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When Chris Kennedy first joined the Duke athletics department, head basketball coach Bill Foster guided the team to the 1978 NCAA championship game. On top of his coaching duties, Foster taught a physical education course, said Kennedy, now senior associate athletics director.

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University administrators are considering significant changes to the student dining plan.

Administrators are pushing for a “directed choice” dining plan, which would require students to spend part of their food points at non-contracted venues, including the Great Hall, the Marketplace, Trinity Cafe, Subway and Chik-fil-A, Duke Student Government President Awa Nur announced at the Senate meeting Wednesday night.

“The University seems committed to directed choice, and I want to make my position on that clear,” Nur, a senior, said in her address to the Senate. “There is no way in hell that I am going to support that....

It’s fake choice and it’s not something that I stand for.”

The new plan would force sophomores, juniors and seniors with meal plans to spend between 500 to 700 of their food points at the non-con traded venues, Nur said. She noted that the average student currently spends fewer than 300 points at these locations.

All non-contracted venues are operated and staffed by Bon Appetit Management Company, which replaced ARAMARK Duke’s former dining management company—in 2007. Bon Appetit’s arrival increased Dining Services’ expenses by $1 million, which marked the beginning of a $2 million annual deficit.

Nur added that directed choice originated in meetings with administrators toward the end of last Spring. When negotiations with student representatives broke down, the administration made plans to formulate five alternatives over the summer, but administrators barred Nur from becoming involved in process on three separate occasions, Nur said.

“And you can imagine what happened... the options that they have provided to us have subsequently not been good,” Nur said, adding that a group of students has been working to draft alternative options.

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Duke and the ACC are perfect no more.

MADISON, Wis. Playing in its first true road game of the season at a raucous Kohl Center, the No. 6Blue Devils trailed the entire game, never able to overcome an early Wisconsin advantage. Despite a late rally, Duke (6-1) squandered its late-game opportunities and the Badgers (5-1) held on for the 73-69 win.

The loss was the Blue Devils’ first of the season and first ever in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, and it led to the Big Ten’s only Challenge win in the 11-year history of the event.

“They just wanted it more,” senior guard Jon Scheyer said.

“That’s probably the worst thing I can say after a game.”

But it was true, and it took a heroic effort from Kyle Singler to keep Duke in the contest in the opening half, and a 3-pbint barrage from Andre Dawkins to give the Blue Devils a shot in the final minutes. The freshman guard made three long balls in a span of 1:42 to cut the deficit from nine to two, willing his team back after Wisconsin seemed to have pulled away.

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Obama has summoned 130 corporate executives, economists, small-business owners and union leaders to the White House to sound out ideas for accelerating job growth during the worst labor market in a generation.

"The main thing that people are concerned about is jobs," said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md."lt is the number one issue."

But Obama's options are limited, as the administration already has signaled that it is unwilling to make any investments that would add significantly to the nation's ballooning deficit.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. Pointing to public frustration over the pace of the economic recovery, Democratic governors said Wednesday they will begin the 2010 election year on the defensive and pledged to wage aggressive campaigns against Republican policies they said would take the country backward.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, vice chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, said the country's finances were left in a shambles by former President George W. Bush."People are hurting so badly," he add ed, "that they're very upset that their new leadership have not fixed it as quickly as everybody would like for us to have fixed it."

The mood among Democrats contrasted sharply with that of Republican governors, who met two weeks ago outside Austin, Texas, and predicted significant gains beyond the 24 governorships they now hold.

MOSCOW Chechen rebels took responsibility Wednesday for a bombing last week that derailed a passenger train bounded from Moscow to St. Petersburg, killing 26 people and injuring 87 others.

The claim was carried on Kavkazcenter. com, a Web site that often carries information from Islamic rebels seeking independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.

"We state that the given operation was prepared and carried out as part of the sabotage actions against strategically important facilities of Russia planned earlier this year and successfully carried out on the orders of Caucasus emir Doku Umarov," said the statement signed by rebels'general staff.

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Bastrykin said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta published Wednesday that the second explosion set off as investigators probed the derailment was characteristic of methods used by militants from the Caucasus region.

Analysts said the Islamic rebels' claim, whether true or not, would raise tensions in the Caucasus and lead to an increase in raids and arrests by authorities of ethnic people from the Caucasus region.

Varvara Pakhomenko, a member of Demos, a Moscow-based human rights center, expressed concerns that Chechen rebels may employ new tactics after a gap in major terrorist attacks against Russian sites outside of the Caucasus region.

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Next Fall, sororities could have a space

to call their own.

Seniors Alyssa Back and CaSey Miller—both sorority members—are in the process of formulating a formal residential space proposal for Central Campus. They have

submitted drafts to Residential Life and Housing Services and Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education and are awaiting feedback from sorority chapters to make sure all concerns are addressed. Back and Miller will present a proposal to Campus Council tonight.

The current draft proposal asks for two one-bedroom woodskin apartment buildings on Central that would have approximately 28 beds for the members of nine Panhellenic Association sororities through an opt-in process. The proposal also requests that one apartment in each building be remodeled as a common space. Owned by four to five Panhellenic sororities, the common spaces would be serve small programming functions, such as speakers, small group discussions and ritual activities.

Dack and Miller met with sorority members Wednesday evening to address their concerns about the proposal, one of which is the rationale for choosing Central Campus.

‘With plans for New Campus put on halt with the economic issues, we were forced to look elsewhere for a temporary solution until the campus is actually built,” Miller said. “This is an intermediate solution.

Some people qre concerned that we are giving in to the administration, but I feel it is beneficial to both parties. We also feel by

hel more of a strong, cohesive unit. With the strong group of women we have now, we feel now is the time to strike.”

Derby Days was Sigma Chi fraternity’s annual week-long annual event to raise money for various national charities that involved various competition among Duke’s sororities. But in October, the presidents of all nine Panhellenic sororities joined to withdraw from the event.

Dack said the space on Central is not mandatory but is an option for junior and senior Panhellenic girls looking for a residential community on campus. Interest for the living space is still being gauged.

Both Nowicki and Associate Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez said that although the proposal will be considered very seriously, it is hard to assess the situation until the final proposal is submitted.

“We won’t be able finalize anything until they finalize what they want,” Gonzalez said.

“We’re hoping that [the meetings they’re having this week] will produce something more real and go beyond the theoretical and informal discussions we’ve had.”

The idea for the proposal stems from when greek honor society Order of Omega SAMANTHA SHER7THE CHRONICLE At a forum Wednesday night, representatives from the Panhellenic Association call for the creation of a discussed Duke sorority and fraternity life formal residential space on Central Campus for Duke's sororities by next Fall. with Nowicki and Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for locking in space on Central now, we will be individual chapters, she said. This proposal student affairs.

Wasiolek said that in 1980, sororities compensated properly when the New Cam- takes a unique approach by having general Panhellenic space where girls from various were given a building on Oregon Streetpus does come into existence.”

Dack and Miller noted that many have chapters can interact, in addition to living currendy a police station-hut returned it to the University because it was too difficult asked why Panhellenic is acting now. space.

“In the past we’ve been pretty split by to manage.

Clarybel Peguero, assistant dean of “In previous years, [living space for students and director of fraternity and chapter affiliation, and with Derby Days said, been for Miller was a topic that was debated, sororities] life, cause,” said there have we came a together many sorority attempts in the past to acquire space. But “We want to move along with the momenSEE HOUSING ON PAGE 5 turn [Derby Days] gave us and make Panat that time, there was more of a focus on

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President Richard Brodhead earned $662,000 in 2008.

The disparity in coaching salaries between now and then is just one indicator of how the landscape of intercollegiate athletics has been transformed in the last three decades.

Figuresreported by the athletics department in compliance with the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act provides another glimpse into the explosive growth athletic departments across the country have experienced, even within the last 10 years.

From July 1997 to June 1998, the operating budget of the athletics department was $20.5 million, said Mitch Moser, associate athletic directorfor business operations. The department spent $6,238,903 for scholarships and $399,322 on recruiting.

Now, the operating budget has almost quadrupled to $60.3 million, Moser said. Furthermore, the EADA form

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In addition, for the last several years revenues have exceeded expenses at most competitive schools, according to a recent report funded by the Knight Foundation, Intercollegiate athletics has become an increasingly time-consuming and costly enterprise, athletic administrators and outside experts have said.

“There are some inherent drivers that keep things moving in terms of costs,” Director of Athletics Kevin White said. “I don’t think we’re in any sort of unilateral position in that regard. I think we belong to a competitive set.”

The first athletics strategic plan “Unrivaled Ambition” cites specific factors driving the expansion.

Heightened interest, propelled by 24-hour cable television networks, is largely at play in the commercialization of athletics. Coaches’ salaries have mushroomed as schools try to build winning programs. Universities are participating in a “facilities arms race.” In addition, in compliance with Title IX in 1977, the number of teams offered at Duke has

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at Duke as well as outside observers have raised concerns about the escalating costs in college sports, especially in light of the current financial strain on university budgets.

Math professor Richard Hain said he became interested in the athletic department’s finances as chair of the math department in the late 19905. As the math department struggled with an “acute space shortage”—alleviated by the construction of the French Science Family Center in 2006 the athletics department was building a number of new facilities, many of them funded by private gifts, Hain said.

“As athletics becomes bigger, its appetite for resources increases and the University has devoted a good amount of its fundraising to athletics already,” Hain said. “That comes at a cost ofraising money for the endowment of say, Arts & Sciences and of Engineering.”

Some have also said that the growth of athletic departments could be detracting from the central mission of educational institutions.

Charles Clotfelter, professor of economics and law and Z. Smith Reynolds professor public policy, is writing a book about the “profoundest consequences” ofbig-time athletics at American universities: After studying numerous colleges with successful sports programs, he found that athletics have become an essential component of these universities’ operations.

“If you look at the mission statements of universities, there’s no mention of athletics. There’s a paradoxical situation there,” Clotfelter said. “It’s important for us to take seriously that universities, like ours are in the entertainment business and go on from there.”

Orin Starn, Sally Dalton Robinson professor ofcultural anthropology and chair of the cultural anthropology department, has been particularly outspoken in his criticism of big-time athletics at Duke.

“I’m concerned about the fact that it seems like a very strange world that we live in where the basketball and football coaches are making more money than the University president,” Siam said. “Duke has become part of this hypercommercialized, ultra-competitive world of big-time sports.”

Observers acknowledged, however, that the practices of the Duke athletics department is part of a nationwide trend in multimillion dollar budgets and exponential growth. It is a problem that would be difficult for any single university to buck if the athletics program wants to stay competitive.

“There is really a national issue,” Hain said. “It’s very hard for Duke to deal with this in a vacuum.”

At other universities, faculty have taken a more proactive approach in calling for reform. Under mounting financial pressure and facing deep budget cuts, faculty at the University of California Berkeley are calling for a reexamination of the school’s athletic program and are demanding more administrative oversight.

Stam said he would like to see a similar conversation take place at Duke.

“We ought to rethink the place of sports in a college setting. I’d love to see Duke take the lead in this,” he said.

“But I don’t think it’ll ever happen in a million years.”

Priceless Still, administrators said the value of the athletics program goes beyond a dollar amount.

“The University has a really good feel for what a solid athletic department can bring to the community. I don’t think their investment in us is disproportional in any way," Iron Dukes Director Jack Winters said. “You’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Would we be where we are today without the athletic accomplishments over the past decade?’”

Indeed, administrators said participation in Division I athletics has played an instrumentalrole in building Duke’s brand.

“Athletics is part of the mix of ingredients that gives American higher education its unique dynamism,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an e-mail. “There is no doubt that athletics is one of the things that makes Duke attractive to students from around the world—both as spectators and as participants. That’s why virtually all colleges and universities engage in athletics.”

In addition, officials pointed to the high graduation rate among the athletics program and rave reviews from student athletes about their experiences as evidence that Duke has maintained the right athletics-academic balance.

For White, there is no question that athletics add something unique to Duke.

“You’re asking the pastor whether he’s praying over the right religion,” White said. “[Athletics is] Americana, its pop culture, and I think many institutions have figured that 0ut.... It’s an external entity that has the capacity to draw people to the central mission of a university and some institutions have figured out how to do it very wellDuke is near the top of that list.”

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Throughout the dining portion ofher speech, Nur emphasized that administrators have not been receptive to students’ demands.

“This is not how the administration should be interacting with students,” she said. “Again, let me emphasize that if we’re going to be in the roonv we’re not just going to be present but we are going to be a presence, and the administration should take notice.”

In the beginning of the meeting, the Senate approved the Young Trustee selection timeline, which set the Young Trustee application deadline on Jan. 15 and polls will open Feb. 9.

The Senate also selected six senators to sit on the Young Trustee Nominating Committee. Of the 19 nominated students, senior Spencer Eldred, vice president for student affairs, juniors Kendyl Tash and Gregory Morrison, DSG executive vice president, sophomores Lauren Moxley and Pete Schork, vice president for athletics and campus services, and freshman ChristineLarson were selected. These students will account for six of the' 18 students on the Young Trustee Nominating Committee.

Sophomore Lauren Moxley (left) was one of the six members of the Young Trustee Nominating Committee selected by the Duke Student Government Senate during the group's meeting Wednesday night. The final committee will be composed of 18 students.

In other business: Senators considered a number of resolutions and statutes, including one that aimed to remove the $2,000 DSG presidential stipend for future years. Currently, the DSG president receives $2,000 over the course of his or her term, and funds come from the Student Activity Fee. Junior Lauren Kottis, a Durham and regional affairs senator who submitted the statute, said the same amount of money could instead be used to fund new organizations.

She noted that funding should not come from the Student Activities Fee. “It’s something students pay because they assume it will be used for their benefit, and not for a single person,” Kottis said Ultimately, senators voted down Kottis’ statute The InternationalAssociation also made a presentation to senators in which they discussed the findings from its five domestic-international conversational exchange focus groups.

Project Recon, an entrepreneurial program that aims to better relations between Duke and North Carolina Central University students, also presented its future goals during the meeting.

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Several other organizations, including some fraternities, are also in talks with RLHS to get space on Central.

“We’ve been working hard on upgrading Central, Nowicki said. “Übuntu wanted space on West [Campus] but because of the moratorium, we were unable to give it to them, so they had to get space on Central and they re deliriously happy out there. We are aware that since the New Campus has been put on hold we have to make Central a more attractive option. The student experience [on Gentral] is going to be very different next year [with the addition of] a full restaurant, study spaces and a bar, among other things.” ' Back and Miller are working with administrators, RLHS, Panhellenic presidents and Duke Student Government in hopes of implementing the housing option by next Fall.

“All the ducks are lined up, we should be able to do something,” Nowicki said. “There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to [get this done] by Fall 2010.”

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You’re damn right I’m fired up. It’s the last week of classes, which means all the work you’ve put off is now due like Oprah’s coming-out speech. But if you’re trapped in the library when all you want to do is play golf and cheat on your wife, then you can’t see the Woods for the trees because cramming in Brostock, first floor, back table by the “Honors Thesis Room” isn’t about sucking down Red Bull and typing until you have carpal tunnel. It’s about wasting all that time exploring the Internet looking at useless Web sites.

Recendy, I saw “Hey Check Out This Ginge,” a Web site dedicated to Hider’s worst nightmare: the dreadedredhead (say that five times fast). Unfortunately, this won’t be the final solution to the redhead problem, but it is a nice example of the recurring “look at this niche of people or things which provide endless material for one-liners” Web sites. You’ve probably seen “Look at this F—ing Hipster” and “Check Out this Douchebag” but you may not have heard of these other ones.

First up is an oldie but a goodie: “Gander These Elders Getting Intimate.” PDA isn’t just for under the slide anymore. They’re old, they’re bold, and they’re mounting one another on a Rascal scooter. If Rascal scooters had windows, they would be steamier than Jack and Rose’s carriage. “Oh Harold, people are taking pictures.” “I know, Maude. Doesn’t it turn you on?” He may not know how to turn a computer on, but he knows about Maude.

Next, whatstarted with one single picture of a halfway decent Olympic swimmer has turned into “Look At This Lazy Pothead.”

This is a gateway Web site. Once you click

on it, all you want is the next hard site. Next it’s “Look at this Tweaking Coke Head.”

Then you’re on to “Check Out This Drooping Junkie.” Look at this Jenkem fiend.

Strung-out and broke, you’ll find on a “Home for the Homeless,” granted it’s less of a shelter and more of a public forum for us to ridicule their terrible feet.

But hey, baby steps. Seriously, sir, baby steps, you’re barefoot, and there is a lot of broken glass in this back alley. Now rummage around in that trash, desperate for something to eat.

Perfect. On the count of three, act like you’ve just found some something shiny and metallic you might be able to hawk. Now hoist it above your head. There! I’ll call it “9th Street Wonder.” It’s going to get so many hits.

In the same vein as “This Is Why You’re Fat” comes “Please Eat Some Carbohydrates.”

Weighing less than the Quenchers smoothie you can’t finish? Tights sagging down to your Uggs? Able to tell the change of seasons by the amount of peach fuzz your body grows to keep warm? You might be found here. Eating disorders are no laughing matter though, unless you’re trying to bum calories.

Currently, I’m working on creating “Peep This Studious Oriental.” If you have any action shots—preferably involving a calculator or groups hopped up On ginseng—send them in. Now ’s die perfect time to capture them in their natural habitat. You may resent them for mining the bell curve, but someone needs to balance out my D with an A. I’m not allowed to say the code to the Honors Thesis Room, but I will say it’s a Strokes song. Get in there with some study drugs. You can sleep when you’re dead.

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The Nasher Museum presents a groundbreaking exhibition examining Pablo Picasso’s lifelong relationship with writers and the many ways in which language transformed his work.

Picasso and the Allure of Language was organized by the Yale University Art Gallery with the support of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Pablo Picasso, Dog and Cock, 1921. Oil on canvas; 61 x 30 1/8 inches. Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903. ©2009 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Labour Love Gallery’s exhibition Naturally Selected thoughtfully pieces together a collection of artists who seem to share the owners’ affinity for the tender. The gallery itself feels cherished and sincere, and the dis-

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seem to be careful seekers of beauty and observers of the natural world.

Pamela Zimmerman wraps the dark browns of hardbody gourds in silvery barks or soft, yellow pine needles.

One resembles a shell, lined inside its cool hardness with delicate pink iridescent paper. A fiber artist, she also coils horse hair around carved wooden moon faces.

Jenny Hodges’ works resemble encyclopedic tapestries that might be used to teach natural science classes to extraterrestrials. In her piece “Home 2,” she cocoons acorns, seashells and seedpods behind mesh nets handstitched into felt. The mesh obscures these objects lightly, forcing the viewer to peer closely and really examine what lies behind it. Up close, the strangeness of nature’s burrs and seeds is delightful; you’re glad.Hodges made you look.

Edgier and more bizarre than Hodges’ or Zimmerman’s work, Emily Soldin Howard’s creations focus on the interplay between food and memory. “Avgolemono” is a piece done on distressed, stained and decomposing fabric that centers around the cooking of a hen. Howard uses mostly wax and plaster, mediums that work particularly well for this piece because they maintain the characteristics ofbeaten yolks or raw chicken. It’s done in mottled tans, whites and yellows and the wax looks sinewy. An old-fashioned recipe, complete with sketches of the hen being prepared, is digitally printed over the canvas.

Joshua Parker Coombs adds further variety to the collection by moving the display from the walls to the floor where his steel, stone and rust sculptures stand (an achievement in itself) tribute to inspiration. Behind them are the paintings he created by overlapping painted sheep from a sheep-shaped cookie cutter on top of wood panels. In greens and blues, they resemble oceanic cartography and in steely, mineral colors they become a map of the earth.

Finally, Destry Sparks expands the exhibition by concentrating on less traditionally beautiful forms of nature, pulling in motifs of outer space and the southwest and utilizing materials as diverse as deer bones and dead amphibians. In “Ascension,” he frames a burlap canvas with an old window frame and creates a nightmarish acid rainstorm inside of it. The burlap pollutes his red, yellows and greens and his white paint stands out like stars. Floating in his trippy atmosphere are materials as diverse as bottle caps, rope, snake skin, twist ties and paper cone cups. Their overall effect is stunning, not a sermon against pollution. It’s only careful examination of detail that reveals garbage.

The collection coheres through the artists’ admirable uncovering of curious details. Their energy rejuvenates a desire to get closer, look harder and create.

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Sam Stephenson unexpectedly spent 13 years researching the archives of W.Eugene Smith's New York loft.His project is now a book.

Back at the start of the research that led to The Jazz Loft Project, “13 years later” was not a part of the plan. Sam Stephenson didn’tknow—couldn’t have known—that his investigation into the universe of artifacts left behind by legendary American photographer W. Eugene Smith would come to resemble one of Smith’s ever-growing photo essays, its focus growing wider by the day. But here he is, 13 years since the beginning of the entire project, and there are still over a thousand CDs to listen to.

Stephenson’s involvement with Smith’s work began as a magazine article. He was writing on the artist’s Pittsburgh project, a photo essay originally centered on the city’s bicentennial. Smith’s undertaking, intended to require three weeks of work and about 100 pictures, evolved into a four-year, 22,000-photograph anthology. The extent to which the project consumed him led Smith to leave his family and home and move into a Manhattan loft—the loft that captured Stephenson’s attention.

“There was never a plan in which 1 made a decision to work this long on this project,” Stephenson said. “It just sort of organically grew.”

The process through which Stephenson has explored and condensed Smith’s work is fascinating in its own right.

What Smith left behind, aside from approximately 40,000 photographs, are about 4,000 hours of recorded sounds: jam sessions, street noise, television and radio programs, interpersonal banter, people reading aloud.

“It’s not just jazz: there’s conversations, there’s just SEE JAZZ LOFT ON PAGE 8

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Aspiring student sculptors, cartoonists, painters and photographers had their moment in the sun Tuesday at a reception launching the Duke Arts Students Showcase.

Twenty-six undergraduate and graduate students will have their pieces displayed in the Louise Jones Brown Gallery, located in the Bryan Center. The exhibit will run from Nov. 23 to Jan. 15, 2010.

“This is the first year we have done something like this, and it is a momentous occasion for us,” said junior Lisa Gao, visual arts committee programing director for Duke University Union. “We just wanted to have a place for students to showcase their art.”

A committee of professors, professional artists and students selected the works from more than 200 entries. The committee awarded a first place, second place, third place and honorable mention.

Laura Dodd, a junior, won third place for “Into the

Night,” a photograph taken from the backseat of a car on a raining night as an inmate was driven back to prison after visiting home.

Dodd said that although it was difficult to receive permission to photograph the inmate, the project was very rewarding.

“It made the work a lot harder,” Dodd said. “It took me two months to get permission.”

Gao said the committee was looking for variety in the artwork chosen for the exhibit.

“That was the best part of it,” Gao said. “We told people that they could submit whatever they wanted and we would find away to display it.”

The artists themselves varied in their backgrounds as well. Dodd, for example, is a physics major.

“I would love to work for National Geographic, but realistically, we all can’t work for National Geographic,” Dodd said. “I feel you need to have a backup plan, and my backup plan is physics.”

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Ail ofher tracks are lyrically strong, usually first-person narratives that never feel heavy or self-centered. Her perspective seems like the expression of the listener’s feelings, not her own emotions. She has away of pulling in an audience immediately, her lush and intriguing lyrics drawing the listener into her sonic spell.

She also is an expert wielder of references. “Rabbit Heart” begins with an Alice in Wonderland allusion: “The looking glass, so shiny and new/How quickly the glamour fades/I start spinning, slipping out of time.”

She continues the track with a chorus about King Midas, ultimately creating a fairy tale of fiction, myth and emotion.

Her songs are distinct for their impeccable and layered production. Instruments and rhythms meld seamlessly into an opulent soundscape. She makes spectacular use of strings, with both harp and violin creating a forceful and lively sound.

The majority of the album is fast-paced and intense, and this is where Florence shines, never becoming overwhelmed by the oft-pounding music. She also uses her powerhouse vocals for pseudo-ballads like “My Boy Builds Coffins.” These slower tracks are excellent, but they lack the vibrancy that otherwise characterizes Lungs.

What marks Flo’s first album is an eccentricity and variety that is rare in today’s music world. Her songs are filled with life and emotion, and their power is enough to make the air leave anyone’s lungs.

Grounded in electronic ambience and metallic guitar tones, the album is driven by Silberman’s frail tenor; it’s the ideal instrument for this story, capable of conveying both the tainted optimism of“Bear” and the desperation of “Sylvia” in equal measure.

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This Thursday, fashion and feminism will come together at School House’s first-ever runway show at Golden Belt’s Cotton Room.

“I’ve always loved fashion but I felt guilty about it for a long time,” Weeks said.

That is until an internship in Washington, D.C. opened her eyes to the possibilities of responsible ipanufacturing.

After her enlightening summer, Weeks came back to Duke determined to learn about the challenges of sustainable sourcing in the garment industry.

“I had an idea my senior year to start a, trend-driven ethically sourced collegiate brand, so I wanted to go to a developing country with an emerging garment sector,” Weeks said.

Weeks said she saw the need both for a more fashionable collegiate product and also to break the cycle of poverty in the garment industry. She combined the two, and she said the results have been tremendpus: a trendy line of clothes a cut above the uniform block-letter t-shirt that’s made by ethically treated workers.

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Rachel Weeks,!'o7, conceived the idea for School House, an ethically minded, university-theme fashion line, during her final year at Duke after an internship. cute, which makes the price more to essentially triple the wages at bearable. But it’s also a good, these factories,” Weeks said.

Weeks partnered with a labor dependable line that supports a cause, which kind of cements the rights coalition in Sri Lanka that conducted a living wage survey, deal,” said senior Cynthia Chen.

After spending a year in Sri tripling her workers’ wages so Lanka on a Fulbright scholarship, that they would be able to sustain she returned home and started themselves—and she’s not even a small living wage garment facclose to being finished.

“Living wage has been the first tory in Sri Lanka with a partner.

Now, 12 months after the launch step that we’ve taken but it’s by no ofSchool House and a highly suc- means the last,” Weeks said. cessful test run at Harvard, she Weeks said she wants to include will sell the brand at 85 schools English classes and daycare faacross the country through a deal cilities for her workers and would with Barnes and Noble. also like to get DukeEngage and “At the end of the day a lot of Dtike students involved. problems boil down to poverty, and I really saw an opportunity SEE SCHOOL ON PAGE 8

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At the Dec. 9 orchestral performance at Reynolds Industries Theater, ushers will hand out crayons and sing-a-longs will commence, and the audience will be encouraged to keep their phones on to “drown out any dreadful noise that might emanate from the stage.”

To be sure, it will not be your average concert. But the Really Terrible Orchestra of the Triangle isn’t your average orchestra either.

Formed in May 2008 after conductor W. Sands Hobgood learned of Edinburgh’s Really Terrible Orchestra, RTOOT (capitalize of, not the) has grown into a 50-piece ensemble with members of all ages (the youngest is sevCn) and of all musical and professional backgrounds. The name, however, is a bit misleading. The orchestra is less cacophonous and more, as its Web site puts it, “des enfants terribles.”

“They resemble very much a regular classical concert but they don’t have nearly the same level of seriousness,” assistant conductor Michael Lyle said. “We are very purposely self-deprecating.”

Indeed, this playfulness pervades almost every aspect of RTOOT, right down to the program, which includes chapters of famous books and coloring

patterns in case the audience gets bored.

But thatdoesn’tmeanßTOOT doesn’t take its music seriously.

The humor becomes a tool with which to break down the stigma of classical music, presenting it in a relaxed, accessible —if not

perfect—atmosphere.

“We think of ourselves as a zany group but really dedicated to classical music, doing the best we can;—which is sometimes pretty decent,” Hobgood said.

RTOOT practices weekly Hobgood said it’s a necessity out of how bad they are. But Lyle said the practice and dedication ofRTOOT are no differentfrom that of the North Carolina Symphony, even if the end result is a bit less polished.

He added that the true phenomenon of RTOOT is how a group of professional musicians, lawyers and business types have come together to form a community, each carrying the burden of the group in their own way.

“The process of approaching music is an equalizer,” Lyle said.

“It becomes about the music, not the individual performer.”

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if'k'kirik Growing up in England, there were three things I feared: baked beans, dental plaque and grown-ups. Fortunately, I had the magic of Roald Dahl to help me counter the horrid food and terrifying teachers. Now, with his animated adaptation of Dahl’s classic, Fantastic Mr. Fox, director Wes Anderson pays homage to this childhood hero by reviving one ofhis most memorable rebels.

Mr. Fox (voiced by the fantastic George Clooney) makes his living stealing birds from repulsive farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, “one short, one fat, one lean.” One day his wife (Meryl Streep) accompanies him on a job and, after the two are caught in a trap, she swears that if they get out alive he must find a new line of work. Two years later, Mr. Fox lives the risk-free life of a newspaper columnist (?!). Fed up with the

humdrum of his burrow, however, he insists on moving his family into a roomier abode above ground. Once there, he immediately falls back into chicken stealing and rekindles the wrath of the farmers, who set out to kill theirrobber once and for all.

Anderson returns to the screen with the distinctive dry humor, expressive color palette and folk/rock soundtrack that have set his films apart since BottleRocket. He teams up with screenwriter Noah Baumbach for the second time since The Life Aquatic, and they produce a delightfully embellished take on the original tale. Employing the laborious technique of stop-motion, Anderson transforms Dahl’s story into a patchwork world inhabited by hand-made figurines who look more like our playthings than the real thing, yet still manage to capture our hearts.

As Mr. Fox continually informs us throughout the film, it’s the wild animals that make this life fantastic, and as a former Brit, I’m grateful Dahl and Anderson are two of them.

—Emily Ackerman

As a film critic, it’s easy to become jaded: you review a film, note its strengths and weaknesses, the camerawork, the performances, all within the assigned word count. Thankfully, films like Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire arrive and so thoroughly shake you to your core, evincing the incredible power ofcinema.

Precious (Gabourey Sidibe, in an outstanding debut), an obese, intelligent but illiterate teenager, is expelled from school because ofher second pregnancy.

Unbeknownst to the institution, Precious is physically abused by her mother Mary (Mo’Nique) and raped by her father, who bore her two Down syndrome-afflicted children. Precious painfully exists in her surroundings and dreams her way into an imaginary world of BET videos and movie premieres filled with people who adore her. Fortuitously, Precious enrolls at an alternative school, where her teach-

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er Ms. Rain (Paula Patton) cultivates her intellectual potential, bestowing Precious with the ability to comprehend her reality and finally tell her own story. Similarly encouraging are the determination of social worker Ms. Weiss (an unrecognizable Mariah Carey), her nurse John (Lenny Kravitz) and her classmates.

This film is tough. There are moments so excruciating—executed mainly by Mo’Nique, who will assuredly win an Oscar—they will leave you aghast at their horror and hyper-sensitive to your powerlessness as an audience member. But amid the devastation, there is humor, lightheartedness and an overwhelming sense of rebirth.

Director Lee Daniels endows his film with astonishing honesty; this is filmmaking at its purest. He, and the miraculous Sidibe, immerse the audience so deeply in Precious’ struggle Uiat as she rises out of her ashes, you can feel your own soul being uplifted.

The most powerful film of the year, Ihrecious left me physically shaking and speechless, but forever inspired. It was unlike any movie-going experience I have ever had.

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JAZZ LOFT from page 3 ordinary things that Smith recorded, and you get a glimpse of what life was like in the middle ofManhattan in this rundown building,” Stephenson said.

The book has a particular focus on the idea oflife as it was really lived by poor musicians and the people who surrounded them, at a specific time in American history—ra quality that’s unusual for a work of its type. In fact, Stephenson identifies some of The Jazz Loft Project's aims with a different type of work entirely.

“Where you get that is novels,” he said. “Novels give you that insight into ordinary life, and that’s really the greatest contribution that novelists make.... This project gives you a glimpse of that in non-fiction. It’s not normal.”

Stephenson’s work, and that of his team, has consisted primarily of two activities, both designed to illuminate as clearly as possible what happened at and who frequented Smith’s loft.

First, there is the listening. The initial challenge was to turn the recordings made by Smith into CDs Stephenson and his team could archive and listen to. This required them to raise half a million dollars, a “long, arduous process” that

factors. Since then—and now, and well into the future—the CDs need to be heard, and this task mostly falls onto Center for Documentary Studies research associate Dan Partridge.

Partridge has been at it now for six-and-a-half years. Out of the 5,089 disks contained in two substantial filing cabinets in his office, he estimates they’ve listened to about two-thirds.

Though he said that someone had already marked the disks that supposedly contained music, there are surprises.

“We’re still stumbling on music,” Partridge said. "I’ll be listening to street noise or a recording of the radio and then there’ll be a jam session.”

The second part of Stephenson’s research is what he calls, “the real honor and privilege of a lifetime.” This is the opportunity to interview those who made up the living, breathing part of the loft’s history, the people whose voices are preserved on those recordings and whose improvisations Partridge keeps discovering. In addition to the musicians, Stephenson spoke with family members, photography students, associates of Smith and anyone else who might’ve happened to pass through the loft between 1957 and 1965, the years Smith lived there.

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to some by phone and others in person, having traveled New York 91 times since the effort’s commencement And already, it’s been more fruitful than one could ever hope for.

“I’ve generated from these interviews enough material as a writer to last me the rest ofmy life,” he said.

But by no means are musicians always the best source of anecdotes.

“I think one of the frontiers of jazz history is interviewing family members,” Stephenson said. “A lot of the musicians are dead, but they still have families. And a lot of those family members, particularly the spouses, have clearer, deeper memories than the musicians themselves.”

It is from these countless hours ofresearch into the personalities and sounds of Smith’s loft, combined with his photographs, that The Jazz Loft Project has been culled. The book, Stephenson’s third on Smith, is only one part of the entire Project, which also includes the aforementioned Web site, a traveling exhibit and a ten-part radio series on National Public Radio. And although this work does have an academic, intellectual bent, he thinks ofit as something more than that, something different.

“Jazz history is told from the point of view of what happened in the clubs and the studios. And there are thousands of recordings from clubs and studios,” Stephenson said.

“But for every hour spent on a stage or in a studio, there are probably a thousand, a million hours that were spent byjazz musicians in places like this loft. You never get to hear that, you never get to see that. So that’s what this project offers.” to

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Paulus closes latest

chapter For four years, Greg Paulus was a

larger-than-life figure on campus—a hero

of sorts—yet there was always something strangely humble about him. Duke fans want what’s best for the program, but we also wanted what was best for Paulus. He earned that courtesy.

Which is why I didn’t want to admit that at first, I thought Paulus made a mistake by playing football. I wasn’t an outlier, either.

Back in May, the

soon-to-be-graduate announced that his college career wasn’t . yet done, that he o was using a fifth year 1 of eligibility to play football at Syracuse.

Paulus hadn’t played competitive football in almost five years, and because he opted for Syracuse when he did, it was already too late to participate in spring practice. He was the underdog, and everyone in the race had a head start. Naturally, the jokes from Paulus’s detractorsrolled in faster than he could pump out national television interviews— No flopping on the football field! Can’t slap the floor with a clipboard!—but personally, I doubted his motivation. I didn’t want to see him fail, and I didn’t think he’ could succeed.

Then, in August, Orange head coach Doug Marrone made the announcement that no one thought he would make, at least not so soon: GregPaulus would be his starting quarterback. Oh, and one of his captains, too.

It was about this time when Paulus and Syracuse became one of the most worthwhile causes in college football, if not one of the most bizarre.- (Even 12 games later, it’s still sort of jarring to see him in blue and orange, wearing No. 2, trapped inside a helmet. “It was weird seeing him out there, but it was the same Greg,” Miles Plumlee said recendy, capturing the sentiment “I could tell by the way he waved his hands, his mannerisms, that leadership he had with us.

It definitely carried out on the field.”)

Because really, the story is larger than Paulus. Its scope extends beyond sports; thematically, it’s the stuff of great literature. The protagonist, as the flawed hero, seeks a second chance, tempted by the promise of a journey. (Every good story relies on a quixotic trip.) From there, anything can happen. It often does.

Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi. Odysseus returns from Troy. Jay Gatsby moves to West Egg. So yeah, Paulus shipped up to Syracuse, his hometown, and strapped on a football helmet. Pretty much the same thing, right?

“There were different challenges along the way,” Paulus told me Wednesday. “The first was to get myself in football shape, adding on 15 pounds. Then you have to be part of the team —understanding guys,

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stayed close to Wisconsin throughout most of its 73-69 loss Wednesday night, but the Blue Devils’ inability to get any crucial stops when they were within striking distance proved too costly to overcome.

And no two players were harder to stop than the Badgers’ Jon Leuer and Trevon Hughes.

In the first half, Leuer dominated the

stat sheet with 12 points on 5-of-9

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along with five rebounds, an assist and a block. The versatile forward scored off the of(jame fensive glass, off of drop passes after penetration 4 i and eyen fp0m beyond the 3-point line But when Leuer’s shot stopped falling in the second half, Hughes took over the game. The senior scored 19points in the final frame, including a 3-for-4 shooting display from beyond the arc and 4-for-4 at the charitystripe.

“Hughes and Leuer were terrific. They controlled the game—they always looked poised,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “When you have two veterans who are really good players playing like that, the other guys play better.”

Leuer helped the Badgers to a sixpoint halftime lead, but it was Hughes who time and again preserved it in the second half. Despite Duke being within a single possession of tying the game numerous times in the second half, Hughes seemed to answer every Blue Devil run.

When Duke cut Wisconsin’s lead to two early in the second half, Hughes answered by burning freshman Andre Dawkins on a backdoor cut for an easy jump shot, and then he sank a 3-pointer with a hand in his face on the next possession.

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35 percent from the field in the second half as opposed to over 53 percent in the first.

“I thought our defense in the second half was good,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought Dawkins really played well for us.” said of Hughes.

But with the man-to-man in effect in Much of Duke’s inability to stop both crunch time, Duke was subject to the same Hughes and Leuer stemmed from short- problems stopping penetration that it expecomings of its decidedly aggressive man- rienced early on. That shortcoming proved to-man defense. In the first half, although too costly to overcome, as down the stretch the Blue Devils’ swarming attack forced Hughes imposed his will on his defender Wisconsin to use most of the shot clock, with less fear ofrunning into a shot blocker.

Indeed, the same issues that allowed LeuDuke’s tendency to over-pursue and switch on pick-and-rolls gave Wisconsin’s er to dominate the first half seemed to last big men open shots on the. outside.Leuer until the final buzzer in the form of Hughes’ and Keaton Nankivil, who was 3-for-5 from virtuoso performance. the field, took advantage. “[One stop] is maybe all we needed, but But when Duke started to key on Wisthey just got on a roll,” Singler said. “We just consin’s plethora of jump shooters, the weren’t able to get a stop.”

Badger guards were able to penetrate the lane. This drew Blue Devil forwards, especially Miles Plumlee, away from the hoop, and led to easy drop passes to open Badgers, like Leuer, down low.

“At the beginning, we let them do whatever they wanted to do,” senior guard Jon Scheyer said. “A couple times we switched wrong and we gave Hughes an open look.”

For at least a few minutes in that first half, though, Duke appeared to have found a solution in the form ofa 3-2 zone defense, with either Kyle Singler or Lance Thomas providing a big body up top.

The look initially alleviated many of the issues Duke faced switching on pick-androlls and with penetration thanks to the additional help defense, and the Badgers seemed flustered after the switch. Were it not for a Hughes 3-pointer that was from beyond NBA distance, Duke would have closed its deficit to one at that point.

In the second half the Blue Devils elected to ignore the zone in favor of a smaller CHASE OUVIERI/THE CHRONICLE lineup, with Dawkins replacing one of the Blue Devil forwards. And the move did help Andre Dawkins's shooting was not enough to overDuke defensively —Wisconsin shot less than come his and Duke's defensive lapses Wednesday. eout, Hughes made a step-back jumper with no less than three Blue Devils in his face, almost singlehandedly turning a twopoint lead into a nine-point one.

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Coming off two dominating performances last week against Western Kentucky and Marquette in the Caribbean Challenge, No. 11 Duke faces one of its toughest tests Thursday in No. 3 Ohio State (8-0). The 7:00 p,m. game in Cameron Indoor Stadium provides the Blue Devils the opportunity to prove dieir worth against the best of the Big Ten as part of the third annual women’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

In order to extend its- 17-game home-court winning streak, Duke j need to continue its tremendous will Q«ju which has late, defensive effort of vs limited the Blue Devils Mast four opponents to an average of 44 points. n I, Duke “We defended like we were P laY in g for the world championTHURSDAY, 7 p.m.

Cameron Indoor Stadium ship, head coach Joanne P. MeGallic said about the Caribbean Challenge. “We were Tasmanian devils for 80 minutes.

Our kids were just all over the place.”

The Blue Devils, however, face a formidable opponent in All-American and reigning Big Ten Player of the Year Jantel Lavender, who currently averages 24.3 points and 9.4 rebounds a game. At 6-foot-4, Lavender possesses size and versatility.

“She just catches, turns and shoots and is not a stereotypical post player because of her nice range and confidence as a shooter,” McCallie said. ‘You just have to scrap as a team against an offensive player like that.”

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WISCONSIN from page 1 At that point, Duke couldn’t put together a run that would give it the lead, simply trading baskets with the Badgers. When forward Jon Leuer finally missed a free throw with 16 seconds remaining to make it a one-possession game once again, Nolan Smith drove for a layup and the Blue Devils settled for two points on a Singler tip-in.

Still down by one, Duke was forced to foul Wisconsin again, and Trevon Hughes—as was the case all night—didn’t disappoint. After the senior sank both free throws to push the lead back to three with 4.9 seconds remaining, Singler’s inbounds pass was too hard and too wide for Scheyer, who had already crossed halfcourt. The ball deflected out of bounds, and the Blue Devil comeback ended.

“We had chances,” Scheyer said. “We had two opportunities to lie the game. It’s Just frustrating when you don’t get a shot off.”

Duke was forced into that late-game position because ofits struggles early, when the second-worstoffensive team in the Big Ten torched the Blue Devils for 16-of-30 firsthalf shooting, including 5-of-l 1 from beyond the arc.

Wisconsin seized the momenturp just 10 seconds into the game, when a Nolan Smith pass sailed out of bounds for a quick turnover. The Kohl Center crowd harassed the Blue Devils from then on, and the Badgers never relented.

“They hit a couple of open shots and then they got momentum,” said Singler, who finished with a careerhigh 28 points on 10-of-l7 shooting. “We Just weren’t tough enough to get down and stop them once.”

Duke couldn’t find away to stop Hughes and Leuer, who led the Badgers with 26 and 17 points, respectively.

The dagger seemed to come from Hughes with just over five minutes remaining, as a multiple-shot, 68-second possession ended in an improbable, bouncing 3-pointer that gave Wisconsin its biggest lead of the night.

Dawkins’ late-game scoring burst erased most of that 11-point advantage, but in the end, the Blue Devils couldn’t overcome the early hole dial they dug for themselves. “[Wisconsin was] patient,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “That’s how they win. That’s what the swing offense is.

The swing offense isn’t about one dribble and a shot. It’s about a lot of people touching the ball. You have to communicate really well against it and play passing lanes well.

“Their offense was better than our defense. That’s the story of sport.”

The loss raises questions for Duke, which scored a convincing win over Connecticut in the NIT Season Tip-Off but now faces the reality of having been outrebounded arid outplayed by Wisconsin. The Blue Devils had 21 offensive rebounds and 15 second-chance points against the Huskies. Against the Badgers, they corralled only eight offensive rebounds and had eight second-chance points, none in the first half.

While they held Connecticut to 36.1 percent shooting from the field, Wisconsin was eight percentage points better.

And in their only true road game before Jan. 9, the Blue Devils came out flat.

“Road games are tough,” Scheyer said. “You need to have that togetherness—that fight—and we didn’t come out fighting. Give them credit too, because they played a hell of a game and they really took it to us.” .

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facilitator of the Buckeyes’ offense, who currently dishes out 10 assists per game for the second-highest average in the nation.

Despite the confidence in its defense, Duke must continue to improve its rebounding of the basketball on both the defensive and offensive ends.

Much of the increased efforts on the boards could fall upon junior center Krystal Thomas, senior forward Joy Cheek and freshman Allison Vernerey. Thomas, in particular, seems poised for a big-time performance.

“She is becoming more confident in herself... And her being able to finish [on offense] while defensively blocking peoples’ shots and being a presence in the paint is incredibly helpful for our team,” junior guard Jasmine Thomas said.

On the offensive side, the Blue Devils will continue to rely heavily on Jasmine Thomais, who became the third player to record a triple-double in Duke history against Marquette. While acknowledging the honor, Thomas continued to stress that, “it’s a team thing we’re trying to focus on. The energy just can’t come from one player.”

All in all, the matchup with Ohio State provides Duke with a tremendous opportunity to prove its worth as a dangerous force this year. Facing such a tough opponent, though, Duke is hoping for as much fan support in as possible.

“We’re trying to get 6,000 [in Cameron]McCallie said.

“Tell your friends. Put it on your Twitter, your Facebook.”

Those who attend can expect nothing but a gut-wrenching fight between two highly skilled teams.

“We’ve been preparing for a batde,” Thomas said. “It’s going to be a tough game. They’re going to be physical. We’re going to be physical. Both teams have that inside-outside presence. We’re just going to try our best to limit their success.”

COHEN from page 7 becoming friends with teammates, showing who you are and what you can do. And as the season goes along, you go through the thick and the thin with your teammates.

You play games.”

Individual games serve as natural checkpoints in any sports narrative. There are subsections within those chapters—topic sentences, supporting evidence, conclusions—but sporting events have beginnings and endings, wins and losses. There’s a sense of finality. By that unit of measurement, then, Paulus’s season was a wave of ups and downs. The Orange started the year with a deflating overtime loss at home, with the national attention shining bright on the Carrier Dome, and it rebounded with a win in a shootout over Northwestern, a bowl-bound team, when Paulas threw for 346 yards and two touchdowns.

The early enthusiasm for the hometown hero faded when Syracuse continued to lose. Weeks after Paulus threw five interceptions in a loss to South Florida, the fans were still booing, anxious to see Paulus’s backup —the same quarterback he had beaten out in minicamp, despite not having played football in years—and eventually, the catcalls grew loud enough for Marrone to respond with a press conference so passionate that even the most gifted author couldn’t have written it.

“I put in a lot of time and thought, and Fd like to make a statement about Greg Paulus. I have never seen an athlete at any level, including the NFL, work as hard, mentally and physically, as Greg has worked since he’s joined us here at Syracuse,” Marrone said, tears welling up in his eyes. “Really, what he’s accomplished is extraordinary.

Maybe it can’t be fully appreciated because most don’t know just how difficult it is to play quarterback at a Division I program. In the era of video games, virtual reality, it’s easy to believe that throwing a pass, reading a defense, avoiding a sack is as easy as the push of a button, that any of us can do [it]. The problem, it’s not that easy. We can’t do that.

“And I truly, truly, truly thank him for being here.

And I hope my kids grow up to have the courage and determination of a Greg Paulus. I get emotional when I talk about my family.”

Maybe it wasn’t Win One for the Gipper, or even Tebow’s Promise, and the Orange didn’t win one for Paulus—not for two more weeks, at least, when it upset No. 25 Rutgers. By the end of the year, Paulus was playing his best football, efficiently picking apart defenses and racking up a 132.6 quarterback rating for his college football career. He-set a school record with 193 completions in a season and broke another Syracuse mark with a .677 completion percentage.

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Greg Paulus's one and only season as a Syracuse football player didn't go perfectly, but he gained the respect ofhis teammates and coaches.

Syracuse’s season is over. The Orange finished with a 4-8 record—a bummer and all—but Paulus’s story doesn’t conclude on a down note. How could it? This is a kid who put his legacy on the line. He traded in a four-year basketball career at Duke for an uncertain place on Syracuse’s football team, and not only did he avoid floundering, but he flourished, in away. He won a job, and he beat other teams. He set some records. No one’s confusing him for an All-American, but last I looked, there were only a few of those, anyway.

It’s refreshing to see someone follow his heart, especially when he’s ensconced in comfort. It’s even cooler to see that type of risk pay rewards.

“I haven’t really thought about it in terms of that,” Paulus admitted. “I am very happy with the decision I made, and if I had to do it all over again, I would make the same decision.”

Of course he would. There’s still an epilogue to be written. As he finishes up his stint in graduate school in May, Paulus is weighing futures in football, coaching and broadcasting, but the bulk of this micro-narrative is done. It has a happy ending.

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But last year, Brodhead halted the council’s meetings and placed it on hiatus, saying that the body was being re-evaluated. Since then, he has made no public state-

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the important needs of women at Duke.

The council format adopted by Keohane and Brodhead was marginally successful in advancing women’s issues like the installation of lactation rooms on campus and the improvement ofchildcare services offered to female employees.

But one of the biggest flaws in the body’s structure was that it lumped all of the University’s female constituents—students, faculty and staff—into the single demographic of women. In reality, the needs of these groups differ, and a one-size-fits-all approach was

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When it comes to undergraduate life, the problems identified by the Women’s culture Initiative—dating at Duke, greek life and academic advising networks—are not conducive to building women’s self-esteem.

The Initiative’s report also rightly noted that female faculty and staff face obstacles in the workplace because of their gender. Mentoring and professional development, safety and security, LGBT issues, diversity and work-life balance continue to be important issues for the University to address. And a glance at Duke’s upper level administration reveals a dearth of

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The protests capture an increasingly evident culture of entitlement afflicting our generation’s self-styled “activists.” Worse yet, this culture is reflected in a tendency among youth to caricature the positions of those they disagree with to suit their narcissistic need for self-righteousness.

Now, it is fine for students—or anyone else, for that matter—to peacefully express their views within their right to freedom of speech. Amidst the recent protests, many did. This, however, does not entail that protestors are entitled to get what they want. This is apparently where the disconnect occurs—students seem to think they deserve a free lunch. Who cares how it gets to them.

Some facts are in order: The state of California is facing a $7 to $8 billion dollar budget shortfall for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, and as part of state-wide belt-tightening, has had to cut funding for state higher education by $637 million for the 2009-2010 school in mind that 58 percent of the per-student cost of education is paid for by taxpayers as a whole, who by and large do not have children in the UC system. What makes students think they are entided to this subsidy as a birthright?

At the end of the day, recessions are painful and budgets have to be balanced. As far as I can tell, demonstrators have presented no alternatives. The protests, characteristically, seem more cathartic than constructive. Luckily for them, they don’thave to make the decisions about what services have to be .cut or how additional funds will be raised. Administrators, who don’t have that luxury, are faced with bad options and worse options.

Perhaps we could overlook the happenings in California of the past two weeks ifthey were an anom-

aly. But they are not Look to the “Take Back NYU” shenanigans of last February at New York University,

where a group ofradical studentactivists blockaded a school cafeteria in a campus building and effectively shut down operations there, threatening that they would not leave until their demands were met The irony here is that the “Take Back NYU” protestors received none of their demands. Before the stark fiscal reality the UC system faces, it seems unlikely that any of tfie student demonstrators will have their demands heard either.

What, then, is the point ofsuch highly visiblecollective action? It seems oftenlittle more than thoughtless chest-thumping, performative rather than purposeful. The words of one UC demonstrator were telling: “We’re here because it’s empowering for students.” But what exactly is so empowering? That students can throw a tantrum, scream, yell and get away with it? One would think maturity is part ofwhat students should hope to gain via their college education. And a crucial part of maturity is being able to recognize that things are not as simple as we would often like them to be. Ifanything, the recent resurgence in the culture of protest seems to disregard that notion, privileging instead the infantile idea that complexity is subservient to the need to be heard, ill-thought out though the expressed views might be.

Closer to home, we can be grateful that the student response to the much-publicized International.House-Multicultural Center merger was tame and controlled by comparison. Details of the issue aside, the primary student organizers were respectful to administrators, and more importantly, began with a clear set of goals that they were able to raise in a generally constructive manner, recognizing the difficulties involved.

Senior Priyanka Chaurasia, outgoing president of the Center for Race Relations, explained that the efforts she and other organizers made were “marked by being strategic and thinking carefully about the best way to get the desired result.... most of the activism has been diplomacy first.”

To be sure, there are aspects of the MCC-IH merger discussion that could have gone better.

Numerous students reported that the manner in which views were sometimes expressed discouraged disagreement. Efforts at campus discussion should promote thoughtful dialogue, and that involves creating space for disagreement.

Still, it has been said that Duke lacks an active culture of “activism.” Too often, we do not stop to consider what the term means. If the past few weeks’ events at UC campuses are what “activism” looks like, then Duke can do without it.

Vikram Srinivasan is a Trinity senior. This is his last column of the semester.

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and Selective House Council revisit the “menu” from which selective living groups will select sections.

After the new menu is finalized and approved by leadership from all three councils, groups that earned the right to squat based oh their performance in the RGAC process over the past three years will determine whether or not they wish to squat their current location. After these groups notify Residence Life and Housing Services of their decision of whether or not to squat, a new menu of available sections will be published, removing the sections that have been squatted by eligible groups.

In early January, the remaining selective living groups will select their sections based on the threeyear average of their RGAC scores as originally intended and communicated to SLG presidents.

It is our hope that revisiting the menu and subsequently carrying out the RGAC process will result in the creation of a West Campus that will be beneficial to affiliated and non-affiliated students alike.

don’t know what a m ince P^ e You really do learn something new every � T day. It seems like a cliche, like something study abroad advertisers use as their catch phrase to entice you into their program, but I’ve come to realize how true it is.

Recently though, I’ve mm. cm been thinking about how the things I’ve come to appreciate about Duke, doris j\VO study abroad and life in two points tor general have changed behonesty where I’ve been cause of in the past six months.

I suppose I may have been inspired to ponder about thankfulness by all the hoopla over last week’s Thanksgiving celebrations (and no, the Brits don’t celebrate the holiday that was invented by pilgrims seeking refuge from religious persecution in... Britain) but it may also have to do with the very frigid conditions in my flat right now and fond, fond memories of Duke’s magical heating system. Heating and energy usage in general is apparently quite expensive in Europe.

In all seriousness though, the most striking example of this newfound appreciation might be my new perspective on diversity, both here and at Duke.

If you take a look around at the people walking across campus at Duke, I bet you barely even notice the sheer diversity of the student body. Here in Glasgow, however, diversity exists only when us Duke students get together for class or dinners. It’s always fascinating to realize, after having a conversation with someone, that you’re probably the only Asian person they’ve really talked to in person. Especially in the more remote parts of the U.K. such as Northern Ireland or the countryside regions ofBritain, the population is extremely homogenous. Apart from the seminar all the Duke students take together, for example, I am the only non-white person in my classes here at the university.

Needless to say, there were times when I missed Duke for its jumble of students, for the cultural events like Awaaz and for the general feeling of being comfortable with diversity. It’s also simply just neat to see what happens when you throw together students from every part of the world. .

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However, while Duke is fascinating because of how different each student is, it’s been interesting to observe here just how culturally integrated the British are. Here, EVERYONE celebrates Christmas; you should have seen the blank stares my fellow Duke student received when she told our flatmates that her family doesn’t do Christmas. Even before December began, our flatmates have been excitedly' planning our Christmas dinner, making plans to go ice-skating downtown beside the newly-lit town Christmas tree and getting us Americans to try all sorts of traditional British Christmas foods, i.e. mince pie.

Apart from Christmas, there are other important traditions as well. The drinking culture stands out especially. Alcohol as part of the lifestyle is far more acceptable than in the U.S., perhaps due to the lower legal drinking age. Therefore, going to the pub during the week with your flatmates isn’t all that strange.

In fact, it becomes another daily activity, chatting and sipping a pint of cider with your friends after a long day ofclasses or work. It’s part of the fabric of life and it works to bring everyone together to socialize and meet new people.

Alcohol aside, however, there’s also that wonderful idea of tea and toast, good for any hour of the day. I’ve come to appreciate this particular cultural phenomenon not for the actual tea itself, but for the time Brits take to sit down and chat about their day. It’s also been a great opportunity to our British friends to leam about where we come from and how different our lives are in the United States, while we marvel at how culturally similar their lives are (Sunday roasts, cozy fireplaces, farming, football, countryside, village life, etc.) regardless of whether they are from Northern Ireland or the north of England.

So, I suppose that while I am now more impressed

by Duke’s diversity, it’s been a privilege to take part in the very unifying, singular sort of British life, if only temporarily. After all, diversity or not, the most important thing is feeling welcomed into whatever society you happen to be living. And, to that extent, I cannot appreciate Scotland more.

In case you were wondering, mince pie’s not too bad.

But don’t expect any meat in it; it’s actually full of raisins. Who knew?

Doris Jwo is a Trinity junior. This is her final column the semester.

ajealous guy. I know it’s hard to believe, but I assure you it’s true.

But you’re such an excellent Ukrainian folk dancer Jacob, what could you possibly be envious of, you reply?

Of course, I know I was blessed with the amazing ability to express Yaroslav Chuperchuk’s work through the art of dance in ways most would kill for, but I just can’t shake this jealousy thing.

Ask any of my exwolff girlfriends and I’m sure i’m serious... they’ll attest to my jealous nature. Though at times I may go overboard, I still hold that for the most part my jealousy is justified: Anyone even remotely familiar with the Ukrainian folk dance tour community knows how many girlfriends have been lost to fellow Ukrainian dance superstars.

But this time, in the words of rapper and consonant lover extraordinaire Jay-Z: I’ve got 99 problems but a—well, I’ll stop there, I think you all know what “ain’t one.”

Though I can relate to Jay-Z’s lack of relationship issues, I do, have a few more than 99 problems on my mind.

Actually, that number is much closer to 1,739.

Members of the freshmen Class of 2013, I’m sorry to put it bluntly, but I despise every last one of you (especially the kid who had his backpack taking up an open seat in a packed C-l last week—have some common courtesy).

Well, let me rephrase that: WE despise every last one of you. I think I speak on the behalf of the majority of the senior class when I say the following: “We hate that you guys have three and a half years of college left, while we only have a semester. Also, you guys have some really adorable Uggs, where did you buy them?! Was it at Pennys? 1 thought so, they had a really good Black Friday sale, didn’t they?!”

But we digress...

So yes, we’re a bit jealous. While our time at Duke has been full of many good memories, memories are fleeting.

If we could only relive that first tailgate, that first Cookout run, that first time we saw “The Notebook” (I cried, lay off me, I’m sorry if I have a heart!), oh how wonderful that would be.

And not only do we pine for those earlier days, but in hindsight there are so many things we’d change: We’d get better grades our first semester, not hook up with that rando at Shooters and perhaps we’d even change our sheets more than once our freshman year.

Basically, if we could go back and start all over, we’d do it in a heartbeat. Now sure this jealously may in part be rooted in the career prospects, or lack thereof, that await us after graduation, but we also just really don’t want this wonderful thing called college to end.

It may seem like this jealousy is for naught. We can’t pull a Marty McFly, hop in our Delorean and travel back in time, But I think I have a solution. It’s bold, daring and probably won’t work, but I think it’s our only chance, fellow seniors.

Rebellion.

Here’s the plan: At the start of spring semester, we take back East Campus. Hopefully it will be a bloodless coup and the freshmen will give up their rooms with dignity, but should it come to violence, I think we can take them.

Think about it, our frat stars have had three more years of getting their swell on in Wilson and our Pratt stars have had three more years of doing whatever it is they do in those dark hidden corners of the Perkins basement. With our collective combination of brawn and brains, those youngsters don’t stand a chance. After retaking East campus, every senior simply assumes the identity of a freshman, simple as that (I call dibs on a guy with a nose that isn’t the size of Texas!).

Forget about living in the moment, mumbo jumbo about each new day being a new beginning and other tacky sayings to make us feel better about our past regrets. Let’s just rebel. Heck, I’ll even make a Facebook event with a clever tide. So freshmen, it’s your move. If you go peacefully, we may even let you come visit your old dorms every now and again—just remember to knock first if there’s a sock on the door.

Jacob

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letterstotheeditor Hold basketball to higher standard The Chronicle’s opinion pieces on the men’s basketball team consistently over-praise the team and do not hold it up to a high enough standard.

I, too, am very excited about this year’s team and the performances it has given so far. However, claims like we have a threesome as good as any in the nation are overreaching (better three-player tandems on Kansas and Kentucky immediately come to mind) and demonstrate an extremely biased analysis.

About a month ago a Chronicle article asserted that the reason Duke hasn’t been to a Final Four (or even Elite Eight for that matter) for the past five season was simply some bad luck. The team and students deserve a more measured, and sometimes critical, analysis of the team. The sports pages should express disappointment when the team does not play up to the Duke standard and give reasons why the team was lacking.

Additionally, it is too early to crown this year’s team, there is a lot of basketball left to be played. I think this Duke team and the teams for the next couple of seasons can be great, but the basketball players and Coach K are not flawless, and they should not be treated as such.

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