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For Blue Devils, basketball and business go hand in hand.

Wednesday afternoon marked the closing of this year’s Fuqua School of Business and Coach K Leadership Conference. The three-day event titled “Leadership in Times of Uncertainty” focused on corporate strategies for dealing with an unstable economy.

Blair Sheppard, dean of Fuqua and chair and cofounder of Duke Corporate Education, said the conference’s main objective was to develop businesses by drawing parallels to sports and viewing games as “metaphors for life.”

“Our hope is that interesting, fun, stimulating conversations come from [the conference].” Sheppard said. “How do we develop a strategy when we have no idea what’s going to happen next year?”

The conference—which cost participants |T,600 per ticket—featured more than 15 speakers, admittance to a men’s basketball practice and a gala dinner at which Head coach Mike Krzyzewski delivered the keynote address.

The high-paced atmosphere of the practice was an effective contrast to the professional environment of the keynote sessions, said self-proclaimed Duke fan James Riggs, a certified financial planner and managing SEE LEADERSHIP ON PAGE 6

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The Durham Bulls mascot poses with a fan during the team's celebration ofitsnational championship season Wednesday nightThe event featured free hot dogs and games ofcatch inside the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

Fans celebrated their Durham Bulls’ first national championship Wednesday night with an evening of free hot dogs and games of*catch under the lights.

The Bulls, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, hosted the celebration at the Durham Athletic Park downtown. The approximately 700 fans who attended were treated to a tour of the clubhouse, autographs from infielders and a chance to view the Bulls’ 2009 championship trophy, said Matt DeMargel, Durham Bulls director of media relations and promotions. The field was open to fans, and those who brought their gloves threw baseballs around the outfield.

Fan Chris Elvis was waiting in line with his son to take a picture with the trophy.

“I’m a big fan,” Elvis said of the celebration. “I think it’s good for the community.

It’s fun to get out here on a real baseball field—l played in Little League.”

Although minor league baseball often has trouble drawing large crowds and generating hype, the Bulls has been one of the most popular teams in the Triple-A class.

Out of 176 minor league teams, the Bulls have consistently finished in the top 30 in terms of attendance, DeMargel said. In 1988, the Bulls gained national recognition after Kevin Costner starred as a veteran catcher for the then Single-A Bulls in the romantic comedy, “Bull Durham.”’

Members of the front office staff expressed hope that the national championSEE CHAMPIONSHIP ON PAGE 5

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Duke Student Government discussed changes to'the walkup line policy for the 2009-2010 basketball season, as well as the creation of a Student Organization Finance Committee Reform Commission at its Wednesday night meeting.

Head Line Monitor Zach White, a senior, introduced an update to the walk-up line policy and provided senators with a formal overview of the new registration process. This season, small groups of up to six people may register with the line monitors when half of the group arrives, and large groups of 30 or more students may e-mail the Head Line Monitor eight hours in advance of tip-off to register for attendance.

These larger groups—potentially ranging from fraternities, dormitory residents or club sports teams—will also be entitled to a Residence Life and Housing Services-sanctioned grill on a firstcome, first-served basis.

White hopes that the policy’s changes will promote a more lively and exciting atmosphere among various groups of students while they are waiting in line.

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Iraq election delays may Vaccine prod, must change slow U.S. troop withdrawal WASHINGTON Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebeliustold Congress Wednesday that delays in the release of MINI flu shots show that the United States is too dependent on other countries for the manufacture of vaccines and that the technology to make them must be improved.

Four of the five manufacturers of HINI vaccine are foreign companies—a fact that alarmed Tawmakers, who expressed concern about the ability of the federal government to secure enough vaccine to prevent the spread of swine flu.

Some expressed even greater concern that the lag in vaccine production could mean the HI N1 flu shots will arrive too late to do any good, citing a recent study that predicted that the most cases of swine flu would occur this week.

WASHINGTON U.S. commanders may have to slow the pace, of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq if Baghdad delays national elections scheduled for Jan. 16 or if other political instability develops, senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday.

A more protracted drawdown of the 120,000 troops now in Iraq would not prevent President Barack Obama from boosting the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but it could increase stress on American ground forces, Vice Adm. James Winnefeld Jr., director for strategic plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee.

Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, told the committee that if Iraq's parliament does not pass an election law within two weeks, the polling date would slip to later in January.

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Deft diplomacy and reBEIRUT gional security woes are driving Iran and the United States toward a deal on Iran's nuclear program, experts say, illustrated by movement Wednesday in talks to transfer most ofthe Islamic Republic's fissile material abroad to be processed for medical uses.

Iranian, American, Russian and French diplomats agreed to a proposal by the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, for most of Iran's stockpile of nuclear material to be sent to Russia and France for further processing for an Iranian medical reactor.

The deal, which must be signed by Friday, could fall apart if one party refuses to sign or insists on late tinkering.

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nuclear program, including its continued production of enriched uranium in defiance of the U.N. Security Council, the discovery of documents that purport to show Iran engaged in experiments consistent with a clandestine atomic weapons program or the recently revealed secret enrichment facility at a Revolutionary Guard base near Qom. It also does not address the possibility that Iran has built a secret parallel program not subject to international scrutiny.

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DSG from page 1 “I think the new policy will make the actual wait in line a more fun and exciting experience,” White wrote in e-mail. “Ideally, students will be grilling, listening to music, rtancine and meeting people form other groups— both large and small.”

In an effort to incorporate various organizations, White said he sought input from line monitors, Duke Athletics, DSG and students. Although White said student participation at home games is not a concern, he must still work to generate a supportive environment for the basket-

ball team.

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Sophomore Pete Schork, vice president for athletics and campus services, submitted the update. The policy also includes a rationale for the changes, noting that in MELISSA YEO/THE CHRONICLE prior years, the walk-up line policy made it Hu, to stand SOFC ChairDavid a breaks out a dance to make large groups junior, for a the DSG The discussed the creation ofthe SOFC Reform Comistogether point during meeting Wednesday night group difficult inside Cameron Indoor Stadium. Although sion and heard Head Line MonitorZach White's proposed walk-up line policy, which will allow large groups to register via emailand bring grills to Krzyzewskivilie. under the new policy, large groups will be The Senate created the commission to will determine the accessibility of finance paign for campus transportation. These able to stand and socialize together, groups to those groups and distribute funds acmust be present for any line checks that identify changes that need to be made in advertisements will cost $3OO and $BOO are called and must have at least half of the the Duke community. The commission will cordingly. respectively. present a report of recommendations to group present at all times.

Junior Ben Getson, a former senator, “We believe that these changes will fosthe Senate and Nur by Dec. 2.

In other business: presented Courseßank on behalf of the The commission will be composed of DSG approved $l,lOO for Courseßank, ter a greater sense of community and fun public forum and said his goal is to get as many students as possible to use Courseßin K-ville, further enhancing enthusiasm nine DSG members, with Treasurer Sam a software program that facilitates studentselection of and investigation into courses. and support for Duke basketball,” Schork Halls, a senior, serving as the chair. Senaank over the next year. tors elected junior Ben Bergmann, sophoVice President forAcademic Affairs Cynsaid.

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funds for Courseßank to promote marketing. Part of the advertising outreach will include designing a banner to be displayed in front of the Bryan Center as well as launching an advertisement cam-

Pfeiffer game," incorrectly described an upcoming event. Comedian Bo Burnham will come to campus Dec. 3.The Chronicle regrets the error.

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CHAMPIONSHIP from page 1 ship will build excitement around the team and attract even more fans. .

“With all the colleges in this area... a national championship... means something, DeMargel said. They understand what that means... and we ve had a tremendous

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As evidence of the increased support, Durham Bulls cited an increase in sales of

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online merchandise since the championship and pointed to the hundreds of fans who came out Wednesday night.

Biding also noted the economic downturn and recognized the Bulls as a cheap entertainment option.

“A lot of people this year, with the economy, aren’t going to the beach,” Biding said. “They’re staying home and finding inexpensive ways to be entertained, and that’s what we try to provide.”

Those who did go out to the ballpark this year watched the squad win their division with an 83-61 record, before emerging as victors of the International League after beat-

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“Even though we lost some really key players, we had some guys to fill in right away and that’s important to win a championship,” said infielder Elliot Johnson, Johnson said support for the Bulls is strong in the Triangle, adding that “the more you win, the more they’re going to come out.”

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The Durham Bulls celebrates its first national championship Wednesday night. The event featured games of catch for young fans (right) inside the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Players from the team met with fans and gave away autographs in front of the stadium (left) prior to the celebration.The Bulls beat out the Pacific Coast League champion Memphis Redbirds 5-4 for the national title Sept. 22.

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director of Rogers Realty Advisors, LLC. “I like being around world-class organizations, there are always things you can learn,” Riggs said of the men’s basketball team. “There’s a chemistry from being around the best. I would call it an emotional level of intelligence.”

Krzyzewski used the scrimmage in Cameron Indoor Stadium to demonstrate different leadership techniques that work both on the court and in the office. As players raced up and down the court, Krzyzewski explained different coaching techniques he was using and how to apply them to everyday life.

“You have to adjust accordingly,” he said. “In any team there are people who are more talented and experienced than others. We have to find who complements them while allowing them to develop... A good player is a student of the game.”

Brian Bonner, Business ’B5 and vice president and chief information officer of Texas Instruments, said Krzyzewski’s presence played a large role in his interest in the conference.

“The best part of the conference is [Krzyzewski],” Bonner said. “He doesn’t hide behind corporate mumbo-jumbo. Whatever the theme, [Krzyzewski] brings it home.”

Scott Barron, president of Mount Pisgah Christian School in Johns Greek, Ga., shared similar ideas.

“I’ve read all of [Krzyzewski]’s books,” Barron said. “I came with an interest as to how leadership in sports plays into life as well.”

Although feedback for Krzyzewski was largely positive, some participants were not as enthused with the other keynote speakers at the event.

“I think [the keynote speakers] are OK,” said Magda Kespany, who attended the event out of curiosity. “In the future they can improve. There are other areas apart from business that managers need to understand.”

Despite some of the drawbacks of the conference, Riggs said he was glad he attended the event.

“At some other conferences I may have enjoyed [the speakers] a little more,” he said, “But I still [found these speakers] very helpful.”

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duke.H The beautiful list of music video collaborations just got a new entry, and it’s so unhinged it makes Harvey Keitel playing poker with Hova look perfectly normal in

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Best-Idea-Ever candidate Where the Wild Things An?, justreleased a short film starring Kanye West, currendy famous for actually being the man. It’s called “We Were Once a Fairy Tale.” I already placed a bet on it winning the Best Short Film Oscar. (Don’t know the category? Go watch Martin McDonagh’s “Six Shooter,” which won in 2005.

You probably won’t forget again.)

The film, inasmuch justice as ekphrasis can dor depicts—well, who better to describe it than recess’ own film editor, Charlie McSpadden? He calls it “a meta-analysis of the self,” the camera movements “referencing Mr. West’s dissatisfaction with his own existence and a disillusionment with a larger reality.” If anyone needs Charlie for further questions, he’ll be rewatching American Psycho.

A meta-analysis of self involving a disillusioned and apparently unloved protagonist, sick music and a furry creature. What does this sound like? Where the Wild Things Are! Which leads to an obvious conclusion: “We Were Once a Fairy Tale” is a companion piece, the “Hotel Chevalier” to Wild Things' Darjeeling Limited. Except, replace Jason Schwartzman with Kanye, Natalie Portman with a small animal representing Kanye’s heart and sex with self-disembowlment. As if the prospect of a meta-anlaysis of self didn’t have you dying to see it already.

Two songs soundtrack this stumbling" surreality: Kanye’s own “See You In My Nightmares,” featuring Weezy F. Baby ( F is for furry), and Beethoven’s Midnight Sonata, two wonderfully disparate pieces of music. Beethoven too was once a voice of his generation.

Spike Jonze and Kanye West are two of my favorite people in modem pop culture, and “Fairy Tale” just reaffirms this. Ifyou’ll excuse me, I’m going to go watch it again.

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I am reminded of the 1976 film Network, in which Howard Beale proclaims, ‘You’re beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal.... This is mass madness, you maniacs.... Weave the illusions!”

This confusion becomes more pronounced as we struggle to internalize the filming of a real event for fictionalized purposes.

I blame pom every time I catch myself making another Brazilian bikini wax appointment with the sadistic, cosmetologist who laughs when my eyes start to tear up. Centuries from now, scholars will wonder why the ancient world’s most advanced civilizations allowed hot wax to be poured in close proximity to the body’s most sensitive regions only to gain attention from the opposite sex.

“What do men expect? You’re not a prepubescent girl or a pom star.” No, I’m not a pom star, but in an age when-most adolescent boys were exposed to JennaJameson’s breasts years before the real thing, girls embrace stray hairs at their own risk. Given the difficulty of finding a YouPom video catered to women’s taste, I’m baffled by the extent of pubic baldness, amongst college-age females.

The parade ofSevenjeans and Longchamps on the plaza is an easy trend to observe, but a proclivity towardSouth American-inspiredwaxing is a little more difficult Yet the majority of

menL They possess some innate knowledge that this agonizing routine is as necessary to sex appeal as frequent mascara application and a low-carb diet. What bred these universal expectations?

The sexual pressures bred by pornography overexposure are not limited to the female gender. The natural endowment of the average male pom star should require little discussion or analysis. Although most females do not use pornographic units of measurement to determine their partners’ bedroom worth, pornography equates female orgasm production with sexual mastery.

If one were to survey the few dirty videos geared toward women’s pleasure, every cinematically produced sexual encounter would end with an earth-shattering orgasm. Consequendy, real world hook-ups have yielded the fake orgasm to meet these mutually inflated expectations. Artificiality infiltrates reality.

What’s the difference between illusion and authenticity? Between ACES and Facebook, we have the opportunity to observe any possible explicit act. Porn doesn’t use stunt men to distinguish between the real arid the constructed.

When it comes to sex, how can we possibly determine what is real? .

Brooke Hartley is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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The Carolina Ballet’s Picasso features four ballets inspired by the Nasher Museum ofArt’s exhibition Picasso and the Allure ofLanguage. As though performing a ballet inspired by an art exhibition celebrating a painter’s relationship to writing is not ambitious enough, Picasso chooses four very different samples of the artist’s work to motivate each piece.

To begin, the ballet reaches back into biblical history with Salome, choreographed by Richard Weiss. Typically, Salome is portrayed as a seductress. She beguiles her father into promising her anything she wants with her captivating dance, then demands John the Baptist’s death. The ballet, however, captures a more complex heroine, trapped between a mother’s jealous demands and her own young love. Randi Osetek’s nuanced performance ofSalome memorializes the forgiveness evoked by the delicate drypoint print Picasso created after reading a poem written in Salome’s voice.

Guernica, the next piece, is inspired by Picasso’s chaotic depiction of the city’s destruction during the Spanish Civil War. Long-limbed and frail, dancer Lara O’Brien curls into herself protectively, then stretches her arms out as if striving for survival. Five strapping men alternate between carrying her carefully, bending as she climbs high on their backs and throwing her violently to one another. Attila

Bongar’s choreography reveals the complicated, tragic interaction between men and their city.

The next dance, Weiss’s Picasso’s Harlequins, is a welcome reprieve from Guernica’s sorrowful destruction. It serves as a powerful reminder of the imposing emotional power of delight. Two couples dressed in the joyful jester checkers of Picasso’s harlequin paintings tease, tempt and twirl one another flirtatiously. Each dancer is definitively precious. David Heuvel costumes the dancers like candies in stained-glass colors, detailed with red ribbons.

In The Song of the Dead, Weiss uses two dancers to represent the red brush strokes Picasso used to adorn the letters in poet Pierre Reverdy’s Le Chant des Marts. Together, the two move toward six dancing couples, touching them gently. Awakened, the couples express loss and yearning through their dances.

The show’s roots remain loyally locked in Picasso’s art. From there, however, the choreography reaches up and entangles.

Fluent in the languages of art and emotion, the ballet captures how disparate sentiments and mediums coexist, connect and inform another. Whether it’s death, dancing or cheeky flirtation, affective art captures humanity at the height of its expression.

The ballet runs through Nov. 1 at the Fletcher Opera Theater in Raleigh. For more information, visit carolinaballet.com/picasso

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scene: Kurt Huxley, a college senior in an unidentified university in a nondescript town, has been kicked out of school for toking up one too many times. He waits—symbolically, some would say—by a lime green help phone for his ride to take him away.

This was the sight that greeted bemused motorists on Towerview Drive last Saturday. A ragtag crew of Duke students were trying their hands at movie magic as an icy wind swept through the Gothic Wonderland.

This shot is the opening of a heretofore untitled project led by budding filmmakers Michael Burakow, a senior, and Nick Hawthorne, a junior. Ifsuccessfully completed, Intervention—the working title—will be the first entirely student-produced feature-length movie made at Duke in recent memory.

“We’re not expecting a perfect film, but we do want to show college students can make a good movie with decent production quality,” Burakow said.

The film follows “pathologically rebellious” habitual marijuana user Kurt —played by Burakow himself—as he is court-ordered to undergo treatment at Clearing Waters Rehabilitation Center.

Inspired by films like Juno that used humor and wit to deal with weighty subject material, it’s a tale of self-discovery. But it’s one that prides itself on its nuanced approach to the topic and its cast of oddball characters.

Mom is a pill-popper, Dad’s an alcoholic, love interest Kate is waging her own battle with the bottle, while best friend Art is a computer engineer with obsessive-compulsive tendencies who also happens to dabble in heroin. It’s a story that’s as all-American as baseball and apple pie.

“It’s a misunderstood subject—the subject ofaddiction,” Hawthorne said. “People view substance addiction much more seriously than other addictions. But an addiction is an addiction. Everyone’s got one.”

Burakow and Hawthorne first entertained the idea of making the movie when Hawthorne was a freshman and Burakow a sophomore. Over the course of the next two years, Burakow and Hawthorne—also brothers in Sigma Nu fraternity—hammered out a script and tookvarious screenwriting and directing classes within the Film/

Video/Digital Program (now, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image) to hone their craft.

Last spring, when Burakow went to Los Angeles as part of Duke’s then-FVD study-away program, the duo finally began recruiting other cast and crew to get the project rolling.

“This idea that you have to wait for a golden moment... well, there’s no reason to postpone,” said Elisabeth Benfey, a lecturing fellow for AMI. “Michael feels like it should be happening now, and he has confidence in his collaborators.”

“You know Murphy’s law? That if something can wrong, it will?

Murphy was a filmmaker.”

Nick Hawthorne, Co-director It’s an ambitious feat to be sure—l2o pages of material to film, produce and edit within one academic year.

The team —made up of about 14 crew members, a dozen main characters and miscellaneous extras—began shooting in August.

It’s apparent that the team has made good use of Duke’s surroundings and resources. For the purposes of the project, Bell Tower dormitory has been transformed into the interior of the rehab facility (“There’s similarities between the sterility ofclassrooms and the sterility of rehab,” Hawthorne noted), the exterior of the John Hope Franklin Center into the outside of Clearing Waters and a house off East into the Huxley abode. The project is so Duke-driven that even rising pop phenom Mike Posner, another senior Sigma Nu, is contributing a track.

Despite the support provided by the University community, however, there have been plenty of naysayers, Burakow said.

But the film has become something of a labor oflove for those involved. Burakow especially oozes enthusiasm, even as he shivered on the curb as other crew members fiddled with the malfunctioning camera and tried (unsuccessfully)

fascinated passers-by out of the frame Saturday.

The life of an amateur filmmaker is not as glamorous as you might think, Hawthorne said. It took about an hour to shoot what will most likely be at most a minute-long clip within the finished product.

“You never understand why there are so many people credits ofmovies until you make a movie,” Burakow the in said. “It really is a team effort.”

And there’s been no shortage of hiccups along the way.

Operating on a $3,000 budget and borrowed equipment from AMI, whether the right cameras will be available at the right time is something of a crapshoot.

In addition, there are some things that not even the keenest of directors can plan for—like Mother Nature.

‘You know Murphy’s law? That if something can go wrong, it will?” Hawthorne said. “Murphy was a filmmaker."

In response, the team of amateur filmmakers has developed a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants attitude, learning to roll with the punches. Flexibility, a necessary virtue for aspiring Spielbergs.

“I can kind of tell it’s the first student-led feature film,” said senior Adam Barron, who plays heroin junkie Art. “There’s always slip-ups, but it’s just part of the game.”

Burakow said his team is committed to seeing the project finished. He and Hawthorne hope to wrap up shooting by the end of this semester and do the bulk of post-production work in the spring. The filmmakers want to premiere the movie at Duke by early May. “I think, all things considered, it’s going well,” Burakow said. “People did not expect us to get past 20 pages. Now we’re at over 40.”

Burakow and Hawthorne said they are planning on submitting Intervention to the festival circuit after it’s completed, but collaborators also have high hopes for what the finished product will do for the film culture at Duke.

“I don’tknow if FVD will be able to,support these kinds of projects in the future,” Benfey said. “I think they are looking at an experimental documentary approach but I would love to see good stories get made. Fiction projects like this.” to keep

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After deluge, Harlem Theatre revitalizes Godot byJenni Wei THE CHRONICLE

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Part of CTH’s mission statement is to present the “classics” in Harlem, in away that makes them more immediate and socially relevant to a contemporary audience.

A notoriously heady play in which nothing happens, twice, Godot was initially met with outrage when it premiered in 1955. Now recognized as one of the most significant English plays of the 20th century, Godothas caused an outpouring of academic analysis and existentialist baggage —of which Beckett himself only commented, “Why people have to complicate a thing so simple I can’t make out.”'

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Beckett’s themes of waiting with the afplay at a street intersection in the Lower termath of the storm, creating a producNinth Ward. The two went to New Orleans tion that spoke directly to a very specific and began knocking on doors. They asked two basic questions: “What are you waiting audience.

“I started seeing all the images that. for?” And, “If we are to do this play in the were littering the landscape of the media,” Lower Ninth Ward, what else do we need McElreon said. “I saw two guys floating to do to make this a meaningful experidown the street with a d00r... a tree com- ence?” The project began to take shape ing out of the water... I saw folks who were based on the responses.

“What we continuously heard was... in need of help...just waiting.”

The images resonated with the text. ‘We’re not waiting for anything. We have taken charge of the situation ourselves beVisual artist and activist Paul Chan approached McElreon with an idea: stage the cause we’re tired of waiting,”’ McElreon

said. “The other thing we heard was, ‘You can’t come down here and exploit the landscape. We have seen countless artists come down... and leave nothing behind for the community.’”

Thus a simple idea evolved into something much more profound. “[The project] takes the basic idea of theater, which is the relationship between an actor and the audience and expands that to include community,” McElreon said.

CTH raised $50,000 toward grassroots rebuilding efforts, arranged university master classes, community workshops at local high schools and a series of potluck dinners, where residents discussed what it means to wait in a post-Katrina New Orleans. And there was the play itself, which McElroen directed with a notably optimistic interpretation informed by the community’s spirit of self-reliance. “[This revival] really has a vaudevillian style,” said actor J. Kyle Manzay, who drew from his training in Commedia dell’Arte.

“The physical comedy of it helps me gain access to [the character of Estragon].”

That opening night, 1600 people showed up in a devastated neighborhood to see not only theater, but Godot.

“The production that comes to Duke carries with it the remnants of those two productions,” said Aaron Greenwald, director ofDuke Performances.

The revival’s emphasis on local relevance suits the programming of Duke Performances, Greenwald said. The Duke organization has continually sought to reengage students with community and the roots of culture.

“I think it’s important for an institution like Duke, that has global reach and... cutting-edge research happening, that we and the Durham community understand where home is,” Greenwald said.

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FILM REVIEW THE STEPFATHER DIR. N. MCCORMICK SONY PICTURES

����� It’s Dan Humphrey vs. Dr. Sean McNamara with Disturbid s backdrop. And yes, it’s as terrible as it sounds.

After a year in boot camp, Michael (Penn Badgley) comes home to find that his recently divorced mother Susan (Sela Ward) is engaged to David Harris (Dylan Walsh), a mysterious but good-natured stranger. Unbeknownst to the family, “David” is actually Grady Edwards, a serial killer that targets single mothers and their families. Michael becomes suspicious and spends most of the movie trying to convince the rest of his family that David is not whom he appears to be.

In classic scary movie denial, nobody believes him until the corpses have piled up.

If you can understand words, you are too smart for this movie. The “twists” are obvious, and anyone with a modest knowledge of the horror genre will see them coming. In one scene of cinematic brilliance, an old lady informs David that she saw a man who looked just like him on America’s Most Wanted. She is brutally murdered shortly after—gasp! Why didn’t she just call the police? Apparendy, horror movie writers don’t factor in silly things like logic.

The movie is not totally devoid of redeeming qualities, though. Walsh makes for a convincing psychopath, providing the film with at least some semblance of psychological depth.

The rest of the cast wallows in mediocrity, but there’s only so much a good actor can do with a two<limensionalcharacter and script The only scary thing about The Stepfathers that someone thought remaking the 1987 original was a good idea.

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����� Be glad for Logos, became it almost never made it. After unintentionally leaking unfinished versions of every song on his solo project Adas Sound’s second full-length, Bradford Cox nearly scrapped the entire thing in dismay. He ultimately came back to the material, giving it the treatment it deserves and, in the process, making one of the best shoegaze albums in a year chock full of them.

This statement is a testament to the enormity of Cox’s talent, but it doesn’t do justice to Logos or anything else Cox does, by himself or with original band Deerhunter. This is a deeply-layered album, one that veers with aplomb from bubbling, avantgarde electronics (opener “The Light That Failed”) to gorgeous indie-pop (“Crimi-

nal”). Cox has toned down the experimentalism ofhis last Atlas Sound release, Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel, but Logos still gives you the sense that Atlas Sound exists to indulge Cox’s every sonic curiosity, no matter how disparate they might be.

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����� The (in)famous Twilight saga now has its fangs stuck in the bloodstream of American pop culture. With four best-selling novels and one high-grossing movie, the film adaptation of second book New Moon is sure to create a sanguinary sensation.

New Moon's soundtrack employs some of the highest profile names in the music world. The variety of artists—luminaries like Death Cab for Cutie, Muse, Grizzly Bear, Thom Yorke and Lykke Li all contribute fresh material—makes it hard to make overarching statements, but common themes do emerge.

There is a malaise surrounding all of the tracks, which makes it difficult to connect to most of the songs. An inexplicable underlying folk influence tries unsuccessfully to tie the album together. The consistent lack of vocal polish would make even Conor Oberst cringe. In the end, the record feels more like an angst fest of folksy garage band wannabes than an artsy film accompaniment.

The Killers’ ode to cadaverous romance, “A White Demon Love Song,” falls short ofemotive. It feels like a creepily cartoonish sketch, Brandon Flowers’ vocals reaching a new level of grating. This is the audible equivalent of a homework assignment done 30 minutes before class. The Killers earn an ‘F’ in compilation albums.

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The cover artwork for The Real Feel, Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs’ (aka Scott Kannberg) first solo record, is an immediate indication of the album’s corniness.

A raccoon lies inert on the pavement, prescription bottles and pills scattered around his head, with the Spiral Stairs logo slapped like a bumper sticker along the bottom.

The kitschy image presages the album’s anemic songs, which are even less impressive than Kannberg’s previous post-Pavement work with Preston School of Industry. With Pavement, Kannberg and frontman Stephen Malkmus made a reputation using jangly guitars and ramshackle composition.

The band’s DIY motif was crystallized in fantastic songs like “Summer Babe,” from Slanted and Enchanted.

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But The Real Feel only confirms that Kannberg’s grip on the direction ofhis genre is slipping. On the opener “True Love,” pitchy guitar inflections are layered upon a backbeat of tired power chords,'while Kannberg recites nonsequiturs like “Save it for a rainy day/dipthong got nothing to say.” What?

Later on, “The Real Feel” is 17 seconds of needless electronic conflagration (hopefully not an ironic rehashing of Abbey Road's “Her Majesty”). The title track further demonstrates Kannberg’s estrangement from today’s music. It’s no longer cool to throw in random sound loops, especially in the midst of a straightforward rock album.

As a solo venture, The Real Feel is forgettable, especially considering Kannberg’s illustrious role as an indie rock founding father.

When Pavement starts their reunion tour in 2010, let’s hope these songs are left off of the set list.

—Jake Stanley

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����� If nothing else, Amelia reminds us of a time when America’s celebrities could back their star power with real talent.

The most famous and accomplished aviatrix of her time, Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) grew up in a small town in Kansas, spending her days dreaming of the skies and faroff lands as only a Midwesterner could. Her passion for flying eventually brought her in contact with George Putnam (Richard Gere), a smooth-talking publisher who foresees the coming of PR, and the two go into business—and then bed—with each other.

But Amelia, self-proclaimed “vagabond of the sky,” becomes restless with the slew of promotional talks and product endorsements, as well as the comfortable marriedlife-in-Rye existence. She responds by taking to the sky whenever the money allows, picking up lover Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor) and faux-mothering his son Gore. Her ambition proves fatal, however, and, mere days away from concluding her circumnavigation of the globe, her plane

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The film’s first half hour suffers from rocky —dare I say

turbulent?—pacing, and the introductory relationship between George and Amelia largely flies by on a gimmick.

But crisper storytelling eventually emerges as the narrative progresses, and a gripping conclusion uplifts the characters and elegantly handles Amelia’s final flight.

Director Mira Nair wondrously captures the feeling of escapism that flight bestows—especially during a night flight over D.C. with Eleanor Roosevelt—and beautifully paints the exotic locations that Earheart visited, including Pakistan, Mali and Papa New Guinea.

Swank and Gere comfortably fit their roles as the tomboyish Amelia and the swoon-inducing salesman, and both actors do their best with dialogue that every so often nosedives into mush. Their relationship would be progressive if it weren’t for the fact that Putnam is her publicist: it is, and always has been, all about Amelia. At least Putnam understands this, evidenced in a poignant radio call at the film’s close.

Though featuring an often overly biopic feel, Amelia boasts stunning visuals and is a pleasant enough takeoff into the past.

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Coming off a 15-win season in 2008 that included 14 defensive shutouts, expectations were high for this year’s Blue Devil squad. But with seniors departing from last year’s NCAA quarterfinal team and the loss of experienced defenders to injury, Duke has been forced to rely on a slew of freshmen in defense for the 2009 campaign.

The new corps offreshmen have battled admirably thus far, holding four ACC opponents scoreless through six conference games. Above all, their ability to adapt to new situations has driven the Blue Devils’ success.

The Duke defense suffered injury woes early in the season, losing senior captain Sara Murphy* highly regarded freshman Kim DeCesare and sophomore standout Ashley Rape, who garnered all-ACC accolades last year. The loss of these players —all projected to start for Duke—considerably thinned the squad, meaning untested players were counted on to play big minutes right away.

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we thought would play big roles gone before our first preseason practice,” head coach Robbie Church said. “We had to ask our step into some big roles.”

Duke currently starts five freshmen: goalkeeper Tara Campbell, central midfielder Nicole Lipp and defenders Maddy Haller, Libby Jandl and Erin Koballa.

“They basically had to grow up overnight,” junior center back Gretchen Miller said.

The Blue Devils have had to adjust their ranks even more due to a recent switch to a conventional 4-4-2 formation. With a lineup now featuring four midfielders, Lipp has moved to the center of the park, while Jandl has taken over the vacant spot at center back, where she has flourished.

Jandl, a Kansas native who didn’tfigure into Church’s plans entering the season, now plays a major role alongside Miller at the heart of the defense.

“She kept getting better and better and better in practice, so we decided to give her a starting role. And since she’s been starting, we haven’t allowed a goal,” Church said.

Jandl is the only freshman

defender with any defensive experience; the rest have converted from attacking roles.

Koballa tallied 30 goals and 15 assists as a senior in New Hanover, just outside of Wilmington, N.C. “Erin was the only one we thought would play back there as a right back. She’s a real combination player,” Church said.

Haller scored 41 goals as a senior in high school, but now patrols the opposite side of the field as a left back.

“It hasn’t been that hard to switch positions if you have the right mentality, and Gretchen has really helped out,’” Haller said.

The defense has been anchored by the stellar goalkeeping play ofCampbell, who is second in the ACC with 62 saves.

Campbell, who had a standout club career in Ohio, is fast becoming one of the premier keepers in the league.

Church credits much of the the back line’s success to the defensive knowledge of assistant coach Carla Overbeck.

Overbeck, winner of a Women’s World Cup and former captain of the U.S. Women’s

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After the offensive explosion in Duke’s last game against N.C. State in which the Blue Devils totaled 502 yards en route to scoring 42 points—the special teams scored another seven—it would appear to the casual observer that the offense is firing on all cylinders. However, that is not exactly the reality, as the rushing attack failed to get going and netted just 43 yards on the ground.

The Blue Devils’ inability to establish their ground game against formidable foes has been a well-chronicled problem this year. In fact, through six games, Duke is averaging a paltry 2.6 yards per carry and is only getting 83 rushing yards per game out of the backfield.

In order to stay competitive against teams who are getting almost double that production, the coaching staff has had to alter its offensive game plan in search of ways to compensate for that output.

The answer has been to incorporate variations of existing formations into the playcalling and also to increase the roles of the tight end and the backfield in the aerial attack. Many of these passing plays —in which the running back, fullback or tight end is the primary option—function like running plays due to their conservative nature and high likelihood for picking up at least a couple of yards.

“A lot of things that are runs to us, like screen passes, underneath passes, aren’t runs in the box score,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “There are different ways to skin the same cat.”

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as a hybrid of sorts who is capable of lining up in the backfield, as a wingback or even split out in the slot is a philosophy of the recipients of these scoring tosses that Cutcliffe was forced to develop back were non-wide receivers: tight ends Brett in his days at Tennessee.

Huffman and Danny Parker and running In 1984, he was serving as the tight back Re’quan Boyette. ends coach for the Volunteers when Since the start of ACC play, Lewis has then-head coach Johnny Majors decided been making a noticeable effort to get to move to a two-back, three-receiver forthe ball into the hands of his tight ends. mation. Such a shift left a tight end out After combining for just five catches in of the regular lineup. the four nonconference contests, HuffCutcliffe responded by forcing his man and Parker have had ten receptions tight ends to learn the roles and recombined in conference games against sponsibilities of the fullbacks and wide receivers. Coincidentally, he observed Virginia Tech and N.C. State.

Lewis has demonstrated his burgeonthe value of having a versatile tight end. ing confidence in the tight ends by turn- With his current team, Cutcliffe still ing to them in the red zone. Huffman, sees the tight ends growing to encomBrandon King and third-stringer Danny pass bigger roles in the offense.

Parker have a touchdown apiece over the “Huffman and King are just now last two ACC games. growing into what they can be,” Cutcliffe “These guys arejust like receivers except said. “Their impact makes a big differfor having the title of tight end,” Lewis said. ence in terms of what we can do on the “My job is to spread the ball around and offensive side of the ball.”

Huffman hasn’t noticed any differget everyone involved in the offense.”

King’s touchdown against Virginia ence in practice or game planning in Tech perfectly illustrates the value and terms of an emphasis on getting the versatility of a tight end in an offensive ball to the tight ends. Instead, he gives game plan. On the 48-yard touchdown credit to offensive coordinator Kurt reception, King motioned into the backRoper, who calls Duke’s plays from up field pre-snap, lining up almost as a fullin the box. Some plays are specifically back. Lewis took the snap and faked a designed to get the ball to the tight handoff to the running back while King end. On others, Lewis has excelled at blocked for a second. Then, he leaked going through his progressions and into the flat where he was left wide open checking down to one of his bulkier and rumbled down the sideline untargets. touched for the score.

“I love getting the chance to make a King’s unusual pre-snap positioning, play,” Huffman said. “For all the grindcombined with his limited action in preing and blocking, it’s a nice reward to vious games, contributed to the Hokies see the ball coming my way.” not accounting for him on the play.

And because of the passing offense’s Cutcliffe has long been a proponent of recent success, Huffman can count on not only getting his tight end involved in an increased role for the tight ends the offense but of doing so from a variety of even as the rushing game works toward pre-snap positions. Viewing the tight end improvement.

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“Going into every game, I know that perform, but I have to make sure I’m sending them the right messages and helping them as much as I can,” Miller said.

Duke has had its best defensive performances against XCC opposition. Excluding not only do I need to

National Team, has a close relationship with the young Blue Devils.

“Her time has been invaluable, just showing them the little subtle things that happen in the game,” Church said.

The freshmen also look to Miller for guidance during games, and the junior has emerged as a willing captain of the Duke defense.

“We had three players who we thought would play big roles gone before our first preseason practice.”

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a loss to Maryland, in which a tired Blue Devil team played less than three days after blanking then-No. 9 Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, the freshmen have been exemplary. Duke has forced three' ranked conference opponents into overtime and has posted shutouts in its last three ACC games. According to Church, the rookies are just getting started.

“I think they all can be outstanding in the future,” Church said.

The young Blue Devils look to continue their strong play on the back line when Duke (6-5-4, 2-2-2 in the ACC) faces Virginia (6-5-3, 1-4-1) tonight at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.

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Just because no one was hurt or seriously injured, doesn’t mean the University should go about its business as usual. In injured this instance, In this case, editorial the University immediate dodged a bullet. Any time and clear communication there is a fire on a bus caris essential to reassure sturying a tank of gasoline, dents that the transportathe potential for disaster is tion system that they rely high. It’s truly chilling to on is, in fact, safe. think what could have hapEvery day, thousands of pened if the fire was not students, faculty, staff and spotted and contained so community members use the University bus system to quickly.

Yet, more than a week access all parts of campus later, the University’s ofand the Medical Center.

Therefore, when a concern ficial response to the incident has been one of surrounding the safety of silence.

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It was extremely fortunate that the fire occurred

on a relatively empty bus with a group of alert students. Most mid-day buses are packed to capacity, and on a crowded bus, evacuation would have proven much more difficult.

This highlights another startling reality about what Dukies don’t know—proper bus safety.

Few students, if any, are actually aware of the procedure for an emergency bus evacuation. And in the event of an emergency, it’s unreasonable to expect a single bus driver to deal with a full bus of scared, panicked students. Just as it treats fire safety in dorms as a serious matter, so too should the Univer-

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To remedy this situation, we hope that University officials publicize what caused the accident and explain what is being done to address any maintenance issues it may raise. And in the long-term, the University should make educating students about bus safety a true priority.

The bus system is a critical organ of Duke’s dayto-day functioning. In the wake of last week’s bus fire, frank communication with the public about this matter is too important to ignore.

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wait and we hope for that grade, thatjob offer or that scholarship; for a national championship; for an acceptance letter; for Bank ofAmerica to get back on the phone line; for love or lust to come our way; for health care reform or November 2012; for a salvation of any kind Our entire lives are one constant rice state of wait. We move from one real talk limbo to the next, waiting for events to unfold and hoping they develop favorably. Remember longing as a child for the day when you would be a grown-up with a fire truck and control ofyour own destiny? Where is your fire truck, and where is that control? Keep waiting.

Unfortunately, as we welt know from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “the waiting is the hardest part.” Particularly in this age of iPhones, Nespresso machines and 8-Minute Abs, in which we expect fast results and instant answers, waiting is a source ofexhaustion and anxiety. By the time life comes to an end, one is almost tempted to choose the finality of Hell rather than endure more waiting in Purgatory.

How are we supposed to cope with these waits that drive us into madness? A good start would be to see the Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” for the Duke Performances series this weekend in the Reynolds Theater.

“Waiting for Godot” is simple in its structure. The setting is stark—it is merely described as “A country road. A tree. Evening.” The plot simply consists of Gogo and Didi, as Estragon and Vladimir affectionately refer to each other, literally waiting for a character named Godot to come and “save” them. The resolution resolves little for the characters, as Godot never comes. The play is easy to follow, but a precise meaning proves difficult or impossible to ascertain.

Often critics say it is about waiting in vain for God. They are probably right, as Godot is referred to as an old man with a white beard who “does nothing,” not to mention that the name Godot is

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We don’tknow if the bus that caught on fire was the result of a freak accident, a maintenance oversight or simply an old bus breaking down. Given that this is the second bus fire in four years, it raises questions about the safety of the bus fleet. While we are not suggesting that the fire was caused by negligence, we have no way of knowing of ruling this out because there has been no communication from University officials about what sparked the accident.

Administrators are always quick to alert students about robberies and health risks, so it is puzzling why a bus bursting into flames did not merit an e-mail notification.

clearly reminiscent of the word God. Others say “Waiting for Godot” is about waiting for freedom.

They are probably also right as Beckett himself wanted the play to be produced in the United States with an all-black cast during the Civil Rights movement. The production this weekend at Duke carries with it the political subtext of the victims of Hurricane Katrina waiting for aid. Judging by the Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production’s positive reviews from major newspapers across the country, this retelling of Godot is valid as well.

What exacdy Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for though, whether it be God, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or FEMA, is not important. What matters is that they are waiting for something, and consequently Estragon and Vladimir are positioned to instruct us how to deal with our own waits.

From the very first line in the play until the end, Gogo and Didi, literature’s resident experts on waiting, offer their advice: “nothing to be done.”

It is not looking good for Didi, Gogo or those of us on the metaphorical “waitlist.” So together we go on waiting and hoping, but as Vladimir says in an attempt to reference half of a biblical verse, “Hope deferred maketh [the heart] sick.”

Here we are then, waiting for our Godots—a job offer, an acceptance letter, a call from a crush or a medical test result—growing sicker by the day with frustration. As for Didi and Gogo, they are in a slightly more precarious spot. They end both days in which the plot takes place with discussions of the merits of hanging themselves and once and for all ending their wait. But they do not, and we can infer will not, go through with it.

“We’ll hang ourselves to-morrow. (Pause). Unless Godot comes,” Didi says.

“And if he comes,” Gogo replies “We’ll be saved.”

Each day this will be their conclusion: to prolong their deaths until the next day out of hope that Godot at last comes to “save” them. “Waiting for Godot” may strike you as dark, or even as nihilistic, but it is not. It is a most subdued celebration of the faintest shred of hope that readies us to continue our waits.

Jordan Rice is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Whateva, whateva, I’ll do what I don’t work anymore, I haven’t seen at least half of my books since I bought them and people now laugh hysterically at the idea that I’m actually able to grow facial hair.

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But then there are others who seem to be conquering global hunger, while at the same time planting a rose garden for the homeless. All of this AND turning in their math homework on time. How do they do it?

HOW? They stay up all night in the library, and work until the sun rises, their fingers moving like electricity across their keyboards. They’re like Adderall vampires. Try telling me vampires don’t exist when it’s YOU walking back from Perkins at 4 a.m. The Main Quad gets dark, and I

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can’t see! And then I start hearing footsteps, and I get into Buffy-mode, which basically consists of me running really hard and fast, tripping over the root of some big tree and then looking around for my glasses because they have fallen off. It’s a fairly pathetic scene, I realize, but all of this is to prove that it’s not that I don’t want to go to the library, it’s just that I don’t want to get attacked.

But I digress.

In a 2007 posting on The New York Times “The Graduates” blog, Dillard University student Amber Wilson discussed the phenomena of senioritis, and why it should be suppressed at all costs: “I have not let senioritis completely take over my semester, because I know that I have other responsibilities and obligations to tend t0.... It’s fine to have fun, but I know that I still must wake up at 8:30 a.m. to get ready for my 9:30 class. I know that I still must attend each of my community service activities in order to obtain all my service hours. I must complete my senior portfolio and still write clips for the newspaper—all so that I can graduate.”

Boooorrring. • In a 2006 posting on The New York Times “Domestic Disturbances” blog, however, columnist Judith Warner said, “I think that there may be a real adaptive purpose to ‘senioritis.’ It may (like sleep) be a necessary physical response to the years—Two? Four? Fourteen?—of personal resume-building... it may, in fact, be a stress-reduction valve that we turn off only at great risk.”

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Durham and Duke communities both But I don’t, here, intend to simply roll suffer the pains of the past, we are not ofout a list of our marketing efforts as some fering programming at off-campus venues sort of “proof’ and dismiss Simmons’ conin a attempt to heal racial divisions in our cerns. Her concerns are valid, important community. Although such healing could and vital to the work we do. and would be a spectacular by-product of These concerns are particularly valid our work, we are first and foremost deditcause 0 here at Duke Performances, be- cated to presenting great performance in we do see ourselves as actively and the most appropriate available venues and making it available to the broadest cross energetically engaged with the community-wide discussion regarding Durham’s section of audience. I think we can always history, identity and future. It is this dedi- do better at making all segments of our cation that has driven our choice to dedicommunity feel included and invited, and cate significant blocks of programming to we will do better, but I’m awfully proud of the historically rich musical landscape of the work we’ve done thus far. the region in which we live. This has included innovative thematic programming Aaron Greenwald is director of Duke 1 oat embraces jazz, gospel, blues, string Performances.

But let’s get real, unless yqu want to spend the rest of your life working at some fast food chain, it would be in your best interest to take the advice of Wilson, and not so much the rather naive, albeit sympathetic, perspective of Warner. I don’t care how many vampires you send after me, I find it hard to believe that “senioritis” is a biological response to stress. Rashes are a biological response to stress. Dry throat is a biological response to stress. Watching “Glee” with a bag ofKettle Chips on your lap is not.

So what have I been doing with my spare time? Well, I’ve watched all of David Lynch’s films. I’ve gone through a few short story collections, as well as a memoir or two.

This weekend, I even spent my night with new friends looking at the stars —no joke. And even though none of these activities count towards my general requirements (though I may consider petitioning star-gazing), I can’t really say I feel any guilt or regret. Maybe senioritis isn’t so much a rejection of all things academic, but instead, an acknowledgment of a greater existence—of a world outside of required reading and endless essays. Academia is great, but so is exploration. You may think once you leave college you’ll be free, but in reality, you’ll be less free than you have ever been. Jobs, deadlines, bills.

Don’t abandon your work, fight the good fight, but remember to not neglect yourself, either. Growth is what college is all about, and I promise, it can be found outside the pages ofyour textbook.

Thomas Gebremedhin is every other Thursday.

Students: support Duke football I am writing to encourage all Duke smdents to support their football team. As a season ticket holder for more than 25 seasons, I have seen the best of times and have certainly seen the worst of times. We are no longer in the worst of times! This team needs the support of their peers—you. We now have a product on the field which we can be proud of. Whether you support the student Tailgate or not should notkeep you from coming to the stadium to support the team. Football Saturdays in college should lead to great memories. Don’t find yourself looking back on your college days wishing you had attended more games. ITie season is already halfway over.

I must say that I was most discouraged tasee the lack of student support for the Virginia Tech game. We were playing the No. 5 team in the country! You can argue that it was Fall Break, but I walked through campus and saw enough students sitting out enjoying the weather that could have made a great impact inside the stadium.

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The effort from the team that afternoon was tremendous. Your lack of attendance sent a message of apathy to the team and the other fans in attendance.

The team followed the Virginia Tech performance with a fantastic total team effort at North Carolina State University crushing the Wolfpack. I had the privilege to attend that game as well and could not have been more proud to be a Blue Devil in a hostile environment. Our quarterback was just named the National Offensive Player of the Week for his performance that afternoon.

I hope to see the student section overflowing when Maryland comes to Wallace Wade on Oct. 24. I can assure you that the team will give a great effort. May the students and all Duke fans everywhere show up and give their best and loudest effort yet.

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