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After just one year as dean'of the Pratt School of Engineering, Tom Katsouleas has already started to leave his mark in programs, and in smiles.

Known for his friendly disposition and open office hours at Twinnie’s on Friday mornings, Katsouleas stepped into his position during an economic downturn and still pushed two major new initiatives—the 4+l BSE/ TomKatsouleas Masters Program and the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Summit.

“He has been very good at shaping priorities for the school,” President Richard Brodhead said. “And these are not innovations for innovations’ sake. He thinks about the version of education that will do people the most good and provide people with resources to solve the world’s challenges.”

Katsouleas was thevice provost for information services and a professor ofelectrical engineering at the University of Southern California when he was selected in March 2008 to succeed Kristina Johnson, former dean ofPratt. Johnson left Duke to become provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University.

A year after being selected for the position, Pratt co-sponsored the grand challenges summit, which brought experts together to address problems facing national security, quality oflife and a sustainablefuture.

Katsouleas said it was an opportunity for Duke to play a leadership role in shaping engineering professions.

“That’s what I think the future direction for Duke and Pratt will be,” Katsouleas said.

Engineering will be partners in energy, environment and other world issues. Possessing a unique combination of skill sets, n°tjust in engineering, will make students leaders in this world;” The summits will continue next year, with Duke and North Carolina State University hosting the first of the summit series m March.

In addition to the NAE summit series, Katsouleas is working on Grand Challenges scholars program, “a combined curricuar and extra-curricular program with five

DSG OKs

Duke Student Government officially approved the 2009-2010 Krzyzewskiville tenting policy at its meeting Wednesday night.

The new provisions reduce the number of people required to stay overnight per tent from eight to six and begin the tenting season Jan. 30—a month later than in previous years. The policies also extend curfew on Thursdays to 12:00 a.m. and on Fridays and Saturdays to 2:30 a.m. as well as raising the grace temperature from 20 to 25 degrees.

Head Line Monitor Zach White, a senior, presented these changes to DSG, emphasizing the importance of turning the tenting experience into an enjoyable event. By reducing the number of restrictions, White said he feels more students will be motivated to tent and attend basketball games.

“Too often in the past, tenting would be just something you get through, White said. “We’re trying to make the tenting experience a fun thing so that when tenters leave the Carolina game they say T can’t wait to do it again.’”

DSG also officially endorsed Duke’s Climate Action Plan, approved by the Board “

A partygoer dressed as a giant banana smites for the camera to peals of laughter on Franklin Street during Halloween 2008.Last year's celebration was the first that only Chapel Hill residents were allowed to attend.

This year,Duke will again offer Devil's Eve as an on-campusalternative to Franklin Street.SEE STORY PAGE 3.

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As registration approaches, aspiring public policy majors can leave Econ 51 out of their book bags.

The Sanford School of Public Policy has changed its major requirements, replacing the Economics 51 or 55 requirement with a revamped PubPol 128 and a new economics policy analysis course called “Economics of the Public Sector.”

Current public policy majors are required to take PubPol 128 “Microeconomic Policy Tools,” or an approved substitute course, after fulfilling their Econ 51 or 55 prerequisite.

“The change gives us a chance to introduce students in greater depth to public policy analysis, which is something we’ve always wanted Ken ogerson an( j now we f ma Hy have ty,e resources tQ to do it,” said Ken Rogerson, director of undergraduate studies in public policy. “We think that we can teach a little more indepth about economic policy analysis rather then just economics, because economic theory and economic concepts are great to know, but that’s different than economic policy analysis.”

Hiring more economics professors has given Sanford the ability to teach the required economic policy courses itself, Rogerson said

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This change will not affect current juniors or seniors, but the department is giving sophomores the chance to choose Econ 51 or the new course. Rogerson said students who take Econ 51 or 55 foranother major or minor will not have to take the new PubPol 128.

Corinne Krupp, associate professor of the practice of pubic policy, said Econ 51 is a very broad overview of micro- and macroeconomics, and Econ 55 is not focused enough on policy for public policy majors.

Rogerson said the new PubPol 128 course will teach basic economic principles and apply them to the study of public policy.

“We’ll adjust it just a little to address those students who may not have a lot ofeconomic policy background, but it will still be our intro economic policy analysis class,” Rogerson said.

Krupp said the second course will involve public finance, budgets and cost-benefit analysis.

Connel Fullenkamp, director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of economics, said he expects smaller enrollments in Econ 51 and 55 because of the public policy changes.

Freshman Bethany Bosley said the new major requirements made the public policy major more appealing to her.

“I wanted to take public policy, but was worried about the economics aspect,” she said. “Econ is a lot of math, and the 128 course seemed more relevant. Now, I probably will take public

policy.”

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A squad ofTaliKABUL, Afghanistan ban fighters disguised as police officers stormed a guesthouse in the Afghan capital just after dawn Wednesday, killing six foreign U.N. workers, including one American, and six other people in a two-hour gun’ battle with Afghan security forces and U.N.guards.

Taliban spokespersons said the attack was the first in a wave of operations intended to disrupt a presidential runoff election scheduled for Nov. 7.The Islamist militia appeared to have targeted the guesthouse because about 20, U.N. elecworkers were staying there. buyer tax credit extension tionAfghan officials said that the attack to be release Health The Senate has would not affect the election and that up House Speaker Nancy WASHINGTON WASHINGTON consensus to 300,000 security forces would be dea broad bipartisan Pelosi is expected to unveil a health-care reached credit for ployed to protect the polls nationwide, lucrative tax on extending a reform bill Thursday that will include a govthe Nov. But the brazen assault in a quiet, affluent buyers beyond ernment insurance option and a historic first-time home include section of this heavily patrolled capital it to expanding expansion of Medicaid, although sticking 30 deadline and Senate's homeowners, the points in the legislation involving abortion some current Democratic leader said. and immigration remain unresolved.

Under the plan, people buying their Senior Democratic House aides said the bill would likely include a version of first home would receive an $B,OOO tax credit if they sign a contract by April the "public option" preferred by moderates and may raise Medicaid eligibility 30 and close on it by June 30, the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, levels to 150 percent of the federal poverty level for all adults, a steeper increase D-Nev., said Wednesday. Homeowners shopping for a new primary residence than in earlier drafts.

The House legislation aims to provide would be eligible for a $6,500 tax credit if health insurance of one form or another they owned their home for five consecuto almost all Americans at an expected tive years in the previous eight.

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raised questions about the government's ability to secure the hastily scheduled election.

Senior U.N. officials vowed that the incident would not deter them from continuing their work in Afghanistan, in which more than 20 agencies oversee projects such as livestock vaccination campaigns and women's rights promotion.But with all foreign U.N. workers here now confined to their lodgings and facing more threats of violence, it remained unclear whether the international mission would be able to follow through on its avowed commitment to assist, observe and review the election.

The runoff between incumbent Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah is being held because large-scale fraud was discovered in the original Aug. 20 election, which left neither of the two top candidates with enough votes to claim victory.

The cadence of a flfe-and-drumcorps resonated through the Capitol Rotunda Wednesday morning.

Nearly 500 people were present to witness Edward Brooke, 90, third from right, receive the Congressional Gold Medal—the highest honorCongress can bestow—from President Barack Obama. Brooke made history in 1967 when he was thefirst African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote.

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A Duke professor is looking for away to protect at-risk populations from one of the world’s newest and most under-examined

pandemics—obesity.

Gary Bennett, professor of psychology

and neuroscience, has partnered with Piedmont Health Services to conduct the Shape study, an 18-month investigation of a new sustainable, scalable intervention strategy focusing on overweight black women who are at risk for becoming obese.

Gary Bennett Shape was prompted by recently published figures in the Journal of the American Medical Society, which revealed that more than halfof the adult black female population in the country is obese.

Black women are of particular interest in this study because they tend to gain more weight between the ages of 25 and 45, when they are going through life transitions and their childbearing years.

Bennett attributes this trend to a variety of factors, including sociocultural norms like acceptance of a heavier body and fewer social pressures to be thin. New research also suggests that being overweight may not carry as many of the health risks for black women as it does for other groups.

Currently, the options for the most susceptible populations are sparse.

“Nationally, obesity counseling by public providers is very infrequently delivered,”

Bennett said. “It is saved for those who are already obese, or those with a high comor-

bidity with other health risks.”

Coverage is least likely to be provided for ethnic minorities, those of low socioeconomic status and those who are merely overweight as opposed to being obese, he said.

At Piedmont Health Services, with its diverse population, “many barriers for our patients” exist, said Heather Miranda, director of Nutrition Services and a coordinator of the study.

Each of the 240 or so Shape subjects will be given three fitness goals based on a survey evaluating their behaviors and their perceived ability to change those behaviors, said Erica Levine, Shape’s project coordinator.

The unique factor about Shape is that it integrates a variety of affordable technological measures into monitoring progress on these goals. Subjects monitor the frequency and modification of their behaviors by reporting to an automated voice response call every week, and they make a call once a month to a registered dietician to discuss their progress.

This plays into Bennett’s long-term goal of creating a model that is scalable and sustainable in the primary care system.

“I try to design all ofmy studies around a sustainability framework, so that the systems can easily be transferred and maintained,” he said.

Eventually, Bennett said he wants to expand the Shape study to a more general, global population.

“We hope that the Shape model will be nimble enough to be leveraged in the developing world as well,” he said.

Students enjoy Devil's Eve on MainWest last Halloween. Campus Council plans to offer the event again this year as an alternative to Franklin Street.This is the second year that buses will not run to Chapel Hill.

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For the second year in a row, Duke students will not be provided transportation to Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street Halloween celebration.

As another option for students, Campus Council is organizing Devil’s Eve on the Main West Quadrangle Saturday night, with activities including costume contests as well as music and dance performances. The decision to keep Franklin

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Street restricted to Chapel Hill residents stemmed from safety concerns, Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy said.

“The problem is in the past we have had increased numbers of people coming to Franklin Street until the point a couple ofyears ago, when 80,000 people crowded downtown in too little space,” Foy said in an interview. “It was too big and too dangerous.”

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HALLOWEEN from page 3 Many Duke students believe Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street policy is unfair.

“I kind of equate this to LDOC at Duke,” junior Yi Zhang said. “Even though a lot of people come from off campus and cause a lot of damages, we never exclude anyone from LDOC.” Junior Pat Light agreed with this sentiment.

“I don’t think Durham ever closes its doors to UNC students,” Light said. “If they’re trying to foster a brotherhood between the two cities, this isn’t the way to do it.”

Foy noted these concerns and emphasized that Franklin Street’s new “Homegrown Halloween” policy was not meant to single out Duke students. Foy said the problem was that people came by the busload from numerous places, sometimes as far as Georgiaand Tennessee.

“It became an enormous regional event that we couldn’t accommodate,” Foy said.

“It’s just a safety issue, and we're trying to scale it down to a local event."

Unfortunately, Chapel Hill’s method of addressing Franklin Street’s safety issues has created a new cause for concern at Duke.

Junior Will Passo, DSC vice president for Durham and regional affairs, said he worries that Franklin Street’s “Homegrown Halloween” policy will not discourage students from driving to Chapel Hill, a particularly dangerous situation oh a night when drinking alcohol is a prime activity.

“Kids are still going to go,” Passo said.

“But now, the University can’t ensure

safety.”

Campus Council Programming Chair Ben Goldenberg, a sophomore, said he believes that although there are many alternative ways to celebrate Halloween, it would be good to bring the Duke community together on campus as well.

“The Franklin Street festivities have certainly become a well-known tradition,” he said. “I believe that Devil’s Eve can evolve into that sort of tradition.”

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DSG from page 1 of Trustees at its October meeting. The plan focuses on incorporating “Environmental Literacy” in the undergraduate curriculum by educating students about green initiatives both on and off campus.

In addition, DSG approved a second green initiative, based on a February 2009 report written by Charlotte Clark, associate director of educationand training at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Academics Affairs Senator Ari Ruffer, a freshman, presented the proposal, which he hopes will lead to University-wide efforts to enforce cleaner bus transportation standards and lower carbon dioxide emission.

In other business: DSG also unanimously approved a num-

KATSOULEAS from page 1 components that are designed to prepare students to be the generation that solves the grand challenges facing society in this century,” according to the NAE Grand Scholars Challenge Scholars Web site.

Katsouleas said Pratt, as a national model for the program, has gonefrom a strong engineering school to being the forefront of new education initiatives.

Senior Will Patrick, senior class .president of the Engineering Student Government, said he appreciates the steps Katsouleas has taken that highlight the role of

engineering in society.

Katsouleas has also introduced a new way for Pratt students to complete their degrees.

The 4+l program allows students to complete their bachelor’s in science and their masters of engineering degrees in five years.

her of other measures allocating funds to various projects.

The Duke-North Carolina Central University symposium, to be held Nov. 1 in the Mary Lou Williams Center, was given the greenlight. The forum will discuss the future of Duke-NCCU relations and will include leaders from government associations from both universities, said juniorWill Passo, vice president of Durham and regional affairs.

In addition, DSG passed a proposal to allocate funds aiming to increase student participation in government elections.

“The turnout in DSG elections is especially low and the only advertisement beyond campaign materials is through a blast e-mail in the morning and before the polls close,” said Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, ajunior.

The approved funds will enablethe construction of various banners and signs made entirely ofreusable materials, Morrison added.

This program has also been well accepted by students and faculty, and Tod Laursen, chair of the mechanical engineering and materials science department, said the idea will attract more masters students to Pratt.

“A lot of work in the marketplace now requires focus training in technical nature and entrepreneurship beyond whatyou get in a bachelor’s degree,” Laursen said. “This increases the opportunity for Duke to influence the way engineering is practiced.”

One of the things students and faculty particularly notice about Katsouleas is his transparent leadership and engagement with the school, said George Truskey, chair of the department of biomedical engineering..

“In my wildest dreams there is a vision of transforming universities, from what have traditionally been repositories of knowledge, to knowledge-creation engines,” Katsouleas said. “With this change, universities can become innovative engines for society.”

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NEW YORK Fresh doubts about the economic recovery Wednesday drove U.S. stock prices to their biggest drop in nearly a month and triggered a further pullback in risk-taking worldwide.

On Wall Street, broad market indexes suffered their sixth decline in the last seven sessions, with the Dow Jones industrial average sliding 119.48 points, or 1.2 percent, to -

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The blue-chip Dow understated the extent of the losses in the rest of the market as more investors headed for the exits. Indexes of smaller stocks, for example, slumped more than 3 percent for the day, though traders said there was no sign of panic selling.

Stocks slid from the opening bell after the government said sales of new homes fell 3.6 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 402,000 units. Analysts

said the unexpected decline the first month-to-month drop since March probably reflected uncertainty over the fate of the $B,OOO federal tax credit for first-time home buyers.

Congress this week is debating whether to extend the credit, which expires Nov. 30.

The downbeat home-sales report added to concerns that the economy’s recovery might be ebbing. On Tuesday, the Conference Board said its index of U.S. consumer confidence fell in October, the second straight monthly decline.

The government Thursday will give its first estimate of third-quarter gross domestic product growth, and Wall Street has been expecting the data to show that the economy expanded for the first time since the second quarter of 2008.

But brokerage Goldman, Sachs & Co. on Wednesday added to investors’ jitters by trimming its third-quarter GDP estimate to an annualized real growth rate of 2.7 percent from a previous estimate of 3.0 percent.

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But Wall Street has been nagged by worries that the economy could quickly sink without the massive government aid programs that have helped to support the housing and auto markets in particular.

The home-sales data for September showed that “the first-time home buyer credit brought a lot of would-be buyers into the market for affordable housing, but in its wake, the demand for housing slumped just as auto sales tumbled in the aftermath of the cash-for-clunkers program,” said Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities in New York.

Although many other economic reports have been positive in recent months, the stock market’s slide over the last two weeks suggests that more investors are turning wary about the economy’s prospects and are taking some of the profits they’ve racked up since March. Key indexes have rocketed more than 50 percent from their winter lows.

Art Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. in Boston, said some hedge funds and other investors appeared to be taking the view that this was a good point to lock in gains for 2009 rather than risk watching them evaporate.

“I think some of them just want to wrap it up for the year,” Hogan said.

Banks, energy companies and other commodity producers paced the Standard & Poor’s 500 index’s slump Wednesday, as it lost 20.78 points, or nearly 2 percent, to 1,042.63. That cut its year-to-date gain to 15.4 percent.

The tech-dominated Nasdaq composite tumbled 56.48 points, or 2.7 percent, to 2,059.61. It still is up 30.6 percent for the year, and up 62 percent since early March.

The sell-off in stocks has been global since mid-October, and many high-flying foreign markets fell more sharply than Wall Street on Wednesday. The German market sank 2.5 percent, the Brazilian market slid 4.8 percent and South Korean shares were down 2.4 percent.

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Traditionally, one of the best parts of Halloween is putting on a costume, which means adopting another identity—splitting your personality, if you will.

Some, however, are lucky enough to not have to dress up to discover their doppelganger. Whether it’s because their egos are so large that one normal identity can’t contain them, or a demon has been unleashed inside of them or they’re just bored. Everyone from the most famous celebrities to mere students have fallen under the curse of muldple personality disorder.

Jekyll and Hyde were the trendsetters, the Madonnas of schizophrenia. Theirs is a rare case of physical transformation, unless you include early and late Barry Bonds. Today’s popular music is rife with the phenomenon; there’s Beyonce, turned by a post-“ Crazy in Love” explosion into the demonic and less talented Sasha Fierce. There’s regular, everyday sweetheart Miley Cyrus (she’s just this girl that’s rocking kicks!) and superstar blonde Hannah Montana, famous for a

kids’ TV show and not posing for Annie Leibovitz. If you didn’t get the reference the first time, XI. became T.1.P., pitting self against self. Wonder what kind of envy Freud would call that.

Bowie’s a good one. He was David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust—homosexual space alien—and the Thin White Duke, a period in which he supposedly doesn’t remember because ofall the coke (doubt anyone here could relate to that). Some bridge their personalitieswithin genre,butjoaquin Phoenix made the unprecedented move from actor to rapper/full-time beard. Think showers in those sunglasses? Does he shower?

What mysteries do these personalities procure? Who else has an evil twin that goes bump in the night? And might they even be other Duke students, even your own roommate? We here at recess know of at least one: our editor, Andrew Hibbard, who moonlights as radio personality Ira Glass. Some people don’t need Halloween costumes.

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With Parents’ and Family Weekend having come and gone, it made me think: why didn’t my parents realize the mistake they had made and “accidently” leave the water running in the bath tub?

They did do something right by deciding not to become famous. Believe me they had a chance, too. We called our act The Aristocrats.

But thank God my parents are not so foolish as to live for public approval. Celebrity parents are the worst.

When Heidi Klum had another baby with Seal, you had to think: girl named Lou? Who are you, Johnny Cash? Does this girl need a tough name? Her father’s chemical burns don’t speak for themselves? She’s going to be gorgeous, but with a name like Lou, she’s going to be that girl sitting under the slide giving kisses for a dollar, probably being pimped out buy the class clown who’s taking an 80-cent cut. Pimp is such a harsh word. I preferred young entrepreneur.

Heidi’s first kid was not with Seal, which brings up another superficially obnoxious social norm. Celebrities are the only people who can have kids out of wedlock withoutbeing considered easy, dumb and loose. “Longtime boyfriend?” That’s no excuse for getting knocked up. Just because you’re attractive, blond and blue-eyed doesn’t mean you can populate the earth as you please. We won that war, remember?

It sounds like these guys have some commitment issues, which brings me to the current world’s worst dad: Jon Gosselin. This guy is actually a celebrity for being a bad parent. I was going to be make a Halloween joke that Kate Gosselin should go as Octomom, but Octomom made it too easy. She actually said she thinks Jon Gosselin is “hot.” I’m really rooting for them. I think this relationship can really happen, but I also thought I’d make Towerview’s Power 50.

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It seems like once someone in your family becomes famous, you yourself become a sharted piece of dump. Exihbit A: the entire Lohan family. Mom is so blind to her washed-up, coked-out daughter Lindsay that she thinks it’s a good idea to have her nuture the younger daughter, Ali. That’s like when my family decided we wanted to enter our pup in the Westminster Dog Show, so we enrolled her at Michael Vick’s Canine Obedience Academy.

At least Papa Lohan is doing the right thing by trying to get his daughter some help. He couldn’t be doing that for publicity, right? And I keep a shovel and a bag of lime in my car because I’m a big botanist.

It could Just be that the types of people who seek fame are just jaded tainted individuals to begin with. Just look at all the nutjobs on Youtube desperately hoping their rendition of “Top 50 Ghetto Names” will be their big break. Good parents don’t use their kids for publicy by locking them in the attic and telling the world they took off in a research ballon. I’m surprised they didn’t attribute his on-screen vomiting escapades to air sickness.

Parents aren’t completely to blame for bad child-rearing. Sometimes, the kid is just psychologically underdeveloped. Other times, he’s just trying to get publicity for himself and- hoping to turn a quick buck.

Take the case bf Billy Mays’ son who is having a contest for who can sport the best costume ofhis cold, lifeless corpse of a father. That’s almost as tasteless my Halloween costume: Cassius “Teen Wolf’ Clay—champion-boxerturned-werewolf. Get it? Michael J. Fox going as Muhammad Ali? My editor is telling me that is way beyond bad taste.

Jack Wilkinson is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Lights rise to the sound of an ebbing ocean tide as a woman clad in white runs, halts and stands, gasping for breath. A black box becomes a sheer cliff, overlooking the relentless surf as she stands at its lip, teetering precariously. She recites Poe’s famously melancholy line, “All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.”

The lights fade, and the sound of the ocean diminishes.

Seconds later, the stage goes dark, and Coheed Sc Cambria’s “Welcome Home” shatters the resulting silence. This is the juxtaposition established in the first minutes of senior Adam Barron’s play Nevermore.

Barron began work on Nevermore in January of 2009.

The eight-person show cleverly ties together six of writer Edgar Allen Poe’s most celebrated works with an original storyline of love, murder and revenge..

“The more I read the stories, the more I saw storylines,” Barron said. “I can pull these characters that unify all the stories.... That made me happier than any-

stories.”

The show itself predictably takes place in small, dimly lit areas, adding to the experience a feeling of intimacy that is more eerie, than comforting. The atmosphere established by Poe’s work, Barron’s words, and the unnerving silences scattered throughout the play is well met for the upcoming Halloween weekend.

“It’s a great show—kind of scary,” said sophomore Kyle Glackin, who plays the comically sardonic Ringmaster Wind, oneof the show’s principal characters. “It’s also funny. And it coincides with Halloween. I think people will enjoy this, but particularly students who know Poe. They don’t know him like this.”

Indeed, the show presents Poe’s work in a new and spooky light that is, somehow, hauntingly familiar. It captures the pain and insanity Poe was famous for putting down on paper, and mixes it with rock music and SEE NEVERMORE ON PAGE 8

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arguably Mamet’s best, most famous work—the script will offer few surprises.

Regardless, these inevitabilities don’t make the piece any easier to perform. It is intricate and complicated with deftly intertwined lines that an unprepared or untalenled actor will likely butcher. This just compounds the amount of credit due to the Deep Dish Theater Company, who are currently presenting Glengarry Glen Ross at their intimate theater insideChapel Hill’s University Mall.

The play tells the story of a competition between four salesmen at a struggling real estate office in Chicago. The top producer gets a Cadillac, the second a set of steak knives and the other two pink slips. These stakes seem high enough in the abstract, but Mamet makes them a matter of life and death. Nothing less than the characters’ existences seem to be at risk.

Such narrative intensity demands a similar velocity of performance, and the company sweats blood on their welldesigned set. In particular, actors David Ring (Levene),John Murphy (Moss) and Joshua Purvis (Roma) are incendiary, and the one scene where all three are on stage at once is breathlessly intense. Although there are times when a subder approach might have achieved an equally convincing—and probably more nuanced—effect, it’s enjoyable and enthralling to watch the characters dress each other down with the full brutality ofMamet’s hypermasculine ego.

The other actors hold their own as well, particularly Byron Jennings'as Williamson; Jennings’ handling of the character’s delayed comeuppance recalls Kevin Spacey’s performance in the brilliant 1992 film adaptation. That said, there were times when a few of the more minor parts seemed to lose the thread of conversation, though these snags were usually trivial.

The set, a dimly lit, generic Chinese restaurant prior to intermission and a squalorous and ransacked office postbreak, is atmospheric and eye-catching. They supply a gritty realism to the characters’ diatribes and lectures, a reality that is beautifully phrased and viscerally wrought.

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Do you think WHY? is becoming, as a band, more and more of a cohesive unit as the albums have been going on? Especially from Elephant Eyelash to Alopecia to Eskimo Snow, it seems like everything’s getting tighter.

I don’t know. Each album’s different, it has its own sound and feeling. Yeah, they’re more sparse as time has gone on, we’ve sort of whittled things down a little bit. Elephant Eyelash and Oaklandazulasylum as well were sort of any idea goes kind of albums, where they’re more additive to solve the problem of the production of the songs you keep adding stuff, whereas with these it was more subtractive, where mey’re boned down more or less to they’re,most important elements. And you know, hopefully nothing is there that is extraneous or whatever.

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In conjunction with the Nasher’s current Picasso and the Allure of Language exhibit, Dorfman’s play examines this artistic dilemma.

Picasso’s Closet made its debut in 2006 at Theater J in Washing-

ton, D.C. and will be performed at Duke as a staged reading di-

rected by Jay O’Berski, a lecturing fellow in the theater studies department. The reading marks the first official event in the Duke University’s Center for International Studies’ yearlong series, “Ariel Dorfman: 25 Years at Duke University.” Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature Dorfman has been a professor of literature and Latin American studies at

Duke since 1989 and has written numerous plays, novels, films, essays, poems and articles during his tenure, including his award-winning play Death and a Maiden, made into a film by Roman Polanski.

Picasso’s Closet is set in 1940 Paris, where Nazis litterthe streets and Vichy propaganda infiltrates the culture, yet an underground art world continues to thrive. Despite Hitler’s disgust for the modern art he deemed degenerate, revolutionary artist Pablo Picasso was left in peace during the German Occupation. Why? Executing the most famous painter in the world wasn’t exactly a power move. In Picasso’s Closet, however, Dorfman imagines a scenario in

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during the Spanish Civil War. In writing Picasso’s Closet, Dorfman considered himself a “collaborator” to his protagonist and allowed himself the freedom to “do to Picasso what he did to his women,” he said.

In this sense, Dorfman was able to reinterpret Picasso’s persona in the same way that Picasso manipulated relationships with his lovers and friends in his art.

Most notable of these lovers in the play-is Dora Maar, the muse of Picasso’s “Weeping Woman” series.

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Ariel Dorfman which the artist was not able to escape the hands of fascist fate and is instead hunted and killed by a Nazi officer. In this choice to kill off Picasso, Dorfman raises the question of whether the artist’s self-preservation in a time of genocide was not, in fact, a death in itself.

1973, Argentinia-born In Dorfman was forced to leave his adopted home of Chile after the coup by Gen. August© Pinochet that led to the death of President Salvador Allende. Having been a close supporter of Allende, Dorfman fled Chile and spent his first year of political exile in Paris.

Thus, Dorfman’s experience in exile was not far removed from that ofPicasso, who chose to relocate to Paris permanently in 1936

the exhibit,] art historians who have studied Picasso for decades can learn something new about the artist. And with Picasso’s Closet, Ariel examines a side of Picasso thaknot many people know.”

Although Dorfman’s Picasso is a notably darker take on the modern art legend, his reinvention of the artist is hardly a critique.

“The best homage you can do to a master is not to take him too seriously,” Dorfman said.

And who better to examine through a twisted lens than the father of cubism himself?

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With everything I’ve been reading about you guys after Eskimo Snow came out, it sounds like the new talking point that everybody feels like they need to hit is how prolific you are, because Eskimo Snow followed

up Alopecia pretty quickly. Do you feel like you’re a prolific artist?

I work a lot, I don’t think that means I’m necessarily prolific. I’m not a fast worker by any means, I’m very slow.

What’s your songwriting process like?

Well, I’m given the songs by, there’s like a writer’s group that comes through BMI that the label pays for, so they basically give us a pool of songs to choose from, 50 or 60 generally for an album, and then we pick the ones that we feel best represent us, and then go from there, sort of. Then we speak to the producer’s group and see what they can do for us. So yeah, it’s really just a lot of management, it’s a lot of paperwork and stuff like that. I mean, if.you really want to get down to the nitty gritty, I’m more of a paper-pusher.

(Laughs) Alright Have you heard theKarl Blau cover of “ThisBlackest Purse?”

I did hear that, yeah.

What did you think of that?Because it’s so much different than your version.

Yeah, it’s super 10-fi (laughs). I love his stuff.

I think I like it. It’s pretty different, yeah.

So, having a band with your brother in it, what is that like? Because it seems like that can affect a lot of bands greatly.

Umm... it’s cool, I mean, he’s adopted, so, I don’t know, there’s never been too much weirdness or competition because

right is mine and stuff like that. But it’s nice to have him in tow, I’ve known him since I was like 8 years old, so it’s neat to have somebody you’re pretty close to.

I gotcha. I guess this goes back to Aloper cia, but I just watched the video for “A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under” again, which I hadn’t seen in a while, and it reminded me of how amazing that video is. Do you remember how you guys got the idea to do that, with the whole band inside and people resisting an alien attack, and it’s all done in one shot and everything. How did that come about?

That was all the director Ben Barnes, it was all his thing. When we got to his house where we shot it, he showed us a demo of the video that was exactly what we were gonna do except he was playing every single part. So he had .mapped it all out, it was all him, it was all Ben Barnes.

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seem like it would be tough to make.

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And it compares nicely with the “Song of the Sad Assassin” video, where you get to see yourself animated, which is probably interested.

(Laughs) Yeah, yeah. I think he got me way wrong though, dude.

I was about to say, it doesn’t look much like you.

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WHY? will be playing the Cat’s Cradle tomorrow. Tickets are $lO, and Au and Serengeli & Polyphonic open.

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Banhart sticks with his nonsensical, cloyingly naive lyrical scribbles (“Travelling by choo-choo train/we know where we just don’t know when”). He holds back, however, from the more bizarre imagery that defined his previous albums. Although he doesn’trecord his songs on friends’ answering machines anymore, the recording fidelity is still fuzzy. And the songs, though no longer the product of loose collaborations with sometimes dozens of musicians, still have a loose, improvised feel.

But B-Dog has some new tricks up his proverbial sleeves. He throws in some brushed drums and jazzy flourishes on “Chin Chin & Muck Muck,” casting himself as a lysergicJohn Chcever in his meditation on suburban alienation. On “Foolin’,” he gives a reggae and campfire sing-along hybrid a try. The infectious glam throb of the appropriately-titled “16th & Valencia Roxy Music” is a jarringly streamlined piece of pop craft. That’s not to say that all genre forays succeed as well: “RaLs” is a middling piece of plodding Stooges-inspired doom rock that goes on about five minutes and eight seconds too long.

The loose, ephemeral charm of the album is its undoing, as it doesn’t leave enough a taste in the listener’s, mouth good or bad. Still, not an altogether bad album to while away a sunny afternoon playing Hacky Sack with the bros.

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Weezer has spent the last 10 years trying make us forget that they produced a classic in The Blue Album, a record offering an escape route from grunge that would come to be known as “alternative rock.”

Fast-forward a decade and they’re reaping the benefits of this easily won success, periodically dropping self-derivative albums while taking hiatuses in between. Just a year after subjecting us to The Red Album, we get Radilude, significant only in its abandonment of the nerdy self-portrait album art. Now, it’s a flying dog.

Rivers‘Cuomo’s ironically cool nerdshtick is now iconic in music, but he’s over the hill. His musical touchstones have degenerated from the Pixies and Nirvana he’s jtow a pop egalitarian, singing the praises of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothto

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ers. This is fine in theory, but it looks like Weezer has taken a few too many cues from mainstream pop, dulling the edges of their once ragged, epic sing-alongs.

On Radiiude, especially with opener “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To,” the songs run on quick adrenaline highs. Their catchiness is fleeting—it’s hard to actually remember any interesting melodies or hooks as the mess of indistinguishable tracks bleed into one another.

In 2005, they told us Beverly Hills was the place to be, and now they “Can’t Stop Partying:” “I gotta have Patron, I gotta have the E/I gotta have a lot of pretty girls around me,” Cuomo repeats. It’s no surprise Lil Wayne dropped by the party to phone in guest verses, though I doubt he stayed long.

The raddest part of this album is the cover art, and it’s got as much ’tude as Hannah Montana’s latest.

—Brian Contralto

Tegan and Sara aren’tfor everyone. Some acquire a taste for the shrill-voiced duo, while others can never get past the piercing," idiosyncratic vocals. If one can accept their singing though, it’s love. As artists, they constantly explore and push the frontiers of music while still remaining pop-friendly.

Tegan and Sara’s sixth studio album, Sainthood, immediately lets the listener know that the pair’s alt-pop is moving in yet another new direction. Stripped down music, simplified lyrics and a hodgepodge of random electronics create an album that sounds familiar to fans but also radically different from anything they’ve ever done.

Leading track “Arrow” starts the album with quirky electro-percussion that leads into the quintessential vocal overlap and witty lyrics for which Tegan and Sara are so well known. There is a stilted, choppy feeling to the girls’ voices that continues throughout Sainthood, particularly on tracks like “Don’t Rush” and “Sentimental Tune.”

The overall quality of songs on Sainthood is fantastic. Track after track is emotive and unique, and none outright fail. Some, however, like “Paperback Head” achieve only mediocrity.

The biggest flaw of the album is the occasional posturing that tries to transform their music into something else. “Hell” sounds like a missing track from a Yeah Yeah Yeahs record, and “Northshore” could have been written by Blink-182. There is nothing wrong with either track, except for the fact that neither fits the album in the slightest.

Sainthood is yet another offering that showcases the immense talent of Tegan and Sara, though it falls short of canonization.

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Darren (Chris Massoglia) is an average, small-town boy.

He lives in a world where vampires exist openly and there is a war between those that have learned to co-exist with humans and the much more violent, “old-school” Vampaneze. He and his vampire-obsessed best friend Steve (Josh Hutcherson) hear that a freak show—Cirque du Freak—is showing nearby, and Steve convinces Darren to sneak out to attend. While there, Darren is “blooded”

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Though never having read any books in the series, I have an overwhelming feeling that there is an extensive backstory that didn’t make the cut. Already somewhat hazy,

the plot involves so many characters that it is difficult to decide which are important—that is, even if you remember them. Lead writers Paul Weitz and Brian Helgeland should have focused on making this film stand on its own rather than assuming Twilight-esque success.

The film relies too heavily on the expected appeal of newcomer Massoglia, who is as bland and unlikeable as his character Darren. Reilly is stronger, offering a refreshing, different approach to playing the recently sexed-up vampire stereotype.

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If you’re looking for the hallmark gruesome puzzles, split-second decisions and bone-chilling torture devices, the movie won’t disappoint. But writers Marcus Dunstan a Patrick Melton bring nothing new to the table in their third Saw episode. They rope characters feebly related to the world’s financial woes into their formulaic survival games, forcing them to reflect upon the despair they cause their clients. Most of the film follows insurance executive William (Peter Outerbridge) as he struggles to save his ewn life. In an interesting twist, his clients get to choose 18 gruesome fate in the end. Financially-stricken audience Members cheer on. Hooray hydrofluoric acid! Hooray bed of needles! all, the film serves to put more pieces of the vague puz/lc that is Jigsaw’s life into place. But if you have a puzfIne solved from the start, the only reason to continue addg pieces is if you like the process. Let it be known that the Process is still torture.

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“Everything about the show is really well thought,” sophomore Ophelia Chua said. “The entire cast and crew is really dedicated.Whatever you see here is people’s hearts put on stage.”

Nevermore runs tonight through Oct. 31 in Brody Theater on East Campus. Performances are at 8 and 11 p.m.

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That’s where Good Hair comes in. Chris Rock’s new documentary examines the importance of women’s hair in the black community. Rock believes hair has the power to mold personal identity and also pressures black women to painstakingly adopt “white” hairstyles. In his pursuit of the social, medical and economic aspects of the black hair industry, Rock interviews celebrities from Ice-T to Maya Angelou and travels from Harlem to India, all in hopes of answering why black women shed thousands of dollars for updos.

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succeeds in raising provocative questions about race, identity and wealth. Unfortunately, the documentary does not provide any solution to the dilemma it describes.

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Whether you are black orwhite, male or female, have hair like T-Pain or A1 Sharpton, Good Hair is a movie you should watch. Its stunningly frank interviews, hilarious narrator and interesting topic make it worth its weight in weaves.

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When asked abouthis trademarkunselfishness, Magic Johnson once replied, “Ask not what your teammates can do for you, ask what you can do for your teammates,” a twist on the iconic Kennedy line.

The greatest players in any sport aren’t the just the ones who can light up the scoreboard, but the ones, like Magic, who can also facilitate the game for their teammates.

Duke’s maestro comes in the form of senior center midfielder Elisabeth Redmond, who has conducted the Blue’ Devils to consecutive Elite Eight appearances in the NCAA’ tournament.

“We’ve had some special midfielders at Duke, some All-Americans, and Elisabeth is one of the best,” head coach Robbie Church said.

With 26 career goals and 35 assists, Redmondhas been making headlines for years.

Her best feature, however, has always been her ability to make her teammates shine.

From the training ground to the pitch, everything for Duke begins with Redmond.

“She’s elevated everybody’s game upward, from an intensity standpoint and a quality standpoint,” Church said.

Redmond, a New Jersey native, was a prized recruit coming out of high school, though many thought she woulddecide to play soccer at Virginia with her sister, Jen, who graduated last year. Wanting to have her own college experience at a top-notch institution, Redmond instead decided to join a Blue Devil team on the rise.

Her decision to play at Duke is consider! by Church to be a turning point in the recent history of the soccer program.

At that time, we were a growing program, and she helped turn it into a great program,” Church said.

Since her arrival on campus, Redmond has had an incredible impact on the soccer team. She has received All-ACC accolades each year, and has finished no lower than

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sixth in total points the past two years.

Redmond attributes her strong early years at Duke to the advice of her older teammates.

“I’ll always remember [midfielder] Lorraine Quinn pulling me aside arid reminding me that freshmen don’t typically have great seasons because they are too tentative, and that I needed to let my personality come out on the field,” Redmond said.

Redmond’s fearlessness has allowed her to become a dangerous attacking midfielder. Never shy about taking a shot she’s third in the ACC with 68—Redmond is always looking to push forward and spark the Blue Devil offense.

“She wants the ball from the kickoff.

Win or lose, she wants that responsibility,” Church said.

Redmond’s leadership has been especially important this year, as Church fields one of the youngest teams he’s ever had.

Setting the tone for each practice and game, Redmond has emerged as the onfield leader of the Blue Devils, and the senior captain’s never-say-die attitude is contagious among her teammates.

“One of the things I struggle with is confidence, and she brings so much confidence to this team,” sophomore winger Cody Newman said.

Redmond’s talents have not gone unnoticed by those outside the ACC. This summer, she traveled to Europe with the United States Under-23 National Team, training and playing with the best players in the country.

“It’s a very competitive environment, and it’s great to play in,” Redmond said.

“It was also just fun to travel to a different country with that group.”

Redmond will need to translate her experience into production on the field, as Duke hopes to secure its place in the ACC tournament.

With only two ACC contests remaining, the Blue Devils will be relying on Redmond to push them into postseason play.

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Against Maryland last Saturday —despite the steady and sometimes pouring rain—head coach David Cutcliffe continued to throw the ball. Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis produced, connecting on 30-of-43 passes for 371 yards and two touchdowns en route to a 17-13 victory. As Lewis continues to improve during his time at Duke, there is one question that is becoming harder and harder to avoid: Is Thaddeus Lewis a legitimate NFL prospect?

Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen certainly thinks so.

“He’s good, he might be the best guy we’ve seen so far,” Friedgen said after Saturday’s game. “Thaddeus Lewis is definitely an NFL prospect. He’s big, he’s strong and he’s physical. He made some

throws under pressure today. I’ve been impressed with him for a long time, and he impressed me again today.”

It was another quality performance for Lewis, and NFL scouts have started to notice. Up in the press box, looking down over the soaked field, personnel from seven NFL teams including the Giants, Jets, Patrios, Cardinals and Seahawks watched the senior in action.

For now, Lewis insists that he is focused on the game at hand. Though he enjoys watching the NFL—he’s a Miami Dolphins fan—the quarterback is not ready to start thinking about a career in the league. Last week, the Blue Devils downed Maryland, and now the mission is to secure a win against Virginia Saturday.

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Just 12 minutes later Grossman made it 2-0 off a cross from Christopher TweedKent. Duke continued to clog the midfield and control the game as the Blue Devils outworked and outplayed the Blue Hose.

Freshman Ryan Finley put the game far out ofreach just 21 minutes into the first half when he took the ball from a Presbyterian defender and beat the keeper to make it 3-0. Things only got worse for the Blue Hose (2-10-2) after that.

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Thaddeus Lewis was known as a pocket passer in his first three years at Duke and continues to thrive in that role, but he hasadded a running dimension to his game as well.

M. SOCCER from page 7 Duke made numerous substitutions as the scoreline allowed many players who rarely get playing dme to get significant minutes in the game. Head coachjohn Kerr played four different goalies and every player on his bench.

“We wanted to give some of the guys that don’t get to play a lot a chance to play and it worked out brilliandy that everyone on the squad had a chance to play tonight,” Kerr said.

“The starters got to pay back the hard work that the nonstarters go through every day in practice. It was a chance to give them an opportunity and I thought all of them played really well tonight and deserved die opportunity.”

They certainly did. Wenger added his second goal six minutes into the second halfoff a Ryan Brown corner kick.

And 17 minutes later, sophmore Kwasi Ayisi tallied his first goal of the season off a pass from sophmore Temi Molinar.

Duke pressed forward and attacked as the substitutes continued the high level of play. Sophomore Jan Trnka-Amrhein notched the sixth and final Duke goal, the first of his career, with just two minutes to go to cap the victory.

The win makes it four in a row for the Blue Devils after a come-from-behind victory versus Clemson last week.

Duke returns to action Friday in a big home matchup against Virginia Tech which has major implications for the ACC standings and tournament seeding.

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That singular focus has earned the Blue Devils a 4-3 record, including two consecutive wins in the ACC for the first time since 1994. Over his last three games, Lewis has now completed 92 of his last 133 passes and has accumulated 1,189 yards for nine touchdowns. Having started since he was a true freshman, Lewis has climbed career stat leaderboards, as well.

The senior is just 293 yards short of becoming the third Blue Devil and seventh ACC quarterback with 9,000 career passing yards.

Though Duke has had some trouble running the ball, the throwing game has flourished. For many onlookers, it comes as no suprise; after all, Cutcliffe famously helped develop both Peyton and Eli Manning at Tennessee and Ole Miss, respectively. But while Cutcliffe has certainly watched Lewis grow this year in the pocket, the quarterback’s improved mobility is just as obvious.

“I think Thad is becoming a better runner,” Cutcliffe said. “You know, that’s an acquired thing for a quarterback, because they don’t run it as much. He’s seeing the field better, making decisions, knowing where the sticks are. A lot of times when he’s running we’re trying to get a first down out of it, whether it’s quarterback draws or whatever the circumstances are. It just makes us better in our offense.”

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At its meeting earlier this month, the Board of Trustees approved the Climate Action Plan, a program that aims to make the University —not including the Medical Center—carbon neutral by the year 2024 and to cut greenhouse gas emissions 88 percent by 2050.

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Setting the standard for sustainability brings with it positive publicity the for Nicholas School and the University as a whole, but more importantly, it allows Duke to fulfill its mission of enacting

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a conservative, I find few things more tiring than hearing like-minded peers whine about the classroom bias of liberal professors.

The complaint, in many ways, misses the point of our academic training.

If anything, conservikram vatives are getting a sweet deal. While srinivasan paying the same uncommon amount of tuition as our liberal peers, conviction stuconservative dents are often getting a better education by virtue of having our views constantly challenged.

Campus conservatives need to realize that the purpose of our undergraduate education is not for us to hear what we want to hear. Indeed, a proper, liberal arts education should challenge our deepest beliefs and force us to reevaluate and reflect on them. Yes, there are excesses of political expression among the faculty. But these instances are atypical and should not be hyped up to be more common than they really are.

The notion that liberal Duke professors are generally politically intolerant is much-exaggerated. The perception likely originates at least in part with the actions of the Group of 88 during the lacrosse incident and the controversy that ensued.

But there are more than 2,500 full-time Duke faculty. To draw broad conclusions, as so many do, based on the actions of a few is surely misrepresentative.

Students ought to remember that the overwhelming majority of their faculty members are not tone-deaf ideologues, but individuals who through their years of specialized education have been inevitably exposed to a variety of differing viewpoints. You are not the first conservative your professor has met. lij fact, your professor, depending on his or her area of academic specialization, might even have a better understanding of your political views than you do. There is usually little reason for conservatives to fear that they cannot express their views in a classroom setting.

Still, because of the prominence o'f a few misrepresentative cases, many conservatives enter the classroom in a defensive position. Worse yet, many remain in this pose perpetually.

This approach to one’s education often manifests itself in a kind ofreactionary thoughtlessness, an impulse to view criticism or disagreement as an attack on one’s character rather than an opportunity to reflect more deeply and mature intellec-

tually. At other times, conservatives shrink into a shell and insulate themselves from participation in classroom dialogue. This is a lost opportunity, to say the least.

At its root, this defensive reaction can reflect an ideological narcissism unbecoming of a 20-yearold. Political views are not sacred principles immune to criticism, especially since most of us have held them no longer than five years. At the point where you can’t handle criticism for views you’ve basically just arrived at, maybe you should reevaluate your interest in politics.

Moreover, to attribute certainty to views which are so fundamentally and frequently debated is little if not intellectual egoism. That’s not to say that you can’t have strong beliefs—obviously not.

But students should seek to actively recognize the difference between belief and fact. If not for the sake of challenging and developing your own understanding, engaging with a liberal classroom environment will make you a more effective advocate for your own principles. People ofall belief systems benefit tremendously from understanding why and how others might disagree with their positions.

Yes, there are legitimate criticisms to be made of the current state ofaffairs as it pertains to politics in the classroom. Too often, course syllabi skew to the left in their representation of the major authors in a field of study. Liberal students lose out under this scenario from not having their views sufficiently challenged, and all students get a distorted picture of a field. It is also tfue that there is some benefit to having ideological mentors who share your basic worldview and can guide you as you seek to flesh out its full implications and assumptions.

Classes could also benefit from professors trying to be more actively self-aware of how they are presenting themselves. Ultimately, there is a power disparity inherent in classroom interactions. Even if students should not be deterred by the fact that their professor articulates a certain viewpoint without reservation, the reality is that a good number will be regardless.

But in most cases, these kinds of precautions should not make or break a student’s learning experience. To avoid those few radicals in the faculty who do not respond well to disagreement, a look at the standard course evaluation Web sites while book-bagging is usually more than sufficient.

So conservatives have little reason to complain about the fact that they attend a liberal university.

Indeed, we should be thankful for the opportunity.

If complaining is to be done, it should come from liberal students. They’re the ones getting a raw deal.

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Duke sustainability requires endowment transparency The Board of Trustees recently approved Duke’s Climate Action Plan, Mikael Owunna Yes, there is poverty, but we are not “poversecret Does he know of some demonstrating its commitment to enviCopmidmt, Duke EnvironmentalAlliance ty-ridden.”

Pratt ’l2 city where poverty does not exist? We are ronmental advocacy and sustainability. consistently named one of the best places 2024—Duke’s target year for carbon neuDon’t make football special to live in the U.S. Durham is an exciting, trality using a mixture of offsets and real I am writing in response to Jeffrey eclectic city with wonderful neighborhoods, campus energy reductions and diversifiworld class entertainment, great shopping, cation—is now a date to watch. The Uni- Bassett’s Oct. 26 letter, “Students, show year-round sports to take part in and watch versity’s B+ score awarded by the college more support for football.” Yes, it would and fantastic restaurants. Durham also has a sustainability report card augurs well the be nice if we could all go to the football feasibility of these administrative targets. very active volunteer community. game and cheer on our team thatis finally Ignominiously though, Duke’s F in enWe were also really perplexed with Broshowing some semblance of being a DivistofFs statement, “Add this to the fact that dowment transparency is emblematic of sion I program. But the fact is, not everyDurham citizens, oftentimesblack, work for the many steps that we must take between one here likes football, and even fewer the University in such glamorous positions now and 2024. This abysmal score and the like (at best) mediocre college football. as Subway chef and bus drivers.” What was administration’s perennial reticence with Still, as members of a living community, I the point of this sarcastic remark? Besides regard to the larger issue of transparency would hope that students feel some condemandproper responses and draw serious nection to support theirfellow classmates the racial undertones, was he really insinuquestions about the contents and overall in their extracurricular endeavors. Howating that a person who works in a restauever, the recent letters calling out Duke rant or drives a bus is not of as much value sustainability of our investment portfolio.

If the administration is heavily invested students for not supporting the football as someone in a higher paid position? Does in Duke Energy and other corporations team misse the point. he really not understand that it is the serMy issue lies with Bassett’s premise that geants, in any organization, and not the of- supporting the construction of a new coalficers, who keep the doors open every day fired power plant in Cliffside, N.C., and football should somehow be treated difand turn the lights off every evening? other environmentally unsound projects, ferently than other sports and extracurAs for Durham citizens resenting Duke, how committed is it really to the promotion riculars here at Duke. Why is it that we as a student body should be devoting all of that is just a silly statement. Duke is very of sustainability and other critical environmuch a part of Durham and appreciated mental reforms? Does Duke really want to our attention to football? Where are the by the majority of citizens. We would like promote itself as the environmental Janus outcries to get more student support at of our times? Only full endowment transfield hockey games, swimming and diving to invite Brostoff to get out and experience meets, men’s and women’s cross country the City of Medicine. Drive through our parency can rectify this glaring issue. (both ranked in the top 30 nationally) or In conjunction with these administralovely neighborhoods, visit the small indeomissions, tive the work done for our world-class fencers? Beyond athletby some time our being in pendent shops, spend ics, when is the last time many of us have schools, meet our teachers and students. various student groups, and their sustaingone to a play by our fellow students in Talk to the bus driver and the Subway ability and recycling coordinators in parchef, (or the dean, your professors, staff ticular, shows that sustainability is slowly Reynolds Theater or Page Auditorium, or listened to the Pitchforks perform? becoming a central pillar ofDuke’s adminassistants, doctors or any of the other thouThus, if you are going to call out Duke sands of employees). Brostoff s perception istrative and campus cultures. students for not supporting their peers, of the Bull City just might change.

From Eco-Olympics to the mere existhen call us out. I for one will admit that tence of a Climate Action Plan for our Uni. Monica Allison for is a reward I have not been to every single event put versity, our B+ sustainability that has been on by Duke students. But please, for my for the progress member, English significant Department of Staff sake and the sake of others, don’t tell me made on most fronts (endowment transwhich events I need to support most, or Gail Hignight parency excluded). of the think poorly of me for not choosing to indicative, It is though, Dean, to the Dean equally Assistant of Office of Academic Affairs multiple steps that must still be taken in support the ones you like. order for us to achieve carbon neutrality Sean-Patrick Oswald Lewis within the Plan’s set timeframe. 2024 will Cathy Trinity ’ll test of our therefore serve as the ultimate the Dean assistant, of Staff Office of -

In response to yet another irksome “Monday, Monday” column I’d like to point out a few things. Firstly, Steve Wojciechowski came to Delta Sigma Phi fraternity section to discuss the student section’s ailing reputation, namely the fact that our ACC rivals perceive it as unintimidating and ridiculous. Now, I’m not sure how Duke Basketball works, but I’d assume that Wojo was given orders by someone higher up unless he just wanted to relive his glory days and frat it up with some broskis and braskies in Edens for an evening; who could blame him? So, if I were a betting man, I’d wager that the King of All the “Rabid” Ones—the one Coach K, three-time National Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, maybe, just maybe, sent Wojo to the—gasp —“greeks,” and for good reason.

Wojo said the team was well aware that its fans aren’t intimidadng enough and that the only game that students were turned away from last year was Davidson. C’mon “rabid” fans, you can’t even fill up Cameron for the UNC game? The current student section repeats the same generic chants and motions every game. No Mr. Line Monitor, I don’t want your cheer sheet. What Wojo said was that Cameron’s atmosphere has been hurting from a lack of aggression and underrepresentation from unified, moraleboosting student groups, like the “greeks”!

But all joking aside, “Charlotte’s” argument unfairly stereotypes roughly a third of Duke’s undergraduate community. Furthermore, the line policy currently favors the “rabid” fans while making it nearly impossible for organized student groups to enjoy the game together in one area of the student section, an arrangement which would undoubtedly boost morale and step up Cameron’s intimidation factor, whether we’re sober or not. Ultimately, who are we to question the coaches if they think this new line policy will benefit the, team? Maybe greeks will be able to come up with more creative chants than “Airrrrrballlll,” if not, hook me up with a rabies shot... on Flex, please.

Arthur Trinity ’l2

Pony boy unveiled like to start off this column with a question, and I want up and says something. The problem is, when you combine you to be completely honest with your answer: Iff bought this with my weirdness, it leads to many quizzical looks when, you a pony, would you ride it around with me on East after sitting quietly for 15 minutes, I suddenly make a pterodactyl joke while everyone is discussing politics.

Campus on a cool, crisp fall day while wealThus, I tend to keep my mouth shut ing argyle sweaters and eating Dunkaroos?

But all that changes on the Internet.

So, what will it be? It’s a simple yes or no • Thanks to the magic of throwaway e-mail 'PMA. question folks; it’s not rocket science (sorry J addresses and fake user names, one can be to disappoint my Pratt readers). almost completely anonymous on the web.

Seriously though, I’m waiting. Even 'jit So when Nolan Smith announced on his though there’s actually no way that you can Twitter account that he was going to be doI’m now, to me going respond directlyright a live video question-and-answer session ing to assume that your lack ofresponse means wolff where the public could submit questions in a who you’re blowing me off. Jerk. You know i’m serious... chat room, my eyes lit up. From the perspecdidn’t blow me off? tive of “Jacob Wolff, Duke Basketball fan,” it Nolan Smith the perspective of “Jacob Wolff, strange was From exciting. basketball player/ Yes, that Nolan,Smith. The Duke kid given a chance to anonymously ask a campus celebrity pony ride aficionado/ person whose name can be rearranged to spell “Salmon Hint” actually answered that very questions,” it was VERY exciting.

To use a basketball metaphor, I took the ball and ran with question. Allow me to explain.

If reading my columns this semester hasn’t tipped you it (and was called for traveling violations many times over—screw dribbling). At first Nolan ignored my questions, stickoff yet, I’ll be the first to admit I’m a pretty odd guy. I clearly don’t write about things like my ant farm to score points ing to mostly basketball related topics, such as, “who do you with the ladies, I do it because I have something of a weird think is going to start this year?” But I wasn’t voted “most sense of humor. Basically, if you take that annoying friend likely to marry a trophy wife by pestering her non-stop for who always makes “Arrested Development” references and five years” in high schoolfor nothing—I’m a persistent chap! combine it with your 12-year-old fart joke-cracking brother, Eventually, he had no choice but to humor me.

From “who would win in a fight 18 grizzly bears or a robot you have me in a nutshell.

Transformers” to “did it hurt... when you fell from heavfrom also happen Though I never purposely hide my oddities, I to be a quiet guy. You know, the type of person you sometimes en,” Nolan probably answered about 10 of my questions. All in forget is sitting at your table, only to be shocked when he pipes all, he’s got a great sense of humor. As per the pony-riding ques-

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lion, he just laughed and never did give me a straight answer.

Along with being a generally quiet person, I also tend to come up with some amazing ideas, but don’t quite get up the nerve to follow through with them.

It’s a formula that plays out time and time again: sweet plan plus lame excuse equals inaction. Ideas like singing “Hit me baby one more time” at karaoke night and hopping in the car and for a spontaneous road trip to New York will undoubtedly illicit some sort of excuse.

So when I typed the following: “Someday I’m going to get up the nerve to come up to you in the BC and tell you I was the kid asking you all the weird questions,” I knew I’d probably never do it. I’d see Nolan on campus and chicken out, failing yet again to step out ofmy comfort zone.

But you know what, I’m sick of being the “Wouldn’t it be great/hilarious/awesome guy” who lacks follow-through.

I’m sick of never taking chances, I’m sick of being scared of humiliation and most of all, I’m sick of “Lost”... that show’s gone on way too long.

So, Salmon hint (aka Nolan), here I am: Jacob Wolff, the weird kid who asked the weird questions. I know this isn’t me coming up to you in the Bryan Center, but it’s a big step for a shy person like me, so publicly confessing via column will have to do. If you see me around campus, be sure to say hello. I’ll be the kid riding the pony on the quad while wearing an argyle sweater and eating Dunkaroos, if you catch my salmon hint.

Jacob Wolff is a Trinity senior.

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