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The debate Wednesday night between Harold Ford, chair of the Democratic Leadership Council, and Michael Steele, chair of a* Republican Political Action Committee, GOPAC, seemed more often a consensus than a debate between the two political leaders on policy issues.

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Director of Financial Aid Jim Belvin was showered with awards at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens during his retirement party Wednesday, and the establishment of an endowment in his name ensures that his contributions to the University will continue to be remembered after his departure. More than 100 friends, co-workers and former students whom he had influenced and worked with donated money to create the James Belvin Jr. Scholarship Fund which was announced by President Richard Brodhead. When matched by a challenge grant, the scholarship endowment totals $250,000. “I never imagined an honor like this would come my way,” Belvin said. “It is quite a capstone to a wonderful career.... It’s awesome.” The announcement came as a surprise to Belvin, but that was not the only award he received during the celebration. Hope Williams, president of North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, awarded him with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine—the highest civilian honor offered by North Carolina. “Being director offinancial aid is one of thosejobs in a university central to its mission but invisible to many of thosewho most benefit from it,” Provost Peter Lange said. “This is even more the case when the incumbent is a man of quiet skill and commitment.” Belvin has spent the past 38 years at Duke, with 32 of those as financial aid di—

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Notably, Belvin has worked to give financial assistance to more than 30,000 students to attend Duke, according to a University statement. “We have had a huge growth in diversity and there is no way that we would have the growth and diversity at Duke without the kind offinancial aid program that Jim has managed,” Lange said. Belvin has been responsible for federal student aid and the University’s student loan office, and worked on the financial aid enrector.

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For years, students have likened the Gothic architecture ofWest Campus to Hogwarts, the dazzlingly magical school of witchcraft and wizardry made famous by Harry Potter. But it’s no longer just the stony buildings that help draw parallels between Duke and J.K Rowling’s iconic institution. Quidditch—the wizarding community’s most popular form ofrecreation—is the newest sport on campus. Over the past few weeks, passersby have stopped to stare as a group of about 12 freshmen congregate on East Campus Quadrangle and toss a slighdy deflated volleyball through hula hoops mounted on poles —all while clutching brooms between their thighs. Freshman MaliaLehrer is spearheading

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hancements that were approved by the Board ofTrustees in December 2007. The initiative, which reduces parental contributions and alters loan structure to help more families, is estimated to have already benefited 2,500 students, according to the University statement “It has been my honor to have you be the financial aid director during our Financial Aid Initiative,” Brodhead told Belvin during the ceremony. “I think your

efforts to prepare aspiring Duke players for participation in the Intercollegiate Quidditch World Cup, a tournament that began when Middlebury College defeated Vassar College’s visitin the first intercollegiate Muggle Quidditch match last fall. The rules of Quidditch have been necessarily altered for Muggles. Instead of flying on broomsticks, players run across the field with brooms held firmly between their legs. Dodgeballs act as the violent Bludgers that zoom around knocking players to the ground, and the Snitch —the elusive gold ball with wings whose capture ends the game—is SEE

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Pakistan asks for economic help

Evangelist accused of polygamy

TEXARKANA, Ark.—A federal magistrate called Pakistan sought A ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Tony Alamo a flight risk Wednesday as he ordered help from the Internationa! Monetary Fund on the evangelist held without bail until his trial on Wednesday to avoid defaulting on billions of dollars in loans and skirt a financial crisis brought on by high charges that he took a minor across state lines for sex. The ruling came afterAlamo's former followers testified at fuel prices, dwindling foreign investment and soaring militant a hearing that they were often beaten at his instructions and violence. Aid from the agency often comes with conditions such as one said Alamo practiced polygamy with several females, incutting public spending that can affect programs for the poor, cluding a 9-year-old girl. U.S.Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant noted that Alamo ischarged making it a politically tough choice for governments. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the fund, with a violent crime and said healso considered that Alamo fled a said in a statement that an IMF mission will begin discussions California child-abuse charge in 1989 and was arrested two years with Pakistani authorities in the next few days "on a program later inTampa, Fla., living under an assumed name. aimed at strengthening economic stability and enhancing confidence in the financial system.The amount of [IMF] financPageant queen loses crown ing under a stand-by arrangement has yet to be determined." Miss Teen Louisiana BOSSIER CITY, La. Iceland, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine have also turned to lost her crown 11 days early after being arthe IMF for financing to ease the current crisis. rested on charges of leaving a restaurant

Iraqi recruit graves found in Iraq BAGHDAD Iraqi officials Wednesday reported finding mass graves with remains of 34 people, most believed to have been Iraqi army recruits waylaid three years ago by al-Qaida gunmen as they traveled to a training base near the Syrian border. Farmers tipped offauthorities last weekabout the graves, located in the Euphrates River valley near Syria about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, according to a local mayor, Farhan Fitaghan. Most of the victims were believed to have been army recruits from the southern Shiite city ofKarbala who were traveling by bus in September 2005 to a training camp in Qaim when they were stopped by gunmen and taken away, the mayor said.

Atheist posters to adorn buses LONDON The sides of some ofLondon's red buses will soon carry ads asserting there is "probably no God,"as nonbelievers fight what they say is the preferential treatment given to religion in British society. Organizers of a campaign to raise funds for the ads said Wednesday they received more than $113,000 in donations in the hours since they launched the project on a charity Web site. The money will be used to place posters on 30 buses carrying the slogan "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

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WASHINGTON The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with Sen. John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Sen. Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch. The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days; that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain's "Joe the plumber" analogy struck a chord. Three weeks ago, an AP-GfK survey found that Obama had surged to a seven-point lead over McCain, lifted by voters who thought the Democrat was better suited to lead the nation through its sudden economic crisis. The contest is still volatile, and the split among voters is apparent less than two weeks before Election Day.

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tion on Franklin Street may be in luck. At their meeting Wednesday night, Duke Student Government addressed the possibility of chartering one or two buses to the annual event the night of Oct. 31. To reduce the size of the festivities, the Chapel Hill city government recently decided to limit attendance to local residents earlier this month. As a result, the Duke University Union chose not to charter buses in order to honor the city’s decision, leaving determined party-goers no choice but to drive themselves. DSG President Jordan Giordano, a senior, and sophomore Andrew Brown, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, talked with the city manager of Chapel Hill to try and make the party more accessible for Duke students. “We said that we are a part of the Triangle community, so let’s make this work,” Giordano said. DSG has not yet solidified the plans, but is working out the details. “It now comes down to finding a place to park the bus or buses and to get around the fact that roads SEE DSG ON PAGE 7

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history of exemplifying the value of financial aid has been very significant in the success of that venture.” Senior Kylie Harrell, co-chair of the Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Council, gave an account of how her parents sold two cars to pay for her first two years at Duke. “By the end of sophomore year I did not know what to do because frankly, we were running out of cars to sell,” Harrell said. “So Jim listened to my concerns. He acknowledged the difficult times many middle class families have even with Duke’s commitment to meeting 100 percent of demonstrated financial need.... Jim has taken a personal interest in die students that are on financial aid.” Following discussions with Harrell, Belvin notified her that the financial aid package for her junior year was adjusted. During the celebration, friends and colleagues shared additional anecdotes about Belvin and praised his commitment to helping students afford an education—not justat Duke, but nationally as well. Among those in attendance was Larry Hines, Grad ’93, whose family ties with Duke began more than 160 years ago with Braxton Craven —the first president of Duke, then called Trinity College. Hines’ family has five scholarships in the family name at Duke and he said Belvin has been instrumental to every one of them. Throughout his career, Belvin has written numerous books on financial aid and has served as a trustee of the College Board and chair of the 568 Presidents’ Committee on Common Standards—a group in which universities abide by the same financial aid standards. He was also a board member and leader for a number of groups and institutions. Belvin’s successor will be Alison Rabil, who now financial aid director at Barnard College. Belvin said he plans to retire to theN.C. coast, where he and his wife have a home, and hopes to do some consulting for a few organizations and continue to run the 568 President’s Committee on Common Standards. He added that he will still work with Duke but mostly enjoy retirement. “We cannot imagine that his shoes will ever be filled, but you never really leave Duke,” Hines said.

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Greeted by eager school representatives from universities across the country, more than 1,000 students attended the Graduate and Professional School Day fair in the Bryan Center Wednesday. The GPSD fair, a biennial event sponsored by the academic deans of Trinity College, offered the opportunity for students to meet face-to-face the admissions officers who would otherwise only meet them through their paper applications. The fair brought to campus representatives from more than 100 universities, including graduate, medical, law, business and divinity schools. The informal setting allowed students to learn more about various programs of study and begin forming their

post-college plans.

“I think it’s good to meet representatives in an informal setting,” said GSPD Director Norman Keul, who is also an associate dean of Trinity College. Though thoughts of the next stage after college may “seem daunting,” meeting the

school representatives “demystifies” admissions and expels “unrealistic fears,” he said. The GPSD Steering Committee encouraged all undergraduates to attend, publicizing the event with school-wide e-mails, bright-colored balloons and an informativeWeb site that provides suggestions for participating students. Sophomore Joanna Bromley said she was impressed by how the fair reached out to students at all stages of their studies. “I expected it to be geared towards juniors and seniors,” she admitted, adding that she was pleasantly surprised to find the number of opportunities directed toward underclassmen. A recently declared economics major contemplating either graduate school or business school, Bromley was excited to learn that some schools offer summer programs to help undergraduates find their specific area of interest in a professional field. Henry Granison, associate director ofadmissions at Cornell Law School, noted the broad range ofinterest levels. SEE FAIR ON PAGE 7

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DEBATE from page 1 Come and get it! A student’s bag, containing her laptop and other items, was stolen at the East Campus bus stop around noon Tuesday. She had left the items unattended and discovered they were gone when she returned several hours later.

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endorse their parties’ respective presidential candidates. “It wasn’t an angry debate—it was a fun debate,” senior Robert Dodson said. Ford and Steele, who are both black, agreed that race was not a factor in former secretary of state Colin Powell’s decision to endorse Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama. “For anyone to say that Colin Powell would have supported a person running for president because he is black is just hard for me to understand and hard for

me to accept,” Ford said. But Steele noted that Powell might have some resentment toward the Bush administration, making his decision easier. The debateendedwith an hour-long question-and-answer session. A student sparked a negative reaction from both the audience and the two political leaders when he asked whether citizens should be required to pass a competency test in order to vote. Ford and Steele denounced the suggestion and said voting is a fundamental right. “I don’t care if you can’t spell your own name. I would die for [your] right to vote,” Steele said. The Mary Lou Williams Center for

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tion at Perry and Iredell streets Tuesday night He admitted that he drank six malt drinks in the past four hours, but had a blood alcohol content of .05 percent and was not arrested. Scars on my car An unknown individual keyed a student’s car Monday in the parking lot to Edens B.

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Two computer monitors and mounting brackets were stolen from the seminar room in Keohane 4B Monday. Shady stealing of shaded specs An individual unafTiliated with the University stole a pair of prescription sunglasses from an employee at Durham Regional Hospital Tuesday morning.

Meetings sans multimedia An LCD projector was stolen from a conference room at the Washington Duke Inn Tuesday morning. —compiledfrom police reports

Black Culture hosted a dinner before the debate for representatives from the DUU Major Speakers committee, BSA, Duke Democrats and Duke College Republicans to meet the political leaders. At the dinner, a student asked Ford and Steel what role they thought college students played in the present election. Steele spoke about the importance of younger generations becoming more involved in politics that will affect them in the future. “When you leave this University and

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walk into the marketplace... to become the leader in this country, you will have to pick it up and deal with [the country’s problems]he said. Before the debate, Ford told The Chronicle that Republican candidate Sen. John McCain’s robocalls, which his campaign have been making in critical states, are not helping him because voters are concerned about other issues. ‘John McCain is out fabricating some craziness about terrorists. The real question that voters have to ask is, ‘Do you thinkColin Powell will support someone for president who pals around with terrorists?’” Ford said. Although the economic downturn was not discussed extensively during the debate, Steele told The Chronicle that he does not support Congress injecting cash whenever the market seems in trouble. “These drops in the Dow and in the NASDAQ is a leveling-off—it’s a balancing,” he said.

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pus with a tennis ball hanging from his shorts. Freshman Jenna Barbee has been appointed treasurer of the team and will be responsible for helping to secure needed equipment, including capes, which are required by the official Intercollegiate Quidditch Rules and Guidebook. In the meantime, it’s 8.Y.0.8.—bring your own broom—Lehrer said. Although the team has a sponsor and Lehrer says the Office of Student Activities and Facilities is excited about the prospect of a Duke Quidditch team, the group has not yet become an official club and do not have players for each position. In fact, the only guarantee is that freshman Ben Jones, a member of Duke Roadßunners Club, will play the role of Snitch runner. Because of his speed and endurance, Jones is perfect for the position, Lehrer said. “He’s the only one who can run and tackle people and be an a to everyone equally,” she said. “I played Seeker once during practice, and chasing Ben Jones is terrifying, I’m not going to lie.” Though die team is still coming together, members maintain a competitive spirit and hope to contest this year. “The Southeastern League Games won’t start until Spring, so we hope by then we’ll be good enough to start playing,” Lehrer said. To prepare for this goal, Lehrer has begun holding practices Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons in accordance with the official Quidditch rulebook. “We scrimmage, we have throwing drills and we’re going to start having Bludger avoidance drills,” she said. “The learning curve is not very steep here, but we need to get in shape.” Lehrer said that over the summer, an incoming freshman posted a video of a Quidditch match between Middlebury and Princeton University on the “Duke 2012” Facebook group, accompanied by the comment, “We need this at Duke!” “Ifpeople like this, why not do this?” she said. She then contacted Alex Benepe, a Middlebury senior responsible for the development of the official Intercollegiate Quidditch Rules and Guidebook, and asked him to register Duke on this year’s official Muggle Quidditch team list. Throughout the past several years, college Muggle Quidditch has spread from competition between Middlebury league teams, with Harry Potter-themed names such as the Bad A Muggle Flyers and the Mollywobbles, to more than 180 teams registered with the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association. The response to the burgeoning team by Duke students, who grew up alongside the Harry Potter characters, has been overwhelmingly positive, Lehrer said. “We’ve gotten a lot of people saying, ‘Oh, my God, is that really Quidditch?’” she said. “Some kids in a Jeep rode by during practice and one yelled, ‘Wingardium Leviosa!”’ Freshman Stephanie Weiss is one such student thrilled the idea of a Quidditch team on campus. by “I called my brother when I saw them practicing and said, John! Guess what! They’re having a Quidditch match!”’ Weiss said. “It sort of made my day, I’ll be honest.” But collegiate Muggle Quidditch is not just about the “The Boy Who Lived.” “None of us are really Harry Potter experts or whatever,” Lehrer said. “It’s more that it’s a really fun game and nothing like it is really done—it’s kind ofhandball-ish and kind of dodgeball-ish and kind of tag-ish. It’s unique and entertaining and anyone can play.” —

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“Some really know that they want to go [to law school], but

some stop as they pass by because they are considering it,” he said.

Regardless of their interest, Granison said he hopes to be a resource to students in helping them to decide which path is right for them.

Indeed, for some students, like freshman Amy Li, the fair provided a good opportunity “to get information and some brochures to look at later.” But for students currently in the process of applying to graduate or professional schools, the GPSD fair helped them to narrow down their choices. Senior Vincent Ling, a law school hopeful and DUU major attractions chair, said he knows in general what schools he plans to apply to, but conversations with the representatives may ultimately solidify the final list. “It’s good to hear directly from admissions officers and get firsthand information,” he said. And though conversations with university representatives benefit many students, the GPSD fair also provides an opportunity for schools to recruit passionate students. “Many schools want to come, but there’s only so much space,” Keul said, gesturing to the packed Bryan Center. But for both attending representatives and students alike, the fair is what Keul calls “a win-win situation.”

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DSG President Jordan Giordano, a senior, speaks to the Senate Wednesday about possibly running buses to the annual Franklin Street Halloween party.

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“If the logistics are possible, will definitely be on board too,” DUU President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, told The Chronicle after the meeting.

said. DSG officers added that a major concern regarding lack of bus transportation from Duke has been an increased likelihood of drunk driving to and from Chapel Hill. “[City officials] don’t want to see drinking and driving, so they are very' receptive to working with us,” Giordano said. One possibility is parking the buses somwhere on the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus, and DSG is discussing that option with UNC’s student government, he added.

In other business: Prasad Kasibhatla, associate dean for international programs at the Nicholas School of the Environment, presented DSC with the University’s Quality EnhancementPlan, which will offer students new academic opportunities both foreign and domestic. In order to avoid confrontations with the fire marshall, DSC decided to request permits for eight bonfires this year, which would allow for a bonfire after every men’s and women’s basketball game against UNC.

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students to come by. “Those who use them—and they use them very discreedy—use them as supplements to other partying,” he said. “Adderall can keep you up all night drinking.” Several other students acknowledged that they take ADHD medication as party aids. They added that they also experiment with painkillers like Vicodin and Oxycontin, and described their drug use as being “occasional” and “very private.” “I like it better than being drunk,” said Graham, a sophomore. “The mixture of the two is good as well.” Pill-popping, however, is not confined to the party scene. “There is no doubtabout the fact that people use drugs to study,” Sangvai said. Will, ajunior, also said “study drugs” were commonly used among students. “In my humble opinion, Adderall is the drug of choice on Duke’s campus,” he said. “I use Adderall when I’m working to stay up longer.” Medical experts said no matter what the intent, there may be a price to pay for prescription drug abuse. Sangvai noted that in addition to death and severe injury, prescription drug abusers risk dependence, tolerance and even addiction. “You should never take a drug that’s not prescribed to

gerous. There are side effects to all medications.” David said he is conscious of the danger involved with prescription drugs. “I’m always concerned about the health risks of anything I do to my body. I never overdose; I never abuse them in away that puts me in harm’s way,” he said. For other prescription drug abusers, however, swallowing a pill to keep them alert and focused might seem as harmless as sipping a coffee to stay awake. “Why not [use them]?” Will asked. “I’m taking advantage of the technological paradigm in which I live.” Ryan, a sophomore who said he dabbles in OxyContin, Vicodin and Adderall, said his drug use does not negatively affect other aspects of his life.. “I’m not really concerned about how I live as long as I do well in school,” he said. Many other students interviewed said that although they are aware of prescription drug abuse on campus, they are not all swallowing Adderall before their finals. “I haven’t heard about [abuse happening], but I wouldn’t be surprised if it does,” freshman Kiki Contreras said. Others pointed to the availability of legal alternatives. “Considering there’s coffee and Monster and a bunch of energy drinks, I don’t think you need [them],” said freshman Tim Yoon.

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■[editor'snote] So, it’s almost the end of October, which means that even the newest members of the Duke social disaster community have been here for two months. By now, some of you have made friends. Some of you have even found significant others. And some of you have undoubtedly burned bridges. And by “burned bridges,” I mean, “blacked out and licked someone’s face.” All in all, it was a good time. At the very least, you probably thought that you had moved past those awkward conversations that defined your first days here. Never would you have to pass through forced silences with some random dormmate. Right? Wrong, nOOb. Last night, Duke students were visited by the ghost of freshman year past. Yes, it was time for “speed-friending,” a platonic version of “speed-dating,” the rapid-fire game-spitting extravaganza where you can usually hear the biological clocks ticking. Like all recess writers, I am too jaded and despondent to try and make real friends. So I decided to try my hand at these so-called “insta-friends.” Of course, I was skeptical. I couldn’t decide who would be more represented, weirdos or losers. Upon entering, I immediately saw a mass of students gathered amidst the nostalgic sounds of Alpine Bagels, huddled together, waiting desperately for the equivalent of college student meth: free American Apparel t-shirts with amibiguous sexual innuendos that frankly, are try-

ing too hard. The event truly opened my eyes to the “diversity” of students we have at Duke. There are just so many different kinds of interesting people to meet here. I got to know a pre-med BME major, a public policy student interested in DukeEngage, and a disconcerting amount offreshmen who have no idea what recess is. Speed-friending was like flipping through the pages of a Duke admissions guide. Only with more braces. Unfortunately, sandwiching people next to each other for three minutes and saying “BE FRIENDS” is like telling North Carolina residents with a straight face to “Vote Munger.” It’s just not going to work. We shouldn’t waste our time. Forty-five minutes later, I left the event just like I left freshman year; not interested in your hometown, major and roommate situation. Also, just like freshman year, I had forgotten everyone’s name. What have I learned from this experience? Simple: you will never outrun awkward conversations. Making new friends will never be easy. You will always doubt yourself. There is no such thing as speed-friending. Only speedacquaintancing. A lot of stupid people come to college and say, “I am so glad to finally get to college. I’m justready to leave all that petty, high school stuff behind me.” Wake up. Life is high school. —Jordan Axt (just kidding, Michelle)

This week marked a major milestone, as recess stepped into the exciting digital future of media 2003 with the launch of The Playground (the place to go for your daily dose of recess™!), our new blog. After weeks of haranguing The Chronicle’s online team and four days of panic after they called our bluff and got the site ready, we’re off the ground and blogging. You can check it out at playground.chronicleblogs.com. And you should, obvi. Why, you ask? First, go to the blog to see our standard content each week. We’ve had technical difficulties getting stories on The Chronicle site in the past, and it’s buried anyway. You can read all of our content and check out a PDF of our centerspread on the blog. And don’t forget to check here for special extended versions of interviews, reviews and more. Second, we will soon begin shifting some of our usual content to the blog in order to ease a space crunch on our pages. We’d like to be able to focus more on some the lifestyle-related stories we haven’t had space for yet this year. Third, check out some ofthe great blog con-

tent our regular crack team of writers is posting.

Current highlights; paeans to Lester Bangs and Levi Stubbs from Sam Schlinkert, hipster ruminations on the Hood Internet from Baishi Wu and a list of the songs Jordan Axt would cover if he weren’t a square white boy. Fourth, not content to just highlight a few of the goings-on at Duke and across the Triangle, recess now offers you a full(er) schedule of events from every area of the arts world at

playground.chronicleblogs.com/calendar/, all in convenient and easy-to-use Google Calendar format. Looking for something to do this weekend? Check out The Playground. Finally, we’ll be offering other special content on the site, including record and film reviews that didn’t make the print section and concert reviews, like Andrew Hibbard’s write-up of the Magnetic Fields’ Saturday set in Raleigh. Managing Editor Baishi Wu (bw29@ duke.edu) and Film Editor Andrew Hibbard (aohs@duke.edu) are heading up our onlin efforts. Please e-mail them or me (dag2o@ duke.edu) if you’ve got any suggestions, comments or questions. But mostly, just check it out. —David Graham, editor

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When Carl Kurlander came to Duke, he hoped to be a doctor just like all of his mother’s husbands. Seventeen majors later, he was a Hollywood-bound history major. But that is only the beginning of Kurlander’s story, recounted in My Tale of Two Cities, his yet-to-be-released autobiography and documentary of the revitalization of his hometown, Pittsburgh. He will introduce the film at a screening on campus in the coming week. After graduating from Trinity College in 1982—at a time when the University had no film program—Kurlander moved to Hollywood. Early in his career, he adapted a short story he wrote to impress a girl into the 1985 film St. Elmo's Fire, bringing him early success.

After writing for several TV shows, including Saved by the Bell, and becoming a father, Kurlander and his wife decided to move back to Pittsburgh, where he taught film at the University of Pittsburgh. The Rust Belt city was in financial ruin at the time and had just declared bankruptcy. Kurlander wanted to help the city in some way, and the spark for My Tale came from his dermatologist, who had the idea to make a movie. The doctor, along with 18 of Kurlander’s neighbors, bankrolled the project. “I’ve never been part of such a collective experience,” Kurlander said. “Everybody was so giving, [and] we didn’t know what the movie was. There was no sense when we started.” In fact, a theme of the film is the comSEE KURLANDER ON PAGE 6

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jazzmen: He has an ambivalent relationship about the black entertainment tradition, he likes to mention late greats like Miles Davis and he has some of the blunt swagger—some might even say arrogance—of those forebears. But Glover’s instrument isn’t a saxophone, trumpet, bass or piano. It’s his tap-shoed feet. “I do see myself like a jazz musician. My approach to this style of dance, which is called hoofing—it’s just the same as a jazz musician would approach a song or an improvisational experience,” he said. Glover, who is often labeled the best living tap dancer, will perform his show Bare SoundzSunday in Page Auditorium. The show will also feature musicians

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Mike Posner’s room doesn’t exactly scream

hip-hop superstar. His makeshift studio, consisting of two keyboards, a microphone and hundreds of dollars worth of other recording equipment, crowds the room, leaving little space to live. But don’t be fooled by appearances. Somehow, Mike Posner & the Brain Trust have used this cluttered tangle of wires to create some of Duke’s most innovative music. “People always ask me, ‘Where doyou record?’” Posner said. “And people can’t believe when I say, ‘ln my room.’ The sound quality doesn’t sound like it’s coming from a dorm room.” The duo features Posner, ajunior, and senior Eric Holljes. Each brings to the table a varied musical background, with Posner more hip-hop and Holljes more rock ‘n’ roll. The end result is a sound that features both acoustic and hip-hop influences. Although Posner is the group’s lead singer, he began delving into music primarily as a producer, composing hip-hop tracks for other artists. His major collaboration is with Detroit rapper Big Sean, who was recently signed by Kanye West’s G.0.0.D. Music label. - ■ For Holljes, the Brain Trust is something completely out of his comfort zone. After singing with now-defunct campus band Running Lights until his junior year, the California native has had to adjust to Posner’s laidback lyrics and hip-hop focus. “I’ve never performed music like this, where people can really get into it and have a good time listening to it. A lot of the music I

write on my own and with my brother is more introspective so this is more colorful and fun,” Holljes said. “It’s a huge departure for me, but I like that it’s light because I think it’s more fun to listen to and play, and people can latch on easier.” After playing together for a small campus event last spring, the two musicians decided to work together on a few acoustic hip-hop tracks, with Posner rapping and Holljes singing the chorus. Eventually, the two recorded a set, including their best-known track, “Cooler Than Me.” The song, which spotlights Posner’s husky voice and Holljes’ more conventional pop vocalizing, drew immediate attention on the group’s MySpace page. In only two weeks, the track had more than 12,000 plays. Unlike most campus bands that gain exposure by playing at school events or at nearby venues, Mike Posner & the Brain Trust have relied on grassroots measures like word of mouth and online exposure to create a fan base. As a result, the group has only performed together twice. “What’s special for us is we’re kind of using the hip-hop formula to come out, even though we’re really not a hip-hop band. We’ve been on OKPlayer.com, which is one of the most prestigious and ruthless hip-hop blogs,” Posner said. “And we’re working on a mix tape. Pop groups just don’t have mix tapes, but we’re going to be the first one.” Mike Posner & the Brain Trust will perform at the Small Town Records show, “The Best of Duke Music” at Broad Street Cafe tonight at 10 p.m. Tickets are $3.

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Since the 19705, Karamu Drama Group has aimed to broaden cultural perspective on campus through producing works by minority, especially black, playwrights. This semester, the troupe is presenting Douglas Turner Ward’s poignant Day of Absence. Written in 1965, the play revolves around a small Southern town. The social status quo is typical ofthe time in which Ward wrote: Whites constitute the upper class while blacks are relegated to second-class citizenship. One day all of the blacks in the town disappear, throwing the remaining white residents into confusion. Whatfollows is a charged story that watches as social hierarchy collapses. The whites realize their dependence on blacks, and the blacks realize their own power and potential. Ward is known for his tendency to throw political correctness by the wayside, but the effect is more lighthearted than cutting.

“I think the piece is positive,

definitely comedic and not really offensive,” said freshman and firsttime actress Simone Lewis. Karamu aims to show the continuing importance of its mission, especially to the Duke community within Durham. “It’s a very, very relevant piece, even today, on Duke’s campus,” said Karamu Publicity Chair Ashlee Jamieson, a senior. The group hopes that by performing Day ofAbsence, students will better appreciate the hard work that goes into cleaning the dormitories and other jobs on campus, as well as the people who do them. “We are all privileged here, and we take a lot things for granted, especially services [provided by] the housing staff,” said Karamu President Lola Owalabi, a senior.

Day ofAbsence will be performed in Sheafer Theater on Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 26 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $5.

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Duke is a factory for a lot of things. Boisterous liberals. Closetconservatives. And, until recently, successful investment bankers. However, we may soon have to add another item to the list up-and-coming indie-rock stars. In 2007, student band Stella by Starlight won mtvU’s first annual Woodie Award for Best Music on Campus, an honor designed specifically for college bands. And Tuesday, Panda Force, a band comprised of four juniors (including recess staff member Sam Schlinkert), was named as a finalist for this year’s competition. After being voted into the top five campus acts from a list of 25 semifinalists, the group has until Friday at midnight to garner enough support to win the coveted prize. The winning band will receive $5,000, and the top two vote-getters will perform at the Woodie ceremony Nov. 12 in New York City. The group, which formed in April 2007, describes their sound as “post-’9os guitar rock” and cites Radiohead, People in Planes and the Wombats as their biggest influences. “Our music is definitely guitar-driven,” said lead guitarist David Munoz, a junior. “We don’t really try to have a pop sound. It’s pretty diverse.” The band was first motivated to enter the competition after noticing the considerable exposure the contest provided Stella by Starlight

“We heard about the competition because of all the publicity Stella got, and we figured it was worth a shot,” said drummer Navid Nafissi, a junior. “We never expected it to go so well.” The coming deadline has forced the group to enter full-on campaign mode. Since first hearing about their selection, band members have feverishly sent out Facebook messages, spammed fraternity listservs and even petitioned some of the group’s older fans for support. “We feel like we have a legitimate chance because we are really pushing it, even asking our parents and family friends to vote,” Nafissi said. Yet regardless of whether the group wins the Woodie, its members have enjoyed the opportunity to spread their music and engage new listeners. “We are really trying to move forward as a band, and [this competition] is helping us see that we have a lot of potential,” Nafissi said. “When you are in a college band, it’s hard to take a step back and appreciate it, which I feel like this process is allowing us to do.” For Munoz, the experience has been affirming—both of Panda Force’s talent, and of Duke’s worth as an incubator for music. “It’s definitely helped us to see that we are actually good at this,” he said. “Hopefully, we can keep the Duke legacy going.” To vote, visit http://woodies.mtvu.com/nominees/best_music_on_campus.

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Sweeney Todd: TheDemon Barber ofFleet Street doesn’t start with a bang. Instead, a high-pitched, piercing screech immediately sets the dark tone of the musical. Despite some comical moments and light-hearted aspects, the haunting mood persists throughout the show as viewers become enveloped in the progressive madness of Sweeney Todd. This fall’s production differs from past shows because of the combined efforts ofHoof V Horn, Duke’s studentrun theater group, and the theater studies department. While the latter created a list of six possible musicals last spring, Hoof’n’ Horn made the final decision to produce Sweeney Todd. The musical tells the story of a barber who returns to London after being sent away by one Judge Turpin. Upon his return, he discovers his wife dead and his daughter Johanna under the guardianship of the judge. Todd then works with his tenant, Mrs. Lovett, to murder unsuspecting customers in his barber chair while she bakes them into meat pies, all the while waiting for the chance to exact revenge upon Turpin. Sweeney Todd is directed by John Clum, professor of theater studies and English, and produced by Miriam Sauls, director of theater and communication for theater studies, and sophomore Ben Bergmann of Hoof ’n’ Horn. The music was written by Stephen Sondheim and directed by George Lam. “The difference between this and the usual Hoof ’n’ Horn show is that Sweeney Todd has a staffof 14 professionals,” Clum wrote in an e-mail. “It is really functioning like a theater studies production.” This is also one of the larger shows produced at Duke, with an additional 25 students, eight musicians in the orchestra pit and more than a dozen members on the production team. The musical, which requires immense acting and singing talent on the part of the actors, is considered by many to be one ofSondheim’s most complicated and intricate scores. “We were worried at first about whether we could find people who could both sing and act and an orchestra that

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The set and costumes took as much effort as the casting. The futuristic, Victorian scenery is complex, such as Todd’s trap doorfor victims and skyline projections onto the background. Clum believes that the set for the show “is one of the most elaborate ever on the Reynolds stage.” Besides the technical challenges, the student actors also had to construct a show that people could relate to and understand. Todd’s murders seem to warrant no justification. Despite his heartless exterior, however, the audience cannot help but pity and even sympathize with him. “At the start, he’s just a normal guy who’s looking for his wife and daughter,” said Scott Cruikshank, one of two actors playing the title character. “It’s only later when he spirals down into madness.” Duke’s production focuses on this regression more so than some other versions of the musical. The audience experiences Todd’s turmoil right alongside him even before witnessing his first kill. “What’s been challenging is trying to keep [the play] from becoming this spectacle about just the meat pies,” said senior Nate Jones, the other Sweeney Todd. In this respect, with amusing scenes and sentimental moments, Duke’s production is a far cry from Tim Burton’s dark, sinister 2007 film version starring Johnny Depp. “We’re playing it a little more realistic [than the movie],’’Jones said. “People still laugh; people still have relationships. You get the whole range of human emotions.” As one last suggestion, Jones recommends attending the Halloween performance. ‘You can come in costume, and you can bring a date,” Jones said. “It’s a surprisingly good ‘date’ show because you can always promise your date that you’re a nicer guy than Sweeney Todd.”

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber ofFleet Street will be performed in Reynolds Industries Theater Oct. 23, 24, 25, 30 and Nov. 1 at Bp.m.; Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 at 2 p.m.; and Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $lO for general admission and $5 for students and seniors.

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KURLANDER from page 3 munity feeling that Pittsburgh-native Fred Rogers celebrated in his TV show. Kurlander even describes the film as more “Mr. Rogers and Me” than Roger and Me. “If there’s a religion in Mr. Rogers and believing in your neighbors, then I’ve got it,” he said. In fact, he is so into the Mr. Rogers motif that he said he will give a prize to anyone who comes to the screening wearing the “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood” shirts given to the Class of 2011 last year. Kurlander said he is unsure what the impact of the film will be, although he added that early feedback has been positive. If nothing else, he said making the film had given him a better sense of identity. “At some point you feel like Holden Caulfield’s older brother, an unsympathetic character in [your] own life,” he said. “Making this movie was about finding my own voice.” In My Tak, Kurlander comes across as a sort of

clumsy, comic figure, but David Paletz, professor of political science and former director of the Program .in Film/Video/Digital —to whom the filmmaker credits much of his success—said this epitomizes Kurlander’s personality. “It’s very Carl,” he said. “Underneath this sort of exterior is a real dynamo.” And although the film might have changed Kurlander, and a lot has happened to him since his Duke years, friend Rob Cohen, Trinity ’B3 and the basis for Andrew McCarthy’s character in St. Elmo’s Fire, said he is mostly

unchanged. “He was the same [then] as he is now, just younger,” Cohen said. “Of course, he was thinner and had more hair.”

My Tale ofTwo Cities and St. Elmo’s Fire will be screened Oct. 27 at 8:30 and 11:30 p.m., respectively, in Page Auditorium, xoith introductions by CarlKurlander. For more information, visit fud.aas.duke.edu/screensociety or mytaleoftwocities. com. Kurlander and Cohen will sit on a panel called “Careers in the Entertainment Industry” at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 28 in the Friedl Building.

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�� Where the second volume paled in comparison to the first, High School Musical 3: Senior Harrises to the challenge, becoming one of 2008’s finest releases. HSM3 finds the whole gang back in top form and on the verge of graduation. Troy (Zac Efron) is deciding whether tofo). low his father’s footsteps or his own ambitions. Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) isfaced with abandoning her boyfriend for scholarship. And there’s the usual plot of a musical and high school basketball. Were it not for the film’s brilliant analysis of destiny, all this would be irrelevant. But screenwriter Peter Barsocchini captures the feelings of adolescence like no other writers can. HSM3 shines brightest in production. Like the best Broadway show, Kenny Ortega’s direction challenges the boundaries of both the stage and film musical. Many musical number seem to be directadaptations from the stage but exploit the full potential of the screen, eclipsing even Baz Lurhmann’s vision ofthe film musical. Moreover, the movie manages to entertain while honoring entertainment The film’s vast frame of references ranges from Grease to Bill & Ted to The Warriors and Ki BUL HSM3also embraces everything wonderful and awful about movie musicals—implicit homoeroticism, blissful unawareness ofreal-world socioeconomics and strange awkwardness that ensues after a musical number. Ortega even has thebrains to elude to the phenomenon as well as to Hudgens’ nude pics. Yes, he makes reference to tabloid-headlining underage nude photos. The songs and acting are not perfect. But the entertainment values soar so high—or, as Gabriella says, “High school wasn’t meant to last forever.” We can only wish this film would. —Andrew Hibbard

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to reflect any of this. Instead, Stone blandly depicts Bush’s life and administration with minimal artistic interpretation or reinvention. The movie sets out to be entertaining, brandishing the tagline “based on a true story,” but merely ends up playing like a documentary with particularly high-production values. Stone weaves together Bush’s rise from delinquent, underachieving youth to successful adult with inside glimpses of him and his cabinet executing the Iraq war. The whole tiling is tied together by the sense thatfor his entire life, W. was dominated by his attempts to gain the favor of his father, George Herbert Walker Bush. This is believable to a point, but Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser stretch the notion so far that W. seems as though he has no self-motivation outside of a dogged hedonism in his younger life. Stone ends up painting him in a good light, and he can’t seem to decide whether he wants to crucify or appreciate the man. The story has no punch. More interesting are the performances, which give the mow its only worthwhile aspects. Josh Brolin is excellent as W., nailing the mannerisms and personality, but not just copying the real man. The rest of the cast (save Thandie Newton as Condoleezza Rice, who overracts) embody their characters exactly as Stone and Weiser seem to intend. This means that Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld are completely inept, Cheney pure evil, Powell a saint and Rove a creepUy efficient shadow to W. At least they take a stance on these individuals, which can’t be said of the rest of W Too soon, Oliver, too soon. —Kevin Lincoln

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�� You could call Skeletal Lamping a celebration of the pop canon, except that Kevin Barnes, Of Montreal’s frontman, has tried specifically to eschew the conventions of traditional pop music in his band’s latest effort. Incorporating elements of funk, jazz and psychedelia, Of Montreal has changed its offkilter brand of saccharine pop music. The product is a vibrant sound collage ranging from overwhelming cacophony to glorious harmonics. SkeletalLampingpmrs nuanced sonic structures with soaring vocal melodies—the kind ofcombination one might expect from a David Bowie/Brian Eno collaboration. Bombastic as the album is, Barnes makes no false pretense of delivering an artistic album without providing the introspective, graphic lyrics we’ve come to expect. It should come as no surprise that a more chipper Barnes on anti-depressants has written an album less dour than its predecessor. Of Montreal’s orgiastic music stylings create a most appropriate backdrop for lyrics like “I want to turn you on/I want to make you come 200 times a day.” Certainly the album is even more deviant than the last, reading at times like a narrative of one man’s prurient obsessions; notable is the lyrical creation of the fictional character Georgie Fruit, a bisexual black man whose persona Barnes adopts in his live stage performances. Sex is no new subject matter for a pop record, but ambiguous sexuality retains a certain shock value to this day. Of Montreal has put an audacious spin on pop music that is especially rewarding with repeated listens. As far as the Bowie comparisons are concerned, though, Skeletal Lamping is no second coming of Ziggy Stardust Heck, it’s stranger than that —Brian Contralto

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�� And so with Tell Tale Signs, the latest and perhaps oddest volume in his ongoing Bootleg Series, the fourth (fifth? sixth?) golden era of Bob Dylan continues. And what a volume it is. Unlike the rest of the series, it is neither a specific document of live performances nor a wide-ranging compilation like the first three volumes. Instead, the two discs present 27 tracks—alternate takes, early versions, demos and live cuts, plus several gems, either unreleased or from movie soundtracks—recorded between 1989 and 2006. Perhaps surprisingly, they more or less cohere as an album. Some decisions are tough to understand—why include live versions of standards like “Cocaine Blues” that are staples of Dylan’s Never-Ending Tour? but do not detract from the cohesion across both discs. And Tell Tale Signs offers healthy portions of both Storyteller Bob and Prophetic Voice Bob. This album will delight the fanatic with its window into Dylan’s creative process: witness the two versions of “Mississippi,” one of the best tracks from 2001’s Love and Theft. One, —

a demo with just producer Daniel Lanois on guitar and Dylan, is calmly beautiful; the other makes you glad he released the version he did. Elsewhere, listeners are treated to good songs that were unreleased (“Dreamin’ ofYou”) only to have their lyrics cannibalized for better ones (“Standing in the Doorway”). They also get a radically different, more original and arguably better arrangement of Modem Times' “Someday Baby” that makes lyrics like, “Well, I don’t want to brag, but I’m gonna wring your neck” even more chilling. A second strength of the release is that exposure to strong songs like “Ring Them Bells” and “Most of the Time” may reclaim Dylan’s 1980s-1990s Lanois phase for our generation, which tends to ignore everything between 1976 and 1997. But probably most important is the contribution of several unreleased songs. “’Cross the Green Mountain” is a wrenching CivilWar epic from the Gods and Generals soundtrack that slides between allegory and vignette without ever losing focus. Even more sublime is “Red River Shore,” another long, poignant ballad that distills heartbreak as so few artists—ever—could. It surely ranks among Dylan’s best since the ’7os, if not ever, and it alone makes Tell Tale Signs a must-have. —David Graham

said. “That’s maybe the older person’s view. For the younger people, they’ve probably heard of it. They’ve seen probably the latest performances like Mumbles.” But don’t get him started on the roots of tap in minstrelsy. Duke Performances is presenting him as part of the Shuffle and Pick series, which “explores the African origins of banjo and tap, digging for roots that reach beyond minstrelsy and cakewalks into the very core of what makes art American and black.” The depiction of his work as part of that tradition was unsettling for Glover. “That’s too bad, because to me—that’s not a good name for the event. That’s actually embarrassing,” he said. “That’s not what we do. Vaudeville, that area in life is literally just a dark area in a lot of people’s lives. I don’t know what to make of that.” He said he would prefer to see more forward-thinking approaches to dance and other art forms. Glover said his performance will seek, above all, to entertain, but added that pure entertainment and progressive art are not mutually exclusive. “There are so many new ideas coming up, but the people are still connecting these phrases from the past with new ideas,” he said. “It’s like you have ‘neo-soul,’ what in the world is this? We don’t need to attach the old labels with these new ideas to allow us to progress. It’s the progress that’s more important.” Savion Glover will perform Bare Soundz Sunday in Page Auditorium at Bp. m. Tickets are $5 forDuke students, $22-38for others.

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Theatre was a symphony of sycophancy to the most memorable rock groups of the ’7os, ’Bos and early ’9os. The show featured eight cover bands performing for more than 10 hours on one stage, honoring groups like Guns N’ Roses, Led Zeppelin and Poison. There was even the rare “tribute hybrid” Beatallica, which bills itself as “Metalliin ca’s version of the Beatles.” Yes, their music is just as weird as it sounds. Above all, the festival was a testament to the unifying power of rock music. Performers crossed races, nationalities and even genders to pay homage to their musical heroes. For instance, the day began with the Ramonas, an all-girl tribute to macho punk rock founding, um, fathers the Ramones. The band seemed indifferent to the fact that their audience was comprised of people just filtering in. They played a raucous set featuring “Pinhead” and “Teenage Lobotomy,” culminating in an expected but enjoyable “Blitzkrieg Bop.” “It’s more about the feeling and the passion than it is how well you do it,” said lead singer Edie Jeffreys, who first saw the Ramones play in North Carolina in 1979. The day afforded rock fans the opportunity to remember their much-loved performers as well as a chance to see how their favorite music is being covered today. “Joey Ramone will always be missed,” said showgoer Patty McGaffagan. “but [The Ramonas] do a great job.”

Sergeant Pepper's Angry Hearts ClubBand: Beatallica, one of eight cover bands to play at the Monsters ofMock Festival Saturday at theLincoln Theatre in Raleigh.

Vagabonds, a Thin Lizzy tribute band, elicited similar praise from supporters of the Irish hard rock foursome. “They sound a lot better than the real Thin Lizzy out there doing it today,” said fan Johnny Wooten. Despite these endorsements, the obvious fan favorite was Tuesday’s Gone, a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band from Raleigh. For 45 minutes, the legendary Southern rock group was brought back to life, thanks in large part to the awe-inspiring guitars of John Pereksta and Noble O’Rourke, all capped off by lead singer Ryan King’s fervent vocals. The group was clearly in their element.

“Lynryd Skynyrd did the hard part for us,” King said. “We just get to pick up where they left off.” What became most clear is that these bands were playing for their own ears as much as for those of their audience. All appeared genuinely happy to be on stage, even though they were often performing for supporters of other cover bands. No one joins a cover band for the glory. Instead, these musicians are pursuing the simple joy of honoring the groups that made them love music in the first place. When asked whether being in a tribute band had made him appreciate Lynyrd

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hasn’t, because I don’t think I could have been a bigger Lynyrd Skynyrd fan.” Similarly, Night Prowler lead singer Ryan Littleton summed up the most enjoyable aspect of covering AC/DC in all of three words: “Being Bon Scott.” Both King and Littleton recounted how each group began as original projects before eventually becoming tributes. Now satisfied with their current gigs, neither envisioned themselves straying from the music they worship anytime soon. “I’m going to always do this as long as I can,” Littleton said.

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Conference play has not been kind to the Blue Devils in recent years. Duke went 0-24 in the ACC in former head coach Ted Roof s last three seasons, and the team has dropped two straight league matchups after opening 1-0 this year. But when the Blue Devils hit the road to take on non-conference foe Vanderbilt Saturday, Duke just might be facing the best team it will see all year, in any conference. The 5-2 Commodores, usually a bottom-feeder in the SEC have been biggest surprise in a conference that boasts four top-15 teams.

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When the Blue Devils travel to Florida for the second time in a week Thursday, their opponent won’t be another top-10 powerhouse. But their opponent is perhaps equally as No. 11 dangerous, but for Dllke very different reasons. vs No. 11 Duke (113-1, 3-2-1 in the ACC) Miami takes on Miami at 7 p.m. in Coral Gables, THURSDAY, 7 p.m. Fla. The Hurricanes Coral Gables, Fla. are one loss away from missing the ACC tournament. Although the Hurricanes (8-6-2, 1-4-1) do not boast the same talent level as thenNo. 8 Florida State, which defeated the Blue Devils 5-2 Sunday, they will enter Thursday’s match with momentum after picking up their first ACC victory one week ago. The Duke players knows Miami will be

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no pushover as it struggles to earn one of eight conference tournament berths from the 11-team league. “We have a lotof respect for Miami,” junior forward Kay Anne Gummersall said. “They’ve always given us a game, and we know that they’re a desperate team and that they need wins, so they’re going to come out ready.” The Blue Devils also need to contend with the Hurricanes’ intensity on a field that is only 68 yards wide, three yards longer than the minimum width permitted by the NCAA. As a result, head coach Robbie Church said the game will be more pinched in and that his team must move the ball quickly in order to have success. Despite the foreign field conditions, Duke will look to be on the offensive and score first, hopefully striking a demoralizing blow to Miami’s morale. *I think scoring the first goal is going to be SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE

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W. SOCCER from page 9 very important in this game for both teams,” Church said. “If they score, they’re going to have a lot of belief. If we score, I think that can really hurt them because they’re about one loss away from being eliminated from [the ACC tournament].” But after conceding a season-high five goals to the Seminoles, the Blue Devils hope to shore up their defense to eliminate the breakdowns that plagued them against Florida State. This task will be more daunting, however, given the fact that freshman Ashley Rape, who Church called Duke’s best defender, injured her knee in Tuesday’s practice and most likely will not travel with the team to Miami. Even though the Blue Devils, currently in fifth place in the ACC, cannot win the regular season conference title, they still have plenty of motivation to win their remaining four games. If the team can come away with a top-four finish in the ACC, it is all

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but guaranteed to be ranked in the top 12 nationally and therefore host games in the NCAA tournament, Church said. Before that can happen, though, the Blue Devils must win away from Durham. Of the team’s remaining four games, three are away, and a victory against Miami would prove that Duke has the resiliency to bounce back on the road. “We just need to come out hard, and I don’t doubt that we will,” Gummersall said. “Obviously we were really upset leaving Florida State, but we’ve put that behind us, and I wouldn’t want to be the next team we face.” And even though Miami isn’t a top-25 team, the Blue Devils feel their philosophy of treating every team the same holds the same amount of importance Thursday.

“One of our main mottos this year has been ‘nameless, faceless opponents,’” Gummersall said. “We just go into every game like it’s our biggest game, and I think that’s really worked out well.”

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coach and Tennessee offensive coordinator. “I opened up with him in Nashville his second year, and every year I coached against Bobby Johnson, you saw his teams get more confident and better.” To stay with the Commodores in front of a hostile Homecoming crowd, the Blue Devils will have to contend with a Vanderbilt offense that uses the run and the pass effectively to control the clock and keep its opponents out of sync. The Commodores do not typically win games in high-scoring shootouts—the SEC’s talent and defensive speed make thatjust about impossible. Vanderbilt’s offense currently ranks last in total offense in conference play, averaging just 249 yards per game. In contrast, Duke’s offense averages 325 yards per game, good for seventh in the ACC. But every team in the underwhelming ACC—including N.C. State, winless in the conference—is putting up more total offense than the Commodores. SEC offenses might be less creative than their ACC counterparts, but the real reason for the anemic offenses is the wealth of defensive talent in the SEC, something the Blue Devils have little experience contesting. To counter that level of defensive pressure, quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said he and his receivers need to make immediate adjustments. Last Saturday, Miami’s comerbacks gave Eron Riley, Raphael Chestnut and the rest of Duke’s widereceivers several yards

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of space at the line of scrimmage, but the wideouts dropped a handful of catchable balls. The Commodores will likely take the same approach as the Hurricanes, but the Blue Devils hope to reverse the outcome. “Vanderbilt gives cushion, as well. They’ve won five games giving cushion so I don’t think they’re going to change for us,” Lewis said. “They want to make us catch the ball and that’s one of our challenges, and I expect our receivers to respond well.” Offensively, the Commodores have a well-balanced, if not always dynamic, style of play. Vanderbilt has rotated two quarterbacks, Chris Nickson and Mackenzi Adams, throughout the year, with Adams establishing himself as the starter in the last four weeks. Adams runs less often than Nickson, but both are true threats on the ground. In addition, Vanderbilt’s quarterbacks tend to take care of the ball, completing about 60 percent of their passes but throwingjust five interceptions in seven games. Duke is preparing to face either player, as their styles differ only slightly, but the players expect Adams to take the majority of the snaps. “We certainly have to find away to contain the quarterbacks in this game because both [of them] can run and are effective throwing on the run,” Cutcliffe said. He was referring to Adams and Nickson, but could just as easily have been talking about the two signal-callers who gave Duke problems last week, Miami’s Robert Marve and Jacory Harris. The duo combined for five passing touchdowns and one rushing score last week, and if Duke is unable to slow the Commodore offense —as it failed to slow Miami’s, particularly after halftime—another ugly loss could be in store. And while the two programs prefer a long-term approach to winning, both know what one win can do in the short term. For the Commodores, a win makes them bowl-eligible. And for Duke, a win keeps alive its outside chance at a bowl berth and, more than anything, indicates a shift in the season’s momentum.

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2002 North Carolina productive to disastrous, elected Eliza- As an inert member of the beth Dole to take Jesse Senate Banking CommitHelms’s former seat in the tee, she sat on the sidelines U.S. Senate. They believed as Wall Street irresponsithat, given her bility plunged the economy long record in editorial into crisis. government, she would be a forceful She has staked herself out as a lockstep Repubrepresentative of their priorities in Congress. lican insider, voting with Six years later, citizens President Bush on 88 of this state are disappercent of her votes. The pointed and disillusioned. pro-life, pro-war, anti-enregulation, Dole has failed to advocate vironmental for the causes that matter anti-child healthcare polimost—or, for that matter, cies that Dole has voted for have weakened the nation many causes at all. This immense dissatisand sapped its credibility faction is the primary rea- throughout the world. As a Washington resison why voters should elect Democrat Kay Hagan, a dent, she has paid almost veteran state Senator. no attention to this state Dole’s tenure in Conin matters of policy and has from ungress ranged personal attention. For voters

instance, when the Navy wanted to build a practice jet landing strip near a wildlife refuge in Northeastern N.C., she sat on her hands until it was too late. The fact that her official campaign Web site does not have an “Issues” section, which would state what she thinks, is symptomatic of a senator whose judgment is poor and whose beliefs are ill-defined. By contrast, Hagan’s service in the N.C. Senate over the past 10 years has put her in the prime

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& their own brotherhood, but a temple of knowledge for all students. This group elad gross conjured up the smile Gothic Bookshop. The Gothic Bookshop spent the next couple of decades where the current Career Center is located in the Flowers Building. When the Bryan Center opened, in went the Gothic. Here, the store prospered. Just last year, at the peak of its influence, the bookshop’s large windows looked right out onto the Plaza. But alas, the Gothic’s golden age seems to have passed. The once cozy study area within the store is now gone. The sun’srays no longer enter the front of the bookshop through those large window panes level with the Plaza. Onlookers cannot see into the store from the Plaza either. A coffee shop, Joe Van Gogh, took the space instead, shrinking the bookshop. But talk to some people and you will think that the Gothic is still upon its finest hour. Kathy World—Operations Manager for the GothicBookshop and a Trinity ’72 graduate who had worked in the bookshop after graduation for 15 years before returning two years ago—told me about the current state of the Gothic. In her view, the greatest competition to her shop comes from massive cyber-bookstores, like Amazon.com. She stressed that the Gothic could order books for students, offers friendly customer service and, perhaps best of all, provides discounts on most book purchases. When asked about the arrival of Joe Van Gogh, World assured me that the new cafe “certainly hasn’t hurt [business]” and that it has brought in some people who may never have stopped by otherwise. Renovation of the Gothic Bookshop has been necessary to make up for the lost space, but World seemed perpetually positive in our talk—“l don’t think we are being slighted,” she said. The Gothic’s logo, she added, is still up on one ofjoe’s windows. But this sticker is a remnant of days past, when the windows were the Gothic’s, not Joe’s. Ironi-

cally, my interview with World took place in Joe there was no space in the Gothic. Reynolds Price, a renowned English professor here at Duke, has his opinions on the Gothic Bookshop’s future as a devoted patron and an initial planner. Price was a member of the Old Trinity Club during his senior year at Duke in 1955. It was this secretive group that breathed life into the Gothic Bookshop. Teaching at Duke since 1958,Price feels as adamantly about the bookshop now as he did more than 50 years ago. He sees the Gothic as a “huge contribution to the alwaysthreatenedcivilization of [Duke].” According to Price, there havebeen several attempts by theadministration to “get rid of the Gothic” or to downsize it The Chronicle reported on the most publicized attempt to lease out the Duke bookstore in the late ’9os. Duke was pondering leasing out the service to Barnes and Noble or to efollett.com, a network connecting hundredsof college campus bookstores. The Gothic Bookshop survived these public bids only to be the subject of a Duke Student Government referendum in 2000. The referendum showed significant student support for a privatized bookstore, although the voting process was admittedly run poorly. The Gothic survived this attack too. Nancy Metzloff, executive assistant to the executive vice president, explained that Joe took the Gothic’s space because of a lack of other options. Vice President of Campus Services Kernel Dawkins concurred, saying the goal of adding Joe was to make the Plaza livelier. Both maintained that the Gothic Bookshop is here to stay. Dawkins did mention that food vendors were under constant review, but thatDuke always tries to balance profitability and sentimentality. Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst, perhaps the most student-oriented official involved with campus venues, said he did not play a role in the placement of Joe. Dawkins pointed out that bookshops often include cafes within their stores. But the Gothic had a small lounge offering free coffee beforehand. Moreover, Joe is wholly separated from the bookstore, aside from a solitary doorway, and it places no books in its windows. Today, it seems that a new threat is squeezing in on the Gothic. It isn’t coming in the form of a vote or as a hot-button issue. Instead, the bookstore is slowly being eaten away. A venue that students at one point fought for was attacked by the same university’s student body in a referendum 40 years later. Now, 50 years after its beginnings, the Gothic Bookshop seems to be going out the same way it came in—in secret. —

Elad Gross is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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letterstotheeditor to commend The Chronicle Editorial ing when it proved inconvenient to his Board for its well-informed and thoughtEric Mlyn general election campaign. Director, Duke Centerfor Civic Engagement ful observations, above and beyond other Yet the Board expects its readers to buy into Obama as a national savior who DukeEngage-related articles and editorials published this year. The coverage has Endorsement ignores Obama’s record will resolve our great national crises beThe Oct. 20 Chronicle Editorial Board cause we truly hope he can. proven timely and constructive. This most recent editorial questions endorsement ofSen. Barack Obama was so If the Board wants to support Obama whether there has been excess funding for filled with empty bromides, I wondered if it because he is the most liberal presidential candidate in a generation, then it should Duke Engage students’ individual projects. were written by the man himself. To ensure this does not occur, we are develAlthough The Chronicle Editorial just say so. But for any moderate voter, the oping a model for student stipends that ap- Board obfuscates the issue, Americans face only sensible choice is McCain. He is a Senpropriately funds students in their chosen a simple choice in this election. Obama is a ate coalition-builder and an independent political opportunist and career leftist, who voice, as the record shows. McCain is a communities—but no more. We are confident that variable student stipends more has amassed the Senate’s most liberal votcandidate for the whole country—not just closely tied to the expense of extended-stay ing record (according to the nonpartisan ultra-liberals and left-wing interest groups. National Journal), and passed no serious, travel and local cost-of-living will help ensure that we are being responsible stewards notable legislation. In contrast, Sen. John Vikram Srinivasan Chair, Duke College Republicans ofour funds. McCain is a career public servant who alTrinity ’lO The Chronicle Editorial Board has ways puts country before party and self, also encouraged Duke Engage to, again, who has earned a long record of bipartisan allow students to apply for up to three reform, and ignored what’s popular to do Duke football gamebehavior unacceptable As a Duke alum, I feel obligated to voice group programs of various types. Last what’s right You can make arguments to support my concern to the Duke community about year, this broad availability created an unsome behavior from a current Duke stuwieldy and cumbersome application and Obama if you are (very) liberal, but “charreview process. With the inclusion of a acter” and dedication to “honesty over condent at the football game this past Saturday. formal interview component thisyear, we venience” are not among them. Let’s review. I am a teacher in Durham where many of To win his first election to Illinois State Senmy students are UNC fens. We love to joke believe that limiting group program aparound with each other about which team plications to no more than two will lead ate, Obama manipulated loopholes in electo greater efficiency and transparency tion law to disqualify his political mentor, is the best I try to teach my students how to have a healthy and fun rivalry. However, this in the process and a better program fit then-incumbentAlice Palmer, from the baloverall for those who participate in 2009. lot so he could run unopposed. To try to win weekend things went too fer for my liking. To clarify, students are only required the presidential election, Obamahas thrown A student fen at the Duke-Miami football game this weekend crossed the line. to apply to a domestic program if they long-time personal acquaintances Reverend and businessman One of my students, a UNC fan, atcorrupt submit more than one program applicaWright Jeremiah tion. Many, including columnists of The Tony Rezko, among many others, under the tended the Duke-Miami football game. He decided to wear his UNC shirt to that Chronicle, have called on DukeEngage bus—after others noted his terrible judgment in befriending them. for more domestic civic engagement opgame (his prerogative) and was met with Obama’s policy positions reek of the some negative comments from a few Duke portunities. We are thrilled to have been able to double our domestic offerings same—dare I say Clintonian?—political students. He said that they seemed to be for 2009 and look forward to seeing the calculation. He opposed the Iraq War as drunk when they said these things to him (not that that is an excuse). What upset benefits of a greater number of students the state senator for the ultra-liberal, anticommitting themselves to service within war Hyde Park district in Chicago—in me most, however, is that my student, who other words, under political pressure to is only 13 years old, was cussed at and spit the United States. on by one of those Duke fans. In my opinI feel honored to be leading this bold oppose it. (His ongoing refusal to acknowland yes, still young—undergraduate iniedge the surge’s success in Iraq reveals his ion, to be spit on is one of the worst forms tiative. President Richard Brodhead has devotion to anti-war interest groups.) On of disrespect—and to a child—utterly inexcusable. Perhaps if students were aware remarked that DukeEngage is an experienergy policy, he has not seriously committed to nuclear energy and increased of this situation, together, we could take a Clair Raver ment in the works. I invite everyone to parstand against inexcusable, rude and embarEconomics Department ticipate in this experiment Help us collect domestic oil production, both critical indata, share ideas and concerns and assist gredients of a comprehensive strategy, to rassing behavior. us in making Duke Engage a program that avoid infuriating left-wing interest groups. An experiment in engagement Toni Graves Williamson In response to the Oct. 21 editorial empowers our Duke community and the Moreover, in a brazen flip-flop, Obama Trinity ’OB broke his promise to receive public financ“DukeEngage makes headway,” I want communities we serve.

Thanks for bringing Jamie Dimon In response to the Oct. 20 letter to the editor “Fuqua mistake explains financial crisis,” by Andrew Tutt, I am incensed and insulted by the comparison made of Fuqua students’ organizing an event to those who are trying to wrestle through this extremely serious global financial meltdown—it shows a complete and utter disregard for the facts and the situation as well as a lack of respect for those who organized the event I was fortunate enough to get in to hear I heard about Jamie Dimon speak. When the event I appreciated immediately that it would be popular beyond beliefand beyond the capacity ofany auditorium on campus I don’t think it takes a genius to realize this. Understanding the “risk” that I might not get in I arrived at 5 p.m. sharp and was rewarded for my foresight and planning. People who arrived after 5:20 p.m. were refused entry for safety reasons —this clearly demonstrates that the Fuqua students who organized this event are not grossly incompetent but put people’s safety above anything else. If you place sufficient value on getting in to such an event then why show up just 10 minutes before? Surely you knew that it was probably going to be one of the most popular events on campus this year. The fact that Dimon found time in his extremely pressing schedule to come and speak here illustrates the respect that he holds for school and those who come to Fuqua to learn. I encourage Tutt to consider the bigger picture: It is vitally important for the future of the speaker series and the reputation of Fuqua that these kinds of events be well attended so as to ensure speakers like Dimon continue to visit and share their views with us. Please address your concerns with the organizers directly before making accusatory remarks about their competency in the context of the global financial crisis. I thank the Distinguished Speaker organizers at Fuqua for bringing Dimon to Duke. —

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46 things I think I learned during my surgery rotation

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surgeons dress when one is pretending to be a surgeon. Tbe concepts behind heart surgery are easier to understand than you think they are. The time it takes to do heart surgery is exqCtly38melong as you think it is. times it takes even longer. i • Riding in a six-person Leaijet to harvest

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pay $22. 75 for parking so that you can get on to use, the answer is, “Lactated Ringers.” your $6.8 million jet and head to the south of 24. Bizarrely, Lactated Ringers solution con-

France for the weekend. 12. The box marked “Human Organ Transport” sitting on the tarmac at the Greenville Airport actually does contain a human kidney (or pancreas or liver) packed in dry ice. 13. It is perfectly appropriate to put a box containing a human kidney into the trunk of a Jetta and drive at the speed limit from RDU to the Duke hospital. 14. It doesn’t matter how early you go to sleep, waking up at 3:45 a.m. still feels like waking up in the middle of the night. 15. So does waking up at 4:15 a.m. 16. Patients are less than thrilled when you breeze into their room at 4:30 a.m. and starting poking at their bellies. 17. Probably because no matter how early they went to sleep, it still feels like the middle of the night. 18. Especially when they had surgery there the day before. 19. There’s no medical condition that can’t be diagnosed withanoscopy. 20. That’s probably not true. 21. The answer to any question about surgery is, “Get a complete history and physical.” 22. The answer to the follow-up question is usually, “Optimize the patient’s volume status.” 23. If they ask you what type offluids you want

tains no ringers. 25. It does, however, contain lactate. 26. If anyone wants more information than you know, running out of the room and crying is not an appropriate answer. 27. The answer to a question about surgery is never, “Go straight to the operating room.” 28. Unless it is the answer. 29. Surgeons call motorcycles donor cycles (Get it? It’s an organ donation joke!) 30. A surgeon asked my scooter-driving friend if he could just tattoo his blood type on his chest so that they’ll knowwhich patients to transplant his organs into when he suffers massive head injuries as a result of crashing his scooter. 31. My friend is notJ.D. from Scrubs. 32. Only parents who hate their children buy them motorcycles. 33. Despite theirfantastic gas mileage and the fact that I’d look super-cool riding in one, I do not want a motorcycle or a scooter. 34. Even if it had a sidecar. 35. Always wear eye protection in the operating room. 36. Be nice to the nurses. They were nice to you first. 37. It’s kind of nice to get yelled at, because that means someone cares. 38. The alternative to being yelled at is

being ignored. That means no one cares about you. 39. If you can’t deal with a problem, someone else in the hospital can. Send the patient to him or her. 40. If you did surgery, and your patient has a problem, it’s your fault until you’ve proven that it isn’t. 41. “Cancer” is always an answer when asked what the diagnosis might be, 42. “Cancer” is rarely the answer that the person asking the question is looking for. 43. The answer is “diverticulitis.” 44. Med students wear short white coats. Interns where short white coats and white pants. Everyone else wears whatever they want in an effort to confuse med students. 45. Med students spend a quarter of their time scared, halfof theirtime confused, and a quarter of their time waiting to be told what to do. 46. The rest of the time is for sleeping. I also learned at least 17 other things, one of thembeing the basics ofmanaging a surgical patient (which may or may not be a single “thing”). Though I care deeply about them, I can’t imagine that anyone else would since they involve science and stuff.

AlexFanamff, Trinity ’O7, is a secondyear medical student. His column runs every other Thursday.

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