miles per hour, over the net and straight onto the opponent’s side of the court.

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California nalive is among iNoteOOOk the B iue Dev ils’ leaders in passing and hitting, the gem in her arsenal is undoubtedly her serve. “It’s pretty much been my secret weapon and my identity for volleyball. It’s who I am,” Moss said. “It evolved over time, especially when I started lifting weights for club, and it definitely got more powerful.” And while a key component to her serve is strength, the bigger factor to its effectiveness may be the spin she developed from another sport —tennis. Moss’ first passion was on the grass, as she competed for 12 years before giving up the sport her sophomore year of high school. Borrowing a technique from her tennis serve, Moss erew,.

ated a volleyball anomaly by incorporating the topspin that causes the ball to drop direcdy in front of the net, something practically unheard of. “It was completely different from the other girls my age because everyone else was float serving. But I played tennis and I had the whole routine, only substituted with a volleyball,” Moss said. “So I would bounce like a tennis serve, and I’d take the volleyball behind my head and snap it. would ma. this crazy sp and it woul in and we we ‘Whoa, it’s in: Much lik> feet pitch o throw, it’s a 1 routine wi volleyball s And for Mo; making on small erro like a low shorter ste A send the bal into the net of over i' T

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It was supposed to be the perfect season, and Duke was supposed to be the perfect team. Then itall came crashing down in a one-goal loss in the national semifinals to, of all teams, Johns Hopkins—the same squad that had eliminated Duke from the playoffs by the same margin two out of the three previous years, same Offseasoil squad Duke had decimat.t IMotebOOlv ed 17-6 one month earlier. Following what many in the lacrosse world called the biggest upset in the sport’s history over one of the best teams in the sport’s history, the Blue Devils were forced to trudge off the field with their heads hung low, and the Blue Jays celebrating all around them. Again. So it’s tough to blame three of the team’s key players—forwards Matt Danowski and Max Quinzani and goalie Dan Loftus—for the way they responded to some of the harsh, perhaps even rude, questions during the press conference immediately following their last contest in a Duke jersey. “I was sitting next to Dan Loftus. Someone said a fifth-year comment to him, and he almost *

Still hauntedby last year's one-goal loss in the national semifinal to Johns Hopkins, the Duke players have begun fall practices and are eager tostart anew this spring. And while there are obvi-

popped out ofhis seat and strangled that guy,” Quinzani said. “With the personnel we had in the past, people expected us to

team.

Now, with NCAA all-time leading scorer Danowski graduated and NCAA all-time leading goal-scorer Greer exercising his fifth-year option at Bryant, the Blue Devils reconvened for practice earlier this fall as a new

controversy over the NCAA’s decision to grant Duke’s players a fifth year of eligibility. In fact, with the Blue Devils ranked outside the preseason

ously challenges involved with overcoming the loss oflast year’s seniors, the biggest difference make the perfect season.... But they noticed, even relished, was having so much that we dealt the privacy afforded to them. No reporters asking questions with, I think [head coach John Danowski] handled that loss the about an alleged rape scandal. best that he could.” No journalists drumming up

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Duke responded to its second loss of the year in an unusual way. After falling 3-0 to No. 2 North Carolina Oct. 2, the Blue Devils decided to take some time off from practicwaKe team i ng p or vspast week has been as much about mental No. 11 recuperation as it has Duke been about physical THURSDAY, 7 p.m. fitness. Koskinen SItadium “That loss came at a perfect time,” head coach Robbie Church said. “It came in a week when we had only one game, so we were able to get away from it and concentrate more on academics.” Of the four days after the North Carolina game, No. 11 Duke (9-2-1, 1-1-1 in the ACC) only practiced Sunday. The Blue Devils’ typically practice every day but

ter losing last week, No. 11 Duke practiced only once in four days leading up toThursday's tiltwithWake Forest

Monday. They’re hoping the opportunity to relax

and refocus pays off against No. 15 Wake Forest (8-3, 1-2) Thursday at 7 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium. “We were really able to put the Carolina game behind us,” junior forward Kay Anne Gummersall said. “It was nice to have a couple days off—it was the first two-day break we had all year.” Gummersall and her teammates are approaching this week with revitalized confidence and heightened competitive spirit. The time off increased the intensity of the few practices the Blue Devils did have, Gummersall and Church said. And despite suffering its first shutout loss of the year to the Tar Heels, Duke has not been deflated. “I don’t see any lingering effects from Carolina,” Church said. “We’ve moved on. We have a great mindset right n0w.... Although SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE

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M. LACROSSE from page 7 top 10, there haven’t been any hounding reporters at all. “The past two years, first day of practice, you couldn’t even sit on the sidelines because there were so many cameras,” Quinzani said. “And it wasn’t about us. It was just about a swirling story that was really nice to write about.” “This year, it will just be lacrosse. Not like, Dyke Lacrosse and something else,” senior captain Ned Grotty said. “It’s been awesome, unbelievable.” Grotty said he’s never watched the film from last year’s semifinal, and he doesn’t know of any players who have. It’s taken him a long time to get over the loss.

“This year, it will be just lacrosse. Not like, Duke Lacrosse and something else. It’s been awesome, unbelievable/’

Ned Crdtty

But with the 2008 season over and preparation for the 2009 campaign underway, die team is ready to move on, which is why Danowski decided he won’tgo over the film with the players like he had the season before. “To do it again this year, I don’t know if that would help us or not,” Danowski said. “We’re just going to try to let it go and move forward.” Without the firepower ofDanowski and Greer, the Blue Devils have several holes and are searching for some players to fill them.Danowski said he’s been experimenting with different lineups, shifting people around from one position to another to find something that clicks. For the players, though, one of the biggest differences has been the increased emphasis on justbeing a team. “If a game’s close, we can’t be like, ‘OK,

Having lost two of the sport's best players, theBlue Devils look to avoid a rebuilding season with a new group of stars, led by senior co-captain Ned Crotty (above). we’ve got this play for Matt, and he’s going to shoot it from the top, and it’s going to go in,’” Quinzani said. “We can’t expect free goals. We’re going to have to cater around a lot more team ball. Every play, we can’t expect one of our stars to make a play.” Last year, several team members relied on the two attackmen too much sometimes, feeling they had to get them the ball in certain situations even if the circumstances weren’t right, Crotty said. Now, the team can operate in a more balanced fashion and without as much stress. “It won’t be Duke and then Dino and Zack,” Crotty said. “It’ll just be Duke.” “Sometimes, it seemed like Zack would always get at least seven goals [in a game],” Quinzani said. “Then there was so much pressure on him to do that in the playoffs. As a team, we don’t have players to justpile onto their shoulders. The pressure is off a lot of guys, we’re spreading out the pressure

and people can be a lot more relaxed.” And the Blue Devils might not be the only ones relaxing, which is exactly what they’re hoping for. The players are assessing their low preseason ranking as a sign that the nation is underestimating them, a far cry from the last few years when they had to play every game with a massive target on their backs. Danowski said an intrasquad scrimmage scheduled for Oct. 18 should help him flesh out some things, but he’s already encouraged by what he has seen on both sides of the field. One thing that is certain, though, is the way opposing defenses will attempt to hinder Duke’s offense. “Every team’s defense was ‘Shut down Dino and shut down Zack and let the other four guys do whatever they want,’” Crotty said. “Obviously, that won’t be the case this year. We’re going to be a little different, but we’re going to be fine. With the guys that

we have and the coaches we have, they’ll figure stuff out.” No matter how the team prepares for next season, the likelihood of another 18win regular season full ofrunaway blowouts seems small. But some players are welcoming that because of the lessons learned—lessons that may come in handy during a one-goal game in the playoffs. “Not that we want to lose a lot of games, but we may drop a few,” Quinzani said. “But we’re not worried about that because we do not have the pressure to be that perfect team and beat every team by 10 goals and go out there and just destroy teams. We have a very tough road ahead of us, we’re ready to tackle it, we’re going to take a few on the chin and we’re ready to bounce back from that. I think that’s going to be a great experience. “I’m just excited to play Hopkins

again.”

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feet, she spins it with her hands as she focuses on her target area. And then there’s the slap. After being instructed to utilize the slap as a developmental tool to create better contact on the ball, Moss incorporated it into her routine. And Duke fans have taken note, clapping along with each serve. “I really like it,” Moss said. “I try not to smile. Usually I just try to maintain the game face, but I really love it. It gives off this vibe of solidarity with fans against the other team.” The tennis influence is still evident in some aspects of her serve, specifically her toss. Rather than toss and hit with her right hand, she uses her left. But the differences from typical jump servers haven’t hindered the junior’s dominance from behind the line. After leading the team in aces last season, Moss is well on her way to repeating that feat, having already totaled 26 this year. Of course, the aces come at a cost. Although there are obvious benefits to the dominant serve, there’s a reason few players primarily use a jump serve. With great power from the jump serve comes a greater risk for making a mistake, something that Moss knows all too well. “There was actually a big issue last year with serving errors,” Moss said. “It turned out I had to keep the serve in more, which put a lot of pressure on my serve. I had to

the week will be challenging, it is one that we are rested and mentally prepared for.” The Blue Devils will need to be ready against the Demon Deacons, who have not lost to Duke since 2005. The last three contests between the teams have been decided by one goal or less, and the Blue Devils do not expect anything different this time around. “The Wake Forest game is always really close,” Gummersall said. “They’re a great team, but we’ll be ready to play them. If we play our game, no one can stay with us.” That has especially been the case for Duke’s home games against Wake Forest. The Blue Devils are 6-0-1 all-time against the Demon Deacons in Koskinen, but the teams have not played in Durham since 2005—not coincidentally, the last time Duke won. “For the last [two] years, we have had to play them in Winston-Salem, which did not always work out in our favor,” Church said. “It’s nice to have them back in Durham, where we have played well most of the year.” The Blue Devils are 6-1-1 at home this season, and they will look to rebound from their first loss on their own turf with a much-needed win in conference play. And after last year’s 1-0 overtime loss to Wake Forest in the ACC quarterfinals, Duke has a little extra incentive tonight. “We haven’t forgotten about the loss,” Gummersall said. “It’s revenge time.”

Using some of her tennis skills, Rachael Moss has developed a deadly topspin serve on the volleyball court. deal with being confident. So for a while I would stay down and have people come up to me after and ask, ‘Where’s your serve? Why aren’t you jump serving?’ “This year I’m more confident. I’ll go after it every dme unless the score is tight.” But Moss’s serve isn’t so secret anymore. Opponents have become more

aware of the junior’s power as teams scout her specifically. Not that it matters to Moss. “The coaches have warned me about scouting,” Moss said. “I’ll be smart with shots, but I’ll take whatever comes to me. And no matter what happens, I’ll just bring it again.”

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rial support run up against the limit of its effectiveness? How much more can it do? This campus is far from LGBT-friendly. But it seems that the fault for this environment lies not with the structures set up to support LGBT students but rather with us, the student body. This is a Southern university. Our campus is heavily heterosexual and heteronormative. The Greek system, with its date functions and mixers, dominates the social life. Given these facts, it is easier to see why LGBT students feel that they have a hard time fitting in and why many never

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but instead an unreflective heteronormativity. Student initiatives that recognize or relate to the LGBT center do exist on campus. They may be rare, but they are excellent and admirable. But the acceptance of LGBT life is growing. The efforts that the Center for LGBT Life put forward to make itself visible on campus should be acknowledged and congratulated.

I sing of thee, Oprah Winfrey. You are a shining beacon of daytime television and a selfless philanthropist —you gave Dr. Phil his own show. When I read Monday’s cover story in The Chronicle, “Oprah to speak for graduation,” the first thought I had was; Why is Duke reporting on someone else’s commencement ceremony? Could it be that ' juke Duk. University had actually secured a speaker with an IQ score higher than 12? The answer was a surprising “Oh, _

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Its emerging presence on campus will continue to push the student body to reflect on its heteronormativity and to become more accepting. But questions of sexuality are by their nature personal, private, ingrained into student life and ungovernable by fiat, and so change at this point has to come from the base. An LGBT task force can reform the structure of the University and can bring awareness to its subject. It has also come a long way in recent years. Now it has to wait for the general atmosphere here to become more LGBT-friendly. That final task is up to us.

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giate obscurity. Oprah is a fantastic choice as a graduation speaker for so many reasons. People constantly say things like, “Oprah is the most powerful woman in the world” and “Oprah is the queen of all media.” Well, the truth is that these comments are gross understatements. Oprah is actually more powerful than any of us realize. Everybody loves Oprah—young women, old women, really old women. No one ever states publicly that they hate Oprah. That would be like announcing that you don’t find puppies cute or you can’t stand sandwiches. It’s literally unheard of. Oprah is the epitome of übiquity. She’s become so well-known and omnipresent that people now refer to her with just one name like many other distinguished figures, such as Moses, Gandhi and Paris. When I googled the letter “O,” the first thing that came up was a link to Oprah’s magazine, “O.” The second thing that came up was the Wikipedia article for “Oxygen.” Apparently, Ms. Winfrey’s publication is more important than the air we breathe. This confirms many womens’ belief that they cannot survive without their Oprah. As I mentioned earlier, Oprah is a generous donor. In 2004, Duke gave every member of the freshmen class a brand new iPod. Two *

weeks later Oprah gave every member of her studio audience a brand new car... each filled with an iPhone that hadn’t even been invented yet. In addition, Oprah has tremendous authority in the publishing world. She could mention some Duke professor’s boring research paper and it would immediately skyrocket to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list. Last year, Oprah endorsed a self-help book called “The Secret.” The basic idea is that if you hope really hard that something great will happen to you, the universe will listen and it will happen. Oprah said this method helped her lose lots of weight—in addition to having a personal trainer and Bally’s Total Fitness in her guest house—and millions of people bought the book. Apparently, the real “secret” is that people are very gullible. Oprah has tremendous political influence as well. No other woman has convinced so many people to vote for Obama... except for maybe Sarah Palin. When Oprah said on her program that she was going to stop eating beef, the Texas beef industry sued her because they felt her statement would hurt their profits. I don’t even need to make a joke about this one—their lawsuit was pure baloney. But seriously, there’s only one group of people who should be upset with the announcement of Oprah as the graduation speaker: the Class of 2010. How will my class ever be able to top the most influential woman since that virgin, Mary? Next year is going to be such a let down after Oprah. Oh, we got the Dalai Lama to come? Boring Duke brought back Abraham Lincoln from the dead to speak? He's so four score and five minutes ago. My class is going to need someone with unparalleled gravitas and insight. We might need two or even three people to measure up to this year’s speaker. (No, I’m not suggesting the Jonas Brothers as many of you may be

thinking.) I just don’t know what we’re going to do. Perhaps if I hope really hard for another great speaker, the universe will listen and we’ll find someone just as amazing as you, Oprah. David Distenfeld is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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letterstotheeditor Facts do matter Ade Sawyer’s OcL 3 column, “Dumb it down” chose to recite Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign talking points instead of objectively assessing the records of the presidential candidates. Sawyer says it is “odd... to expect ‘change’ from a candidate” who has voted with President George W. Bush “90 percent of the time.” But that statistic deceptively refers to senate procedural votes, which draw party-line votes. By that measure, Obama has voted with Nancy Pelosi 97 percent of the time. Anyone who has been following politics from before this general election campaign knows Sen. John McCain is anything but Bush’s third term. McCain was a critic of Bush’s Iraq strategy as early as 2003. He excoriated a 2005 Bush energy bill containing billions in subsidies for oil companies, supports an official ban on torture which the Bush administration has opposed and prominently opposed Bush’s 2003 prescription drug benefit legislation. This is in addition to differing views on climate change and environmental policy, stem cell research, ethanol subsidies and U.S. nuclear strategy, amongother issues. The Arizona Senator is a moderate Republican and a fiercely independent one at that The nonpartisan National Journal finds McCain voted conservatively 59.4 percent of the time between 2001 and 2006, putting him squarely among the Senate’s centrists. Perhaps no senator has a more prominent record of bipartisan efforts that have rankled members of his own party, on topics including immigration, campaign finance reform, and fuel economy standards. Obama, by contrast, is the most liberal senator in The National Journal’s 2007 ranking, voting liberally 95.5 percent of the time. His running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, ranked third most liberal in 2007, voting liberal 94.2 percent of the time.

Independent and moderate voters frequendy complain that they lack a candidate who understands their views. Now they have one in McCain. Only McCain has the record of bipartisanship to back up claims that he will overcome the Washington gridlock. Vikram Srinivasan Chair, Duke College Republicans

Trinity 10 Why I’ll help you expatriate In response to Brian Steiner’s OcL 8 guest commentary, ‘Why I am this close to expatriating”: Brian, expatriate. I’ll help with the paperwork. You are too much an intellectual to survive here. In election season in particular, the unwashed masses—cough, Republicans—always betray their pathetic intelligence. (Guns and bitterness are involved somehow too.) Let’s sample an internal monologue: I’m worried about high energy costs and socialized healthcare, but Sarah Palin winked at me. She’s so hot. Go McCain-Palin! Fortunately your assessment ofmy future leaders—since you’ll be leaving, I hope —is more nuanced. You watched the vice presidential debate. You observed that Joe Biden seems to know things; Palin, not so much. Wisely, you presented zero well-researched reasons to support either ticket. Instead, you philosopher-king, you prioritized style over substance, trite personal insults over insightful policy analysis. Oh. Wait Isn’t that what you just accused us dumb McCain voters of doing?

Abby Alger

Trinity ’O9

The financial tragedy

crisis in five acts: Act I A balding man in a light brown suit sits on a park bench, reading a newspaper. To his right sits a little girl holding a balloon. Que strong, quick-voiced narrator. “The uncertainty of getting a home loan made Paul irritable.” Paul pops the balloon “Then he wentto Washington Mutual.” Paul straightens and smiles widely. “Thanks to their flexible lendingrules,” a banker makes a motion with 013.(1 gI*OSS his hands as if he is bending a bar. “Paul got a quick apsmile proval. Now he’s always in a great mood.” The mood didn’t last long. Washington Mutual was seized on Sept. 25 by the federal government. JPMorgan Chase purchased most of the company. It was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. There were quite a number of Pauls out there in the world. The Pauls wanted to buy homes, but there was no way they could afford them. So the Pauls sat on park benches and popped children’s balloons. A rich man sat in a board room with other rich men and women. These people noticed the housing market was doing quite well. So they did what they were best at; making money. They bought mortgages, chopped them and diced them, twirled them around in a magic blender and came out with securities that spread the risk of mortgages over a wider number of people. Now banks and financial firms could be risky. Not risque like the sex parties at the Interior Department, but perhaps even worse. These rich men and women of the financial sector were known as Wallstreets. Act II The Pauls received an answer to their prayers through unending streams of mail and television ads that seemed to be offering homes for ridiculously low prices. “Low rates? “Small monthly payments!” Get the home of your dreams? So the Pauls bought homes. Low rates were locked for one, two or even &ree years. But when these years passed, the Pauls noticed the wterest rates shooting up, their monthly payments increasing and their money depleting. But they had homes. Families sat in their living rooms watching the television too. Unlike the Pauls, these families already owned homes and were paying off their mortgages. But they saw commercials telling them to refinance their homes—“get money out now,” .

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“consolidate bills”—all sorts of lovely goodies were promised to them if they would just refinance. The interest rates would be lower for a while, and even if the rates did go up later, housing prices were always increasing. Many of these families, the Mainstreets, “tapped” theirhome equity and refinanced. And all was good. Act in But homevalues stopped going up. The Pauls couldn’t pay the bills. The Wallstreets tried to squeeze out all the payments they couldbefore foreclosing homes. The Mainstreets couldn’t afford the new rates and approached default at an alarming pace. Companies that insured these mortgages, thinking that they would never default, couldn’t pay out the money they owed. Unfortunately, unlike the Interior Department big shots, the Wallstreets spent their riches not on parties but on trying to make even more money. The Wallstreets borrowed a lot ofmoney and put it to use in themarket When the market took even a small unexpected hit, this money began to disappear quickly. The Pauls, Mainstreets and Wallstreets were all tanking. But the Wallstreets were most famous, so they went to a group of other suited men and women to whom they had given money in the good old days. This other group was called theLawmakers. Act TV The Lawmakers debated and argued and stayed up late. They voted once, and they voted again. They gave the Wallstreets more money and brought the failed Wallstreets in to scold them in front of television cameras so the Pauls and the Mainstreets could see the faces ofgreed. Another group tuned in to watch too. They had neither tried to buy homes they couldn’t afford, nor refinance their homes to make a quick buck. They didn’t gamble on borrowed money and weren’t broadcast on television. This group was known as the Middles. But when the Lawmakers gave money to the Wallstreets to buy the “bad” mortgages of the Pauls and the Mainstreets, the Lawmakers were actually giving away the Middles’ money too. The foreign relatives of the Wallstreets were suffering similarfates in their lands as well. It was a time of great fear. The Lawmakers continue to bicker to this day. ActV Currently, several options are on the table: give the Wallstreets even more money; force the Wallstreets, Mainstreets and Pauls to suffer the market’s wrath; give the Mainstreets money or knock down the Pauls’ houses. Either way, there’s going to be a lot of kids with popped balloons. Had Grossis a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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I was little and used to play sports, one of my big criteria for whether I had fun was how dirty I got. Even when I got older and played baseball in high school, I used to revel in how my skin turned two shades lighter when I scrubbed all of the dust offafter a game. I’m pretty sure that I decided to play catcher because it offered the best opportunity to play in the dirt. The counterpoint to all of that is how miserable I used to be when I came home from a game with my clloX fcUlcirofl uniform completely gubemaculum dean. Being the dirtball that I am, the only reason that my uniform was ever totally clean was that I didn’t get to play in the game at all. On my surgery rotation I found out that I hadn’t changed at all. The best surgeries were the ones where I got my uniform dirty—the dirtier the better. If I got a little bit of blood on my hands, then it meant that I got to put my hands into the body and do something. IfI got blood on my gown, then I was standing in the line offire when an artery or a vein was divided. With luck, I got to put pressure on it and stop the bleeding. And if I could somehow get blood on my shoe covers, then I was in pig heaven, because that meant I was holding onto something big and bloody for a long time. But wheneverI left surgery totally clean, I was totally bummed. No matter how cool or unique or technically challenging the surgery might have been, I felt empty, ifI didn’t get dirty, I used to think, I might as well have not even been wearing the uniform. So basically, I’m still a five-year-old. I probably would’ve been perfectly happy if the surgeons had just given me a box of (sterile, of course) finger paints while they did the operation. One of the surgeons even asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. (I almost said “quarterback for the Redskins” but then I caught myself.) But that’s kind of what this whole year is about, I think. Of course, there are lofty goals and responsibilities, like learning clinical medicine, taking care of patients, not contaminating the sterile field in the operating room, attempting to prove to real doctors that you’re smart enough to actually be one of them one day and avoiding emotionally crippling embarrassing moments.

(I’m in constant fear of walking into a patient’s room and having to ask about the people they have sitting in there with them. Sister? Wife? Mother? Exwife? Mistress? Girlfriend? Daughter? The possibilities are endless and I haven’t found a good way to ask that question. The room is generally dark and I usually show up at 5 a.m. when people aren’t exacdy at their best. I’m considering spending some time at the Carrabba’s on 15-501 trying to guess people’s relationships with each other.) Mostly though, the clinical years ofmedical school seem to be about playing doctor. I walk around examining patients and wearing my white coat. I get to see things like heart transplants and breast reductions and proctoscopies. Sometimes the patients even ask me questions, and about 6 percent of the time I can actually answer them. Meanwhile, I’m essentially free of important responsibilities like making life-and-death decisions for patients or determining whether or not to cut something during a surgery. It’s all just a big game for me. My only real task is attempting to learn, and if I show up and pay attention, then I’ve pretty much accomplished that. Of course, it’s extraordinarily frustrating how little I know compared to how much I need to know eventually, and it’s even more frustrating to go eight weeks without having any type ofevaluation to let me know whether I’m meeting even basic competence levels, and it’s suboptimal to work 100 hours in a single week, but basically I’m just playing doctor. Which is pretty sweet, even when I can’t get my uniform dirty. Alex Fanaroff, Trinity 'O7, is a second-year medical student. His column runs every other Thursday.

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