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How the War on Terror How the War on Terror has affected law, has affected law, Page 4Page 4

Buy back into Buy back into Duke football, Duke football, Page 7Page 7

ONTHERECORD“We think it’s healthy for each house to have

some representation...” —Dean Joe Gonzales on the house model. See story page 3

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President Barack Obama speaks in front of a large crowd in Reynolds Coliseum on the campus of N.C. State Wednesday morning.

HDRL finds asbestos in Central apts.

by Lauren Carroll, Yeshwanth Kandimalla and Michael Shammas

THE CHRONICLE

In his latest push to create jobs, the president is talking straight to the people.

President Barack Obama promoted the American Jobs Act in a public speech at North Carolina State University’s Reyn-olds Coliseum Wednesday. After presenting the act to a joint session of Congress last week, Obama traveled to the Triangle to inform the public about the legislation and his plan for job creation. The American Jobs Act comes as Obama faces declin-ing approval ratings and the upcoming 2012 election.

“I came to talk about how America can get back to a place where we’re creating good middle class jobs again,” Obama said. “Jobs that pay well, jobs that offer some security, jobs that are available for... young people.”

During his visit, Obama also visited WestStar Precision, a small manufacturing company based in Apex, N.C. This is the president’s second visit to the Triangle in the last five months—Obama visited Cree, Inc. in June.

In his remarks, Obama highlighted several key components of the plan, such as more government incentives to hire new

by Ashley MooneyTHE CHRONICLE

There’s a small threat lying above resi-dents of Central Campus.

Ceiling materials in Central apart-ments contain trace amount of asbestos, according to an email from Housing, Din-ing and Residence Life sent to residents Aug. 27. HDRL noted that the presence of asbestos is minimal and is common among most facilities constructed in the 1970s.

“Provided the ceiling is not intention-ally disrupted or allowed to enter a state of disrepair, there is no danger,” Joe Gon-zalez, associate dean for residence life, wrote in an email Wednesday.

HDRL has advised students to avoid disrupting apartment ceilings and report any needed repairs immediately in order to prevent any potential health risk.

Asbestos is a mineral fiber that has been used commonly in materials for building construction, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. It is a known carcinogen, posing particular cancer risks when high concentrations are inhaled over long periods of time. In low concentrations and with minimal exposure, however, it poses a very low health risk.

Sophomore Chris Waybill said he and

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Obama promotes Jobs Act in Triangle

Study shows AlcoholEdu only has temporary benefitsby Michael Lee

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A new study has found that AlcoholEdu does work, but by Spring, freshmen are back to their old drinking habits.

After completing the online alcohol educa-tion course AlcoholEdu for College, freshmen significantly reduced binge drinking during the Fall semester. But by the Spring semester, these effects had subsided, and students who had taken the course would drink at similar rates to those who had not, according to a July study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. The study observed 30 universities across the U.S., surveying students about their habits and decisions made while intoxicated.

Duke uses the two-part AlcoholEdu curric-ulum for incoming freshmen, as part of more than 500 campuses nationwide.

“No one would ever describe AlcoholEdu as a silver bullet, certainly, but I think the con-text is really the critical point,” said Brandon

Busteed, Trinity ’99, founder and president of Outside the Classroom, the company that developed AlcoholEdu. “Although the head-lines on this study tend to be ‘[AlcoholEdu] didn’t last past the first semester,’ the bigger news is that a nationally controlled study showed that it did last for a semester.”

He said the temporary effects of the study were to be expected, considering the brevity of the program.

“It’s only a two to a two-and-a-half hour pro-gram,” Busteed said. “For someone to actually think that a really brief intervention program is going to last for years and years is not a rea-sonable or realistic expectation.”

Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Duke Student Wellness Center, similarly noted certain limitations in the format of Al-coholEdu.

“I think with any program like that, noth-ing is necessarily going to be a permanent

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Freshmen who complete AlcoholEdu revert to former drinking habits by Spring, a new study shows. SEE ALCOHOLEDU ON PAGE 6

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of Americans don’t believe President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan will help lower the unemployment rate, skepti-cism he must overcome as he presses Congress for action and positions himself for re- election.

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Chief stonemason Joe Alonso inspects the Washington National Cathedral. The earthquake last month caused some damage to the cathedral. One four-ton section of a pinnacle and several finials, the pieces on top of the pinnacles, fell onto the roof of the cathedral’s 301-ft. tall central tower.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The top U.S. offi-cials in Afghanistan sought on Wednesday to portray the deadly and sustained 20-hour attack on the U.S. Embassy and other targets as evidence that Afghanistan’s se-curity forces are increasingly competent and that the Taliban is on the defensive.

Americans question jobs plan, Obama less popular

US officials downplay Afghan embassy attack

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A seemingly innocuous piece of bipartisan legisla-tion that would provide an inexpensive, flag-draped patriotic gesture is drawing right-wing opposition because the honor would go to federal civilian employees.

The legislation would authorize the presentation of American flags at the funerals of federal workers killed in the line of duty, much like is done for members of the military. It was expect-ed to pass easily when it was sched-uled for a vote in the House last week.

“Every year, federal civilian employ-ees are killed at home and abroad do-ing their duty for our nation,” said Rep. Richard Hanna, R-N.Y., a sponsor of the bill. “The American flag embodies the values of our nation that these individu-als worked to uphold. This legislation would provide a modest, but significant, benefit in honor of these dedicated in-dividuals who sacrificed on our behalf.”

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“Jon Goldstein, executive director of com-munications and marketing at the Duke Alumni Association, said it makes sense that Apple would look to Duke graduates for its top leadership positions.‘It’s great for Duke, and I think it’ll be great for Apple,’ he said. ”

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The 33rd Volunteer Fair, done in collabora-tion with the Volunteer Center of Durham, will connect Duke students with area non-

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The Kenan-Biddle Partnership, funded by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, is now receiving grant proposals from Duke and UNC students for projects designed to enhance the intellectual life at both universities by strengthening established or encouraging new collaborations.

Preference will be given to proposals made jointly by students from each institution. Project proposals must include a student or students who serve as the project initiator. Proposals should be designed to stimulate collaborative arts, sciences and humanities projects between the two universities. The proposal should be specific about the activities and duties the participants would undertake and must include at least one public exhibition, presentation or performance.

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Majority whip of the N.C. House of Representatives Ruth Samuelson speaks Wednesday in Sanford.

State rep. attributes gridlock to ‘distrust and confusion’

by Yueran ZhangTHE CHRONICLE

North Carolina’s current gridlocked political landscape has the potential to come to a consensus, said State Rep. Ruth Samuelson, R-Mecklenburg, at a University forum Wednesday.

Samuelson discussed her first six months as the majority whip in the N.C. House of Representatives, using her experiences to help address the current stalemate in the state General Assemblies. The event was part of the speaker series “Gridlock: Can Our System Address America’s Big Prob-

lems?” sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Clarity, consensus and courage are the necessary elements for a successful legis-lature, Samuelson said, noting that party-lines and lack of experience are preventing these values from flourishing.

“[Representatives] have things that they will not tell to the speaker or the leader—a third of them have never been [on such posi-tions],” she said. “They have no trust among each other, even within the Republicans.”

Admins stand behind house model at Senate meeting

by Danielle MuoioTHE CHRONICLE

Although some students question the future success of the house model, administrators believe it will inspire ca-maraderie.

Upon transition to the house model in Fall 2012, residential life at Duke is mak-ing major shifts—including the introduc-tion of 75 individual houses across West and Central Campuses and the reduction of block sizes from 12 to six students, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life, before the Duke Student Government Senate at its meeting Wednesday night.

Forty-three houses will belong to selec-tive living groups, including fraternities and other groups, Gonzalez said, noting that the current number of groups who have residential sections is 26.

The remaining houses in the model will be unaffiliated. Independent students and students who choose to block will be randomly assigned to any non-selective house, Gonzalez said, adding that students will have the right to remain in the same house for their last three years under a right-of-return policy. Each house will have residents representing the sophomore through senior class, a decision Gonzalez said was healthy and necessary to foster a true sense of house community.

The distinction between an unaffiliat-ed house and selective house will be mini-mal, Gonzalez said, adding that indepen-dent houses will be able to host parties.

“One of my dreams for this house mod-el is that 10 years from now when alumni meet each other, they will ask [about each other’s house while they were upperclass-men],” Gonzales said.

He added that students will not neces-sarily be restricted to only living in one house for three years.

“People aren’t going to be handcuffed to their house,” Gonzalez said. “If they want to move to another house there will be a process to facilitate that.”

The hope is that the new system will create a positive experience that students will not want to leave, he said, adding that the addition of paint colors and signs to designate houses from each other will create a strong community among the students in a given house.

Vice President for Student Life Ebon-ie Simpson, a senior, asked Gonzalez if he had considered disabled students when developing the house model.

Gonzales said dealing with disabled students will be a challenge because not all houses will be equally accessible, but noted that the issue is on the administra-tion’s radar.

Senator for Student Life Caroline Hall, a sophomore, said she questioned that the house model could succeed, giv-en that the University operated under a house model until 2002 when it switched to the current quadrangle model.

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Panel discusses legal aftermath of the War on Terrorby Taylor Turkeltaub

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Complex wars generate complexities in law, and America’s War on Terror is no exception.

Duke Law School hosted a panel of four legal experts yesterday to discuss how the legal landscape of the War on Terror has evolved since the attacks of September 11. The panel addressed a crowd of mostly law students on the variety legal and judicial issues that have arisen as a result of the government’s prosecu-tion of the War on Terror.

Curtis Bradley, a professor of law and pub-lic policy studies, initiated the discussion with a comparison of policies during the Bush and Obama administrations.

“The continuity of the Bush and Obama administrations [is surprising], especially when you take into account the rhetoric during the last election,” Bradley said. “The Obama administration has been more aggres-sive in the war model, most notably through predator drone attacks [on terrorists],”

However, he said, Obama has differed from Bush’s policies in his opposition to tor-ture techniques, such as waterboarding.

Charles Dunlap Jr., visiting professor of the practice of law, and executive director of the Center in Law, Ethics and National Security, discussed the ramifications on the American psyche of the American use of torture in the War on Terror.

“42 percent of Americans are ashamed

of the [United States’s] image in the War on Terror,” he said. “Even today [Abu Ghraib] is brought up in the Middle East.”

That kind of emotional reaction can be a major agent in policy change. For instance, because of the media sensation over civilian deaths by airstrike, Stanley McChrystal, then-commander of the Joint Special Operation Command, placed heavy restrictions on air-strikes—and as a result, civilian deaths caused by airstrike decreased. Total civilian deaths, however, increased after the restrictions were put in place. Dunlap uses this example to then tell the law students in the audience “you have to understand the facts, if you want to be a na-tional security lawyer.”

Mary Dudziak, visiting professor of law and

American legal history, then spoke on the im-portance of knowing how law and information work in order to begin to understand the war.

“You won’t be able to write about this era, unless you learn about law... and get the sense of confusion between law and secu-rity,” Dudziak said.

To finish off the panel’s commentary, Neil Siegel, professor of law and political science, spoke about the American judiciary in rela-tion to the War on Terror.

“The courts have been... palpably modest,” he said, “but not at all aggressive.”

Siegel cited the indefinite detaining of pris-oners of war as an example of an issue about which the courts have been rather meek in taking a stand.

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Law professors Mary Dudziak, Charles Dunlap and Curtis Bradley, along with Niel Siegel, discuss the effect the War on Terror has had on the legal landscape in the Duke Law School Wednesday.


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his roommate, sophomore Andrew Murray, were worried at first, but did not think it would be much of a problem in their apartment.

“I was worried that there was asbestos in the ceiling, but I guess as long as I’m not shooting anything at my ceiling, I should be fine,” Murray said. “It’s probably too expensive to fix that kind of problem in all of the apartments, so what can you do about it?”

Regarding asbestos management, Gonzalez said HDRL abates the materials when necessary but in this case has decided to leave the materials untouched due to the low health risk.

“Since there is no [health] risk if the ceilings are well maintained, we have pursued that direction,” he said. “It is a more common practice to leave asbestos in place in older structures and some argue more risk is caused by removing it if levels are extremely low , which is the case on Central.”

Some students living on Central said that though they were initially concerned about the asbestos traces in ceil-ings, the notification that levels were low greatly minimized health fears.

“It says in the email that there’s minimal health risk, so I’m not too concerned,” said junior Alexandra Swain.

Although most students have not directly encountered the asbestos in their apartments, residents in InCube—a selective living group located on Central—noticed bubbly residue on a common room ceiling.

After reporting the incident to HDRL, the substance was identified as one releasing asbestos into the air, said InCube member Tito Bohrt, a junior.

HDRL tested the air for asbestos, and the levels were well below the legal limit, Bohrt said, adding that though levels were low, the common room was closed off and renovated.

“I think Duke learned a lot by having [to] renovate the commons,” Bohrt said. “We hoped that it would be faster and more efficient, since we haven’t had our common room for two weeks, but we aren’t worried about it.”

Aside from being frustrated about not having a common room, Bohrt noted that he was ultimately happy with Duke’s response.

“It was kind of annoying that they kicked us out, but we understand that it was to keep us healthy,” he said.

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Samuelson is the first female to hold the position of majority whip in the state House and began her career in political service in 1999. She later won a seat on the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, after spending much of her professional life involved in com-munity affairs.

Don Taylor, assistant professor of public policy and co-sponsor of the speaker series, said Samuelson has a unique perspective given her role as the first Republican majority whip in more than a century.

“The N.C. General Assembly is completely con-trolled... by the Republican Party for the first time since 1892,” Taylor wrote in an email Monday. “So it is interest-ing to hear her perspective.”

When the Republicans took control of the House in 2010, Samuelson was appointed majority whip because of her diverse professional and personal experiences, as well as her ability to bring people together—a talent she said was largely the result of her family’s influence.

Samuelson said her family played an important role in her decision to become involved in politics. Under her mother’s influence, Samuelson began to challenge the status quo by action, to give help to those who were in need and to listen to people holding different opinions with respect. Her father meanwhile encouraged her to ask questions and think critically.

During her speech, Samuelson emphasized compre-hension and rational compromise as two steps in achiev-ing what should be government’s goal—consensus. She added that in her experience as majority whip, she has often had to act as mediator between House members, attempting to understand both sides and encouraging respectful conversations.

“Although people understand the definitions of words others use, they do not understand what others mean,” she said. “When we have difficulty in language and can-not understand each other, how can consensus come?”

She noted, however, that the N.C. House will face this kind of conflict long into the future, though noted me-diation can help negate any long-standing, negative ef-fects.

After her speech, Samuelson answered various ques-

tions from the audience, including some regarding abor-tion and gay marriage. She noted that when answering difficult questions, state legislators have to pay attention to the unique circumstances in North Carolina and fore-see the long-term consequences.

In response to a question regarding compromise be-tween Republicans and Democrats, Samuelson said com-municating with her mother, who is a liberal Democrat, serves as example of bipartisan compromise. Although their standings are not the same, there are a lot of values shared between Republicans and Democrats.

Harrison Gilbert, a second-year masters student at Sanford, said he was not satisfied with Samuelson’s politi-cal solutions.

“She tends to narrow broad political topics into tech-nical issues,” Gilbert said, adding that she also brought unique perspectives as a female political leader.

Although he disagrees with her politically, first-year Sanford student Chris Marsicano said Samuelson was in-spirational.

“With a respectful attitude, we can find that the grid-lock is not entirely a gridlock,” Marsicano said.

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workers, increased funding for infrastruc-ture improvements, more investment in education and tax cuts for the middle class. The bill would not add to the na-tional debt but instead would be paid for in full through closing tax loopholes for larger corporations and high-income in-dividuals.

The packed Coliseum lacked air condi-tioning, causing at least six audience mem-bers to faint. Despite the heat, the crowd was largely receptive to the proposal, applaud-ing and cheering throughout the event.

Joe Veedock, an unemployed engi-neer who attended the speech, said he supports Obama and his bill, despite not voting for him in the 2008 election. He added that Obama’s message often gets lost in heated criticism from the opposi-tion, but he has faith that this bill can be passed.

“Obama seems like a man of action,

but he gets trapped having to defend himself,” Veedock said. “I think people are just going to get louder and louder until Congress gets it right.”

In order to create jobs, Obama said businesses need an economic boost—something the act would provide by cutting payroll taxes and offering tax incentives for hiring new employees, among other measures. Small businesses could also benefit from the bill, such as WestStar Precision, and approximately 175,000 other small businesses in the state.

“[What WestStar does] is what a lot of companies here in the Research Trian-gle do so well,” he said. “They hire smart people, they give them the best technol-ogy [and] they create something of last-ing value. And that’s how this country built a strong and growing economy and a strong, expanding middle class... and that’s what we’ve got to get back to.”

The legislation also includes a sepa-rate payroll tax cut for the middle class.

The typical working family in North Car-olina would receive $1,300 in tax cuts next year if the bill passes, he said.

The president also expressed con-cerns about cuts to education, specifi-cally the budget shortfalls that are forc-ing school boards to lay off teachers in North Carolina.

“[Cuts to education are] unfair to our kids, it undermines their future—it has to stop,” he said. “If we want our kids ready for college, ready for careers in the 21st century, tell Congress to pass the Ameri-can Jobs Act and put teachers back in the classroom where they belong.”

The proposed legislation, Obama said, would help protect the jobs of up to 13,000 North Carolina teachers, cops and firefighters. It would also increase Pell Grants, he added, and make student loans more affordable.

Obama addressed his opposition’s claims that he is pushing the bill for po-litical gain. He also noted that Americans should not have to wait 14 months for a

remedy, despite arguments by his politi-cal opponents that this discussion should wait until after the 2012 election.

“Give me a win? Give me a break–that’s exactly why folks are fed up with Washington,” he said. “This isn’t about giving me a win.... This is about giving the American people a win.”

NCSU freshman Tevin Holley said he supports the bill, adding that he plans to encourage his congressional representa-tives to pass it.

“[The speech] gave me a much better understanding of the issue,” Holley said. “I’ll do whatever I need to do to get it passed.”

Sophomore Taylor Imperiale, a mem-ber of Duke College Republicans who did not attend the speech Wednesday, said he does not support the bill because he be-lieves it will increase federal spending.

“I think that this was campaigning,” he said. “North Carolina is a huge battle-ground state... so the Obama campaign’s decision to have this speech here was definitely a political decision.”

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Gonzales said the shift from the house model to quadrangle model years ago was mainly the result of how to best integrate an all-freshman East Campus into the residential system. He noted that more thought has been put into this transition now in order to give students the resources they need to be comfortable with this new model.

In other business: DSG President Pete Schork, a

senior, said that the first Football Gameday had mixed reviews, noting that some students did not respond well to the transition from Tailgate to the new event. Schork said he hopes the event will move to the Main West Quadrangle with free food and po-tentially free alcohol for those of age, however the timeline for that is un-clear. Plans for future Football Game-days are not yet set in stone, Schork said, adding that there will not be drastic changes for Homecoming.

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fix unless people incorporate it into their own way of looking at life,” Szigethy said.

Despite the temporary nature of the pro-gram, Busteed emphasized the effectiveness of its timing.

“The majority of alcohol poisoning hap-pens freshman year,” he said. “The fact that we were able to develop an effective intervention program before they arrive on campus for the riskiest semester is significant.”

Duke has used AlcoholEdu since the program’s creation 10 years ago, Szigethy said. However, he said he did not know whether the findings of the study were present on campus.

“We don’t have any campus-wide sur-vey data that lands in the Spring semes-ter,” he said. “So there’s really no way to say either way.”

Some students expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of the program.

“Realistically, I could see AlcoholEdu hav-ing a short-term effect at best,” freshman Anna Lamb said. “I learned whatever facts it told me for the first few days after I took that course

online, but then I just forgot about it because it didn’t really leave a lasting impression.”

Freshman Sean Frith agreed with the study’s findings.

“I guess [AlcoholEdu] made me a little more aware of risky practices,” he said. “But I think by second semester people are going to dismiss what they learned and just form their own drinking practices.”

Busteed recommended supplementing his company’s curriculum with a number of dif-ferent measures on campus to ensure respon-sible behavior past the first semester.

“Have a broader environmental campaign that includes stricter enforcement, clearer policies, working with local bars and restau-rants to make sure they’re serving responsi-bly—a long list that includes legal and policy measures,” Busteed said.

The Duke Student Wellness Center has made efforts toward this “environmental cam-paign” at Duke.

“We developed the ‘Note to Self’ ad campaign about two years ago,” Szigethy said. “We also met with Shooters a couple years back to talk with them about differ-ent prevention strategies. And we’ve also reached out to businesses concerning the

Durham Discount Card.” The Durham TRY Discount Card, given

to freshmen during orientation week, lists emergency numbers and the symptoms of alcohol poisoning and provides students with discounts at local vendors. Szigethy cited alcohol-free events during the Last Day of Classes celebrations, such as the Duke Chapel climb and the party monitor program, as other measures the Wellness Center has taken.

He said the Wellness Center plans to devel-op a new campaign to address common prac-tices of pregaming before social gatherings.

“Students who encounter the negative consequences of drinking have typically been pregaming,” Szigethy said. “That’s usually the one commonality. We’re trying to get more information on the pregaming phenomenon so we can begin to explain its risk factors to students in the future.”

Busteed said he does not plan to make any specific changes to AlcoholEdu in light of the study’s new findings.

“We are always making tweaks and im-provements,” he said. “But this study doesn’t alter anything we’re doing. It reinforces what we’re doing.”

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“Open up a beer. Go play a video game.”

As a college-age male (or female), you probably don’t associate imperatives like these—as quotidian as their com-ponents may be to you—with pianos, synthesizers and up-and-coming blonde bombshells. That’s okay, it’s not a habit many of us have gotten into in the past. But if you’re not doing it by now, then you need to do yourself a favor.

You probably haven’t heard Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” yet. If that’s the case, then put down this paper, navigate away from this website and pull up the song—preferably with its grainy music video—on Youtube. “Blue Jeans” isn’t half bad, either.

Don’t worry, you won’t have any trou-ble finding Del Rey online, although you may have to wade through lots—and I mean lots, especially for an artist with a total of two singles to her name—of short clips and modeling shots to find

the videos. You may find this slightly annoying. Then again, as a college-age male (or female), you may not.

Lana Del Rey, apparently, is like that, full of seeming contradictions: the daughter of a wealthy businessman who lives in a trailer park, listing Brit-ney Spears next to Nina Simone under “Influences” on Facebook and describ-ing her genre as both “Hollywood pop” and “sad core.” With the help of her newfound label, she essentially erased all trace of a failed attempt at pop star-dom and opted instead for widespread underground recognition. And, on the aforementioned “Video Games,” she makes herself out to be more or less the stereotypical coolest girlfriend ever, be-fore mentioning that she’s more or less ignored as such.

So, you should check her out. As a college-age male (or female), you’ll probably be glad you did.

—Chris Bassil

A couple weeks ago, I was involved in a semi-serious car ac-cident and my less-than-trusty Honda Civic was deemed, in claims adjustor parlance, a “to-tal loss.” Wrecks like this can be traumatic events for the people involved, but not so in my case: I wasn’t injured, the collision was the other driver’s fault and I didn’t have any sort of emotional attachment to my totaled vehicle. I was in a rental car the next day and bought a new car two weeks later: case closed, for all practical, transportation-related purposes.

One thing I did lose, at least in the rental car-bound interim, was the use of an auxiliary input jack. On a list of the best innovations in the history of car radios, aux-in

jacks rate pretty highly—with a $5 cord, you can play your iPod (or Zune, but, really?) through your car stereo without any of the static or channel-shifting you experience with an FM transmitter. Aux-in jacks became in-creasingly common in cars made after 2007, and had removed, for me, any reason to ever bother with radio stations. Why bother, when I could choose from the entirety of my own carefully curated music collection instead?

I was wrong about that, and in retro-spect, I think I have a vague idea why. My rental car was a black Chrysler 300C, and if you’re familiar with the model, you can imagine the non-sequitur of this car, with Sirius/XM’s Shade 45 hip-hop station on blast, piloted by a white kid wearing neon faux-Wayfarers. That’s what I did for the last two weeks, and I enjoyed listening to music in a car more than any time in recent memo-ry. There’s a certain joy to hearing someone

else, anyone else, putting on a song that you would have picked yourself. Maybe it’s the surprise; maybe it’s a feeling of community with anyone else listening to the same sta-tion. Maybe it’s simply that a song you like, any song you like, stands out relative to most of what’s played on the radio: by contrast, my own iPod spits out a hit parade so relent-lessly that the serotonin rush of hearing a fa-vorite song is dulled by hearing all of those songs, in a row, on repeat.

Most likely, it’s some combination of the three. But my time with the 300C, which has sadly come to an end, was a reminder of the importance of context in hearing music. An economist looks at the advent of iTunes, and Spotify and Hulkshare and tastemaking music blogs with endless streams of mp3s, and see enormous utility gains: look at all this music you have access to now, he would say, compared to the very recent past. And the very fact that you listen to so much of it shows how much better off you are thanks to these innovations; otherwise, you’d still find new music on the radio.

This is where what’s called “revealed preference theory” breaks down. The econ-omist in the paragraph above is correct, in some respects, and no one longs for the days when music spread via record stores and FM frequencies. And, admittedly, Sirius/XM is not the same as FM radio, though mostly be-cause Eminem has some sort of corporate tie-in with the former. But there’s something pernicious about all this choice—it allows us to listen to whatever we want in any context. And in so doing, it makes what we want less worth wanting. Would my favorite track in the Shade 45 rotation, “N****s in Paris,” rat-tle the trunk nearly as hard via iPod playlist? The answer, I’ve found, is no.

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ties nationwide, there seem to be more and more student-led discussions surrounding gender and its relation to power dynamics. Does the media objectify men as much as women? Is feminism necessarily political? Does feminism even still exist in the 21st century?

The new exhibition at the Nasher Muse-um of Art, The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, would contend that it does. Featur-ing print, painting, video, installation and photographic works by 21 artists and one artists’ collaborative, The Deconstructive Im-pulse examines how a specific generation of women artists reoriented the art world and prevailing structures of social and cultural power.

“This was the voice, this was the time when women’s voices were just being heard in the art world,” said Sarah Schroth, Nan-cy Hanks Senior Curator at the Nasher Museum and an adjunct associate profes-sor in the department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies. “[Art] is a very male-dominated field, and especially was [in the 1970s and 1980s].”

In a break with previous artistic models, contemporary art in the latter half of the 20th century shifted toward postmodern visual representation. Artists both female and male utilized new mediums and non-traditional exhibition spaces to experi-ment with form and style. Much of their material responded directly to the growing presence of the media.

“This was the beginning of the time when there was this explosion of imagery,” Schroth said. “The marketing and advertis-ing agencies were using visual material in order to convince the consumer to buy; the politician was convincing the voter to vote for him using imagery.”

These artists used this philosophy to “deconstruct” symbols of power, creating the academic and philosophical discourse of postmodernism. These artistic efforts are often viewed without the lens of gen-der, representing works from this period as

non-feminist and apolitical in the gender sphere.

The Deconstructive Impulse, however, turns this idea on its head. The exhibi-tion’s primary contention is that women artists, underrepresented and undervalued in the 1970s and 1980s art scene, used post-modern techniques to generate an original critique of power mechanisms and gender bias in popular culture.

“I think the artwork in the exhibition really shows how complicated the relation-ships among gender, feminism, and visual culture are,” Kimberly Lamm, assistant professor in the Women’s Studies pro-gram, wrote in an email. “It seems like for the most part [these women artists] are in-terested in finding mediums and materials that suit the arguments they want to make, rather than the other way around.”

The exhibition reflects the various strat-egies women artists used to make such ar-guments. No matter the form, their overall philosophy upheld deconstructivism as a means to create anew.

“Essentially, [desconstructivism] is the reassembling and recontextualizing of something,” Schroth said. “[These artists] would take the mass media as their jump-ing off point.”

In the exhibition, the manifestation of these ideas runs the gamut from the ab-stract to the literal. Deborah Kass’s 1991 painting “Before and Happily Ever After” deals with issues of physical beauty, female ambition and the exploitative effects of the “male gaze.”

Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, fa-mous for their artworks incorporating textual literalism, each have pieces in the show. Excerpts from Holzer’s 1977-79 “Tru-isms” contain statements such as “Abuse of power should come as no surprise” and “Romantic love was invented to manipulate women.” A 1982 photographic work from Kruger features a woman obscured by a widely brimmed hat, accompanied by the statement “I am your reservoir of poses.”

The works in the exhibition—organized by themes like media, masquerade and appropriation—aim to subvert both the

male artistic and socio-cultural paradigms through caustic wit and, at times, shock value.

“The Deconstructive Impulse is funny, smart and weird in the best sense, and therefore asks its viewers to encounter ideas and have experiences that are unsettling,” Lamm said. “These strange encounters are re-ally important for feminism because the assumption that feminism is something that is familiar and happened in the past is quite pervasive.”

The Nasher’s decision to mount The De-constructive Impulse emphasizes its commit-ment to representing diverse exhibitions and crafting educational engagements to demonstrate their relevance to modern audiences.

“We’re a teaching museum,” Manager of Marketing and Communications Wendy Hower Livingston said. “The Nasher is in-tent on showing works of art that a wide variety of audiences can relate to. We want to see ourselves in the art. [That’s why we showcase] artists of color, women artists and young or overlooked artists.”

Schroth noted that the typical viewer didn’t need to grow up during the 1970s

or 1980s to appreciate the importance of the exhibition.

“I was doing graduate work in art his-tory in the 1970s, so all these women are like heroes to me. They were the first ones to break through the male-dominated art world in a big way,” Schroth said. “But I don’t think you have to have grown up then to be moved by them and what they’re saying.”

As part of the exhibit, the Nasher will screen artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s 2010 film Women Art Revolution. The mu-seum will also host the Guerrilla Girls artist collaborative, who will discuss their trade-mark posters and billboards exposing gen-der imbalance in the art community.

The philosophy espoused by the Guer-rilla Girls hits home the fact that the art world—and society in general—has a long way to go in terms of gender equality. As definitions of feminism become increas-ingly nuanced, The Deconstructive Impulseurges a reconsideration of the work that got us to this point.

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sweet, controlled voice car-ries the tune through a maze ofof e elelectctriricc guguititarar c conontotortrtioionsns. Some songs, such as “Cheer-leader,” are also intensely personal: “I’ve played dumb/ WhWhenen I I k kneneww bebetttterer// TrTrieiedd soso hard/ Just to be clever.”

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Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (woman and daughter with makeup) from Untitled (Kitchen Table Series) (detail), 1990. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Purchased through the Harry Shafer Fisher 1966 Memorial Fund. Another photograph from this series appears in the concurrent exhibition Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection.

BECOMING: Photographs from the

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by Jake StanleyTHE CHRONICLE

The program for Glass, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern’s newest play, explains that it is an adaptation of Tennessee Wil-liams’ classic mid-century drama The Glass Menagerie, with scenes from J.D. Salinger’s novels Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye woven into the plot.

Attention, literary purists: Glass is a col-lage, a mashup. And it is perhaps more challenging and entertaining than any of these individual stories.

The play takes as its main subject the Wingfield family: neurotic, Southern-bred mother Amanda, the repressed artist son Tom and the daughter Laura, a sweet, crippled introvert.

Most of Menagerie’s original narrative is intact in Glass. Amanda wishes for Laura to find a husband, while Tom dreams of freedom from the dull warehouse work he sloughs through to support the fam-ily. The climax of the play comes when Jim O’Connor, Laura’s adolescent crush, calls at the Wingfield apartment for dinner.

The acting by the four-person cast is com-pelling, particularly Jane Holding’s portrayal of Amanda. Holding is convincing as the over-ly attentive, nostalgic mother to a daughter (played by the talented Jennifer Evans) who, in her early twenties, still withdraws to her childhood bedroom to listen to the records left behind by the absent Mr. Wingfield.

The elements of Salinger are concen-trated in two scenes: the comical bathroom conversation between mother and son from Franny and Zooey and Holden Caulfield’s famous monologue where he states his only ambition, which is to be a body catching a

body coming through the rye. Since the two male protagonists of the

Salinger stories more or less mirror the moping dreamer of Tom Wingfield, these scenes do not disrupt the unfolding of Menagerie’s plot. Rather, they add depth to Tom’s character while imbuing him with a strong creative identity. In the original, Tom plans to run away from home to join the Merchant Marines. In Glass, the mashup of Tom, Zooey and Holden unveils Tom’s plan to abscond to New York and pursue his writing. Another type of adventure, but one that would appeal to the original Tom.

Glass adds several clever elements that update Menagerie for modern viewers. For instance, the cozy configuration of Com-mon Ground Theatre allows the actors to hold ‘private’ conversations in an actual car, driven through the parking lot to a transparent screen at the stage’s rear—an uncommon set piece, even in contempo-

rary theater.Director Jay O’Berski also makes in-

triguing characterization choices, like dressing Tom in drag, or showing Laura pleasure herself with an electric tooth-brush. Somehow, these tweaks seem natural. A family broken by incompat-ible desires and cursed by fate: there’s reason to believe they would be idiosyn-cratic oddballs.

On the whole, the success of Glass comes from the devastating polarity of intimacy and distance that color these family tales. One almost wonders if Wil-liams and Salinger actually wrote them together, cramped in a small bedroom, surrounded by dusty books and minia-ture glass animals.

Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern’s Glass will play at Common Ground Theatre Sept. 15-17 and 22-24 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 18 at 2 p.m.

Glass melds literary influences


what happened to feminism?” Schroth said. “[This exhibition] is really good for the Duke students because we just take for granted that women will go into careers. It wasn’t taken for granted back then. Ev-erything that we do rests on the shoulders of this generation of feminists. I think you can’t talk about any art—male or female—today that doesn’t stand on their shoulders in some way.”

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O’Bersky’s production gracefully and innovatively integrates its literary forebears Salinger and Williams.


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After Gwyneth Paltrow, an Academy Award winning actress who has starred in over 40 films, is killed off by a mysterious virus in the opening minutes of Contagion, it becomes clear that the film is not just another biological disaster movie. From the beginning, Contagion sets forth a dark atmosphere and abruptly—yet artistically—introduc-es the motif of the swift finality of death.

Suddenly, numerous characters emerge: among them, an anti-government journalist (Jude Law), a doctor from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Law-rence Fishburne) and an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer working with the infected (Kate Winslet). Each receives only a limited amount of screen time and, for a while, the death toll increases exponentially as the movie unfolds like a prequel to I Am Legend. Upon discovery of a supposed cure, however, Contagion shifts from a display of deadly epidemic to an exploration of a society’s deterio-ration through fear and rumor-mongering. Compassion and understanding fall to anarchy and desperation, as pharmacies are robbed and people are murdered in the hunt for the “magic drug.”

Unfortunately, though, the film’s effort to take on the decomposition of society—as well as human nature itself—is harmed by the flatness of its many characters. It’s not that the acting isn’t noteworthy—it is—but rather that the actors themselves have little to work with: instead of pitying the deaths of Contagion’s characters, the audience is left pitying the theft of its characters’ development. As a result, the motif of quick, unforgiving death unwittingly detracts from the movie. Furthermore, meditations on nepotism and hypocrisy, as well as hidden character pasts, end up feeling neither unexpected nor interesting. For a time, Damon’s character seems like an antidote to this. He struggles with issues of fidelity, loss and societal collapse on a large scale, despite his immunity to the MEV-1 virus. But the depth of the character, even in conjunction with Damon’s stellar performance, is not enough. He remains stranded on the periphery of the plotline, and none of the more pertinent characters demonstrate any comparable level of development.

In the end, Contagion is too crowded. It strives to exam-ine the intricacies of the human condition, but its charac-ters are simply too numerous to cultivate any true sense of complexity. Contagion unfolds evenly and with sound acting, but it fails to leave the lasting impact at which it hints.

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Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t want to be misunder-stood.

Throughout Drive, his 2011 homage to everything from 1980’s LA noir to David Lynch’s Lost Highway, Refn subverts his standard moviegoer’s expectations: car chase scenes seem intentionally unimpressive, logical next steps go un-taken and would-be femme fatales, well, aren’t. Because Drive, as Refn takes great pains to make clear, isn’t about any of those things.

The obvious question: if Drive is none of those things, then what is it?

It’s the rare film that shows rather than tells: most of Gosling’s relationship with supporting female actress Carey Mulligan, which more or less drives the entire film, is devel-oped without the use of dialogue. Instead, Refn keeps the two inside Gosling’s car for much of the early portion of the film, situating his shots from the back, passenger and driver’s seats and employing a soundtrack of ’80s nostal-gia to evoke emotion in his viewer. The effect is powerful: not only does Refn establish a believable connection be-tween the two, but by keeping the camera inside the car for so long, he includes the viewer in the relationship, as well. We feel what Gosling feels when Mulligan finally takes his hand atop the stick shift. As a result, we genuinely care about Mulligan too, and understand the lengths to which he eventually goes to protect her.

Refn eliminates dialogue in other areas, too, and in general slows down a film which at first glance would be about fast cars and little else. The brutal violence, a hold-over from earlier films like his Pusher trilogy, is more than just gore: accompanied by brooding, silent codas, they are moments of discomfort which again bring us into the room with Gosling. Refn brings us a crime film which is finally about a character, rather than the blood and money that he touches.

Again, Refn doesn’t want to be misunderstood. If, in the end, his viewers pay attention, he won’t be.

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Wayne Coyne (and his scarf) of the Flaming Lips performed at the Raleigh City Plaza on Saturday night.


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Duke football is not a campus-wide laughingstock.

The Duke quidditch team is a cam-pus laughingstock. Larry Moneta is a campus laughingstock. People who

take 8:30 a.m. classes are laughingstocks.

It’s okay to point and laugh at those peo-ple. They’ve essen-tially brought it on themselves.

But not the Blue Devils. Yes, they are 0-2. I believe, though, that this rough start is not going to define their season. I still see a team that will go on to have a decent year.

If you don’t buy that, here are three reasons why you should:

1. Duke needs to healRight now, the Blue Devils’ top two run-

ning backs are hurt. Josh Snead, the explo-sive sophomore who saw major game action last year as a true freshman, and Desmond Scott, the every-down back and returning starter, both didn’t play against the Cardi-nal. They’re expected to return soon, how-ever, which will give running back Juwan Thompson some help, and Duke will have the best rushing offense it’s had in years.

There’s another injury, though, that, when corrected, will really put the Blue Devils in good shape. It concerns Will Snyderwine.

I, and many others, watched with creeping horror Saturday as the preseason

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When Duke and Boston College met last year, the Eagles narrowly escaped Wallace Wade Stadium with a 21-16 victory. Led by a stout defense, Boston College ended up losing in the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl and finished the season 7-6.

This Saturday Duke travels to Chest-nut Hill, Mass., for its ACC opener, where it will look for its first win against an Eagles team also facing a disappoint-ing start to the season. After a tough loss to Northwestern, Boston College got blown out by Central Florida, 30-3.

Led by sophomore quarterback Chase Rettig, the Eagles’ offense has struggled to consistently move the ball and score in the redzone. Their offense ranks last in the ACC, averaging 10 points and 298 yards per game. Turnovers and injuries at key po-sitions are the sources of many of its woes. Rettig has also thrown three costly inter-ceptions and no touchdowns this season.

Accuracy has remained a weak point for Rettig, who completed just 51 percent of his passes last year and threw for six touchdowns and nine interceptions. In his first game this season, Rettig was 24-for-44 for 375 yards with one interception. Against Central Florida, he was 10-for-23 and threw for 70 yards with two picks. Duke generated pressure in the first half last week, recording two sacks against a strong Stanford front line, and it will look to do more of the same this week.

“As you saw last week, we put pres-sure on Stanford’s offensive line and quarterback Andrew Luck,” defensive end Kenny Anunike said. “It shouldn’t be anything different this week. If any-thing, we’ll amp it up.”

If Anunike and the Blue Devil pass rush can hit Rettig, receivers Colin Lar-mond, Bobby Swigert and Alex Amidon will have to make plays. Receiver and co-captain Ifeanyi Momah, who will miss the rest of the season due to a torn ACL, will be difficult to replace. In the opener, Momah had eight catches for 157 yards.

Rettig may receive some support, though, if ACC preseason player of the year Montel Harris is able to return this

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second team All-American missed kick after kick. Had Snyderwine been infected with Rick Ankiel or Chuck Knoblauch syndrome, I wondered, in which normally-accurate ath-letes suddenly lose the ability to do a simple task? Or perhaps, had a group of small space aliens—let’s call them the Monstars—kid-napped Snyderwine and zapped him of his talents for an intergalactic kicking contest?

No. It turns out that Snyderwine has an injured right foot, which he aggravated again on Saturday. It’s not his fault he’s struggling—the guy is hurt.

And when he, Scott and Snead recover, Duke will be a much better team.

2. Duke competed with StanfordThe 44-14 score was rough, and Andrew

Luck’s 290 yards passing and four touchdowns were painful. But what everyone seems to have already forgotten is that the Blue Devils could have been down only one point at the half.

Duke’s defense gave the Stanford offense major trouble moving the chains through-out the first 30 minutes. Safety Matt Dan-iels, the captain of the defense, went toe-to-toe with Luck, exposing the quarterback’s flaws and predicting several times where he was going to throw. And who can forget Lee Butler and Johnny Williams making Luck look silly with 4:38 left in the first half, pick-ing off the future No. 1 NFL draft pick and taking it 76 yards to the house?

After that play, ESPN’s entire family of networks flashed an upset alert that Stan-ford was only up three as the first half neared its close. A friend of mine tweeted, “Do you believe in miracles?”

I did, after Cutcliffe’s gutsy next play call. The coach gave Snyderwine the go-

ahead to kick it onside, and the Blue Devils pounced on the ball. After a re-play showed the kick had barely crossed the 10-yard threshold, the momentum was very clearly in Duke’s favor. The im-probable upset looked plausible.

Of course, it didn’t stay that way. The Cardinal got hot in the second half, and they ran up a final score which betrayed none of those early Duke successes.

But the Blue Devils should still be encouraged by what they pulled off against such a highly-ranked team—they were nowhere near that competi-tive during last year’s Wallace Wade Beatdown against Alabama. When run-ning back Juwan Thompson said Satur-day, “We should have won this game,” it didn’t sound that ridiculous.

3. Three straight wins are on the tableThis weekend, Duke travels to Bos-

ton College to face a team that is strug-gling mightily. The Eagles are 0-2 and have looked pretty terrible in their two losses. Luke Kuechly aside, they don’t have many game-breaking players. And their quarterback, Chase Retting, is coming off a game in which he went 10-for-23 for 70 yards and two picks. This is an eminently-winnable game.

The Blue Devils then host Tulane for the homecoming contest. The Green Wave is 1-1, and just lost to Tulsa by 28. This should be another win.

Then, Duke travels to Florida Inter-national. This one will be a bit trickier, but if Duke’s passing defense is able to contain Wesley Carroll and, more im-portantly, T.Y. Hilton, the team has more than a puncher’s chance.

Duke is better than 0-2. The next few weeks will show it.

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Women’s soccer faces final nonconference opponent

The No. 5 Blue Devils (7-1) will take on College of Charleston tonight at 7 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium in the pro-gram’s final game before ACC play.

The Cougars (4-3) split a pair of games last weekend, losing 3-2 in two overtimes to Cin-cinnati and sneaking by Old Dominion 2-1.

Freshman Kelly Cobb, whose two goals and four assists last weekend at the Duke/Nike Invitational earned her player of the week honors from TopDrawerSoccer.com and Soccer America, will lead Duke’s offense against a College of Charleston backline that has surrendered just nine goals this season.

Women’s lacrosse, rowing make offseason hires

Amanda Barnes has been hired as an assistant coach, the women’s lacrosse pro-gram announced Monday. She will focus on working with the defense and goaltenders, her specialty throughout her career.

Barnes was a goaltender for four years at North Carolina before graduating in 2008. She spent two years at Ohio State before coaching last season for Boston University, where she coached freshman goaltender Christina Sheri-dan to the America East All-Rookie team.

Kathleen Hagglund will serve as recruit-ing coordinator and assist the varsity row-ing squad, the program released today.

Hagglund has been in the coaching ranks since graduating from Louisville in 2008. She has assisted the Cardinals for three seasons since her graduation after a year of coaching at St. Lawrence.

week. After sitting out for two weeks with a knee injury, his return would be a much-needed injection of offense. Duke head coach David Cutcliffe praises Har-ris as “the best back in the conference.”

Harris is only 1,002 yards away from being the all-time ACC leader in rushing yards. After breaking out as a sophomore with 1,457 rushing yards and 14 touch-downs, he had another great year in 2010, rushing for 1,243 yards and eight touch-downs despite nagging injuries during the season. Cutcliffe conceded that the Eagles are “more effective running the football if they’re more balanced.”

Boston College’s strength lies in its defense. The Eagles’ defense, 2010’s best in the nation against the run, has underperformed, largely due to inju-ries to both the secondary and defen-sive line. Boston College should bene-fit from the return of senior safety and captain Donnie Fletcher, a member of the Bednarik watch list.

“Certainly they’re going to be a top-10 defense,” Duke quarterback Sean Renfree said. “They’re one of the best defenses I’ve seen.”

He and his coach went on to praise linebacker Luke Kuechly as “probably the best in the country.”

Kuechly led the nation in total and solo tackles as a sophomore and is a unanimous first-team All-American this year. He picked up where he left off in 2010 during the Eagles’ opener, earning ACC linebacker of the week honors. If the Blue Devils are going to move the ball ef-fectively, their offensive line will have to know where Kuechly is at all times.

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Duke’s global expansion has always managed to unsettle while it inspires. A more global reach promises diversity and the extension of the Univer-sity’s educational mission. But countervailing anxieties attend international expansion—especially as ef-forts abroad become paradig-matically corporate.

This gives us more reason to take heart in Duke School of Law’s recent announcement of the Global Leader Scholarship, a new program that provides full tuition for one Chinese law student. The decidedly person-al bent of the program stands in marked contrast to the in-creasingly pecuniary logic of internationalization at Duke. This is a good thing—Duke’s greatest resource will always be

its people, and internationaliza-tion ought put their education at front and center.

The Global Leader Scholar-ship’s ability to attract outstand-ing candidates stands to ben-

efi t more than the recipient. Winners will

bring unique experiences and diversity to stateside Duke. The scholarship can protect this value by limiting awards to only a few recipients—this will help generate the prestige needed to attract the best students.

The most persuasive ar-gument for the Duke brand will always be its people, and the Global Leader Scholar-ship stands to attach the Duke name to outstanding alumni. The program’s forerunner—the Richard M. Nixon Schol-arship—provides a notable

example: Gao Xiqing, Law ’86, who serves as the vice chair-man, president and chief in-vestment offi cer of the China Investment Corporation and sits on the University Board of Trustees. Eminent alumni like Gao lend Duke a magnetism not reproducible with other forms of brand building.

Finally, we should not down-play the fi nancial upside of the scholarship program. Schol-arship programs cost little to commit to; if the program fails to do what it sets out to do, it can be cut without a fuss.

We wish that the program’s commitment to people and education would radiate across Duke’s experiments in inter-nationalization. It stands in marked contrast, for instance, to much of the logic behind Duke Kunshan University,

which has increasingly focused on student enrollment and tuition dollars, even as the campus’ academic strategy re-mains vaguely sketched. That DKU will likely open its doors by offering the Masters in Man-agement Studies degree—a program we have long criti-cized for unduly prioritizing revenues—underlines this fo-cus. Financial reasons ought to have major force in discussions of international expansion, but academic excellence should al-ways have priority.

Corporatization is not a Duke invention. Opportunistic educators, like the superstar professors who founded the now infamous, for-profi t New College of the Humanities in London, are increasingly looking to cash in on prestige.

We do not maintain that

scholarship programs should trump brick-and-mortar inter-national expansions; large-scale expansion can accomplish things that smaller programs cannot. But we cannot let more deeply held values get lost in the shuffl e. Even while we expand into China, Duke’s undergraduate admissions has not extended its need-blind policies to international under-graduate applicants. We cannot know how many Gao Xiqings have passed on attending Duke for this reason, but we wonder whether a China campus will make up for their loss.

The Duke School of Law should be commended for the creation of the Global Leader Scholarship. The program embodies values that ought to extend across Duke’s global programs.

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Brian will annoy you with his enthusiasm. He will irritate you with his optimism.

But, Brian is exactly the kind of person Duke needs to get this climate neu-trality thing done.

Brian Williams (not the one from NBC), is the transportation demand management coordinator at Duke Parking and Transportation (DPT). He has only been on the job for a year, but he is making progress.

The 2009 Climate Action Plan (CAP) laid out the challenge.

According to the CAP, transporta-tion accounts for approximately 23 percent of Duke’s baseline green-house gas (GHG) footprint. Commuters contribute about 52 percent, while air travel (43 percent) and the campus fl eet (5 percent) make up the rest.

Brian’s focus is on alternative transportation. It’s his job to create the right incentives and implement programs that entice commuters and residential stu-dents to move from high impact modes of transpor-tation (the single occupant vehicle (SOV)) to lower impact modes of transport like carpooling, vanpool-ing, public transit, bikes or walking.

This month’s Green Devil Challenge is on point in urging the Duke community to “Get Electrifi ed” and to engage the latest batch of Brian’s alternative transportation options including WeCar, GoPass and the not yet arrived hybrid articulating busses which are slated to start service later this semester.

First, WeCar: WeCar is the new ZipCar-only-better (according to Brian) program run by Enterprise, and yes, they will come pick you up for extended rentals—on campus!

WeCar ratchets up the sex appeal of campus car-sharing programs with four Chevrolet Volts. These plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are touted to be the most fuel-effi cient compact car sold in the U.S. They will travel approximately 35 miles (which is suffi cient for most local trips) on a full charge before engag-ing the gasoline engine. Just remember to plug it in when you return—sharing is caring, after all!

An Enterprise representative who was checking up on the Volts, which reside just outside the Bryan Center, told me the usage on the vehicles has been good and steadily growing, as has membership in the WeCar program itself, which arrived on campus Aug. 15, 2011.

Although the program appears to be on track to duplicate and hopefully expand on the success of its predecessor, ZipCar, the reduction of SOVs and SOV trips on campus as a result of either program is unclear.

The second exciting edition to the alternative transportation arsenal is the new GoPass program.

Replacing the old subsidized system, GoPass is essen-tially a free bus pass providing access to the regional transportation network (DATA , TTA, CAT and C-

Tran) to students and those faculty and staff with offi ces on or adjacent to Duke’s Durham campus.

According to Brian, under the old program, approximately 600 to 700 people used public transportation and had a partially subsidized pass. Since the new GoPass program was announced, roughly 4,500 Dukies have claimed their GoPass—a plastic swipe card tied to your Duke unique ID. Of those new card holders, Brian reported that about 1,500 have used

their card to access the public transit network at least once. However, more analysis of ridership patterns and improved usage rates will be required before the program can be called a true success. Regard-less, the initial enthusiasm is impressive.

In addition to the new and modifi ed programs, older programs, like the free Bull City Connector bus between Duke and Durham, carpool permits and the bike commuter program are also still avail-able and building momentum.

Changes in culture can be diffi cult and can take a long time to manifest themselves. So when Brian re-ported that the number of carpool permit and bike commuter applications is much higher than last year and creating a backlog at the DPT offi ces, my fi rst response was nearly an enthusiastic fi st pump.

Unfortunately, I also know the fl ip side this backlog implies: it’s the frustration and confusion that comes from interacting with an over worked and stressed out DPT staff. Barriers get erected, communication breaks down, assumptions are made, progress is stunt-ed, groups feel alienated ... you get the idea.

So, we might all agree that good communication, clear information and useful resources are excel-lent, although non-trivial goals going forward now that a good foundation of alternative transportation options has been constructed. Good thing Brian is confi dent he can meet the challenge. In fact, he has already started with targeted in-person outreach, ac-cess maps for well served housing locations in Dur-ham, maps of bike facilities on campus and infor-mational how-to videos. And there’s so much more to come.

Lest you think I place too much faith in one man, I dare you to meet Brian. His infectious optimism for positive change will rub off and leaving you hum-ming: “Always look on the bright side of life …”

See, we can all be like Brian.

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liz bloomhardtgreen devil

For a school that prides itself on its commitment to civic en-gagement (or at the very least its commitment to brand-ing itself based on those projects), I see far too many idi-

ots at Duke.Now, before anyone takes

the wrong kind of offense, let me clarify what I mean by idiot by delving into its Greek ety-mology. Coming from “idios,” meaning private or personal, an idiot in Athenian democra-cy was one who was concerned mainly with private affairs. This was opposed to a citizen (or “politês”) who, according to Ar-istotle, was distinguished by being involved in the political pro-cess. An idiot would rather concern himself with his own selfi sh interests than deliberate with others for the good of the “polis.”

It’s easier to distinguish an idiot in a direct democracy like Athens. An idiot would not spend that much time in the agora and had poor judgment regarding public matters. Or possibly, he just didn’t participate in the many opportunities for con-sensus building. In our modern liberal democracies, however, idiots are a little harder to identify. On our campus, a student can be involved in several organizations, maybe even one that claims to represent and advocate for the entire student body, and still be an idiot. A student can vote, but vote idiotically. A student can even go halfway across the world on an all-expens-es paid trip and return a global idiot.

We live in a world where these various activities are done in the mindset of seeking personal gain, rather than the pub-lic good. It’s a condition that isn’t that surprising in a society where so much emphasis is placed on the individual and his or her ability to succeed. A shift away from idiocy requires a radical shift in values as well as a change in the way in which we engage with our communities. Instead of asking ourselves “How can I best position myself for what I would like to do?” we should start asking ourselves “How can I best serve the needs of my community?” Ideally, the answer to the latter question should inform the former.

There are times where Duke proves that it has an engaged and critical student body and a healthy civil society. For instance, when Duke administrators decided they could no longer sup-port the unsafe environment known as Tailgate, students re-sponded in a way reminiscent of the Arab Spring youth. They gathered in forums, both online and off, to discuss the issue. They planned ways of collectively expressing their discontent. It’s a public issue that many students informed themselves of and are still discussing to this day. It’s refreshing to know that we still have a sense of what’s important: our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in the form of unhealthy drinking habits.

I don’t want to be unfair. I don’t think Duke students are completely idiotic. I think we have plenty of democratic spirit; we like to gather in groups and discuss and revel and feel like we have an effect on our surroundings. I just think we’re way too into ourselves.

We will be less idiotic when we mature a bit and realize that even if Tailgate may have been fun, it really was an unsafe en-vironment that was nearly impossible to regulate. Or when we stop being infatuated by all the exotic places Duke students get to visit and start asking critically what we’re actually ac-complishing in going there. Or when we take a step back and start asking pointed questions of our administration and their decision-making processes. And above all, when we can chal-lenge ourselves to do something for others, even if there’s no immediate personal gain in store.

Despite all of the exciting statistics and brochures with smil-ing faces, we should really question our commitment to civic engagement. Is working on a community housing project once a month or spending a single summer in some developing area of the world the same lifelong commitment we place in our own personal development? Just as we continuously strive to-wards personal success we should constantly be cooperating with others to address the collective challenges we face.

We are blessed that, even if they are not perfect, many of the structures that facilitate this sort of cooperation already exist on this campus: free association in the form of student groups, multiple means of communication, access to knowledge, ease of transportation, public spaces, freedom of expression, etc. As stu-dents, we should cultivate the kind of character that embodies a genuine commitment to the well-being of our communities.

Though the constitution of Athens differs from our own and though our citizens may have different duties or oppor-tunities for civil service, I would still regard our idiots the same way that Pericles does in his Funeral Oration: not as unambi-tious as they are useless.

Ahmad Jitan is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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Don’t be an idiot

lettertotheeditorHouse model update

Following several years of discussion, a group of undergraduate students, administrators and faculty was charged 18 months ago with envision-ing a new residential system for Duke. We’re call-ing it the house model in deference to a system with a rich history at Duke, but in fact it’s a rein-vigoration and reinvention of that system. From the start we have operated with two principles in mind: creating an equitable system for all stu-dents, whether or not they affiliate with SLGs, and creating a greater sense of community.

This has not been an easy process; we have major architectural constraints, study abroad pat-terns that are severely unbalanced between Fall and Spring semesters and concerns among SLGs about moving not long after a reshuffle several years ago. We recognize that no system we design will be perfect, but we remain confident that we can build a residential system to be proud of.

Here are some major milestones. • Duke Student Government is sponsoring an

open forum on the house model on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m.—location to be announced.

• Housing, Dining and Residence Life needs to hear from student groups who wish to apply for new housing by Friday, Sept. 30.

• We have already been in contact with Panhel-

lenic organizations; we have been meeting with them since the Spring term and met last week with all the sorority presidents and their sopho-more and junior class representatives. We have contingency plans in place to respond to their applications; we are most willing to entertain re-quests from all Panhellenic groups, or from a sub-set. That is up to the sororities.

• Once we have a complete list of SLGs re-questing housing, we expect to make random as-signments in October. Groups that wish to stay on or move to Central will have the opportunity to express that preference.

• The design for the new Room Picks process is nearing completion, and the process will occur on the same calendar as it always has in the Spring semester—January through March.

• For unaffiliated students, we expect to hold open forums in October and November to answer questions about this new model.

We expect the house model blog to go live next week. Content will evolve but will include a frequently asked questions tab. As you submit questions through the website, we will add infor-mation to respond to those questions.

Sincerely,Donna Lisker and Joe Gonzalez. co-chairs of the

House Model Committee

Walking through the city of Buenos Aires, you can’t help but notice, splashed across every supermar-ket, government building and national monu-

ment, the bright scrawls of graffi ti from the brushes and spray cans of a thousand unknown artists. Long decried as vandal-ism and urban visual noise, graffi ti has been praised in recent years by many in the art community, rebranded as “street art” and defended as a necessary medium of free expression.

Earlier this year, the Museum of Con-temporary Art in Los Angeles sponsored “Art in the Streets,” a popular, if somewhat controversial, exhibition on the history of graffi ti. MOCA’s exhibition could be considered the of-fi cial stamp on the gradual acceptance of graffi ti by the art world, which arguably began in 1983 with graffi ti’s fi rst major museum exhibition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The British street artist Bansky, possibly the most famous commercial graffi ti-ist today, has sold his works for hun-dreds of thousands of dollars at Sotheby’s.

As with many great artistic movements—from impres-sionism to surrealism—graffi ti’s entrance into popular cul-tural followed an adoption by elite art institutions. With the new popularity of artists like Bansky, museum exhibits in cities around the world and high profi le commissions by corporations such as Time Inc., graffi ti has received new public interest, if not complete tolerance.

The conventional defi nition of graffi ti as simple vandal-ism has been challenged; the public and art critics alike are now trying to decide if graffi ti constitutes art, vandalism or some hybrid of the two.

The is-it-art-or-vandalism question has been around for some time, and personally, I fi nd it rather pointless. Graffi ti is not art or vandalism, but art accomplished through the act of vandalism. But more on that later. What is impor-tant about the art-vandalism debate is that its very existence indicates a shift towards mainstream culture’s adoption of graffi ti.

This incorporation of graffi ti into popular culture has repercussions for arguably one of the most important func-tions of graffi ti: its role in the expression of political dissent.

Graffi ti seems an especially appropriate medium for po-litical dissent. For one, it is on public display. Excluding com-mercialized exceptions like Bansky (who, you could argue, can no longer be considered a graffi ti-ist), graffi ti’s audience is not limited to the museum-going crowd. Its unique inclu-sivity calls to mind Diego Rivera and the public murals of 1920’s Mexico, and its public forum makes graffi ti a rather democratic form of expression.

Secondly, graffi ti implies violence. Creating graffi ti is an act of vandalism, inherently violent and with an end—whether explicit or not—of destruction. You could claim political dissent seeks the same end by the same means. But with growing popularity, graffi ti begins to lose its ca-

pacity for violence. When the public commissions it, ap-preciates it or even doesn’t mind its presence as much, graffi ti can no longer be defi ned by the way it unexpect-

edly trespasses on day-to-day urban life. Graffi ti’s medium is more than spray paint and stencils—the graffi ti-ist’s devices also include the violence of intruding where he or she is not wanted.

Finally, graffi ti is an anonymous me-dium. Anonymity is especially important when considering graffi ti’s political func-tion. In being detached from the artist’s identity, graffi ti’s message is universalized; it doesn’t represent the opinion of an indi-vidual but of the collective. Graffi ti evokes

a romantic image of a vigilante activist, a member of the city’s underbelly who is everyone and no one at the same time. That painted scrawl is not a slogan from an artist with a name, a face and identifi able prejudices but a measure of the city’s pulse.

When political graffi ti’s message is explicitly violent in its content, such as when it contains a threat issued to a spe-cifi c politician (Ex-President George W. Bush is a frequent recipient of threats in Buenos Aires graffi ti), anonymity can alter the way we perceive the message’s violence.

Consider Brazilian artist Gil Vicente. At the 29th São Paulo International Biennial last year, Vicente displayed 9 charcoal drawings. Each depicted the artist assassinat-ing one of 9 world leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Benedict XVI and, of course, George W. Bush. Public shock, and in many cases outrage, ensued, and the Order of Attorneys of Brazil demanded the images be removed, claiming they encouraged violent crime.

Why do Gil Vicente’s works shock us? Maybe we are disturbed by his lack of anonymity. Vicente’s pieces are all about the artist. His realistic self-portrait is the focal point of each drawing, and the violence depicted is dependent on Vicente’s personal frustrations with his victims. The threat of violence feels personal, and thus all the more real.

Graffi ti, on the other hand, sees a complete removal of the artist. Its separation from a clear identity also consti-tutes a separation from responsibility. There is no one to take responsibility for the violence, so the threat feels some-what distant. The violence of graffi ti does not stem from a personal and prejudiced threat, but from a community’s collective frustrations with the status quo.

Graffi ti’s place in urban culture is changing. The medi-um has been increasingly institutionalized in the art world, and as a result, graffi ti-ists have seen growing public sup-port and real fi nancial benefi ts. However, these “successes” are undermining the power of graffi ti as a subversive and destructive means of expression.

Maggie LaFalce is a Trinity junior and is currently studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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