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U.S., Britain continue attacks on Taliban Widespread anti-American demonstrations rock Pakistan By PATRICK TYLER

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WASHINGTON For a second day, B-2 stealth bombers flying from the United States joined carrier-based aircraft to strike targets in Afghanistan as anti-American demonstrations began to roil Muslim capitals and Bush administration officials stepped up plans to oust the Afghan regime. Monday’s bombing campaign

U.S. AIR FORCE PERSONNEL move ordnance into place Oct. 7 while on board the USS Enterprise. Aircraft are readied for strike missions against al-Qaida terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

sent aloft only about half the planes that President George W. Bush launched Sunday in the first military response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. American war-

Forum addresses economic fallout Three professors spoke about the financial effects of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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Duke experts discussed the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on financial markets Monday night at the Fuqua School ofBusiness in the third of

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Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The attacks seemed to be continuing on into daylight, suggesting that the Taliban’s antiaircraft defenses had been weakened. The Associated Press reported from Kabul that a bomb fell near the airport there after dawn Tuesday, Afghan time, followed by a missile screaming into the eastern part of the city. Senior military officials have said that attacks would continue night and day.

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J. Paul Sticht professor of international business, prefaced his remarks with a caveat: “I confess to you I feel a little uncomfortable making this presentation,” he said. “We’re talking about finance, and that’s OK, but there is something else here far more important than finance, and that’s human life.” The forum, entitled “The Terrorism Crisis and the World Economy: What Effects, What Straggles,” featured three speakers, including Harvey, Doug Breeden, dean of the business school and William W. Priest professor of finance, and Frederick Mayer, associate professor of public policy. The event attracted about 100 people. Harvey’s presentation focused on the impact the attacks will have on gross domestic product. He predicted a loss of $165 billion in the United States’ GDP and a $250 billion international loss. Addressing the stock market, Harvey emphasized substantial downward pressure prior to the attacks, but said the events did have a negative impact on the markets. “When the risk increases in markets, by [increasing] political, economic or fi-

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FREDERICK MAYER, associate professor of public policy, speaks at a forum at the Fuqua School of Business Monday night. nancial risk, that means investors de- ning to end are the less developed counmand a higher rate of return,” Harvey tries,” he said. Any economic downturn, however, said. “The only way this can happen is will likely be magnified in foreign nafor stock prices to drop.” Breeden’s remarks echoed much of tions, Harvey said. He added that since what Harvey said, specifically pointing Sept. 11—when the United States and to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the rest of the world had about equal capitalization—the United States had which has rebounded to within 4 per$6 billion, whereas the rest of the before attacks. lost the cent of its value world had lost $9 billion. “The highly developed countries genBreeden also warned against the erally bounce back pretty well, and the See FORUM on page 7 Pones who get hurt the most from begin-

In the first day of accused gunman David Patrick Malone’s trial, the defendant expressed dissatisfaction with his lawyer, Shannon Tucker. See page 4

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FBI investigates rare anthrax cases

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Ridge starts as Homeland Security chief

Investigators believe that the two Florida cases could be a product of terrorism

In a windowless space 10 paces from the Oval Office, Tom Ridge reported for duty Monday at the new Office of Homeland Security. His assignment: Figure out where America is vulnerable to a terrorist attack and try to ensure it does not happen again. •

By AMANDA RIDDLE The Associated Press

BOCA RATON The FBI is investigating the possibility that anthrax bacteria found in two Florida men is a result of terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday. The bacteria killed one of the men Friday. It has since been detected in the nose of a co-worker and on a computer keyboard in the newspaper office where both men worked, health officials said. “We regard this as an investigation that could become a clear criminal investigation,” Ashcroft said. “We don’t have enough information to

Scientists win Nobel Prize for cell division

An American scientist and two British researchers won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about cell division that could open the way

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Planes collide on Italian runway

An SAS airliner taking off for Denmark hit a private jet that wandered across the runway, then careened into an airport building in a fiery crash that killed all 114 people on both planes and four people on the ground Monday. It was Italy’s worst aviation disaster. •

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The Security Council, the top U.N. decision-making body, replaced five of its 15 members Monday. Mexico, Syria, Guinea, Cameroon and Bulgaria won seats. Syria won despite being on the U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism. •

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JERUSALEM Protests against the American airstrikes erupted into extraordinary confrontations Monday on the Gaza Strip, when Palestinian security forces opened fire on student demonstrators and killed at least two people. Among the dead, in a day ofviolence, was a 13year-old boy. For Palestinians, used to facing guns from Israeli soldiers but not from their own police, it was a disorienting moment that marked just how conflicted the Arab world is in the wake of the terror attacks in the United States last month. “I feel confused,” one Palestinian policeman, who abandoned his post once the gunfire began, told a local reporter. “We are shooting our own people!” Some militant Palestinians support Osama bin Laden, and Monday 2,000 demonstrators paraded his photograph

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United States was in 1976. Officials said Monday a co-worker of Stevens, whose name was not immediately released, had anthrax bacteria in his nasal passages. The co-worker was in stable condition Monday at an unidentified Miami-Dade County hospital, accord-

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Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government headed for collapse Monday as moderate Catholics refused to support Protestant demands for expelling the party linked to the Irish Republican Army. News briefs compiled from wire reports.

the investigation.” Bob Stevens, 63, a photo editor at the supermarket tabloid The Sun, died Friday of inhalation anthrax, an extremely rare and lethal form of the disease. The last such death in the

ing to health officials. He had been tested for anthrax because he happened to be in a hospital for an unrelated illness. The man has not been diagnosed with the disease, and Barbara Reynolds, a spokesperson for the CDC in Atlanta, said authorities may never know whether he actually had anthrax because antibiotics may have killed it before it was detected. The FBI sealed off the office building housing The Sun and was combing it for clues. All 300 employees who work in the building were asked to come to a clinic so they could be tested for the. bacteria. CDC officials said nasal swabs would be taken, and antibiotics provided.

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and chanted slogans against the American-led attacks in Afghanistan at the Islamic University in Gaza City. “Hamas hails bin Laden,” read one sign, referring to the radical Islamic group that organized Monday’s protests. But Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, has gone to lengths to disassociate his cause from that of bin Laden. And it appeared Monday that Palestinian officials would not tolerate more televised images of Palestinians celebrating bin Laden, as happened just after the attacks Sept. 11. Foreign journalists were not permitted Monday into Gaza. Shouting, scuffles and stone throwing swiftly escalated, witnesses said, and the police first used tear gas, rubber bullets, then live rounds, to disperse the crowds. Two people—identified as Abdullah Ifranji, 13, and Yusef Akel, 22—were struck and died soon after. A third, Haitham Abu Shamaleh, 20, was clinically dead in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, family members said.

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Alcohol may disrupt memory ability Officials disseminate anthrax info

This is the first article in a four-part series about the relationship between physical health and learning. By MIKE MILLER The Chronicle

Recent research at the University and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center questions the sensibility of Duke students’ “work hard, play hard” mantra, suggesting that even small amounts of alcohol have profound effects on the ability of college-age students to learn and remember new information. no “There’s time when a person is called on Healthy to learn more than in college, Learning but this is exactly the time when alcohol has its greatest negative effects on learning,” said lead author of the study Scott Swartzwelder, a clinical professor of

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In response to reports of two people who have been exposed to anthrax in Florida—one of whom recently visited Duke—the North Carolina State Health Department released a memo to all Duke University Health Systems

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Jeff Georgi, clinical coordinator of Duke’s Alcoholism and Addictions Program, stressed that society has erroneously assumed that adolescents are mentally resilient because of their superb physical recovery. “Brain recovery is exactly backwards,” he said. Several researchers emphasized that alcohol affects college-age students not only when they are intoxicated but also later, by harming their ability to process information already learned. “The piece that Duke students need to understand is that when you study something, it doesn’t get anchored automatically in the brain—it may take years for it to become a part of your permanent memory..., but if

A BARTENDER POURS DRINKS for students at the now-closed Hideaway. New research shows that alcohol may hinder students’ ability to retain knowledge. you study for four hours at Perkins, then go drinking, it affects this anchoring process,” Georgi said.

body, and withdrawal effects can severely limit the brain’s ability to learn

Wilkie Wilson, professor ofpharmacology, said the buzz an intoxicated person feels “is from impairing the NMDA receptors, which are vital for storing long-term memories in the hippocampus.” In addition, the researchers said alcohoi has a detrimental effect on energy and sleep cycles. “The brain acts like a spring compressed by alcohol—when you release the alcohol, the spring bounds back again and overshoots to a period of hyper-excitability which wakes you up and disrupts your sleep cycle. And impairing the quality of your sleep impairs the quality of your ability for remembering things,” Wilson said. “The message is don’t drink on the night you want to consolidate information in your brain,” he added. Swartzwelder also said that the day after a night of heavy drinking, students are easily distracted and unable to concentrate. He said alcohol can take up to 24 hours to completely leave the

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“Regular drinking will do permanent damage to how well you can learn,” said

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But the memo stressed that “naturally acquired inhalation anthrax is exceedingly rare, and its appearance should immediately raise suspicion of an intentional infection using a biological weapon.” These sentiments were echoed by Dr. Dan Sexton, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. “The last time this disease had been reported [in the United States] was in 1976, and suddenly, you hear of [these reports] in the face of the recent

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Swartzwelder. “If you get into a pattern of drinking, you have to think: How are you compromising your brain? Whip-sawing your brain back and forth puts a load on the brain—it’s going to at least make it harder for the brain to do what you want it to do,” he added. Swartzwelder and Wilson both said that if an adolescent cannot avoid drinking, it is important that they drink in moderation. They said that although as little as two drinks may significantly impact an adolescent’s memory, large amounts of alcohol are more likely to produce permanent mental effects and phys-

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anthrax among patients presenting for care over the coming weeks,” the statement said. According to the memo, anthrax is caused by a large, spore-forming, rodshaped bacterium. The disease is contracted either cutaneously, gastrointestinally or by inhalation. The majority of cases occur through occu-

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Malone questions his lawyer as trial commences By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle

Trial proceedings began Monday for the man accused of holding three people hostage by gunpoint in President Nan Keohane’s office last September. The prelude of the trial in Durham County Superior Court focused on preliminary business, including debate over whether to call Keohane as a witness and disagreement between defendant David Patrick Malone and his lawyer. Jury selection begins today at 9:30 a.m. Malone said his court-appointed attorney, Assistant Public Defender Shannon Tucker, would not listen to him several times and that she would not subpoena a number of character witnesses. Malone particularly took issue with Tucker’s plan to base his defense on diminished mental capabilities. “What I was told is if I put in a plea for

diminished capabilities, there would be a possibility that I’d be admitted to a mental hospital,” Malone said, adding that he would like to include a sane mental status in his defense. Earlier in the case Malone would not authorize Tucker to enter a not guilty by insanity plea on his behalf. Judge James Spencer, however, reassured Malone that such a defense could not result in institutionalization for the defendant and said that the differences between Malone and his lawyer were likely “semantics.” Police arrested the 46-year-old Malone Sept. 6, 2000, after he entered Keohane’s office on the second floor of the Allen Building with a loaded .32-caliber gun. He was subsequently charged with three counts of first-degree kidnapping and one count of having a weapon on school property. Malone, dressed in a white checkered

shirt and gray pants, said that since the incident he has been on a number of antidepressants and is feeling better. Malone continued to express dissatisfaction with his counsel throughout the proceedings. “I want to bring some closure to this. I’ve been incarcerated for 13 months,” Malone said, adding later, “[Tucker] hasn’t cooperated with me. I don’t feel good about going to trial with her.” Malone said Tucker would not subpoena a number of character witnesses whose names he had given her. Tucker responded that she only had first names for many of those witnesses and often no addresses or phone numbers. The prosecution had its investigator look through an address book of Malone’s where the addresses were allegedly listed, but could only find one name. Later in the afternoon, discussion centered on whether Keohane’s testimo-

Ny was necessary in the trial. Assistant District Attorney Mitchell Garrell said that it was unnecessary because Keohane was not even present at the time of the incident. Tucker noted, however, that Keohane was mentioned in the indictment. “The reason he was there that day was because he wanted to speak with Dr. Keohane,” Tucker said. Malone said during the incident last

September that he wanted to talk with Keohane about losing a job at Duke. Tucker tried last summer, unsuccessfully, to move the trial outside Durham because of heavy media coverage and potential jurors’ “deep-seeded loyalties.” Apart from a 10-day period that resulted from a legal technicality, Malone has been held in the county jail since his arrest.

Board offers biotech firm money to open in Durham The Chronicle

The Durham Board of County Commissioners offered Monday to give a German biotechnology company up to $2 million if the company sets up a manufacturing facility in northern Durham. With the support of several local leaders, the commissioners voted unanimously in favor of the incentive package for EMD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The money would help pay for the costs of the facility’s construction between 2006 and 2010. EMD, a two-year-old company specializing in the development and production of biopharmaceuticals to treat cancer and diabetes, currently employs 90 people in Durham and 17 in Lexington, Mass. The firm is planning to expand into one of about half a

dozen locations around the world, including a 109acre site in Treyburn Industrial Park in the northern

part of the county. “I think this is a wonderful opportunity for our community, and I do hope that we move from the short list [of possible sites] to the final choice,” said commissioner Ellen Reckhow. The expansion would represent an investment of about $260 million in Durham’s economy, and create at least 1,200 jobs, said Deputy County Manager Carolyn Titus. Of those, 75 to 80 percent would be white-collar jobs. Representatives from the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, Durham Technical Community College and the local Employment Security Commission spoke in support of the project, saying it would

have a positive impact on the county’s tax base, job opportunities and diversity of economic activity. “I personally can’t think of a better example of when to offer an industrial incentive package,” said County Manager Mike Ruffin. Two EMD representatives were in the audience at the meeting, and some speakers spent as much time explaining the benefits the county had to offer the company as they did trying to convince the commissioners to support the package. Ewald Mueller, a controller for EMD, said after the vote that Durham was an appealing location for the company because of the availability of a strong workforce and the potential for collaboration with nearby universities, including Duke. But he said the company was considering possible sites in both Boston and Germany.

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GPSC petitions students to volunteer for 2 committees By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

Last night’s Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting solicited further involvement from its members, asking for volunteers to serve on committees and to attend an upcoming social event. The Academic Affairs Subcommittee discussed the discrepancies in honor policies between individual graduate and professional schools. GPSC President Elayne Heisler recommended that students who concerned with inconsistent punishments for cheating and accepted levels of collaboration represent GPSC on the University’s new Academic Integrity Committee. “This is a question that affects everybody,” Academic Council Chair Peter Burian told The Chronicle in September. “Graduate and professional schools are not immune. It makes sense to talk about why it is improper and what we will do.” Heisler also solicited volunteers for GPSC’s Young Trustee selection committee. The group will screen candidates for

the Young Trustee position, which opens every three years. Usually the eight GPSC officers comprise the committee, but four have asked to be removed this year because they cannot be both a candidate and a committee member, said GPSC Vice President David Ferguson. The Student Life Subcommittee also announced the first event it has planned this year, which will take place at 8 p.m. Oct. 18 at Mugshots. Tobin Freid, student life co-chair, said GPSC hopes to subsidize drinks, offer free appetizers and possibly engage a band to play at the event, which she called a happy hour. “The idea is just that you are at school and, hey, you want to head over to Mugshots to see your friends and have a good time,” Freid said. “People can hang out at bars anytime they want, so we want to offer them something different, like a jazz band.” The committee plans to continue to offer social service events throughout the year. Kenneth Reinker contributed to this story.

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possibility of future instability, cautioning about both potential deflation or inflation. “If you want to build a scary scenario, there is plenty of ability to do that,” he said, before noting that the US. economy was is a strong position prior to the attacks and that the economy will likely endure any short-term disruption. Mayer’s presentation attempted to contextualize the economic effects of the attacks, rather than focus on market analysis. He argued that there is a connection between the extreme poverty of countries like Afghanistan and terrorism. “History shows extremist ideologies prevail where economic poverty prevails,” Mayer said. “Our security in the long-run is intimately connected with global economic development.” Proposing a modern-day Marshall Plan for developing countries, Mayer advocated expanding free trade, reducing external debt, educating populations, particularly women, and promoting economic development as essential components for American longterm security. “The policy choice that faces us now is about how to make a global economy in which there are not such

ANTHRAX from page 3 picions among specialists is that there may be some connection with terror and criminal behavior.” However, officials stress there is little risk associated with Duke. “Anthrax is not a communicable disease so the fact that [the first patient] came here is not important. What will be is figuring out the source of [the. organism] in that office building in Florida,” said Dr. Neil Maclntyre, professor of pulmonary medicine. “Duke and this matter are disconnected.” In a complex process, the bacterium invades the lymph nodes and is excreted into the blood flow. This triggers immediate and often fatal destruction of vital tissues. People with inhalation anthrax, like the two cases identified in Florida, typically show flu-like symptoms initially, and then develop severe respiratory illness, high fever, hemorrhagic gastroenteritis or meningitis.

The average time interval between onset of the initial stage and death is three days. “I think people realize that [this disease has] the potential to be absolutely horrible, inhumane,” said Sexton. “It’s a disease of antiquity, and naturally occurs in animals, but dispersing the organism in unnatural ways is the terrifying part of it.” To treat it, early antibiotic treatment is essential, although mortality may still be high after the onset of symptoms. There is an anthrax vaccine but any vaccine is only effective if used prior to exposure to the bacterium. It is currently used primarily by the military, veterinarians and farm workers. “These events have made everyone insecure,” MacIntyre said. “As health care workers, [Duke care providers] are exhibiting heightened awareness, and have a lot of concern about the biological impact of something like this.”

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In Britain, Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon suggested that the first phase of the attacks on Afghanistan could be over within days. “I anticipate it is more likely a matter of days rather than weeks,” Hoon told BBC television. “This is the first phase of our attacks on the Taliban regime, on bringing Osama bin Laden to account. “It depends on how successful those attacks are and whether we find further targets to address, but for the moment this is the anticipation,” Hoon said. British forces joined the Americans in the first strikes against Afghanistan Sunday, but a Defense Ministry official said Britain did not take part Monday in the second day’s raids. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary

Donald Rumsfeld said a preliminary assessment of raids against 31 targets Sunday showed that “we have made progress” toward disabling key military airfields and “eliminating the air defense sites” that protect the Taliban and

bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network. He added, “We cannot yet state with certainty that we destroyed the dozens”

of military command and leadership sites attacked by allied aircraft and missiles. He also said that it was unclear whether the allied strikes had “fully disabled” the Taliban air force and its air defenses. Still, Pentagon officials said, no Taliban aircraft has been seen taking to the skies to oppose American pilots and no American planes have been lost. As the night sky over the Afghan capital of Kabul was sundered by the flashes of bomb strikes and the arcing lines of tracer fire, Bush sought to bolster anti-terrorism forces at home Monday by naming Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor, to head a new Cabinet post for homeland defense. Yet there were serious concerns that Ridge would lack the bureaucratic clout to force dozens of agencies to coordinate their efforts. “The best defense against terror is a global offensive against terror, wherever it might be found,” said Bush at a swearing-in ceremony with Ridge and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “On all fronts, we are going to be ongoing and relentless as we tighten the net of justice,” he added.

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Franks to implement lineup changes versus Wake By SHAWN NICHOLLS The Chronicle

As Duke’s (0-5, 0-3 in the ACC) chance at success continues to be impeded by critical mistakes and poor execution, coach Carl Franks expressed the need for some lineup changes as the team prepares for a home contest this Saturday against Wake Forest (2-3, 0-3). Franks specifically mentioned giving different players a chance at starting the game. “What you have to be willing to accept sometimes is that when the young guys are making [mistakes], they’re learning,” Franks said Monday at his weekly press conference. “When the guys that make them have been playing for a while, you need to give someone else a chance. “You don’t earn your position year to year, you’ve got to earn it game to game, day to day. That inspires competition. And I would like to think that the guys that are going to not start that have been starting will take that as a challenge and not hang their heads. We’ll see what kind of pride and character they have.” On offense, Franks highlighted the execution of blocking assignments as a key area of concern in last Saturday’s home

loss to Georgia Tech. Specifically, he pointed to a late first half

rush by Chris Douglas near the endzone that was halted for a loss because of poor blocking. The Blue Devils were forced to settle for a field goal. Franks also said that Duke’s own mistakes, rather than strong

Yellow Jacket defense, cost the

offense yardage on the first three series. But at the same time, he conceded that in the second half, the team was just outplayed in all facets of the game. Turnovers played a large role in the momentum of Saturday’s game for both teams. Franks said that on offense the wide receivers need to focus better on holding

onto the ball after the catch, using a first half fumble that led to a Georgia Tech touchdown as an example. Overall, the Duke coach was happy with the play calling, just not pleased with the

overall execution. In terms of improving offensive output, Franks said that throwing more deep passes would open up the field a little bit more, but at the same time, he said that the team first needs to decide who their deep threat is going to be. Franks also said that quarterback protection is an area that needs to be improved upon so quarterback D. Bryant will DREW KLEIN/THE CHRONICLE have the chance to throw deep. See FOOTBALL on page 12 i* CHRIS DOUGLAS needs better blocking from his offensive teammates, Duke coach Carl Franks said Monday.

Men’s golf stands in 13th heading into final round By ANDREW GREENFIELD The Chronicle

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Mediocre That is how men’s golf coach Rod Myers described Duke’s play Monday, where, after the 36 holes of the Taylor Made Red River Classic, the Blue Devils are in 13th place out of 15 teams. “We played very poorly in the first round,” Myers said. “I don’t think the team had a confident attitude going to the tee this morning and I don’t know why. We had a good last tournament, so there is no excuse for the guys not being pumped up to play.” The tournament is being played at the 6,766-yard, par 72 Dallas Athletic Club in Dallas, Tex., where low scores are the norm. Texas leads a strong field after two rounds with a total of558, 18-under-par. The Blue Devils are led by senior Brandon LaCroix and junior Leif Olson. LaCroix fired rounds of 74-70 —144, putting him in a tie for 29th place at even par. Olson had a difficult morning where, being a diabetic, he needed to give himself insulin after the second hole to bring his blood sugar level down. Unfortunately, he never got back into the

swing of things and shot a six-over-par 78 in the first round. In the afternoon, however, the juniorwas feeling much better and it showed as he fired a five-under-par 67 to get him back to one-over par for the tournament. Senior Matt Krauss fired rounds of 73-74 putting him in a tie for 54th at three-over par.

The scores, however, do not tell the whole story, especially for the first round, where Krauss tallied five birdies and an eagle, but he also had a few large numbers ruining a chance for

a low score. “Matt played really well,” Myers said. “It is very uncharacteristic of him to give all those shots back.” Also playing in the event are sophomores Mike Castleforte and Bobby Castor. Castleforte shot rounds of 75-75—150, eight-over par, to stand in a tie for 63rd place. Castor fired a 36hole total of 156, putting him in 81st place. “We need to develop confidence and leadership from our best players,” Myers said. “For this to happen it has to start from the top, meaning our best players must play well. “We did a nice job regrouping and improving in the afternoon round and now we must improve as much as possible in the final round.”

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Associate men’s lacrosse coach Joe Alberici was inducted into the Alfred University Sports Hall of Fame this weekend. Alberici is Alfred’s all-time leading scorer in lacrosse.

Paced by quarterback Kurt Warner’s three touchdown passes, the Rams (4-0) cruised to an easy 35-0 victory over the Detroit Lions (0-3) in the Pontiac Silverdome Monday night.

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Teams prepare for start of playoffs By BEN WALKER

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Greg Maddux is ready to renew the quest and the Seattle Mariners are eager to start, too. Mark McGwire might even join this party. A week later than scheduled, baseball begins its postseason on Tuesday with a focus on strong pitching, a pair of 100-win teams and a few stars hoping to reverse past fortunes. Oh, and this October constant—the New York Yankees trying to defend their World Series title. “This is the time of year when you make a name for yourself in sports. You know, red light players,” said Curt Schilling, who will start Game 1 for Arizona

against St. Louis. “As a pitcher, I try to feed on that. It’s crunch time,” he said. “All that money that they pay us; this is where they collect their dividends from that.” The best-of-five first round starts Tuesday afternoon at Enron Field, where Maddux and the NL East champion Atlanta Braves will face the Central-winning Houston Astros. Maddux will be making his 25th postseason start. The Braves have won 10 straight division titles, but have won only one World Series championship. With 88 wins, the Braves have the fewest wins among the eight playoff teams. Everyone else has at least 91. “I really don’t think we’ve had an off-year,” Maddux said. “I’d hope we can have five or six more off-years like this one.” Astros stars Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio are hoping to overcome postseason failures. Despite winning division titles from 1997-99, Houston never made it past the first round and twice was chased by Atlanta. In those playoff defeats, Bagwell hit .128 with no home runs and four RBIs, and Biggio batted .119 with

only one RBI.

“Even though they’ve struggled in three postseasons, that probably doesn’t cover more than 30, 40 atbats,” Houston manager Larry Dierker said. “However many at-bats, it’s not enough to have a representative

sample of how good they are.”

Later, the AL playoffs begin when the Mariners take their record-tying season of 116 wins against the Cleveland Indians at Safeco Field. “I don’t think we’re going to cany any burden into the postseason,” Seattle manager Lou Piniella said. “We’re not going to have to say much. I haven’t said much all year. This team doesn’t like losing.” At night, the wild card Cardinals take on NL West winner Arizona at Bank One Ballpark. Schilling, a 22-game winner, will make his first postseason appearance since 1993 with Philadelphia. Randy Johnson, who won 21 times and came within 11 strikeouts ofNolan Ryan’s single-season record, starts Game 2. Johnson has lost six straight postseason decisions, a major league record.

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“I don’t think I could’ve gone wrong with either

choice,” Arizona manager Bob Brenly said. It’s still not certain how much the Big Unit and the Diamondbacks will see McGwire. Bothered by bad knees, the former home run champion hit only .187 this season and manager Tony La Russa was not sure whether Big Mac would start the opener. On Wednesday night, the three-time World Series champion Yankees open at home against Oakland. Roger Clemens starts against Mark Mulder in an attractive matchup of 20-game winners in the opener. The Yankees, who beat Oakland in a deciding Game 5 last October, got healthy during the extra week added to the season after the terrorist attacks. Closer Mariano Rivera is back from a cortisone shot in his right ankle and starters Orlando Hernandez and Andy Pettitte did well after being slowed by sore elbows. Paul O’Neill is ready to play right field. “We’re in a lot better shape this week than last week at this time,” manager Joe Torre said. “We wouldn’t have panicked if we started last week. But we were not in as good shape as we are now.” The Athletics went 58-17 after the All-Star break and finished with 102 victories. “It would be disappointing ifwe didn’t get further than we did last year,” As slugger Jason Giambi said. “But at the same time, that’s a pretty imposing team over there.”

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SAN FRANCISCO In the 70 seasons from 1928 to 1997, the home run record was broken once. Now it has been smashed twice in the last four years, and Barry Bonds figures his new record of 73 might not last long. “I don’t know if it is going to exist next year,” Bonds said after capping his remarkable season by hitting No. 73 in the San Francisco Giants’ season finale Sunday against the Los Angeles Dodgers. After Babe Ruth broke his own record by hitting 60 homers in 1927, no one seriously challenged the record for more than three decades. It took until 1961 for Roger Maris to hit 61, a mark that stood for another 37 years. When Mark McGwire hit 70 homers in 1998, that record seemed safe. Now Bonds wonders about the longevity of his own mark. “I think the most impressive person right now is Alex Rodriguez. Jason Giambi has developed into an outstanding power hitter,” Bonds said. “Obviously, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are in an elite class by themselves.” “These young guys are big kids and they are strong kids, and with the new stadiums being converted to a little smaller than in the past, you guys are going to see a lot of wonderful things happen in the game of baseball in the future.” Rodriguez, who is more than a decade younger than Bonds, hit an AL-leading 52 homers for Texas this year. Giambi had 38 homers for Oakland and led the AL in slugging percentage. Colorado’s Todd Helton homered 49 times. Shawn Green, who set a Dodgers record with 49 homers this season, said it will take just the right combination for someone to break Bonds’ record. “The person doing it would have to be on a team like the Giants, with a solid lineup behind him. The man had [Jeff] Kent hitting behind him—you couldn’t pitch around him,” Green said. “I think Sosa has the best chance, McGwire if he’s healthy. It might be a guy in Denver. Helton’s almost there. My odds are on Sosa. But that number is an insane number to beat.” Bonds had 69 when the Giants headed to Houston last week for a three-game series in which the Astros continually pitched around Bonds. But in his final atbat of that series, he homered to tie McGwire’s mark. “I figured if I got stuck on 69 in Houston and we played the Dodgers, it would be really, really tough, just due to the fact that I have not hit the ball that well against them all year, so I was really concerned,” he said.

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This week, the Blue Devils will face a Wake Forest offense that Franks said has a similar offensive style to Northwestern in the way they spread the field out. The Demon Deacons started the season with two wins against East Carolina and Appalachian State, but have dropped three straight to ACC opponents. “We’re going to need to create turnovers again,” Franks said. “That was something I was pleased that we were able to do last week. It certainly helped us a great deal.” All of Duke’s points against Georgia Tech resulted from interceptions by the Duke defense.

As for player confidence in the midst of the ongoing losing streak, linebacker Ryan Fowler said that the team is optimistic that they can continue to learn, start putting a full game of football together, and increase their chances of victory, especially given the easier schedule they have over the second half of the season. “I think if we won one game, it would start a shift in our whole momentum,” Fowler said. “Most people that are playing right now are young guys that haven’t ever won at college before. Maybe there’s some doubt. If we can get that first win, then we’ll know we can do it, and things will turn around.”

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Tuesday October 9 American Red Cross: Open blood donor site. By appointment (684-4799). 11:30 am to 4:30 pm. Duke Clinic.

Mind/Body Skills Group for cancer patients, family members and caregivers. Every Tuesday from 12 noon -1:30 pm, at the Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center, 111 Cloister Ct., Ste 220, Overlook Building in Chapel Hill. For more information call 401-9333 or see the web site at www.cornucopiahouse.org.

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Teer House; Fire Prevention in the Home. To register, call 416-3853 or (275-3853). 1:00 pm, N. Roxboro Road, Durham.

The English Department presents a talk by David Kazanjian (Queens College CUNY), entitled, “Beyond the Border: Articulating the US-Mexico War and the Caste War of the Yucatan”, on Tuesday, October Department of "Music: Master Class, 9th at 4:00 pm in the Carpenter Boardroom Christopher Barkening, classical guitar. call 684-2203). For information, call 660-3300. 1:00 pm, (more information Baldwin Auditorium, East Campus. TAKING OURSELVES HUMOROUSLY A Christian Stereotype Party! Bring your faMusic Lecture/Demonstration by Barry vorite jokes, stereotypes, & caricatures Bauguess on the history of the trumpet about your own and other denominations. from 1500 to 1900. Mr. Bauguess will 6:15-7:30 pm in Duke Chapel Basement demonstrate a number of instruments in- kitchen. Free Boston Market food. Sponcluding cornetts, natural trumpets, slide sored by Baptist Student Union, the trumpets, valve trumpets, and cornets. Catholic Student Center, and Duke Luther3:30 pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg., ans. Call 684-5994 for more information. East Campus -

FAITH & FRIENDSHIP: Join others at 6:45 pm each Tuesday, upstairs balcony room in The Marketplace, for Bible study and supportive friendship over supper. Sponsored by BSU (Baptist Student Union) and open to all. Cali 684-5994 for more information. Freewater Films: “The Heroic Trio,” with Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung. Tickets are free to Duke students, $4 for Duke employees, and $5 for all others. For information, call 684-2911. 7:00, 9:30 pm. Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus.

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) meets on Tuesdays at 7pm. Study and recreate the middle ages. Sword-fighting, feasting, dancing, costuming, etc. For information, call 682-0551.

Center for Documentary Studies: “Indivisible: Stories of American Community.” Presentation by Tom Rankin and Elana Hadler and reception in conjunction with the Indivisible postcard exhibit. For information, call 660-3663. 7:00 pm. 1317 W. Pettigrew St. Duke Forum on the September 11th attacks: “What is the Morality of War in Islamic and Christian Perspectives?” 7:00 pm. York Chapel, Divinity School, West Campus.

The Historic Preservation Society of Durham (HPSD) Fall Gala will bring a taste of the Biftmore Estate to Durham, literally, to help raise money for the HPSD Endangered Properties Fund. The event begins at 7:00 pm at the Carolina Theatre, on Morgan Street in downtown Durham. Tickets may be purchased at the Regulator Bookstore on Ninth Street or Morgan Imports at Peabody Place, or through the HPSD Office at 919-6823036.

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members of the Duke community have a great opportunity to take action and get involved in the issues that face the city ofDurham by voting in the primary election. Duke students and employees make up a significant percentage of Durham’s population, so the issues that the city’s government considers also affect life at Duke. The new mayor will play a major role in shaping future development, improving education and reducing crime. Voting in today’s primary is a key step for the members of the Duke community to shed any isolationist tendencies and make a difference outside the bubble. The University’s success ties closely with that of the city. The entire Research Triangle Park has provided a vast resource for Duke to tap. Future changes in the Durham area could further enhance the University or harm it. This says nothing ofthe importance ofvoting in general. Americans have the privilege to help choose their leaders; to ignore this opportunity would be an ungrateful shirking ofresponsibility. But voting is not a mindless activity that begins and ends in the voting booth. Voters must make an informed decision about the candidates, and the community has no excuse to be uninformed. Media outlets throughout the Triangle have provided in-depth coverage of the races, and voters should be able to make an educated decision based on this information. With voting stations just off of Central Campus and East Campus, Duke voters should take the little bit of time necessary to perform this civic duty. To find your official voting location, call the Durham Board ofElections-at 560-0700.

Keeping Uncle Harry’s University

officials are considering shutting down Uncle Harry’s due to financial losses. If the store were to close, it would be a considerable loss for Central Campus residents. Uncle Harry’s provides a valuable service for Central Campus students who lack off-campus transportation options. Although students should be willing to pay a bit more for the convenience of an on-campus grocery store, the store’s prices have risen too high to be competitive with off-campus stores and the quality and selection of goods is very low. The convenience store is the only location on Central for groceries. While West Campus residents have many dining options, reaching these options poses significant difficulty for those living on Central, especially late at night or on weekends when buses to West are less frequent. As long as students are required to purchase food points, they should, at the very least, be provided with a place to buy groceries. Some might argue that the Lobby Shop is the place to expand and improve, but its location is not convenient for Central residents. The University should do what is best for the residents of Central Campus and support Uncle Harry’s as much as possible. Perhaps University administrators should consider plans that might centralize offerings on the campus, such as computer clusters, social space and the store, so as to draw more students to these options.

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Letters to

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Sanders does not deserve “deplorable” accusations I write in response to the “Professor E.P. Sanders is most distindeplorable accusation levied America’s against one of our guished scholar in the field of University’s finest academiJesus research today.” If cians. In an article in the Professor William Hart Oct. 2 issue of The wished to lodge a complaint, Chronicle, Professor E.P. then he should have done so Sanders and other superin a thoughtful manner himstar religion department self and certainly at a more faculty were alluded to as appropriate moment. The being racists. I cannot way in which his “case” was believe that The Chronicle presented in The Chronicle would dare recharge the did no justice to the cause of uncomfortable racial cli- racial harmony on our cammate on campus by printing pus, giving as its only exhibit such an abominable indictthe fact that Sanders and the ment against one of Duke’s others “are white.” This is not most thoughtful, prestigious evidence; this is yellow jourand decorated teachers. nalism at its slimiest. John Meier of Catholic I studied under Sanders University stated that for several years and can tes-

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tify to his fairness and openmindedness. He abhors racism. Additionally, to say that he is a racist simply because of one disgruntled professor’s word and that Sanders is white is by definition bigoted. To practice this kind of vigilante summary justice is mean-spirited and upsetting. If The Chronicle is

to be an altruistic force for the improvement of race relations on our campus, it needs to be a credible source of information and not a repository of inflammatory demagoguery.

Kevin Klock Trinity ’Ol

article, see http:ll www.chronicle.duke.edu / story.php?article _id=2367l

University undermines fraternities, selective houses The administration’s decision to create an all-independent Main West Quadrangle in the next year is one that overlooks the true nature ofDuke’s undergraduate community. It seems that through more regulations and now restriction from Main West, the University is trying to undermine selective houses and fraternities in favor oftheir glorified ideal of the “independent.” If it is the University’s intent to hide fraternities and selective houses by restricting

them to the side quads, they are in for quite a shock. Because even though the Hideaway has shut down and fraternity and selective house parties are the only remaining regular organized social out-

lets, independents do still participate in the behavior the University is now seeking to discourage on Main West Quad. Independents do drink, even when they’re underage. Independents do create noise disturbances. When it comes down to it, independents are still college students, and they are still going to participate in what the administration would no doubt feel are unsavory activities. It is time

that the University acknowledges that fraternities and selective houses are not the enemy. These organizations promote social functions and community in a forum of responsibility. Fraternity and selective house members

ice, cultural-awareness and faculty-interaction events, or else they lose their housing. Independents have none of these official obligations. Selective living groups should not be “stashed” on the

sidelines of our residential campus, so visitors touring only the Main Quad see just the serene landscape of independents. I would encourage the administration to ask themselves what they are trying to hide and what exactly they want Duke to be. We are Duke. We have fraternities. We have selective houses. That is who we are. And we should not be ashamed of it. Katherine Allen

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Columnist needs to respect all types of thinking I find it curious that Joshua Rose begins his Oct. 8 rant against an “us” versus “them” mentality with a dichotomous portrayal of philosophy; there is “our” Western philosophy and “their” Eastern philosophy. Moreover, he categorically rejects the Western framework, implicitly embraces the Eastern one and puts no effort into finding his vaunted “intermediate grades in between extremes.” Although I could elaborate on other weaknesses in his argument, including his misrepresentation and oversim-

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plification of the Western worldview, I’d prefer to point

out that his inadvertent use of cut-and-dry categories highlights an important fact; Dichotomies do indeed exist in this world, and no amount of convoluted reasoning can escape this reality. Good and evil are not intellectual constructs to be played with like so much silly putty. Rather, they are forces that shape everyday life, oftentimes in draconian ways. America has been targeted for destruction by those who have nothing but evil in their

hearts and minds. This is not a figment of my overactive imagination that is fueled by a Western inclination to put things into categories. It is a sober and rational evaluation of the events of Sept. 11 and of the previous attacks on America throughout the 19905. Defending ourselves and eradicating this evil is a good and just cause, clear and simple, case closed. Michael Choma Graduate Student Department of Biomedical Engineering »

column, see http:/ /www.chronicle.duke.edu/story.php?article_id=23764

On the record There’s no time when a person is called on to leam more than in college, hut this is exactly the time when alcohol has its greatest negative effects on learning. Scott Swartzwelder, clinical professor of medical psychology, on alcohol’s effects on the brain (see story, page three)

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Already studying abroad

Columnist wonders why some students would want to leave Duke’s campus

lo imon knowledge serves well, each fall over half the junior class leaves the confines of the Gothic Wonderland for a study abroad program. From what I can tell, it appears that the fouryear, eight semesters on Duke’s campus graduation plan is the Marko exception rather than iuranovie the norm. Call me crazy but I’ve always been a tad bit curious as to why anyone would <

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year. I can understand a summer spent in Australia, England or Italy because most of us waste away the months between May and August in any case. I am also fully aware of the allure of a British pub or a Spanish dance club, and I know that living in a culture different from your own opens your eyes to a whole new range of possibilities. Still, actually leaving Duke’s campus for an entire semester is a curious choice to me. I’m not sure why that is. Perhaps I took the viewbook too seriously or maybe my tour guide was really persuasive. It could be that I’ve developed a strange infatuation for Gothic architecture. But I doubt it’s any of these: The viewbook’s primary use is to tell the parents about all the things their child will have an opportunity to do at Duke but will probably pass on in favor of drunken debauchery and repeated attempts to fit in. My tour guide was also hardly convincing, except for her candid stories about the graduation requirements—those definitely caught my attention. And the one class I took on Gothic cathedrals during my sophomore year quickly convinced me that architecture is a lot

more fun when you’re left to appreciate it on your own time; having to memorize mindlessly 325 separate slides of

morning, crews of groundskeepers have cleaned up stray beer cans and bottles so that the lawn outside my room is stacked columns, triforiums, chevets, spotlessly green once again. And to naves, flying buttresses and cleresto- make sure that no “outsiders” crash ries did nothing to increase my appre- into my bubble, I have a state-certified ciation for Gothic architecture. and fully armed police force to protect Speaking of splendid architecture, if me and enforce the laws. In case someyou’re outside as you’re reading this, thing does go wrong, one of the world’s P u t down the newspaper and look finest hospitals is located only yards y°u Even better, sit on the away, and Counseling and Psychological Chapel steps some Wednesday after- Services stands ready to help. noon as you’re coming back from class Moreover, I interact with the world’s and notice how the Allen building is brightest minds on a daily basis, and I bathed in an orange glow as the day have a free season pass to the most covbids its goodbye and the sun disappears eted collegiate sporting venue in the behind the chimney-dotted rooftops. At nation. On top of that, the library not most, you’ll fall in love with the Duke only puts millions of volumes at my disscenery all over again—perhaps even posal but literally gives me the ability for the first time—or at least you’ll be to easily recover pretty much any piece reminded of the fact that intangibles of scholarly work or information I’d ever such as the campus atmosphere can often outweigh U.S. News and World Report rankings. Which brings me back to my original question: Why would you ever want to leave this place? After all, Duke as a concept is an entity unto itself with a completely different lifestyle. Somewhere deep down inside we should all realize that the lives most of us live as undergraduates are some form of a fantasy. Call it a bubble, call it a fishbowl, call it a wonderland, call it what you will—the Duke experience is a four-year vacation that takes place on a different plane and in -

need. Finally, most of my daily interactions are with other ambitious and vibrant young people who have been carefully selected from across the nation to complement each others’ development as persons. Taking all these things into consideration and regardless of whether you’re paying for the Gothic Wonderland experience out of your own pocket or you receive financial aid, you have to admit that it’s an attractive set-up. So, as far as I’m concerned, Florence, Paris, London, Sydney and Madrid can all wait a little while longer for my visit—l’m already studying abroad as it is. Marko Djuranovic is a Trinity senior & science editor of The Chronicle.

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smother dimension, There are many things we take for granted and hardly ever think about because we’re so used to them. I walk to class each day for no more than 10 minutes—anything further than that I can hop a bus or call a shuttle if it’s late at night. Regardless of how big the party

was Friday night, by early Saturday

How nice we really have It On Sept. 11, almost 6,000 people died in New outrage until the tragedy struck in our backyards, to sit and eat lunch and not be burdened with the knowlYork, Washington and Pennsylvania. America was people who look and talk like us. So we went into edge that more than a quarter of the people living in action, trying to do whatever we could to ease the pain our state are stricken with AIDS. We are free to enjoy shocked. America was outraged. America was rightfully stricken with the unimaginable grief of having and shock of such huge losses of fellow Americans. safe, happy, prosperous lives in the greatest nation on lost so many friends, relatives and And while we did this, messages of condolence and earth while others live in fear, danger and dismal JtM|| fellow countrymen. sympathy arrived from dozens of nations who realized poverty across the oceans. jli that tragedy is not confined by political borders but is But on that same Tuesday, 6,000 I’m not trying to say that the attack on the United |P||^jr extended by the belief that the people of every counStates wasn’t a tragedy. I’m also not suggesting that people also died in Africa, the victims N not of extremist terror but of AIDS, try, every color, every custom and every lifestyle all everyone who lives in America should wear a permabelong to the same nation in the end: humankind. nent cloak of depression and grief for those who suffer And then the next day, 6,000 more JmSIK. # Africans succumbed to that same disInjustice and murder plague the human race every each day. There is no reason to feel guilty about living Andrew ease. In fact, every day this year in day, but for some reason America was not outraged in the United States; rather, U.S. citizens should have J} ntu mctrk until the day tragedy and terror climbed over her a sense of pride and responsibility. This is by no means Africa, AIDS kills 6,000 people a call to action; this is a call to the realization that innocent people. Just as innocent as every single fence and into view. But in a strange way, it’s comforting to be outraged other people have it so much worse than we do that our businessperson, maintenance worker, firefighter, secretary, passenger and tourist who perished Sept, 11 once in a while. It means that the horror of Sept. 11 position in the world prohibits us from even compreis not an everyday occurrence and that our senses hending their problems. in the United States. Just as innocent as the thousands of Iraqi children starving to death each month have not been dulled by routine violence on U.S. soil Realize that things for us are not as bad as they as a result of economic sanctions and a military dicas deadly as the attacks a month ago. We have the seem. Yes, we are in a war on terrorism, which includes tator who they did not even choose. And then there luxury of getting angry and calling for immediate a war on Afghanistan. Yes, it is unsettling to think that are the thousands of Israelis and Palestinians action to achieve justice rather than having to accept our soldiers are risking their lives on the other side of caught in the crossfire of a religious conflict that has thousands offatalities with no possibility ofjustice as the world to ensure our security inside the U.S. border. been waged for centuries. These are all innocent vica fact oflife. But we don’t live in Afghanistan, and we don’t have to tims, living in places where innocence doesn’t matter The most important thing the events of Sept. 11 suffer through a persistent civil war, an oppressive should teach us isn’t that the Federal Aviation government and bombs raining down from airplanes in the end. But is America outraged? Do the people living the Administration should ban steak knives from in-flight that cost almost as much as our country’s gross domesMecca of freedom, liberty and justice rally around the meal trays or that the stars and stripes is still a symtic product. We live in the United States of America, memories of those who are sacrificed everyday bol of hope for Americans or that the United States where we can sit on our couches and watch these around the world? Do Americans flock to the should rethink its foreign policies. The most important things on television. So next time you get a D on a test, your fake ID gets International Red Cross to donate blood for people thing we average Americans can learn is how nice we snatched or that girl in your political science class living through war-torn hell in Bosnia or Chechnya? really have it. We live in a country that hasn’t seen military conturns down a date, step back and ask yourself, “Is it Do we hold candlelight prayer vigils for those suffering at the hands of tyrannical governments? Do we flict on its mainland since 1865. We don’t go to bed really the end of the world?” I’ll give you a hint: the answer is no. wondering if a shell is going to fall on our roof. We can even talk about these things? The answer is no. The vast majority of the sit back in our dorms or in classrooms and talk about American people haven’t done any ofthese things—at how evil Osama bin Laden is and not have to worry Andrew Rothman is a Trinity sophomore and associate least, we hadn’t done them until Sept. 11. We felt no about a missile rocketing through the window. We can editorial page editor of The Chronicle.

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