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mail. I’ve sent about 50 e-mails today. Technology helps me keep in touch,” Durham on Saturday, California on Chafe said in an interview last week. “I Sunday, Canada on Monday night, do a lot of staying in contact by phone. Washington state on Tuesday morning You depend on your staff to take care of a lot of business.” Trinity College, and back to Duke Tuesday evening. It’s all in a week’s work for the dean Duke’s biggest, relies on two adminisof the faculty of arts and sciences at natrators in newly created deanships to the ship afloat. keep $1.5 the of a tional university in midst Although development officers still billion capital campaign. do the bulk of the travel, paperwork and Before The Campaign for Duke heated up in October 1998, William Chafe salesmanship for the campaign, the had time to meet with faculty, evaluate University’s most important, and junior hires and pay close attention to busiest, officials are often called in to close the campaign’s biggest deals. each department in his division. “Most major administrators, other Now, like many administrators, he spends 20 percent ofhis time on the road, than the president, the deans and the greasing palms, talking up Duke and development officers, do relatively little fund raising because their jobs do squeezing in lectures here and there. not normally involve making the case “I spent the first two-and-a-halfhours this morning on the phone. You to potential donors,” said President See ON THE ROAD on page 9 can do that from the West Coast. I do eBy GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
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Small SAS rally calls Author Potok shares his ‘strange life’ for factory addresses By NORBERT SCHURER The Chronicle
At an Allen Building rally, both protesters and administrators separately announced the new March 3 deadline, by which companies must submit complete information. By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle
The anti-sweatshop rally outside the Allen Building drew more reporters than protesters Tuesday afternoon. Members of Students Against Sweatshops hoped the publicity would force the administration to play hardball with companies that refuse to release the addresses ofthe factories making Duke products. Administrators, meanwhile, seemed more than willing to step to the plate. After a few flopped chants, the handful of protesters demanded that the University have a complete and accurate list of all the Duke factories by March 3. The current draft list includes 314 of 409 companies and does not give street addresses for some of the factories.
The current draft list is inadequate, said sophomore Jonathan Harris, an SAS member. “This is nowhere near full public disclosure,” he said. But Executive Vice President Tallman Trask stepped to the bullhorn just a few minutes later to announce that Duke had already issued an ultimatum to its delinquent licensees. He said companies must tell Duke by Thursday whether they plan to honor their contracts, which required a list of all factories by Jan. 1. If they intend to supply the information, companies will have 15 days to gather the addresses and send them to the University. “So in 17 days we should have information from all licensees,” Trask said. “Any company that hasn’t given up that information will be terminated from the right to make Duke products.” The announcement drew a subdued round of applause from the SAS leaders. “That is significant, assuming they follow through with that,” Harris said. “We could see some contracts See RALLY on page 8
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Acclaimed author Chaim Potok discussed the vagaries of choice and chance that drew him to writing as he addressed an audience of 450 in the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Tuesday night. Potok launched into a spirited presentation on “the very strange, very bizarre, very odd and very mysterious business of being a writer of serious stories.” In the course of his 55-minute talk, Potok offered four instances of how chance had affected his life as well as his choice to become a writer. The Jewish-American writer also tried to explain the great success of his work, including the novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev. Potok’s first step in becoming an author was his inadvertent choice of the British writer Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as reading material. The librari-
an who recommended this work to him, Potok said, described it as an “intergalactic leap in literature.” The experience of no longer being aware of reading but living inside the book led him to commit to being a
writer—despite opposition from family and teachers. The second event Potok described was overhearing a snippet of conversation, which introduced him to the writer Milton Steinberg and his CHAIM POTOK, author of The Chosen , explains the “very strange, book As a Driven Leaf. “As a result of that [book],” very bizarre, very odd” circumstances of his life. he explained, “I went to the Jewish Theological disintegrated,” Potok summarized. Seminary,” even though he had no intention of beHe explained that for many years after his time in coming a rabbi. Asia, his books inevitably began with individuals in milthe U.S. After finishing seminary and joining having flashbacks—those introductions were Korea. Korea to led Potok series of chances itary, another subsequently dropped in publication. The experience Originally, he had been slated to go to Germany, but in a dynamic that has informed Korea also resulted spend in to that trip would not fulfill his requirement a “core-to-core culture confrontation writing: Korea all his in stationed up abroad. He ended 12 months enormous tensions you feel every generates [that] his changed indelibly This experience 16 months. for day.” Potok ascribed the universal appeal of his books life: “In going to Korea, all the neat, coherent patto the fact that this tension is felt all over the world. life he said. apart,” fell tern of my Finally, Potok related a meeting with the Soviet Potok recounted three particular experiences Volodya Slepak, which drove home the dissident being on his worldview: that had relativizing effects between individual and universal experather as a connection Jew; than as a Yankee perceived in Kyoto of us encountering an old man in intense prayer at a riences. He came to the conclusion that “all universal,” all of us and there[are] specificities, pain the and Shinto shrine in Tokyo and witnessing suffering of the victims of the Korean War. “Over and fore people can connect with one another across over in the 16 months, my world was relativized. It cultural boundaries.
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