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ONTHERECORD“No other kind of physician would have to follow state

counseling when trying to talk to their [patients].” —Paige Johnson on abortions. See story page 4

Gender-neutral housing off to problematic start

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In the first year of its existence, the gender-neutral housing option at-tracted 14 independent students to sign up and live on Central Campus.

by Ashley MooneyTHE CHRONICLE

Despite a few technical glitches, Duke has integrated the sexes—at least residentially.

Fourteen individual students have taken advantage of the gender-neutral housing policy on Central Campus this year, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for Housing, Dining and Residence Life.

“We really didn’t expect large demand for it its first year,” Gonzalez said. “Actually, the number turned out to be about what we predicted for the first year.”

HDRL has yet to discuss exactly how gender-neutral housing will be integrated into the house model, Gonzalez added, though he noted that he assumes it will continue.

“We haven’t gotten to that level of detail yet,” he said.An additional eight students are living in gender-neutral

housing as members of the Nexus, the only Selective Living Group to currently offer gender-neutral living situations, wrote Nexus Executive Chair, Elena Botella, a junior.

This puts the total number of students participating in the option at 22.

HDRL decided to implement a gender-neutral hous-ing policy last Fall after receiving a recommendation from Campus Council, the University’s former residential government, which was absorbed by Duke Student Gov-ernment in the Spring. The housing policy was largely motivated by a report from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Life for the 2010 Committee on Gender. The policy’s development was also aided by mem-bers of Blue Devil’s United.

There are also two gender-neutral sections in Kilgo and

For graduating seniors, job prospects on the upswing

by Matt BarnettTHE CHRONICLE

After several years of decline, job prospects for Duke’s graduating seniors are returning to pre-recession levels.

According to the Career Center’s Senior Exit Survey, 38 percent of the Class of 2011 had accepted jobs by April—this is a 7 percent increase from last year and is a near return to Spring 2008—just before the econmic downturn when 39 percent of seniors reported that they had taken offers.

Additionally, the percentage of students still seeking jobs fell from 19 percent in 2010 to 15 percent this year.

Students, however, still need to adjust their job search-es in order to work with a still recovering market, said Wil-liam Wright-Swadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of career services at Duke.

“I would suggest to students that when a market is tough... students need to really broaden the way they’re looking and consider the kinds of options they have for searching,” Wright-Swadel added.

The percentage of students who reported that they

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DPAC brings $1.02M to Durhamby Mike Myers

THE CHRONICLE

Although profits dipped slightly, the Durham Per-forming Arts Center is still a source of revenue and rec-ognition for the Bull City.

DPAC earned $1.02 million for the city of Durham in the latest fiscal year, according to a preliminary fi-nancial statement issued by the city. As a premier the-ater venue, DPAC hosts more than 150 events per year and made a total of $2.5 million last year—40 percent of which went to Durham. Although Durham owns the facility, PFM/Nederlander serves as its management company. The 2009-2010 fiscal year yielded a profit of $2.9 million for the theater, slightly greater than the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

The revenue earned by the city, known as the DPAC Fund, is used to fund capital improvements to the the-ater, cover revenue shortfalls in the city’s budget and pay down the debt incurred during DPAC’s construc-tion, said Beverly Thompson, Durham’s public affairs director.

“This is really amazing,” Shelly Green, president and CEO of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau, wrote in an email. “Most publicly owned facilities do

not come anywhere close to paying [for] themselves.”Beyond the direct revenue, DPAC facilitates spend-

ing in the surrounding downtown Durham community, Green said in an interview.

The DCVB calculated that visitors to DPAC also spent more than $40 million in Durham on restaurants, hotels and retail stores in the past year alone. DPAC’s presence is responsible for approximately $28 million of the spending, Green said.

“Eighteen years ago, when we would go out and sur-vey residents of Wake County, for every one person that was positive [about Durham], there were four negative. Now, for every one negative, there are six positive,” Green explained. “It took 18 years. Eventually you can get them to be positive.”

DPAC, which opened in 2008, was part of an ef-fort to revitalize downtown Durham and enhance the appeal of the area to residents and visitors. In 2005 the city completed renovations to the American To-bacco Historic District to create the American Tobac-co Campus. Recent renovations to Durham’s North

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Duke Campus Farm Workday-Duke Campus Farm, 4-7p.m.

Head to the Duke Campus Farm this fall for public workdays every Thursday and Sun-day. Volunteers will be planting, harvesting,

weeding and working on projects.

Senior Kickoff!BC Von Canon rooms, 5-7p.m.

Jumpstart your Senior year with the Career Center’s annual event specifically designed for seniors. Whether you’re searching for a job, fellowship or planning for graduate

school, this event is for you.

East Campus SocialEast Campus, 5-7p.m.

The Center for LGBT Life will be hosting its East Campus Social on the lawn in front of

the Marketplace.

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Graduate Student Etiquette Dinner

Downtown Marriott, 5:30-7:30p.m.Graduate students will learn rules for navi-

gating a professional lunch or dinner.

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MINNEAPOLIS — In a series of speeches, President Barack Obama and his chief politi-cal rivals have presented dueling assessments of the administration’s record abroad, with Republicans offering an ominous view of a weak and uncertain America under Obama’s leadership.

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Billionaire investor Warren Buffet (left), awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February by President Barack Obama, has become an outspoken critic of the tea party movement. Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., was cited as an exemplar by Obama at least three times since July.

Gary Giordano, the Gaithersburg, Md., man arrested in Aruba in connection with the disappearance of his traveling companion, Robyn Gardner, was ordered held for another 60 days Wednesday as prosecutors prepared to try him on crimi-nal charges.

Republicans call Obama’s foreign policy weak

Aruba holds Md. man in friend’s disappearance

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department sued to block AT&T’s $39 billion pursuit of T-Mobile Wednes-day, saying the deal would leave con-sumers with fewer choices and higher bills for mobile phone service that has become “indispensable” to the way Americans live and do business.

AT&T immediately vowed to challenge the lawsuit, setting the stage for the most significant antitrust battle of the Obama administration, which had vowed to rig-orously police big business deals that are bad for consumers. But Justice has rarely gone to court to stop blockbuster deals, and it failed the last time it sued to prevent a big company merger seven years ago.

“Unless this merger is blocked... con-sumers will suffer,” said Sharis Pozen, act-ing assistant attorney general of Justice’s Antitrust Division. “Anyway you look at this transaction, it is anti-competitive.”

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“Despite having as many as 12 scholar-ship players held out of practice at some points during camp, Cutcliffe mentioned that the team did not allow the injuries to affect their morale. They showed up willing and ready to work everyday due in large part to the senior leadership of the team.”

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DSG elections could see significant changes

by Joel LutherTHE CHRONICLE

Beginning this spring, elections for upperclassmen positions in Duke Student Government may take place in a different form.

DSG Executive Vice President Gurdane Bhutani, a junior, said for at least the past four years, Spring elections have typically consisted of two elections—one for executive po-sitions such as president and execu-tive vice president, and another for Senate positions. A piece of legisla-tion introduced by Bhutani at DSG’s first meeting Wednesday night, how-ever, seeks to combine them.

Bhutani said in the past, the rea-son for splitting the elections was to allow candidates who lost executive elections to run for Senate positions. He noted a case when a candidate lost both an executive and Senate position, and attributed his loss in the Senate election to fatigue gained through the executive campaign.

“Students will suffer less election fatigue, thereby improving voter turnout,” Bhutani wrote in the legis-lation discussed Wednesday.

He added that a joint election would make the Senate election more important and that DSG often has a difficult time recruiting in the Spring for Senate seats.

Bhutani’s legislation was not

without opposition. Senator for Dur-ham and regional affairs Marcus Benning, a sophomore, spoke in op-position to the bill, saying that the student body may feel overwhelmed deciding executive positions and Senate positions during the same election.

Ultimately, senator for Durham and regional affairs Gracie Lynne, also a sophomore, motioned to ta-ble the issue. After a roll call vote, Lynne’s motion to table passed by a vote of 15 to 10, meaning that the bill will not receive a final vote for about one month.

In other business:The freshman election schedule

was approved by unanimous con-sent. Petition forms were released Wednesday and will be due Friday, Sept. 9. Campaigning will begin on Monday Sept. 12, and DSG elections will be the following Monday.

During a question segment with the executive board, DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, said recent campus decisions were made without student input. Responding to a ques-tion about the Merchants on Points program reducing its hours, Schork said he had not been consulted.

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by Anna KoelschTHE CHRONICLE

Sometimes when expensive technology disappears, a real-time tracking device can significantly improve the situation.

Apple’s iPads—increasingly prevalent on campus and in tester classes—can be easily equipped with an application called “Find My iPad,” which enables users to track their iPad on a map, pass-word protect their device from afar, display a message on the screen and increase its privacy protection with the ability to wipe the iPad’s memory.

“It’s great technology to have that tracking option on,” Duke Police Chief John Dailey said.

Dailey said there were three in-stances during the past year where an iPad or iPhone was stolen, but Duke Police was able to recover it because of tracking software. The most recent occurrence of this was

August 26. “An individual did steal an iPad

from an office [in the Bryan Cen-ter],” he said. “The tracking was on the iPad, and we were able to find the person who stole it on the Main [West] Quad[rangle].”

In one case, Dailey said, the iPad was in a suspect’s car on cam-pus. Another stolen iPhone was tracked to an off-campus address, where Duke Police obtained a search warrant and found the phone.

This tracking software has be-come all the more relevant with the recent move by Duke to in-corporate iPads into teaching and learning. The Duke Digital Initiative and the Center for In-structional Technology collective-ly purchased 100 iPads last Fall to loan to students and faculty, ac-cording to the DDI 2011 report.

iPad, iPhone app halts criminals

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HARNESSING THE PASSION FOR GLOBAL HEALTH

Make a Difference in the World of Health Disparities The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) works to reduce health disparities in our local community and worldwide. Recognizing that many global health problems stem from economic, social, environmental, political and health care inequalities, DGHI brings together interdisciplinary teams to solve complex health problems and to train the next generation of global health scholars.

VISIT http://globalhealth.duke.edu/student-portal for information about opportunities and events.

LEARN about global health. Take a GLHTLH course or join the Global Health Certificate Program. For complete course listing, go to www.globalhealth.duke.edu/education ATTEND a DGHI event or seminar.

Sept. 7 — “Stigma and AIDS: The Personal and the Political” 4-5 pm, 240 John Hope Franklin Center

Oct. 3 — “Global Health 2020: Acting Today to Improve Tomorrow” 1-8 pm, Bryan Center and Duke Gardens

PARTICIPATE in career and professional development workshops.

Sept. 29 — Guide to a Career in Global Health 5-6 pm, 040 Trent Hall

Visit the student portal to view all upcoming talks and workshops.

SUBSCRIBE to DGHI’s weekly e-newsletter:www.globalhealth.duke.edu/news-events/newsletter

JOIN a student group. Duke hosts a variety of student groups dedicated to various aspects of global health. Visit www.globalhealth.duke.edu/education/student-groups

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Across the nation, less doctors willing to perform abortionsby Jacob Zionce

THE CHRONICLE

While abortion remains a heated topic in U.S. politics, a new survey suggests that the number of doctors willing or able to provide such services is decreasing.

The study, conducted by Duke Uni-versity and the University of Chicago, sheds new light on American doctors’ sentiments towards abortion. A survey of 1,144 doctors found that only 14 per-cent of obstetricians and gynecologists are willing to perform the procedure, a steep drop from the 22 percent of doc-tors who said they would provide these services in 2008.

Paige Johnson, vice president of public affairs at Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina, said the de-cline in the amount of doctors willing to

perform abortions is unsurprising, espe-cially given recent legislation passed by new Republican majorities in state leg-islatures.

Johnson noted that the North Caro-lina state legislature passed one such regulation in July, which requires wom-en to have “state-scripted counseling.” It also requires potential patients to be presented with an ultrasound image of the fetus before deciding whether or not to abort.

She added that she believes that doc-tors who provide abortions are being un-fairly singled out.

“The doctors have been targeted,” Johnson said. “No other kind of physi-cian would have to follow state counsel-ing when trying to talk to their [patients]. If I take my son to the pediatrician, [the

doctor] is free to speak directly to me. The real issue is… the harassment of doctors. Doctors who continue [to pro-vide abortions] do [so] because of their unique sense of morality.”

The survey examined a variety of factors—including political orientation, population density and religion—that could influence whether or not a doctor is willing to provide abortions. Physicians in traditionally liberal regions such as the Northeast and West are more likely to provide abortions than their counter-parts in conservative strongholds such as the South and Midwest. Similarly, liber-als were more likely to carry out the pro-cedure than conservatives.

The survey also took the doctors’ re-ligion into account. While 26.5 percent of non-religious doctors are willing to

perform the procedure, only 1.2 to 10.1 percent of their Christian colleagues said they would provide abortions. At 40.2 percent, Jewish doctors were most likely to perform the procedure.

Jeremy Yoskowitz, rabbi and assistant director for Jewish Life at Duke, attri-butes these results to a number of fac-tors such as geography.

“You would be hard pressed to find as many Jewish doctors in Tuscaloosa as you’d find in New York,” he said.

He added that abortion is a complex issue in Jewish law—or halacha.

“Halacha is neither pro-life nor pro-choice in the conventional way those terms are taken in the U.S.,” he said. “Jew-ish law views the fetus in most respects as

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Obama jobs speech creates conflict with GOPby Peter WallstenTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced his intention to lay out a new jobs plan in a prime-time speech to Congress next week that strategists hope will set a new tone for his tenure.

But the announcement provoked an instant confron-tation with Republicans, which felt very much like the old tone, and underscored Obama’s dilemma as he attempts to show progress on the economy while distancing him-self from a dysfunctional Washington.

The joint-session speech, harnessing one of the grand symbols of his office, reflects a calculated attempt by Obama to regain an advantage in his bitter battle with Republicans over the economy, restore fast-eroding pub-lic support and, perhaps, turn around a presidency with

less than 15 months before he faces the voters.White House officials said Obama would lay out a

much-anticipated package of new proposals to stimulate job growth, such as spending programs for roads, bridges, school repair and training for the long-term unemployed.

And yet even scheduling the address quickly turned into another partisan spit-fest.

It began around lunchtime Wednesday, when Obama sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting an 8 p.m. speech next Wednesday—coinciding with a previously scheduled Republican presidential candidates debate.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, citing parlia-mentary and logistical “impediments,” sent a letter back with a rejection, inviting the president to come on Thurs-day, instead.

Democrats charged that the speaker was out of line,

and that presidents are always given deference in sched-uling speeches to Congress. A Boehner spokesman charged that the White House “ignored decades—if not centuries —of the protocol of working out a mutually agreeable date and time before making any public an-nouncement.”

Either way, the exchange illustrated the challenge fac-ing Obama as he confronts the urgent task of reintroduc-ing himself to an increasingly skeptical electorate.

For nine months since tea party Republicans prevailed in the 2010 midterms by railing against the ever-expand-ing government debt, Obama and his aides have em-braced the goal of deficit reduction—a shift that White

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The Durham Performing Arts Center, which hosts more than 150 events per year, grossed profits of $2.5 million in the previous fiscal year. More than $1 million of those dollars went directly to the city of Durham.

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Few Quadrangles on West Campus. In these communities, same-sex roommate pairs can live next to another same-sex roommate pair of the opposite gender. In these areas, residents also have the oppor-tunity to use a gender-neutral restroom.

Central Campus offers a slightly differ-ent take on gender-neutral housing, Gon-zalez said.

Those who opt-in to gender-neutral housing on Central can live in an apart-ment with a member of the opposite sex, though roommates must have separate rooms and a bathroom that locks, accord-ing to HDRL policy. These apartments hold four students and vary between two doubles or one double and two singles.

Residents, however, endured some technical issues with the new housing and room assignments, especially for Nexus residents.

Sophomore Andy Chu, a Nexus mem-ber living in a gender-neutral apartment, said he encountered some inconvenienc-es with his room assignment under the new system.

Chu and his roommates were not given their housing assignments until the end of the summer, he said, adding that their problems did not end there.

“When we got to campus, all of our room keys were wrong,” he said. “We were all given keys to the wrong apartments.”

They were not only given the wrong apartment keys, but each roommate was given keys to a separate apartments scat-

tered throughout different locations on Central.

Botella said, however, the issues stemmed mainly from RoomPicks soft-ware problems.

“The online process does not allow people of different genders to be put into the same apartment,” she said. “We had to work with [HDRL] to input it manually.”

When HDRL manually filled the sec-tion, they accidentally used an outdated version of the Nexus’ roster, leaving out eight people, Botella added. The apart-ments that should have gone to those students became double-booked because they appeared as available during regular RoomPicks.

Botella said she hopes that the soft-ware is fixed by Room Pix next year to avoid the same confusion.

“I think it would make more sense that [the program] doesn’t make the distinc-tion between male roommates and female roommates, at least in the two and three bedroom apartments,” she said, adding that the problem is now resolved. The eight students displaced are now properly accommodated, as are the students origi-nally assigned to the apartments.

Residents living in gender-neutral hous-ing seem content with their assignments.

“It is very normal, in the case of the apartments,” Chu said. “It’s a lot like be-ing in a dorm with guys and girls living right next to each other. There’s still a lot of personal space and we haven’t had any issues [with each other] yet.”

Nicole Kyle contributed reporting.

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Carolina Museum of Life and Science and the Carolina Theatre are among the most recent improvements to Durham’s downtown area.

“So many people come to DPAC, and they see all the other great things going on here,” Thompson said. “I’ve heard a lot of people say ‘Gee, I didn’t know that Durham has changed this much, that it has this much to offer.’”

Duke, as the largest employer in Dur-ham, has a special interest in promot-ing growth in the city, Vice Provost for

the Arts Scott Lindroth said. The Uni-versity saw DPAC as a good opportunity for growth.

“Development of DPAC was very much carried out in collaboration with Duke,” Lindroth said. “More opportunities for economic growth attract people that would not have thought about Durham or Duke before.”

Duke contributed $7.5 million—ap-proximately 17 percent—of the $46.8 million needed for DPAC’s construction, The Chronicle reported in July.

“It’s been a great investment for the city,” Thompson said. “It’s certainly ex-ceeded our expectations.”

were pursuing further education dipped from 31 to 24 percent this year, though Wright-Swadel noted that this shift may have been due to a change in the survey’s wording. Previous surveys asked about students’ anticipated post-graduation plans, but the survey administered in April asked about students’ immediate post-graduation plans.

“When you change the wording of a question, you often change the way that people answer it,” Wright-Swadel said. “We’ll have to wait a year to see trend data.”

The response rate for this year’s sur-vey was 81 percent—a 3 percent decrease from last year.

The survey also asked students what employment sectors they are entering and where they plan to live after graduation.

Most seniors reported that they would pursue financial services, con-sulting and education, and their top three cities were New York City, Wash-ington, D.C. and the Research Triangle area.

Emma Rasiel, director of the Financial Education Partnership and assistant pro-fessor of the practice in economics, said she was not surprised that financial ser-vices were the top employment sector for the Class of 2011. Finance has the most opportunities for students seeking jobs in big business, she said, but warned that fu-ture prospects may not be as lucrative.

“I think that the Class of 2012 may have a little bit harder time finding jobs in finance because of the economic downturn,” Rasiel said. “Especially in an economy like this one… I would encour-age students to look at non-trade ways of getting into finance [like] corporate fi-nance.”

Wright-Swadel said students should broaden their searches to include similar careers related to their areas of interest and not limit themselves to a specific geo-graphic region.

“Though it may be more challenging

to get the job in New York, [similar] op-portunities will exist in other places,” he said.

He added that the results also may not fully reflect student placement be-cause the survey was administered prior to graduation.

“Some have not received their [offers] by the survey,” Wright-Swadel said. “Not everyone has made a complete commit-ment—they’re still in the decision mak-ing loop.”

One graduate who found employment soon after the survey was Chris Perry, Pratt ’11, who said he attributes his suc-cess to luck.

“I didn’t do myself many favors by waiting until after graduation to start ap-plying to things, but I was more focused on actually graduating during the semes-ter,” Perry said. “I actually only applied to maybe five jobs before I got the one that I have now.”

Amanda Robison, Pratt ’11, found a job in technology services before gradu-ation. Robison said she suggests students expand their search beyond eRecruit-ing—an online career and internship da-tabase.

“A lot of people seem to limit them-selves to eRecruiting—it’s not worth it,” she said. “One of the biggest problems is that everyone applying is from Duke. When you aren’t competing against other Duke students, the name really means something.”

Wright-Swadel noted a 3 percent in-crease in students who reported that they were unsure of their post-graduation plans, up from 9 percent in 2010 to 12 percent this year. He encouraged unde-cided students to confront their potential post-graduation options before they leave Duke.

“Frankly [the Career Center is] very interested in working with students who are undecided,” he said. “Students have a lot of advice available on campus. What’s critical is that one takes steps to become undecided, and while you’re here is a better time to do that than af-ter graduation.”

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http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/first-big-weekend

Thursday, September 1

Open House – Connect. Learn. Grow.International House—Come meet the staff and learn more about cross-cultural connections at Duke!5-6:30pm

Center for LGBT Life East Campus Social Market Place QuadCome meet the staff, socialize, meet new friends, and create connections!5-7pm

Devils After Dark (East RC) Bus to Southpoint (1st Years get priority)East Campus Bus StopShop the night away with your friends at Durham’s trendy Southpoint Mall6pm-1am

Happy FeetMovie in the Sarah P. Duke GardensEnjoy the Duke Gardens while catching a movie!7:30-9:30pm

A Night in Wilson Recreation Center Join a Sports club and/or Experience the fun of Rock Climbing, K-Ville games, and demonstrations in fencing, yoga, and more! Also, find the food trucks outside…..YUM!8pm-1am

Mike Super/Team Rootberry Magician/MystifierMike SuperTeam RootberryReynolds (Bryan Center)11pm-1am

Friday, September 2

OSAF’s Student Org Fair East Campus QuadFind out about all the awesome student organizations at Duke4-6pm

Heat Wave (New Boyz, Stay, Walk the Moon) West Campus QuadNew BoyzStayWalk the Moon: Can’t wait to see you at Heat Wave5-9pm

Traditional Egalitarian Shabbat Services Reform Shabbat Services Free family-style Shabbat dinner (Please register at http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/jewishlife)Freeman Center for Jewish LifeTake time to center and balance your life at Duke. Food, fellowship, and Fun!6:15pm and Dinner at 7:15pm

Craicdown - Music On The Lawn Concert "Back Porch Music" (FREE admission)American Tobacco Campus Amphitheatre318 Blackwell St. (Free Bus ride: Bull City Connector)6pm-8pm

Johnny White & The Elite Band Brightleaf Square Concert FREE admission. Brightleaf Square,Gregson St. at Main St. (Bull City connector)7-9pm

InterVarsityWhite Lecture Hall, East CampusPraise, Worship, and Testimony7:00pm

Saturday, September 3

Black Campus Ministries BBQBryan Center PlazaPlease join BCM for music, fellowship, and great eats! We will be on the BC Plaza with ribs, potato salad, and all the makings of a GREAT BBQ!5-7pm

Duke Football Game Wallace Wade Stadium7pm

Wesley Fellowship Open HouseWesley House on Buchanan St.Free food and fellowship!8pm

Novelty Night in the BC Wax Hands, Henna Tattoos, CaricaturesBryan Center9pm-1am

$1 menu Breakfast (dining/West RC) Great HallLate night breakfast with $1 menu items! 10pm-1am

Sunday, September 4

Men’s Soccer 2:30pm

BBQ Picnic Mill VillageSome fun, food, and relaxation before the start of your week!2:30-5pm

Duke Symphony Orchestra Pops ConcertEast Campus, Outside on the lawn in front of Baldwin6pm

Friday, continued

Buddhist Community Open HouseCenter for Multicultural Affairs, lower level of the Bryan CenterFood, fun, games and raffle....Get your bodhisattva on!7:00-9:00pm

Men’s Soccer Koskinon Stadium7:30pm

Presbyterian Campus Ministry Movie NightThe King's Speech (outdoor showing) the North Carolina Museum of Art!Meet at the East Campus Bus Stop at 8pm to Travel

First Big Weekend Dance Glow party/DJ and Light Show on the Plaza9pm-1am

A Taste of Honey - Art & SoulSponsored by the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Cutlure and Residence LifeLive music, spoken word poetry, eclectic food samplings, and cutting-edge art.McClendon Walkway West Campus10pm

Devils After Dark Tie-Dye Duke T-Shirt MakingEast Campus QuadNeed we say more? 10pm-12am

a person, but not fully, in the sense that in a case where a mother’s life is endangered by the fetus, then abortion is permitted and [according to] some [is] even required.”

Dr. Stanford Walker—an OB-GYN at the Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Patchogue, N.Y.—does not per-form abortions due to his Christian beliefs. He said, however, he disagrees with the notion that religion is a major factor in doctors’ decision-making process.

“I can’t say [a large factor for most is] religion,” he said. “It’s more so [an] economic [issue].”

Walker cited the risks such as malpractice suits that doctors might face if they agree to perform abortions.

“A lot of it has to do with a slight change in moral thinking and ethics, but the biggest reason has to do with economics and dealing with your patients and cli-entele,” he said. “Most of the physicians I have worked with are backing away from that area because it’s sticky for a lot of institutions.”

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The report noted more than 4,000 loans were made in the 2010-2011 academic year, with iPads in a large demand.

CIT also purchased 20 iPad 2 devices for use in undergrad-uate classes, according to the report.

Professors have incorporated iPads into classes as diverse as the Pratt School of Engineering’s “Machine Shop,” Music 49S: “Bach, Beethoven & Brahms” and Religion 20S: “Muhammed and Prophecy.”

Steve O’Donnell, senior communications strategist for the Office of Information Technology, said there has not been an issue with DDI iPads being stolen.

Duke administrators also have signalled their enthusiasm for iPads.

Mike Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and gov-ernment relations called himself as an “iPad evangelist,” add-ing that Provost Peter Lange and President Richard Brodhead are also extensive iPad users.

Schoenfeld said his iPad is more portable and easier to use than a laptop—and more fun.

“I can do email, web, take handwritten notes, listen to mu-sic, edit documents and do PowerPoint presentations, as well as play some games,” he said. “I haven’t used a laptop since I got the iPad 2.”

Schoenfeld added that he set up the iPad tracking software when he first got the device, noting that it is useful to be able to track the device if lost or stolen.

A similar version of the iPad tracking software is also avail-able on the iPhone—“Find My iPhone”—and is frequently used by Duke students.

Sophomore Helen Cai said she was able to use this software to track her iPhone’s journey down Anderson Drive after she left it on a C-2 bus.

Sophomore Andy Chu said he and his girlfriend have used Find My iPhone to find where the other is on campus.

“When she was in class, instead of texting and trying to get a surreptitious answer, I could just find her on my iPhone,” he said. “It’s actually been very useful.”

Freshman Bridgette Alanis, an iPad and an iPhone user, said she used the tracking feature on her iPhone shortly be-fore she left for Duke.

“I dropped my iPhone in downtown [Los Angeles] and wanted to see where it was.... I used my mom’s iPhone to track my iPhone and watched it travel through downtown L.A.” Ala-nis said. “I’m definitely going to use the software at Duke.”

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“We were taken aback by that just like you were,” Schork said.

Similarly, when asked about changes at campus eateries—such as the Tower and the Devil’s Bistro—Schork responded that DSG had no idea that the changes were happening.

“It’s certainly troubling,” Schork said. “You have to consult students first. It’s not okay to act first and notify students later.”

Schork and Bhutani also spoke briefly about their goals for the upcoming school year. Schork spoke to the value of DSG, adding that he hopes members recognize the opportunity to leave a legacy at the University.

“As an institution, we’re going through a lot of change with the house model and West Union, and I think our goal is making sure that old stakeholders are accounted for and that we are working with and growing with the University,” Schork said.

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House strategists believed would put the president in good stead with crucial independent voters.

But since January, Obama’s job approval ratings have sunk to new lows, now hovering around 40 percent in most surveys.

A series of disappointing monthly jobs reports and wild fluctuations in the stock markets have increased public anxiety, and raised concerns among economists that the country may be close to another recession.

Analysts expect the August jobs report, due Friday, to show modest growth, but not enough to substantially change the country’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate.

“In the last couple of weeks, the White House has rec-ognized the gravity of the moment for the economy and the public’s judgments of Washington itself, and has shifted quickly from deficits to jobs and growth, which is what the public is most anxious about,” said Neera Tanden, chief op-erating officer of the liberal Center for American Progress and a former policy adviser to the Obama administration.

Recent surveys have shown the extent of the political problem for Obama, with independent voters who backed the president in 2008 expressing growing disapproval of his handling of the economy. Moreover, vast majorities of Americans see the country heading in the wrong direc-tion, and disagree with Washington’s priorities.

“If he is focused in that majestic House chamber on building a consensus in Washington, or if he speaks in partisan terms, then he’s misstepping,” said Ken Duber-stein, who was chief of staff in the Reagan White House. “Because what he needs to focus on is building a consen-sus in America on behalf of the path that he lays out.”

Obama, in his letter to congressional leaders, cited “unprecedented economic challenges” facing the coun-try as he invoked images from his campaign-style swing through the Midwest this summer.

“As I have traveled across our country this summer and spoken with our fellow Americans, I have heard a consis-tent message: Washington needs to put aside politics and start making decisions based on what is best for our coun-try and not what is best for each of our parties in order to grow the economy and create jobs,” he wrote.

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Johnathan Safran Foer was on cam-pus last week.

For those of you who don’t read enough to know who this man is, I can provide a little bit of background: He’s the literary standout behind Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incred-ibly Close. Written from the perspectives of a non-native English-speaking Safran Foer himself and an eight-year-old inter-ested in training his anus to talk, the nar-ratives are fractured like nothing you’ve ever seen—it makes Burroughs look downright readable.

Moreover, Foer is the type of writer who knows how to capitalize on a glob-al tragedy, basing his books around the Holocaust, 9/11 and, most recently, the injustices of the modern food industry. In doing so, he is able to take advantage of his readers’ pre-existing emotions, liberating him from the limiting task of creating compelling characters and sto-ries. And, because readers have already

decided how they feel about war crimes and untrustworthy corporations, Foer doesn’t have to evoke any of the emo-tions himself. It’s all very liberating, and frees the young writer up to spend more time on flip-books, like the one at the end of his second novel.

It’s things like that flip-book that make me feel the way I do about Johna-than Safran Foer. It’s the way he asks im-portant questions, like “What if, instead of jumping out of burning buildings to the ground below, people did the oppo-site?” Foer’s unwillingness to accept the tragedies of our past as they stand trivial-izes them into near-oblivion.

And I think Foer provoked an im-portant question this week. You could almost hear him thinking it to himself: “How long can I keep pulling stunts like these, getting invited to speak at elite in-stitutions with some of the best English departments in the world

—Chris Bassil

Do you perceive a relative lack of quality among today’s artists when measuring them against the Eagles, or even Chuck Berry? Have the sense that you’re part of a gen-eration robbed of the chance to see some of the the “best of all time” by a greedy, monolithic music industry myopic enough to actually discour-age innovation? Am I deliberately setting up a straw man right now?

Hopefully, the answers to these questions are, in order: “No,” “Huh?”, and “No, I think I’ve read this somewhere.” If this discussion isn’t remotely familiar, you can stop reading here. What follows is an impassioned defense of today’s mu-sical climate as measured against luminaries of the past.

I have never “sniffed” musi-cal royalty (yes, there is a Watch the Thronejoke here; no, I won’t bother to make it). I wouldn’t know musical royalty if I saw it, and especially if I read about it seven years ago in Rolling Stone, a publication as woefully out of touch with music criticism as it is with music itself. But I have heard some incredibly adven-turous music even in the past twelve months, evidence of the enormous and satisfying prog-ress of popular culture in the last 40 years.

Is Jay-Z really the 83rd best artist of all time? Is he objectively “worse” than say, an Irish are-na rock band called U2? And how could we ever begin to make an argument either way? But aside from the fact that there’s something inherently absurd about trying to make com-parisons across the broad spectrum of popular music, I’ve got a particular bone to pick with what James Murphy once called “borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered ‘80s.”

James Murphy, by the way, was until recent-

ly in a band called LCD Soundsystem, an out-fit that wore their influences on their sleeves with true reverence. But they also transcended those influences, by blending them together and adding new little pieces along the way, and I’ll mourn their breakup far more than I would that of, say, Can. Likewise the Weeknd, a twenty-one year old whose mixtapes (which are free, I might add, so there’s not much for him to lose commercially) take the archetypal personalities and sonic templates of R&B and rearrange them in undeniably compelling ways, aided by studio effects of which Michael Jackson circa Thriller could hardly dream. And while we’re on Michael Jackson, consider Kanye West, whose career arc is emblematic of both the continual refinement of popular music and its current vibrance: on debut Col-lege Dropout, he displayed a deft touch with the sort of soul-sampling beats he’d grown up with; subsequent releases saw him marry-ing these classic hip-hop signifiers to far more ambitious song structures and instrumenta-tion. Look a little outside the mainstream, and you’ll find a whole range of acts, from produc-ers like Flying Lotus and Four Tet to songwrit-ers Kristian Mattson and Merrill Garbus, who are informed by various traditions while push-ing the boundaries of genres in exciting ways.

If you’re not interested by the current cli-mate of music, you’ll certainly be missing out, but I can’t fault you for your preferences. But looking no further than Lady Gaga before insisting that “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” is lazy and deliberately ignorant: in fact, they make them even better. Pop music’s progress, while less concrete than that of the academic community, is nonetheless similar: new contributions to the literature build on the foundations established by older ones, and we march inexorably forward.

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Professor Denise Kendall Comer: Thompson Writing Program Ronald McDonald House/Duke University Family Story Project

Ms. Margaret L. Brown: Kenan Institute for Ethics Well-being and the Moral Worlds of Refugees

Professor Daniel H. Foster: Theatre Studies Are You Ready?

Ms. Katie Hyde: Documentary Studies Through Insider Lenses: Exploring Educational Practices and Philosophies in Tanzania

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Professor Sean Metzger: Department of English Zhang Yimou’s Impressions of China

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The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundationis pleased to announce our spring 2011 grant recipients.

The Trent Foundation makes grants in the $3,000-$5,000 range to Duke faculty and staff for projects related to human sexual function, medical history, medical ethics and humanities, and international studies. The next deadline is September 30, 2011.

For more information, contact Kristin Anderson at kristin.anderson@dev.duke.edu or visit our website http://giving.duke.edu/cfr/trent/.

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This fall, a new group on campus will be devoted to the infamous playwright and the original bard himself-- William Shakespeare. Jay O’Berski, assistant professor of the practice for the department of Theater Studies and vis-iting lecturer Dana Marks are the founders of Antic Shake, the only Shakespeare performance group on campus.

In his professional career, O’Berski has worked in some capacity with almost every Shakespeare play. Throughout his 13-year teaching experience, he knows of no Shakespeare-centered performance groups to have ex-isted at Duke, though he has attended informal readings and sporadic Shakespeare plays and performances put on by Duke students. Because he has never seen a Shake-speare-focused ensemble crystallize, he’s been wanting to do “something Shakespeare at Duke” for a while.

“I realized I was graduating Theater Studies ma-jors at Duke who had never done Shakespeare before,” O’Berski said.

Moving outward from his own department, O’Berski harnessed his long history of experience with and love for the playwright to found Antic Shake. The group initially began two years ago, but took a break due to O’Berski’s heavy involvement in the Durham theater

company Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern. With only one original member of the group still at Duke, O’Berski hopes to grow the company into something accessible and fun for all students.

“The aim of this group is really to de-stigmatize Shakespeare as that farty old guy you read in high school. Everyone has some experience with his plays, and we want to make this group open to everyone,” O’Berski said.

O’Berski has high hopes for a program with the potential to pull students from many different back-grounds together; it isn’t just Theater Studies or English majors whom he wishes to attract. O’Berski is interested in, among others, engineers, athletes and students with a broad range of other interests. In fact, he suggested only one requirement for participation in the company.

“Of course, they should all be tied with a com-mon interest in Shakespeare,” he said.

Ideally, ten actors and actresses and four to five directors will compose the club. There will also be oppor-tunities for students to work behind the scenes in design and dramaturgy.

In its inaugural year, Antic Shake will present a handful of performances. On December 3 the company will perform scenes from some of Shakespeare’s late ro-mance plays, centering on the theme of forgiveness. Sarah

Beckwith, chair of the department of Theater Studies and professor of Theater Studies and English, will be on hand to help with applied theory.

After the winter performance, the spring semes-ter will allow for more shows and collaborations. In Febru-ary, as a joint effort with Duke Performances, Antic Shake will work closely with New York City’s Fiasco Theater Com-pany. British actor Jonathan Cullen, who trained with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, is scheduled to be a guest director. And in April, the group plans to undertake a one-hour chamber version of a Shakespeare play.

No matter the production, Antic Shake aims to keep Shakespeare relevant to Duke students and audiences.

“I think we all learned in high school that Shakespeare can be very reverent or boring or daunting. But really, it’s this incredible, intense, sexy material that needs to be ap-proached like anything else that’s worth watching and per-forming,” O’Berski said.

Auditions for Antic Shake will be held Saturday, Sep-tember 10 in Brody Theater in Branson Hall on East Cam-pus. More information can be found at the Duke Theater Studies website and questions should be directed to jay-oberski@yahoo.com.

The problem with putting out a towering album like Tha Carter III is that every subsequent release is measured against it. The failure of Lil Wayne’s last two records, 2010’s Rebirth and I Am Not a Human Be-ing, to equal their predecessor can in large part be ex-cused due to the nature of their content—Rebirth was a laughably misguided foray into rock, and Human Be-ing consisted essentially of unreleased session material. There’s no excuse, though, for the disappointing qual-ity of III’s rightful and hotly anticipated successor, Tha Carter IV.

Early singles “6 Foot 7 Foot,” “She Will” and “How to Love” suggested a return to form, ranking among Wayne’s best work (“How to Love,” a tender homage to 2Pac, even displays a rarely-witnessed compassion and sensitivity).

Unfortunately, the rest of the album fails to deliver on that potential. One thing that made III so successful was that, in addition to charting four hits, it remained consistent in its entirety; IV’s appeal rests almost exclu-sively on its singles.

The source of much of the album’s shortcoming is its lack of innovation, both in terms of production and lyrics. The production here offers none of III’s gleeful inventiveness, instead relying too often on the overused formula of minor-key synth progressions and monotone bass hits.

But even more disappointing is Wayne’s lyrical per-formance. He seems to have abandoned rhythmic vari-ation altogether, delivering his trademark setup and punch line verses with freeze-dried repetition.

In fact, his style has become so exhausted that he comes off as a one-trick pony; guest artists like Tech N9ne, Nas and Busta Rhymes don’t just enhance the

tracks, they virtually save them. Wayne is conspicuously absent on two of the album’s superior tracks, including the outro—a kind of humiliating withdrawal from his own race.

It’s a shame, really, because Wayne had established himself as one of hip-hop’s most dexterous artists poised on the brink of legend. Before, people listened when he called himself the “best rapper alive.”

Now, after three consecutive misfires, his incessant boasts have all the credibility of Gadaffi’s Libyan re-gime: a toppled commander clinging in vain to his for-mer authority.

—Josh Stillman

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To most, Hopscotch Music Festival means nothing more than its ti-tle—that is, a long three-day stream of concerts and gigs in downtown Raleigh. For those seeking to supplement their festival experience with more than just music, however, Hopscotch will again present a series of daytime panels featuring musicians, writers, artists and critics discussing everything from narrative songs to the burden of traditional musical in-fluence.

The panels, together formally titled the Edward McKay Used Books & More Artist and Author Series, aim to engage music affiliates and the general public in conversations about the interdisciplinary nature of mu-sic in pop culture. With titles such as “Present the Past: Honoring and Outstripping Influences,” “Simple Words: The Power of Narrative Songs” and “The Bubble: The Limits of Pop Music,” the panels center around specific themes that invite multiple interpretations.

Grayson Currin, the music editor for the Independent Weekly and the curator of Hopscotch, said the idea for the panels came about organi-cally in discussions with his colleague and festival director Greg Lowen-hagen.

“Greg and I are always in this battle to come up with cool ideas to make the festival better,” Currin said. “[Last year] we had friends coming into town who are writers, and we tried to find a way to put them into conversation with some of the bands [playing at Hopscotch].”

Last year, the festival’s inaugural run featured similar panels dealing with different themes. One panel focused solely on the poetry and ar-tistic experimentation of Black Mountain College in the 1940s and 50s, featuring a live re-creation of “happening,” a multimedia experiential art form pioneered by John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Another panel dealt with the roots of North Carolina-based music, while the third ex-plored the social influences of hip-hop. Panelists included Megafaun band member Phil Cook, Duke Professor of African and African-Ameri-can Studies Mark Anthony Neal and Broken Social Scene band member Andrew Whiteman.

This year, Currin and Lowenhagen hoped to bring together a similar

conglomerate of speakers to work with new ideas.“The [panel] ideas come from thinking about the bands we have here

and looking at the schedule and when they’re in town,” Currin said. “We try to think, ‘What’s a conversation we can create that’s interesting that could shed some light on something?’ Then we stare at the bands’ sched-ules until something pops out.”

One of those bands is Mount Moriah, whose lead singer and lyricist Heather McIntire will participate in the panel “Simple Words: The Power of Narrative Songs.” McIntire, who holds a BFA in Creative Writing, is fascinated by the power of storytelling through music.

“To me, narrative songwriting is basically storytelling, and that’s some-thing that is particularly rooted in Southern folk/Americana music, which—in writing for Mount Moriah and growing up in the South—I’m deeply inspired by,” McIntire said.

She also stressed the benefits of incorporating the three panels into the Hopscotch festival at large.

“As an artist, [these panels] offer a forum where we can communicate our creative processes publicly, learn from each other and learn about ourselves,” McIntire said. “For festival attendees, they reveal the com-plexities of making music and the idiosyncrasies of the artists who make the music we listen to.”

Brian Howe, a freelance arts and culture writer and editor of Duke Performances’ blog The Thread, shared a similar sentiment, praising the types of audiences in the Triangle area that would be drawn to these panel events.

“To me, the inclusion of these panels speaks to The Triangle’s impuls-es for conversation and community-building, which are what make it so special and have kept me living here for so long,” Howe said. “It’s a place that it big enough to feel justly proud of its arts scene, but not so big as to be cynical, and in arts presenters here I find a real energy and verve for pushing beyond the practical mechanics of presenting and engaging the community in novel ways.”

The Edward McKay Used Books & More Artist and Author Series panels will be held at 3 p.m. on Sept. 8, 9, and 10 at the Raleigh City Museum, and are open to the general public.

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As recently as two years ago, the second weekend in September didn’t hold any particular significance to Raleigh-Durham music fans.

That’s changed, in a big way: now in its second edition, Hopscotch Festival will take over downtown Raleigh next weekend, with a lineup of over 150 bands spread over thirteen different venues. Headliners include psych-rock legends the Flaming Lips and venerated ‘90s alternative out-fit Guided By Voices, among others, playing at City Plaza, the recently opened centerpiece of downtown Raleigh.

By any measure, it’s one of the biggest music festivals in the southeast-ern United States. So how did it get here?

In the summer of 2009, an ad executive named Greg Lowenhagen at the Independent Weekly, the largest and longest-running alternatively weekly newspaper in the Raleigh-Durham area, sensed a vacuum in the otherwise vibrant local music scene. Lowenhagen, a graduate of the Uni-versity of North Carolina, had recently relocated after stints living in Chi-cago and Austin, Texas, home to some of the biggest music festivals in the nation: Lollapalooza, in Chicago’s Grant Park, and Austin’s city-wide SxSW and Austin City Limits. So he went to Independent Weekly owner Steve Schewel with a pitch: a large-scale urban music festival, held by the paper, befitting the Research Triangle’s stature as a hotbed of musical talent.

“I was thinking about places I’d already lived, and the venues and heritage and reputation of music in the Triangle,” Lowenhagen said. “I was surprised there wasn’t anything in place already.”

Oddly enough, the financial crisis of the previous year helped his cause. Between the general economic downturn and the ongoing diffi-culties facing the newspaper industry, Lowenhagen’s idea wasn’t a tough sell.

“With the [economic] climate at the time, a lot of the people in the alt-weekly business were looking to diversify their brand,” Lowenhagen said.

That included Schewel, who had been doing research of his own to try to find new revenue streams for the paper and recognized the potential for a high-profile local festival.

“The Independent has such a great music franchise, and our music writing is so popular,” Schewel said. “It certainly seemed like a natural fit.”

Enter Grayson Currin, the Independent Weekly’s music editor, who went to work alongside Lowenhagen to put together the festival that be-came Hopscotch: finding and inviting bands, booking venues, putting together a volunteer staff and publicizing the event. The pair are the only

paid, full-time employees of the festival—officially, Lowenhagen is the director, and Currin, the curator. Without assistance from outside pro-motion companies, the two have total creative and administrative con-trol. It’s a unique management structure among music festivals, which are increasingly run by festival organizers like Superfly, which puts on both the Manchester, Tennessee mega-fest Bonnaroo and Asheville, NC’s Moogfest.

“We can be very hands on and decide exactly what’s happening,” Cur-rin said. “Some days, it’s exhausting, but it allows us to micromanage in a good way.”

Without an extensive and costly organizing apparutus, Hopscotch also has a particular advantage—relatively cheap tickets.

“An overwhelming majority of our budget is spent on talent,” Currin said, “and that turns around to a pretty low ticket price.”

As a result, the festival’s aesthetic bears a heavy resemblance to its creators’ tastes. It’s a carefully constructed blend—of national and local acts, of emerging and established bands, of a range of different genres and mentalities. Currin cites a number of contrasts in the lineup: black-metal innovators like Liturgy next to the performance art of the Flaming Lips, the Southern-fried speed-rap of Yelawolf next to revered Dinosaur Jr. frontman J. Mascis.

“Hopscotch as a whole sounds a lot like my brain, and Greg’s brain,” Currin said. “The goal is to present music that’s as interesting and com-pelling as possible.”

And even though last year’s edition ended up in the red, organizers are optimistic about the festival’s financial outlook, both for the Inde-pendent Weekly and for the Raleigh area. Hopscotch has already sold out their 3500 three-day, all-inclusive passes, and Lowenhagen estimated that more than 15,000 will attend some portion of the festival.

“The money we lost last year, we knew we’d lose it,” Schewel said. “I viewed it as an investment, and I feel certain we’ll make money this year.”

Currin emphasized that, despite the scope of the festival and plans to expand it in the future, Hopscotch will remain a distinctly local event.

“Next year might be even better, and take the festival to another lev-el,” Currin said. “But we’ll only do it in a way that’s comfortable and that fits with Raleigh.”

What the next level might be remains an unknown. But considering Hopscotch’s rapid ascent to artistic and commercial viability, the future looks pretty bright.

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The departure in 2009 of John Frusciante, whose maximalist guitarwork was inextricable from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ sound, left the band at a crossroads. I’m With You demonstrates a lack of creative vigor that isn’t quite compensated for by the other members’ tech-nical abilities.

New guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who has worked with Gnarls Barkley and PJ Harvey, misses the opportunity to contribute a distinct personality to the music. For in-stance, tracks like “Did I Let You Know,” which would have benefitted from Frusciante’s technical, soaring gui-tar heroics are instead undistinguished. Other cuts lack Frusciante and Michael “Flea” Balzary’s guitar-bass in-terplay that characterized the dynamism of classics like “Can’t Stop.”

The overarching sound of the album evokes the Chili Peppers’ early work. Lead single, “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie,” harkens back to the funk rock of 1989 album Mother’s Milk: the prominent use of cowbell welds with Flea’s trademark bass melodies and aggres-sive slap bass.

I’m With You highlight, “Brendan’s Death Song,” is a tribute to Brendan Mullen, a nightclub owner and long-time friend of the Chili Peppers who helped them gain standing in the L.A. punk scene. The song starts off as an acoustic lament, but gradually becomes more rous-ing and increases intensity. Lead singer Anthony Kiedis mourns the loss of his friend and relates to his own mortality: “Like I said/ You know I’m almost dead/ You know I’m almost gone.”

All in all, I’m With You constitutes a competent fol-low-up to Stadium Arcadium that will cater to the tastes of devoted fans, but have little impact on the current musical landscape. And Kiedis’s rap-rock vocals, though marking a return to the funk roots, will elicit little more than fond nostalgia.

—John Tarpey

At just 25 years old, Zach Condon has already en-joyed an enviable life. After dropping out of high school, the boy behind Beirut traveled to Europe and heard the Balkan gypsy music and French chansons that would inspire his music and reputation as an in-die prodigy importing a worldly sound. Both of his ac-complished previous albums are deeply rooted in the cultural sounds of Eastern and Western Europe, which makes his third album, The Rip Tide, an outlier. Fore-going the distinct, grandiose instrumentation of Gulag Orkestar and The Flying Club Cup, Beirut has produced a more domestic pop album that only hints at Condon’s past life as a vagabond.

Belying his youth, Condon gives the impression that he is ready to settle down with this release, an effort more refined in sound and lyricism. The LP’s opener, “A Candle’s Fire,” sounds a little brighter than classic

Beirut thanks to a brass section more evocative of big band jazz than heartsick poetry. Instead of heralding European landmarks, Condon pays tribute to his home-town on “Santa Fe,” a sunny track that still incorporates horns into a polished sound. Even the lilt in Condon’s voice is cheerier, which makes wistful lyrics like “As the air grows cold, the trees unfold/ And I am lost and not found” sound hopeful. The Rip Tide’s brevity and pac-ing keep the album fresh; the songs move in waves of fluid momentum that reflect its nautical name.

Despite this excursion into less exotic locales, Beirut remains distinguished from its peers. Whether roaming the Parisian streets at midnight or exploring a Spanish street market in “East Harlem,” Zach Condon invites listeners to join his enchanting travelogues. This time around he leaves his passport behind, but explores fa-miliar territory with the same sense of amazement he found abroad.

—Katie Zaborsky

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“You are asking me to extinguish myself.”This is the observation—or reprimand, it’s a bit unclear

which—that Latif Yahia makes to Uday Hussein at the out-set of The Devil’s Double. As a defense of self-sovereignty, the statement primes the audience for a promising allegorical foray into the duality of man to follow.

The only problem is that it never materializes.The Devil’s Double, which follows Latif’s coerced trans-

formation from officer in the Iraqi army to body double for the psychotic son of Saddam, is full of little let-downs like this, moments that stimulate the psyche before ulti-mately going nowhere: Latif standing before a mirror, see-ing his likeness reflected back at him, before he turns to face the identical Uday, seeing himself again in the face of his captor; Latif approaching two husky, dark-haired men as they shuffle about a tennis court, visibly disturbed to see

that they bear an identical resemblance to one another, as well as to Saddam Hussein; Uday’s lover—the main one, at least—distinguishing between Uday and Latif solely on the basis of their dangling anatomies (Latif’s, evidently, is bigger).

Unfortunately, stunning as they are, these parlor tricks never reach below the surface in The Devil’s Double. The fact that any two characters—most centrally, Latif and Uday—look the same ends up telling us quite little about them, and quite little about identity in general. It’s frustrating: long shots dwelling on aesthetic similarities are employed so extensively that it feels like they should go somewhere. In fact, the film’s focus on body doubles becomes an un-intentional red herring that breaks an implicit promise to the viewer--it’s a visual crutch, nothing more, and never approaches its hinted-at significance. “Don’t overthink this one, too,” you begin to say. “It’s probably only another couple of guys who just look the same.”

Because although Uday and Latif, both played by Domi-nic Cooper, are identical, and although they consistently struggle with each other throughout the film—exchanging words and gunfire every other scene—we never see them

struggle with themselves. The spectacular outward dualities of the characters are not reproduced, despite the expecta-tions that they invite, within the characters themselves. So although Latif, to put it in his own words, is consistently in danger of being extinguished by other people, he is never really faced with the crisis of extinguishing himself.

It’s a shame, too. Director Lee Tamahori had a great premise for a film about identity: an honorable family man is forced to serve as body double for a megalomaniacal son of a dictator, played by the same actor. It’s too bad they left it at that.

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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark begins with all the trappings of a good horror story: an ominous ancient mansion, a deal with devilry – even a Victorian-era curbstomp.

The films then jumps to the present day when unseen monsters begin to persuade Sally, an angsty eight-year-old who moves into said mansion with her father and his new girlfriend, into setting them free from centuries of captivity. “What are you?” asks Sally, fearful but curious. “Hungry,” reply the demons in hoarse unison. These early scenes deliver genuine terror, and impressive camerawork and production design, breathing life into the gothic man-sion and its ghoulish inhabitants.

As the film wears on, however, it becomes increasingly clear that the demons have no relation to the characters’ personal struggles, and the house’s haunting feels more like coincidence. Compare this to Pan’s Labyrinth, also associ-ated with Guillermo del Toro (who produced and co-wrote Dark), where a different young girl encounters persuasive, treacherous beasts of her own. The monsters reflect the re-alities of the horrific war around her, and her imagination helps her confront obstacles on her own terms.

Sally, by contrast, faces the fairly mundane experience of disliking her stepmom-to-be – and not much else. That is, until she gets attacked by monsters from the basement. Even then, though, there is no mystery (we know the de-mons exist), no internal conflict and nothing at stake. The challenges demand little personal growth, and the only thing the monsters test is Sally’s prowess in physical combat. Far from a story driven by character development, then, the film is simply about waiting for monsters to attack a little girl – an acceptable payoff only if there were any reason to care about Sally in the first place.

The ending—without revealing too much—may come across as poignant, but in reality is simply a character ex-hibiting some common sense for the first time in the film. If that’s what the screenwriters call a climax, then I’m not afraid of the dark– I’m afraid of a sequel.

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RUNNING: Desmond Scott leads a whole stable of Duke running backs, though Josh Snead is out with an ankle injury. Garrett Turner will lead the Spiders’ ground attack. The senior has piled up 774 yards and 5 touchdowns in three seasons.

BLUE DEVILS TAKE REVENGE IN 2011 OPENER:Richmond snuck by Duke 24-16 in 2009 despite getting outgained by the Blue Devils 369-282 in total yardage, but the Blue Devils won’t be surprised again. The Spiders need time to adjust to an interim head coach after Latrell Scott resigned on Aug. 23.

PASSING: Since transferring to Richmond from USC in Jan. 2010, Aaron Corp has reemerged as a potential NFL prospect. Sean Renfree will look to build on the end of last season, when he threw just two picks in the final five games.

RUNNING: Duke gave up a whopping 208 yards per game on the ground last season on 4.8 yards per carry. Richmond gave up over half a yard less per carry and eight fewer rushing touchdowns on the year.PASSING: The Spiders also gave up almost fifty fewer yards per game in the air than the Blue Devils, 197.1 to 241.8, though Renfree’s favorite targets, Connor Vernon and Donovan Varner, are back and healthy.

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The Spiders’ quarterback Aaron Corp will take the reins full-time after transferring from USC in Jan. 2010. The redshirt senior, named one of six NFL draft ”sleepers” in the preseason by The Sporting News, has his work cut out for him with an offense that averaged just 15.5 points per game last season.

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Junior Connor Vernon led the Blue Devils with 973 receiving yards on 73 receptions last fall.

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Two years ago Richmond came into Dur-ham for the season opener and surprised the Blue Devils with a 24-16 victory through strong special teams play and a stiff rush defense. The Spiders are aiming for a re-peat performance come Saturday.

This time, though, the faces on the sidelines will look a little different with interim Richmond head coach Wayne Lineburg replacing the recently resigned Latrell Scott. Scott’s departure comes af-ter his second arrest for a DWI.

Scott’s resignation caps a disappointing calendar year for the No. 19—in Div. I-AA—Spiders after a rash off injuries led to a 6-5 campaign last season. The Spiders’ injury bug was no more evident than at the quar-terback position, where four different players started under center.

Richmond’s offense returns eight start-ers and is led by senior quarterback Aaron Corp—a former USC transfer— who suffered a season-ending knee injury during only the fifth game last year. Corp, named one of The Sporting News’ six NFL draft “sleepers”, pos-ses a strong, accurate arm that should pose an early challenge for Duke’s secondary.

Rounding out the backfield is Garrett

Turner—who recorded 181 yards on 40 rushes with one touchdown last year—and preseason All-CAA junior fullback Kendall Gaskins. There are questions of whether Lineburg will continue the transition to a more run-oriented of-fensive philosophy, as was the case last year under Scott, or if the change in approach was simply a reaction to the multitude of quarterback injuries.

The wide receivers are led by se-nior Tre Gray and sophomore Ben Edwards. Gray, first team All-CAA last season and a preseason All-CAA se-lection this year, had only 38 catches for 478 yards and two touchdowns in 2010, but suffered with the rest of the receiving corps from the lack of a consistent passer. He needs 51 grabs and 756 yards to set the Richmond career records in both categories.

Defensively, the Spiders were incon-sistent last season, allowing 364 yards a game and 30 total touchdowns. Losing CAA Defensive Player of the Year Eric McBride and cornerback Justin Rogers—taken by the Bills in the seventh round of the 2011 NFL Draft—won’t help.

Richmond will also need to be pre-pared for the possibility of the most

prolific Duke offense in years. With Sean Renfree—who threw for 3131 passing yards and sported a 61.4 completion per-centage last season—under center, and with depth at other skill positions led by Desmond Scott and Conner Vernon, the Richmond defense will be tested.

While the Spiders have some experi-ence in the second level after the trans-fer of former Georgia Tech safety Coo-per Taylor, the front seven will deal with inexperience and could struggle against the Blue Devil rushing attack.

But if their last meeting was any indica-tion, special teams play could be an impor-tant factor. Johnathan Mayfield recorded the game’s first score on a blocked punt and kicker Andrew Howard made a 45-yard field goal with just over four minutes left to essen-tially clinch the game. Kicker Wil Kamin leads the Richmond unit and along with Gray and Gaskins was named preseason All-CAA.

The Spiders come into the game look-ing for their third straight win over the Blue Devils, having won the 2006 open-er in addition to their 2009 victory. But with two high-octane offensives and two inexperienced defenses, it might take quite a few points to get that done. Ex-pect a shoot-out in Durham.

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Despite being only three matches into the young season, today marks the beginning of Duke’s tough-est road stretch of the year. Playing three games in three days, including a contest against perennial powerhouse Stanford, the No. 18 Blue Devils (3-0) will have their work cut out for them in their first trip to California since 2008.

Duke will take on Pacific (2-0) on Thursday, St. Mary’s (1-2) on Friday and the No. 6 Cardinal (2-0) on Saturday. Stanford projects to be the highest-ranked team the Blue Devils will face all season.

“This is an unbelievable opportunity to repre-sent Duke on the West Coast,” senior Kellie Cat-anach said. “We’re not really a name over there. [We’re] excited to go out there and establish Duke as an up and coming program.”

Considered by many to be one of the meccas of the sport, California represents a familiar des-tination for many of the Blue Devils, despite the fact the team has not visited in several years. Se-nior Sophia Dunworth and freshman Kelsey Wil-liams both hail from Pleasanton, Calif., less than an hour away from Palo Alto.

After a great start to the season, the trip will also serve as a measuring stick for the team. Play-ing their first matches away from the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium, these early road games will test their mettle before heading into ACC play.

“We’ve got to go out there and play some people to see where we are,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

The trip will also help Duke in its search to re-place key leadership lost after the graduation of seniors Claire Smalzer and Becci Burling. Both had been crucial starters and integral members of the Blue Devil block.

Fortunately for Duke, the team has early season experience that has not been seen in years past. Un-like previous squads, all of the Blue Devils attended the second session of summer school to gain some early practice time. The payoff has shown in the early results, opening with three consecutive wins—against Furman, Charleston Southern and Wiscon-sin— for the first time since 2007.

“They’ve been playing together and training to-gether,” Nagel said. “[And it’s] put us ahead as we start off the season.”

Duke will be favored against both the Tigers and the Gaels behind veterans like Catanach, Dunworth, and senior middle-blocker Amanda Robertson. Stanford, a young team that lost three of their All-Americans from a season ago, is still a tough matchup—especially at home. While only two seniors remain on the Cardinal roster, the team makes up for a lack of experience with sheer talent. Freshman Kyle Gilbert has already shown her potential to be an impact player, re-cording eight digs and two assists in their season opening win over Delaware.

“Everywhere we go we have a huge target on our back,” junior defensive specialist Nailah Wa-terfield said. “We’re expected to win and it’s a lot of pressure [so] we’re going to thrive on the op-portunity to go out there and…play without any huge expectations of us.”

Duke, a squad with a lot of upperclassmen, will surely relish the prospect of playing the un-derdog role for once. Yet while the prospect of a top-10 opponent looms, Pacific and St. Mary’s are still solid teams that the Blue Devils cannot afford to look past.

“We’re ready to go out there and compete” Nagal said. “But it’s not all about our third day of competition. I think our team’s pretty mature and I expect them to…think about it one oppo-nent at a time.”

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President Brodhead de-livered a clear message to freshmen at the Convocation ceremony last Wednesday. His words, encouraging students to “build a life that you will be proud of,” were directly aimed at the sexual and alcoholic excesses that charged the campus last year. He reiterated the mes-sage in an email Sunday to the undergraduate student body, emphasizing the freedom that students have to guide their experiences at Duke.

That Brodhead decided to start the school year with these messages indicates a signifi cant shift in the ad-ministration’s stance on the social culture at Duke. By addressing these issues in the public sphere, Brod-

head has courageously let students know that he has expectations of them. The dismantling of Tailgate and the introduction of “Foot-ball Gameday” indicate an

administrative policy shift —trying to

change Duke through a top-down approach.

Despite this progress, Brod-head’s words stop short of drawing blood. Last semester’s chain of emails and the Presi-dent’s Forum on Campus Life did not do much more than gently scold the offenders.

Duke stands in stark con-trast with some peer institu-tions who have taken fi rm action and concrete steps to-ward changing their campus cultures in the last month. Cornell University’s president,

David Skorton, banned frater-nity pledging at the beginning of this academic year. Princ-eton University prohibited freshmen from participating in rush for fraternities and sororities. These policies take fi rm aim at a specifi c target. Brodhead’s leadership style and approach to this issue are too subtle in contrast.

The administration must set the tone for what is appro-priate and acceptable behavior on our campus. It should start by gathering data on students’ social interactions. Princeton based their new policy on the recently issued report of work-ing group on campus, social and residential life, which was completed in one year. In contrast, Duke’s Socioeco-nomic Diversity Initiative has languished for more than

two years without publishing a report. The administration needs information to know which areas it can impact and create actionable policies for. Our policies do not need to mirror those at other schools, but there needs to be some concrete action taken and that can only start with the proper data and knowledge about the social interactions that stu-dents have at Duke.

Most importantly, once the administration collects this data, it must bring the relevant groups on board to discuss potential policies. The group of students consulted for the transformation of Tailgate into Football Gameday was too small and homogeneous. Duke students and student centers—like the Women’s Center—deserve to be heard

when the Duke social experi-ence is at stake. Moreover, by not conferring with a repre-sentative pool of students, the administration would margin-alize the groups on campus who have worked for years to remedy our social scene and who know the ills of our cam-pus best.

The administration’s re-cent efforts to acknowledge the problems that plague social interaction here bode well. However, the adminis-tration needs to take a fi rm stance and do more than pay lip service. Words and subtle policies alone cannot change the status quo. This campus needs a transforma-tion. Our leadership must set the tone for what is ac-ceptable at Duke and what speaks to our values.

It is still surreal to try and remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001, even 10 years later. I remember myself as an awkward and nerdy

11-year-old boy with extra thick-lensed glasses and unmanageably curly hair. I remember having just moved to a town in rural South Carolina and beginning middle school. I remember being aware that being an immigrant from an Arab, Muslim family made me different, but not realizing just how signifi cant those differences would come to be.

I remember urgent and confus-ing announcements over the in-tercom. The principal announced a school-wide assembly, and we all crowded around a small tube television to watch the news. I remember a mix of emotions beginning to settle in. Confu-sion. Fear. Pain. Distress. More confusion. And slowly... alienation. Before anyone was sure of what was going on, news anchors, students and teachers were already speculating that those responsible were people who looked like me, whose names sounded like mine, who professed the same religion that I professed, who spoke the same language that I spoke at home. And then those speculations turned out to be true.

I remember my mother picking me up that afternoon without her hijab, the fi rst time I had ever seen her leave home without it. In the fol-lowing weeks at school, some of my peers ap-proached me, asking if I knew Osama bin Laden. I answered yes, confused and wondering who in the world hadn’t heard of his name in the news by that point. They looked at me in shock, their line of questioning continuing to “When’s the last time you saw him?”

It wasn’t the last time that I was asked ques-tions regarding personal ties to terrorism be-cause of my appearance, my religion, my ethnic-ity or my political views: directly, indirectly, in jest and as “just a part of standard procedure.” Being dealt with as an outsider and with suspi-cion became an ordinary part of my life.

Soon after 9/11, I remember the United States fl ag cropping up everywhere. I was con-fused why taking pride in a fl ag would be the natural reaction to such a tragedy. I wasn’t a citizen yet. I didn’t even have the privilege of being called a resident alien until I received my green card fi ve years later. The country that I had moved to as a toddler, the only country that I had ever known, seemed not to want me. Pal-estine, the other country that I called home, was impossible to return to. I couldn’t even fi nd it

on a map. While I felt lost, everyone around me was mourning by taking pride in their national identity.

How was I supposed to mourn? How was I supposed to show soli-darity? What did it mean that peo-ple were blaming my religion or my culture for the attacks? Was I allowed to be angry at American foreign policy? Was I allowed to understand the discontent that so many around the world had for the United States while simul-taneously abhorring the actions that had been perpetrated against Americans?

The whole experience was more alienating than I realized for a long time. I didn’t recognize the subtle and not-so-subtle effects the events of that day had on my ability to successfully social-ize with others, to feel like I belonged. Suddenly world events began to contribute very directly to my everyday struggles.

I eventually learned that the best way to make sense of the world and my place in it was to share with others.

I heard similar stories of alienation and mar-ginalization; these only got worse as the politi-cal climate of fear developed afterwards. I heard stories of constant bullying, physical violence and unwarranted government surveillance.

I met individuals whose pain and grief I couldn’t even imagine. People whose parents worked in downtown Manhattan and who were left in doubt and fear regarding their safety. People who risked their lives trying to save the lives of others. People who lost loved ones on that day. As dramatic an effect that day had on my life, I am reminded that so many others were also affected. I am reminded of just how trau-matic 9/11 was for all of us, collectively.

So I use this day to always remember. To re-member that we are not alone. We are not alone in our suffering, in our pain, in our loss and in our moving on. I am reminded that our fears and vulnerabilities don’t have to paralyze us. We can learn from them by sharing with others. The effects of that day are larger than any person could ever handle alone. It requires us to rely on each other and be willing to listen and to learn from experiences different from our own. We have others to help us heal. We have others to love and make us feel loved and feel that we belong. And we should never forget that.

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

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commentariesTHE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 | 11

I started the day out in Page Auditorium, surrounded by fi rst-years who were eagerly introducing themselves and comparing the size and location of their dorm

rooms. Many of them had a green book with white writ-ing splashed across the cov-er: their summer reading as-signment.

In an attempt to follow-up on my column last Spring about the book, “Eating Ani-mals,” by Jonathan Safran Foer, I attended both sessions of the author’s speech to the fi rst-year students, then sat with a FAC-led discussion group after each lecture.

The unprompted discussions surrounding the book may have reached deeper and more complex places than those I observed. Yet, the gist of this book’s impact was clearly evident and it ran the spectrum.

Some members of the Class of 2015 were uncomfort-able, bored or otherwise turned off by the book. Some didn’t fi nish it, or claimed to have been unmoved. On the other hand, approximately 60 to 70 percent of the fresh-men I spoke with said they had altered their eating habits signifi cantly, had tried for at least some time to be vegetar-ians or had become full-fl edged vegetarians.

It would therefore seem that Foer was extremely suc-cessful in his argument. I agree with him from an environ-mental perspective, Foer has the facts in his corner. Factory farming is bad, and that’s not even getting into the health or animal welfare issues associated with consuming meat.

But what bothered me most all day were the things Foer did not talk about. Foer’s seems to assert that the best way to address the problem of factory farming is to become a veg-etarian. Though I understand space in the book was limited, this is simplistic. In a sense, it is the opt-out method. The book not only does nothing to address the factory farming issue cul-turally (a word Foer never uses), it also under informs.

One student in each question and answer session asked Foer why he stopped shy of veganism, that is, before fully personally confronting the factory farming of all animal products. Time, and that he’s not perfect, was the general gist of the response. The answer hardly seemed satisfying, although certainly, as he also pointed out, it was more ap-proachable than an academic or logical explanation.

He also did not talk about the sourcing of the alternative option he presents, namely vegetables and the attendant issues related to their industrialized production. While arguably less impactful than animal product production, industrialized vegetable agriculture should be no less of a concern to the truly engaged and thoughtful eater.

Those who entered Foer’s discussion were presented with a local way to get further involved: a bookmark with the website: http://sites.duke.edu/food/

As the sun was nearing the treetops, I was headed toward one such center for engagement (also described on the website), the Duke Campus Farm, a sustainable, organic, demonstration farm with the motto: farm to fork, student to student. Foer’s choice to remain silent about vegetables wasn’t going to stop me from learning about them.

In the space of a three hour “workday,” I learned a lot—like how to prune basil, pick corn and what was making the tomato plants look dead but still productive (blight). I also learned about corn smut, a fungus that attacks the corn kernels making them appear engorged.

While I was harvesting your Marketplace meal of last Friday (no smut included), I also bonded with my fellow farm workers, who were a bit more practiced and knowl-edgeable. I eventually found my cherry tomato picking rhythm, but I would probably not cut it in a competitive work environment.

And then there was a rustling under the leaves of the sweet potato patch. A bunny. It was impossible to see unless it moved. The others came with sticks and a strong convic-tion that the bunny must go, but whether to relocate it or kill it was an open question. For several minutes we puzzled through the ridiculous notions that the bunny would go lightly into the proffered bucket for relocation, or when prompted, opt for a ride in the snare tarp instead of escap-ing under it. Meanwhile the bunny had other plans entirely, and it elusively outmaneuvered the big sticks, buckets and tarps making a clean getaway back the way it came.

So it was that the day’s literal and philosophical puzzle boiled down to that age old question: To kill or not to kill the bunny? And, how?

Liz Bloomhardt is a fi fth-year graduate student in mechanical engineering. Her column runs every other Thursday.

Chasing bunniesAs every student on campus is no doubt aware,

it’s primary season in the United States. Duke students may be less aware that Argentina just

held its fi rst national primary elections last month. Talking to people in Buenos Aires—albeit in somewhat broken Span-ish—I found that much like in the States, citizens here view Election Day with any-thing from anticipation to dread, but the great majority with some degree of apathy. But unlike in the United States, voting in Argentina is compulsory.

When my host mother told me about Argentina’s compulsory vote, my initial reaction of shock quickly transitioned to that they-would-never-do-this-in-the-U.S. feeling. And it seems I’m not alone—a 2004 poll by ABC News found that 72 percent of respondents would oppose a com-pulsory voting law. In reality, though, the compulsory vote is by no means a radical concept—more than 25 countries currently have compulsory voting laws. Nor is it a new one—Belgium was one of the fi rst to introduce it in 1892, followed soon after by Argentina in 1914.

The primary purpose of a compulsory vote is to in-crease voter turnout. With a history of unimpressive national voter turnout, America would seem a likely candidate for compulsory voting. In the U.S., national voter turnout hovers at 50 to 60 percent for presiden-tial elections, around 40 percent for midterm elections and a paltry 10 percent for many primary elections. In Argentina, however, voter turnout for parliamentary and presidential elections is usually around 80 percent. In the nation’s recent primary elections, an impressive 77.8 percent of the population voted.

Since the United States government cannot force people to vote, the task of increasing voter participation has fallen to voter mobilization groups, which work un-der a range of political and social agendas. In many of these groups we can see the cultural ricochet of Amer-ica’s non-compulsory vote, imbedded in the landscape of our entertainment industry. In the 2004 elections, we were lectured on the unimpeachable virtue of voting by campaigns like World Wrestling Entertainment’s “Smack-down Your Vote!” campaign and Russell Simmons’ “Hip-Hop Summit Action Network.” And who could forget P. Diddy and his “Citizen Change” campaign? His slogan was simple, unexpectedly violent and plastered on mil-lions of T-shirts: “Vote or Die!” When I see one of these shirts, I’m almost convinced that compulsory voting would be preferable to a hip-hop mogul who can threat-en the electorate and call it a nonprofi t. Almost.

Diddy and his menacing ultimatum may be annoy-ing and unnecessarily hyperbolic, but compulsory vot-ing is a clear violation of individual freedom. You don’t

hear it often, but in this case Diddy is the lesser of two evils.

Of course, compulsory voting did not come to be accepted by so many democratic nations without reason. In fact, the arguments behind compulsory vote legislation are rational and well-argued. Most tend to focus on which style of voting is better for the democratic process. Proponents of compulsory voting argue that when higher proportions of the population participate in elections, decisions made by those democratically elected gov-ernments are more legitimate. An ad-ditional argument—this one especially

relevant to modern America—is that mandatory voting would reduce the extremist discourse that results when two parties compete to energize a greater percentage of the electorate. In other words, parties wouldn’t waste as much time on radical, divisive and often superfl uous issues like the legality of fl ag burning.

However, the question of whether compulsory or voluntary voting is better for democracy is irrelevant.

In every argument in favor of compulsory voting, a compromise is struck between an individual’s freedom and a move toward the ideal electoral process. The voter loses a degree of freedom that only seems modest in the context of the laws’ penalties, which oftentimes are no more than a small fi ne or a bureaucratic slap on the wrist. But the reality is that whether a person is thrown in prison or fi ned fi ve dollars, the vote has lost its legitimacy as a tool of democracy. Democracy is not implied by the mere presence of any form of voting, but of an autonomous vote that is the embodiment of choice, not coercion. If an eligible voter does not have the autonomy to decide not to vote, then the choice and the free speech that the vote represents are under-mined. A choice that is forced lacks autonomy in the same way as a choice that is prohibited. In this way, a democratic election that is based on non-autonomous choice is never more legitimate than the alternative.

That being said, the fundamental goal of compul-sory voting—to improve overall voter participation—is not one we should abandon. The easiest way to ensure compulsory voting will not be introduced in the U.S. is to vote yourselves. As American voters this election season, be appreciative that your ability to cast a vote is a right, and not an obligation. Come Nov. 6, 2012, you alone are charged with the choice of whether or not to exercise that right.

Maggie LaFalce is a Trinity junior and is currently study-ing abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her column runs ev-ery other Thursday.

To vote or (not) to vote

liz bloomhardtgreen devil

maggie lafalcesouthern highlander

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