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Marketplace Starr speaks on Roberts, Court alum emphasizes to highlight Law need for concordance local flavor BY

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During today’s lunch hour, 400 restauand cafes across the country will serve meals made entirely from ingredients found within a 150-mile radius of their kitchens. The Marketplace will be one of those eateries. The Bon Appetit Management Co. project, known as the Eat Local Challenge, aims to highlight the importance of the local economy in food selection. “It is important to support local markets so that they can continue to provide for us in future generations,” said Larry Murrill, Bon Appetit regional marketing director. Today’s lunch at the Marketplace will feature blue crab, grass-fed sirloin tips and mahi mahi—all provided by North Carolina foodgrowers. And students can satisfy their sweet tooth with baked apples with honey or figs with Carolina goat cheese. The rich agriculture of North Carolina rants

SEE EAT LOCAL ON PAGE 7

Kenneth Starr, Law ’73, spoke at the School of Law Monday afternoon on the direction of the Supreme Court under new Chief JusticeJohn Roberts. Titled “Practical Politics and the Law,” Starr’s talk addressed the attitude change inaugurated by the Supreme Court’s management shift. Starr, most famous for his prosecution of Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, said that although split decisions were common under the court of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Roberts’ court has changed that, with a new emphasis on unanimity and agreement among justices. “That viewpoint that he brings is that the court is doing its best when it tries to achieve the narrowest possible result in a case, and thereby achieve as much harmony and concord as possible,” Starr said. In his first year as chief justice, Roberts has led the court to creating more than 50 percent ofits decisions by a unanimous 9-0 vote, Starr said . This is no easy task, he explained, because these unanimous decisions have bridged topics ranging from abortion to religion in the public square to the presence of military recruiters on law school campuses. “[Roberts believes in] stability in the law, a sense that law is not simply politics by another means and people justvoting their political preferences,” Starr said. “They are in fact being very lawyerly and taking the judicial craft very seriously not in a parliamentary, compromise, let’s split this down the middle [way]... —

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but rather we have found the principle of a ground on which we can all rally.” This desire for common ground, Starr said, comes at a time when the perception of unanimity in court decisions is very much needed. Starr cited a recent Gallup poll that showed public confidence in the Supreme Court at the lowest level since the company began polling, partially be-

You schmooze, you win? by

Katherine MAcllwaine THE CHRONICLE

Typical mid-semester demands like papers and exams may seem stressful to most students, but many seniors face an even more daunting task—finding a job. As representatives from some of the nation’s top companies arrive on campus for the recruiting season, students are scrambling not only to learn about job opportuniperspectives ties but also to impress recruiters face-to-face. ‘You really want to get your name on the sign-up sheet just to show that you have the interest and have made the effort to get out there,” said senior Doug Cerny, who volunteers as a member of the Career Center’s Career Advising Team. Forty percent of undergraduate students participate in on-campus recruiting, and most attend a numSEE SCHMOOZE ON PAGE 6

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Former Clinton prosecutor Kenneth Starr speaks at the law school Monday about the Supreme Court's future. cause of the court’s recent history of split 5-4 decisions. Therefore, Starr said, Roberts’ unique approach to consensus-building will be significant as the court rules on controversial cases in the new term, which began yesterday, on both partial birth abortion and affirmative action. SEE STARR ON PAGE 6

Former Dukies to buy Grizzlies Greg Beaton THE CHRONICLE

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Meet-and-greet sessions with representatives from potentia! employers have been known to help students secure jobs.

An investment group led by former Duke basketball stars Christian Laettner and Brian Davis has reached an agreement to buy a majority stake in the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. Davis and Laettner will invest $4O million of the group’s $360 million to purchase 70 percent of the Grizzlies from billionaire Michael Heisley, Davis said at a news conference Monday. “I am honored and thrilled to have an opportunity to become majority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies,” Davis said. “I believe very strongly in the future of this franchise and in the future of Memphis.” Before the deal is official, the minority owners of the team will have a chance to match the terms of the agreement, and the NBAs Board of Governors must also approve the ownership transaction. SEE DAVIS-LAETTNER ON PAGE 10

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Americans share Nobel Prize

Gunman kills 3 in Amish school by

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A milk-truck NICKEL MINES, Pa. driver carrying three guns and a grudge stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-byfours, and then opened fire on a dozen girls, killing three of them before committing suicide. Eight other victims were critically wounded, state police said. It was the nation’s third deadly school shooting in less than a week, and it sent shock waves through Lancaster County’s bucolic Amish country, a picturesque land-

scape of horse-drawn buggies, green pastures and neat-as-a-pin farms, where violent crime is virtually nonexistent. Most of the victims had been shot execution-style, after being lined up along the chalkboard, their feet bound with wire and plastic ties, authorities said. “This is a horrendous, horrific incident for the Amish community. They’re solid citizens in the community. They’re good people. They don’t deserve no one deserves this,” State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. The attack bore similarities to a deadly school shooting last week in Bailey, Colo., and authorities there raised the ...

possibility that the Pennsylvania attack was a copycat crime. The gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 31-year-old truck driver from the nearby town of Bart, was bent on killing young girls as away of “acting out in revenge for something that happened 20 years ago” when he was a boy, Miller said. Miller refused to say whatthat grudge was. Roberts was not Amish and appeared to have nothing against the Amish community, Miller said. Instead, Miller said, he apparently picked the school because it was close by, there were girls there, and it had little or no security.

Iraqi leader reveals plan for unity by

Lee Keath

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Iraq’s prime minister announced a new plan Monday aimed at ending the deepening crisis between Shiite and Sunni parties in his government and uniting them behind the drive to stop sectarian killings that have bloodied the BAGHDAD, Iraq

country for months. The four-point plan, which emerged after talks between both sides, aims to resolve disputes by giving every party a voice in how security forces operate against violence on a neighborhood by neighborhood level.

Local committees will be formed in each Baghdad district—made up of representatives of every party, religious and tribal leaders and security official—to consult on security efforts. A Sunni representative, for example, could raise a complaint if he feels police are not pursuing a Shiite militia after an attack. A central committee, also made up ofall the parties, will coordinate with the armed forces. “We have taken the decision to end sectarian hatred once and for all,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters. “We have vowed before Almighty God to stop the bloodshed.”

In a possible boost to the effort to rein in the violence, a radical cleric who heads one of the most powerful Shiite militias, Muqtada al-Sadr, has ordered his followers to put aside their weapons temporarily, a Sadr spokesman told The Associated Press. Al-Maliki announced his plan hours after gunmen abducted 14 computer shop employees in a bold, midday attack in downtown Baghdad, the second mass kidnapping in as many days. . The bodies of seven of the 24 captives seized Sunday were found dumped in southern Baghdad.

Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C Mello won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes, opening a potential new avenue for fighting diseases as diverse as cancer and AIDS.

Rice denies she was warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al Qaeda attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11,2001.

Mark Foley checks into rehab Former Florida Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican, has checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for alcoholism treatment and accepts responsibility for his actions, his attorney said Monday. He is under FBI investigation for salacious e-mail exchanges with male teenage congressional pages.

S. Korean likely to lead UN South Korea's foreign minister Ban KiMoon cemented his position as the frontrunner to succeed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday. He is only one of six candidates to escape a veto in an informal U.N. Security Council ballot. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Students may also purchase a maximum of two additional tickets in the student section to the Blue-White game for THEIR PARENTS FOR $20.00 EACH. CASH OR CHECK ONLY. A LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS ARE AVAILABLE, AND ONCE THEY ARE GONE THERE WILL BE NO OTHER TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR SALE. We WILL NOT GUARANTEE ANYONE A TICKET TO THE EVENT, WHETHER THAT BE A STUDENT OR PARENT, ONCE THE LOWER LEVEL SEATS IN CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM ARE GONE!

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Durham police get help from psychic by

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City Council member Thomas Stith criticizes Durham's lack of action to correct rising crime and poverty.

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The topics discussed at Monday’s Durham City Council meeting ranged from the mayor’s cowboy boots to a smoldering compost pile. Council member Eugene Brown opened the meeting on a light-hearted note by mentioning a “very controversial” article in the Raleigh News & Observer that called Mayor Bill Bell the best-dressed man in Durham. Bell won the award, Brown said, in part for his cowboy boots. “I had nothing else to do today so I looked them up online,” Brown admitted, joking that Council member Thomas Stith placed second in the contest. Stith changed the tone of the meeting by criticizing the City’s “lack of action” in light of high crime and chronic poverty. “Maybe I’m a bit too conservative for the fashion folks, but a band-aid isn’t going to fix [Durham] —we need major surgery,” Stith said. “The citizens of Durham are fed up. I know I am.” Further debatearose when City Manager Patrick Baker addressed an Oct. 1 N&O arti-

cle that said he did not tell the truth about permits involved in a recent landfill fire. Baker defended himself from the criticism at length. Bell eventually extinguished the debate. Following the landfill debate, the Council addressed the construction of the Durham Performing Arts Center. The project puts Durham on its way to becoming a “real renaissance city,” said Bill Kalkhof of Downtown Durham, Inc. But some citizens and Council members were concerned by the $34 million cost of the project, and others worried the construction would not benefit minority contractors and workers. “We need to put pressure on these companies to hire our local citizens,” Durham resident Victoria Peterson said to Bell. “There are very few people working out there who look like you and I,” she added. Brown said Duke’s financial support would be key to funding the project. “This is not the final vote on the theater,” he said. “We still need to hear from that 2,000-lb., blue gorilla that resides in Durham.”

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Psychic Laurie McQuary was called in from Oregon to assist the Durham Police Department with their investigation of a 17-month-old murder case. Janet Abaroa, 25, was murdered in her Durham home in April 2005. Her family chose to fly McQuary, the owner of Management by Intuition and voted “Portland’s Best” psychic by Willamette Week, to North Carolina to assist police. “We had talked to [Durham police] several times about the possibility of using a psychic,” Abaroa’s sister Dena Kendall told the Raleigh News and Observer. “After nine months of an investigation, they had exhausted all leads they had. When it got to be a year and they still hadn’t made an

arrest, I think that’s when we really started

pushing. I think it’s just helping them de-

velop new leads, basically.” McQuary—who coincidentally met

her husband, a detective in Lake Oswego, Ore., while investigating a case—has been a psychic since she came out of a three-month coma after a head injury, she said in an interview with Court TV. McQuary has a background of investigating criminal cases. “When she works with police it’s always pro-bono,” McQuary’s non-psychic assistant Joyce Yam said. “Police did not fly her out. No taxpayers’ dollars were used for any of this.” Yam said McQuary was able to talk SEE PSYCHICS ON PAGE 4

Global financial firm funds economics class by

Donnie Allison THE CHRONICLE

Students interested in the daily reality of the finance world can now enroll in a class with guest lectures from practicing Wall Street investment bankers. WKMMMk Deutsche Bank, a global financial services firm, is currently sponsoring a Duke economics class. The bank will offer funding Mm and a series oflectures for students enrolled in Economics 192—a financial markets seminar taught by Emma Rasiel, assistant professor ofeconomics. Deutsche Bank is looking to expand its presence and recruitment opportunities at the University while also offering something of value to students, Rasiel said. “I already had a general financial mar-

kets seminar,” she explained. “Deutsche agreed to sponsor it and promised me that they would send me four different visiting speakers at different times during the semester.” Rasiel added that Deutsche Bank provided valuable help in both outlining the syllabus for the course and selecting relevant material for the reading list. “The reading list is unique to this course,” Samantha Prouty, a junior in the class, wrote in an email. “It fits extremely well.” The lectures by Deutsche Bank speakers were designed to address a wide range of issues concerning financial markets, Rasiel said. One of the lectures this fall dealt with corporate valuation—a primary function of the SEE DEUTSCHE ON PAGE

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Musician plays jazz, talks history by

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The Nelson Music Room, not usually known as a campus hotspot, was filled with the exotic beats ofAfro-Latin jazz Monday evening during a lively performance of the John Santos Quintet. The concert followed a lecture, “Afro Caribbean Jazz as Identity,” given by John Santos, a three-time Grammy-nominated jazz percussionist. In front of an audience of approximately 60 people, Santos spoke about the development of the unique jazz movement in the Americas, encompassing 400 years of musical history. Santos’ background is as mixed as the music that he is most fond of. With a combination of Puerto Rican, African, Irish and Portuguese blood, Santos defined the Americas as much more than just the United States. He began his talk with a history ofAfroLatin jazz. The movement first came to the United States through New Orleans, as a result of the city’s trading connections with the Caribbean, he explained. The influences of European, blues and soul since then, however, have disguised the music’s true roots. “Music is a document, more accurate a document than we are aware of,” Santos said. “Beautiful traditions of poetry and philosophy tell a story preserved by the music and instruments where they have been stripped away through poor documentation.” Despite what its name suggests, Santos said Afro-Latin jazz should not be seen as a foreign music but as a fundamental part of American musical culture. He proceeded to trace Afro-Latin jazz through popular culture. Jazz, and to a

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Three-time Grammy nominee John Santos speaks aboutAfro-Latin jazz before his performance Monday. lesser extent rhythm and blues, expresses a Latin tinge through a walking, binary bass kept by the left hand, Santos said. The bass reflects the clapping that originally gave structure to the music, and can be seen in a variety of genres from rock and roll to funk and hip-hop, he added. Santos also talked about the tradition of resistance that worked against the integration of different styles of music, dating back to the days of slavery. “Africans came here with no instruments but traditions preserved in their hearts and souls and minds,” he said. “It is a part of who we are.” When drums were forbidden in America, slaves would make music with two sticks, a door, a box—anything that made noise, Santos said. Today, he added, resistance occurs in

another way: the state arts councils in two states have been cut, and the budget of California’s Arts Council is currendy 15 percent of what it used to be. Santos expressed pride in musicians who still continue to use music not only as a means of entertainmentbut also as away to make important messages heard. He described music as an alternative, more discreet way to voice opinions about racism and classism. “In an ideal world, music would not interfere with politics,” he said. The evening’s discussion was not solely focused on serious topics. Music is also an important part of having fun, Santos reminded the audience. “A very strong element of music is what it does for us to lift our spirits,” he said. “A transformation occurs on the dance floor.”

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about the areas she visited in Durham before she even arrived. Yam was not able to say, however, exacdy what McQuary found in Durham. Dave Wulff, a captain of the Cary Police Department, said that although his department has never used a psychic before, it would not dismiss the possibility of doing so in the future. “Don’t rule anything out if you think it’s going to give you a credible lead,” Wulff said. Many people, however, do rule out paranormal psychology and its use in criminal investigations. “The higher the profile of case the more psychics want to work on it,” said Joe Nickell, the Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal—a non-profit organization that investigates paranormal events. “They work free to gain publicity to promote their psychic-reading business.’’ Nickell said some psychics take advantage of the grief and desperation of the victims’ families. Chicago-area couple Jack! Mari and Alyn Richard make a living out ofcriminal investigation and psychic consultations. Mari, also known as “Sherlock Jacki” or “Same-Day Jacki,” and her husband are a team of psychics who have investigated a number of criminal cases. They said that each psychic has a different method of solving the case. “I become the murderer or the missing person,” Mari said. “It’s like looking out of their eyes.” Richard noted that she is successful more than 90 percent of the time. Nickell, however, questioned the reliability of all psychic investigators. “Unfortunately, there are countless people who claim to be psychics,” he said. “So far, they have been unable to [solve crimes].”

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SCHMOOZE from page 1 ber ofinformation sessions, said Yolander Albert, associate director of the Career Center. “It gives them face time with the representatives and it helps them to build relationships prior to their interviews,’’Albert said. “It increases their likelihood of getting an interview, which in turn increases their likelihood of getting hired.” Albert said information sessions—which are usually attended by 10 to 200 students—typically involve a presentation followed by questions and answers, small group discussions and mingling. Several recruiters said one-on-one time with students is an essential part of the recruitment process because it differentiates names from the many resumes they receive. Brian Goldfarb, Trinity ’O3 and group product manager for Microsoft Corporation, said students who meet him personally can present the communication skills necessary for jobs in his field. “There are so many soft skills that are required in the

job that are almost impossible to relay in a resume,” he said. “I can never tell if you’re articulate, I can never tell if you have good communications skills, I can never tell if you’re someone I want to go have a beer with.” A senior economics major, who asked

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her interactions with recruiters. The student, who anticipates a career in sales and trading next year, said her 3.0 grade-point average presented her with a challenge when she sought an internship for the summer after her junior year. After hitting it off with a representative at a recruiting dinner, however, she was offered a summer position at one of the nation’s top financial firms, and her performance left her with a post-graduation job offer. “It had to have been the woman I met at this dinner,” she said, explaining the outcome. “I had not gotten any interviews, up to this point—I had submitted my resume

everywhere.”

She added that the same skills she used to obtain her

internship have helped her to cinch interviews with other top companies this year.

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“It is all about the relationships and how you come across to not only a client but to a recruiter,” she said. ‘You need to be very good with people and be very eloquent and confident.” Some Duke graduates, however, have successfully found employment without pursuing face time with recruiters. Alima Wieselman, Trinity ’O6, currently works for Stockamp and Associates, a health care consulting group. She said that by listening at information sessions instead of meeting and greeting, she was prepared to impress employers with a more thorough understanding of their or-

ganizations.

“One of the biggest advantages of going to an information session is that you really get a sense of the personality of the company, and it helps you tailor your cover letter and resume,” Wieselman said. “It really gives you a sense of what types of values they’re focusing on, and it just helps in knowing how to prepare for an interview.” Caroline Hull, recruitment director for Teach for America in North Carolina, agreed. Although she emphasized that students were encouraged to approach representatives after the company’s on-campus presentations, she said the purpose ofinformation sessions is to inform students. '“I see information sessions as literally that—away for students to leam a lot more about our organization,” Hull said. “It’s away for them to form a more accurate picture of who we are and what we do.” David Rausen, advanced consultant for IBM, said mingling is most important in behavior-based fields like sales, banking and consulting. Albert, however, said meeting and greeting recruiters is valuable for students seeking jobs in all fields. “I would say it is equally important for all the industries because you need to develop face relationships with people,” Albert said. Last year, 140 information sessions were held on campus in a wide range of areas including financial services, consulting, engineering and technology, government non-profit jobs and teaching. Cemy said certain fields, such as investment banking, may appear to require more intermingling than others because of the sheer demand for jobs in those areas. Cemy, an engineer, said he benefited from attending TechConnect—a panel discussion and networking session sponsored by the Career Center, Department of Computer Science and Pratt School of Engineering. “I got a chance to really talk to a lot of companies there to the point that the next day at the CareerFair they recognized me and came up to me and continued the conversations we had the night before,” he said. Although he noted the advantages of meeting recruiters, Goldfarb said there is a threshold to excessive fraternizing. “There’s a line that you can cross where you’re doing yourself more harm than good,” he said. “I interacted with a lot of students who went out of the way to make sure they met people over and over again... that can be challenging sometimes because you’re trying to engage with as many people as possible.” Goldfarb called the art of impressing recruiters a form of self-advertisement. ‘You’re marketing yourself as a product,” he said. “Getting a job is a job.”

STARR from page 1 “We have greater unanimity and less cacophony, and thereby promote public confidence in the Supreme Court of the United States, which I think is a great and worthy goal,” Starr said. Despite the largely positive tone of Starr’s speech, freshman Jessica Baron said she was somewhat disappointed and had been expecting a more political discussion of the legal system. A number of audience members who said they might not have normally allied themselves politically with Starr said they were pleased with what they heard, citing Starr’s effort to be fair-minded. “I don’t thinkKen Starr and I are on the same page politically, but I really enjoyed [the talk],” said Lily North, a third-year law student. “His speech was very measured.” Sonja Ralston Elder, a joint second-year law and public policy graduate student, said Starr’s speech gave an interesting view of the judicial system she hadn’t heard before. She added that some of her professors have been more negative in their appraisals ofRoberts’ legal philosophy. “I think he made some really interesting points about Roberts as manager of the court rather than just another justice with an opinion,” Ralston Elder said.

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“Duke students want to work for companies that... take the time to invest in their people,” Fike wrote in an e-mail. “By sponcorporate finance wing of an investment soring this class, Deutsche has gone to bank, she added. great lengths to show how much they care.” “[The Deutsche Bank speaker] walked Fike likened her search for an internthrough an example of how you would ship to her search for a college. v value a standard corporation, using the typ“At some point, what really is the differical methodoloence between gies,” Rasiel said. Harvard, Yale, She added Duke... etc.?” “There’s a big myth... that you that one of the Fike wrote. “It have to be an econ major to go to two remaining is the people. lectures will likely That’s why I Wall Street... That’s just not true.” deal with emergchose Duke, ing markets. -Emma Rasiel and that’s why I David Posen, chose Assistant professor, Economics the coordinator Deutsche.” of Deutsche Rasiel said Bank’s efforts at that despite the Duke, said that the bank has been “very large amount of economics majors interested in working for Wall Street firms like gratified” by student reaction so far. “When I was given this responsibility, I Deutsche Bank, students from other fields realized the effort was very young,” Posen of study can also find opportunities in the wrote in an e-mail to Rasiel. “In order to business world. “There’s a big myth about that—that get traction, we needed to quickly build a relationship between Deutsche Bank and you have to be an econ major to go to the University.” Wall Street,” Rasiel explained. “That’s Posen added that Deutsche Bank has just not true.” “a number of Duke alums” who have exRasiel said students majoring in quantitative and analytical disciplines compressed interest in more aggressive recruiting of Duke undergraduates. prise a large percentage of those Duke Rasiel said Deutsche Bank does not students interested in Wall Street careers. have as long a history with Duke as comEven a considerable number of students panies like Goldman Sachs and Morgan in non-quantitative social sciences, however, seek jobs in finance. Stanley do. “In the past, Deutsche had not had Although some people said they worry that Deutsche Bank is attempting to mothat strong a presence at Duke just because they presumably had a smaller nopolize Duke economics students, group of schools that they were visiting,” Prouty said she has not observed anything Rasiel said. .“They didn’t have that many of that nature. Duke alums so there wasn’t a big push to “They are not really trying to push Deutsche Bank over any other bank,” she go to Duke.” Senior Katie Fike, who interned with wrote. “I think, if anything, they are just Deutsche Bank this past summer, said she expecting to get increased exposure to Duke students.” expects the bank’s efforts to pay off.

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and the willing attitude of the Duke community provided a wide array of ingredients for the Challenge’s organizers. Lunch served at the Marketplace today is a result of weeks of collaboration and preparation between Bon Appetit chefs and local farmers. Bon Appetit Executive Chef Michael Aguaro worked closely with Eastern Carolina Organics, a co-op pf local farmers, in order to identify gather local ingredients for the event on campus. The biggest challenge was finding seasoning for dishes, Aguaro said, and organizers waived the 150-mile rule for salt “We resorted to combining flavors from many ingredients by building and layering,” he said. Plans for the Eat Local Challenge at Duke began in June and were bolstered by the success of the orientation week East Campus BBQ, which promoted local North Carolinian cuisine. One of the most rewarding aspects of the project is the creation of relationships with local farmers, Aguaro said. “Farmers are

happy to jsee us rolling in, because we are able to purchase a comparatively large amount of their product,” he said. Although the Challenge is just a one-day event, the benefits of local food consumption will likely have a lasting impact on the University. “From now on, we are looking to feature locally grown products on a daily basis at the Marketplace,” said Paul Weinberg, general manager of the Marketplace. One local rancher in particular will increase his production several times over as a result of Bon Appetit’s commitment to continue purchasing beef from him, Aguaro said. Students and administrators alike are enthusiastic about the Eat Local Challenge. “We thinkit’s wonderful that Bon Appetit is placing an emphasis on local products,” said senior Eric Hung, co-chair of Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee. If all goes well tomorrow, the event may become a campus tradition. “Our staff in the Marketplace has responded very well to the goals of Bon Appetit,” Weinberg said. “We foresee the Eat Local Challenge as continuing annually at Duke.” ~

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There are three things every Jewish kid knows by his or her Bar or Bat Mitzvah. 1. Cheeseburgers aren’t kosher. 2. Cheeseburgers are tasty. 3. And, most importandy, Sandy Koufax didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur. The Yom Kippur story of Brooklyn Dodgers’ Hall of Famer Koufax is the —JBHHHI most famous sports-realex lated tale involving a !I ro ' jab l:ca i it s just about1 -,, the only sports-related tale involving a Jew). On October 6,1965, Koufax—the most dominant pitcher in the game at the time did not pitch Game One of the World Series. Instead, he went to synagogue and fasted, and the Dodgers lost Game One. Koufax took a lot of flack for that. People said he let his personal life interfere with his professional life. But the southpaw got the last laugh. He pitched a dominating three-hitter in Game Seven to win the World Series and won the World Series MVP. Anyway, most Jewish kids are familiar with the story because September and October—when Yom Kippur always falls—is prime youth baseball and soccer season. Invariably, Yom Kippur would fall on a Saturday or Sunday one year, and all the little Jewish boys and girls wouldn’t be allowed to play in the game on that day. “Why can’t I play?” the little children would whine to their parents. And the parents would say, ‘Your game is more important than the World Series? Sandy Koufax didn’t play in the World Series; you aren’t going to play soccer.” Duke football left tackle Cameron Goldberg faced a similar dilemma this year, and he chose to practice on Monday morning. He said his grandparents gave him a little bit of a hard time—told him that he should go to synagogue instead of practicing. He decided he could do both. But one thing Goldberg couldn’t get around was the holiday’s fasting requirement. And if you thought not eating or drinking for a day was tough, try doing that while practicing football. Hey, no one said being Jewish is easy. “I didn’t drink any water during practice,” said Goldberg, who finally broke his day-long fast at nearly 9 p.m. “If I had asked coach [Ted Roof], of course he would have let me skip practice, but we have a really big game coming up.” So maybe he played on Yom Kippur and Sandy Koufax didn’t, but Goldberg had his own set of difficulties. His teammates knew that he couldn’t drink any water during practice, so they jokingly squirted him with water bottles. And fasting had to have been extra tough for Goldberg—you can’t imagine the 6-fool-6, 280-pounder skips a lot of meals. (Sorry. No Anti-Train this week. I just finished repenting for abusing, hating, insulting, jeering, mocking and zealotry for bad causes. The Anti-Train basically encapsulates all of that.)

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The Blue Devils’ 04 start to the season may have critics trying to pick them apart, but the Duke family is committed to

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Despite the team’s struggles, head coach Ted Roof is making sure the Blue Devils do not tear apart by emphasizing the closeness between everyone involved in the program. “He’s been stressing not to worry about the outsiders,” tailback Ronnie Drummer said. “We’re all one family and a family never breaks apart.” Although the team has lacked success on the scoreboard and in the win column, the Blue Devils insist that they are as determined as ever. Drummer said a loss like Saturday’s 37-0 defeat to Virginia sparked fervor within the Duke locker room, and the team hopes to use its emotions as motivation for die rest of the season. “A lot of people were angry,” Drummer said. “I think that should make us all come out and practice even harder and make everyone even madder and make us do well.” A positive attitude and strong motivation, however, may not be enough to fix all of the Blue Devils’ problems. Many of the mistakes that plagued Duke Saturday were also present in its other three loses. In order to improve, Roof said the team must eliminate its self-inflicted errors and focus on not beating itself. “I think that’s the reality of life,” Roof said. “There is no perfect football SEE FOOTBALL

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Senior Darby Kroyer has served as captain the past two seasons for the Blue Devils. She led Duke with 17 points during the 2005 campaign. .

Darby Kroyer is not the loudest Blue Devil, nor is she the tallest. She does not lead Duke in goals, or assists, or any other major statistical category. No matter. Ask any player—especially a freshman or sophomore—who Duke’s true leader is, and Darby Kroyer is the first name mentioned. “She’s just a really good leader,” sophomore midfielder Kelly Hathom said. “She has a lot ofheart and pride in playing for our team and leading our team.” Part of Kroyer’s role as a tri-captain this year has been to mentor a very talented corps of freshmen, all five of whom have played in each of Duke’s 12 games. The freshmen are quick to say that Kroyer eased the transition from high school soccer to college ball. “She makes all of us feel really comfortable,” freshman forward Elisabeth Redmond said. “I feel really close to her even though she’s four years older than me.” Kroyer and the rest of the seniors hosted the team in their apartments three days before practice officially started in August in order to foster team chemistry. The soccer-free days were meant to incorporate the freshmen into the tight-knit gTOlip, Kroyer Said. Such leadership is nothing new for Kroyer. As a junior last SEE KROYER ON PAGE 10

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Duke’s third shutout loss of the season was the quarterback-center exchange. True freshman quarterback Thaddeus Lewis dropped four snaps Saturday, all resulting in negative-yardage plays. In practice Monday, Roof addressed this problem by specifically working on this aspect of the game. “Even though [snapping the ball] seems like something simple, something that’s like Pop Warner,” Drummer said. “Sometimes when you get higher, you don’t concentrate on the simple things and the fundamentals.” The Blue Devils remain optimistic because of their successful practices. Despite the lopsided score against the Cavaliers, Duke players said they felt prepared and ready. Roof said the team’s goal is to have one successful practice at a time. This progressive motion throughout the week is meant to ensure that the team remains focused. “We have eight games left,” linebacker Jeramy Edwards said. “It’s a long season ahead of us. We play it one day at a time, starting with tomorrow’s practice. You can’t dwell on what happened in the past. You just have to play now, and then play the next play.” The stress of another potential losing season has Duke trying to fight back its frustrated feelings. Drummer said if the team manages to stay together, things will start to come around for the Blue Devils. To maintain this close-knit family, Duke has refused to point fingers at anyone for its problems this season. “There’s a wide gamut ofemotions that we’re all feeling,” Roof said. “Our team and our coaches, we’re not getting into the blame game. Everyone’s looking inward and not outward. That’s what teams do, and we are a team and we will remain a team.”

tuesdaymorningquarterback news and notes from Monday's press conference Offensive line still cause for concern Before the season began, head coach Ted Roof targeted the offensive line as an area in need of improvement for the Blue Devils to succeed in 2006. Duke’s rushing attack continued its woeful campaign this season with a negative-21 yard performance against Virginia Saturday. The porous protection also allowed the Cavaliers to get many hard hits on quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, including four sacks and two forced fumbles. “We’ve got a ways to go,” Roof said about the progress of his of fensive line. “There’s m question about that... That group really has to play because there’s not much margin for error. We got to get better. We’re working on it and that's all I kno to do.”

Players look forward to wee tilt in Tuscaloosa Duke travels to Alabama th urday, home of one of college ball’s most prestigious programs Alabama has won 21 Championships and six natioi ties. The 92,138 people that a pected to fill Bryant-Denny um have developed a reputa* being some of the most rauc across the country. “It’ll be a heck of a ch

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Davis and Laettner were members of the men’s basketball team from 1988 to 1992, playing in the Final Four each year. The players were co-captains in 1992, when Duke won the second of its back-to-back national championships. After leaving Duke, Laettner went on to a 14-year NBA career. Davis briefly played professionally before returning to Durham to help found Blue Devil Ventures. Laettner and Tom Niemann, Fuqua ’9l, are also principals in the real estate development company. During the summer of 2005, Laettner and Davis together donated $2 million to the Department of Athletics to endow a men’s basketball scholarship and help fund the Center for Athletic Excellence. Davis said Laettner, who did not play last season, would be interested in returning to the NBA on the Grizzlies. “I guess if you own the team, you can put yourself on the roster,” Memphis head coach Mike Fratello said. The Grizzlies reportedly lost $4O million last season, and some think Davis’ group will shake up the franchise. But Davis said he would like Fratello and Jerry West, Grizzlies’ president of basketball operations, to stay on with the team, and he said he plans on working with the

Memphis community. “I intend to move my family to Memphis and invest money in real estate developments in this city,” Davis said. “I look forward to working closely with our local owners and admire their commitment to the Grizzlies and the entire community.” Davis declined to name the other partners in his Grizzly Acquisition Holdings, LLC, but he said “two large institutions” and “a couple of high net-worth individuals” comprise the partnership. Heisley said Davis was the right person to lead the Grizzlies forward. “I put a lot of time and a lot of money in this franchise,” Heisley said. “But I look at it and say, ‘Am I the person who can best take this team to the next level?’ CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO And I don’t think I am the person who can do as good Brian Davis was his co-captain during senior year at Duke in 1992. a job as Brian can do.” Above, he goes up for a dunk during the 1991 Blue-White Scrimmage. The Associated Press contributed reporting to this story.

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Despite the intimidating venue, the Blue Devils are looking forward to performing at the storied university. “It’s an intense environment," linebacker Jeramy Edwards said. “It’s something that you wish to play in as a Division-1 athlete. Playing in the toughest environment and having all those fans, that’s what college football is about.” Roofand Shula face off again In 1984, Roof and Alabama head coach Mike Shula faced off as players. who Roof, played defensive line for Georgia Tech, recorded a nine leam-high tackles against the Crimson Tide. Shula lined up quarterback for ibama and threw ;he team’s only down of the game ic Yellow Jackets victorious,, 16-6. wen recovered a. >y Shula. iut too much inforin my brain to reRoof said when reminisce. “But I *er him being a layer, and they had team.” ”

KROYER from page 9 year, her teammates also elected Kroyer tri-captain. She was just the second junior captain in head coach Robbie Church’s six-year tenure at Duke. Church could not have been happier with his team’s decision. “From her actions both on and off the field—how she represented herself, how she represented the program this is someone you want to be a leader,” Church said. “She’s one of the ones you want to set an example with.” Kroyer’s captain role has evolved over the past two years. Whereas lastyear she tried to lead by example —leading the Blue Devils with seven goals and 17 points—this year she has taken a more vocal approach. She is the first person on the field to praise a teammate on a good play and is also the first to encourage one after a miscue, Hathom said. “This year, I’ve talked a lot more and tried to be that positive voice,” Kroyer said. “At the same time, I’ve tried to give out a little more criticism.” Kroyer has two goals and two assists this year, which places her fifth on the team in points. She has no game-winning goals this year, but she collected two last year. Still, Church noted her penchant for making big plays in crucial spots. Her teammates have plenty of reason to look for Kroyer’s guidance on the field.Last year, she was a second team All-ACC and All-ACC tournament team selection. She is also currendy six points away from cracking the top 10 on Duke’s all-time points list. “As a captain, you have to set the example in everything you do on the field and off the field,” Kroyer said. “I always try to be the hardest worker on the field and be a positive influence.” Assistant coach Carla Overbeck, a member of the U.S. national team that won the 1999 Women’s World Cup, has discussed leadership and a post-college soccer career with Kroyer. “She does want to play after, and she has the ability-and capability to do that,” Overbeck said. “She works hard at being a good leader. She really wants to do a good job.” As a chemistry major, Kroyer said she may be interested in working in a lab after college. Then again, the independence of such an occupation may be a drawback for a player so used to being part of—and leading—a team. “I don’t know how long I could physically do that,” she said. “I’ve always felt that I’ve been part of a team.” —

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then-defensive coordinator should not include a firing Ted Roof, the football team ofRoof. went on to win two games Roof is not himself the that season. root of all the team’s problems, and firing him now Three years later, the situation is strikingly similar: a without giving him ample blowout homecoming loss, time to settle in may do more a struggling program and harm than good to the team. some fans calling for a new And there are positive decoach. tails that point to the potenEven after the construction tial for a competitive team. of a $l5-million new Funding for the program, world-class training facility for example, has been imand high-profile recruits like pressive. The Yoh Football Vince Oghobaase, the football Center’s facilities rival those team still managed to be shut of NFL teams. In addition, the football program continout at its own homecoming There ues to recruit very compedis serious uncergame.

lively, and on paper Duke has top-ranked recruits year in

and year out. But, logically, with this level of resources one would hope that Duke could at least be competitive against a I-AA competitive team requires time. Many players red shirt opponent at home. While the team has contheir freshman year, leaving tinued to struggle, traditionthe team with a lot ofyoung, al bottom-dwelling ACC inexperienced players. Winschools like UNC (which ning programs require seawent to a bowl game last seasoned veterans to help son) and Wake Forest guide new players through (which is currently undefeattheir development. ed) have made marked With all that said, the strides in improving their University seems to be conown programs. As for Duke, tent with maintaining the it could be argued that we statusqqu collection of have moved backward, not highly visible nationally forward. ranked teams and a lagging From suspensions and infootball program. juries to the continual probAt this time it is not in the lem of players transferring best interest of the school to to competing schools, the fire Ted Roof, despite the a

—Eugene Brown, Durham city council member, on Mayor Bill Bell’s cowboy boots. See story page 3.

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temptation of a quick fix In the meantime, the University should look to more creative scheduling methods. Roof should petition the ACC for a more flexible and non-league schedule. This will allow Duke to play more competitive and entertaining games. The Blue Devils lost to a Division I-AA team two weeks ago. How are we expected to play a competitive game against Alabama or Florida State? A schedule dominated by Ivy League schools and other academic rivals would better serve our school’s needs. All in all, we don’t aim to be in the BCS championship, but we should be able to

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program has been plagued by a number of setbacks. In addition, it is understood that a football program cannot be built overnight—establishing a

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were we thinking when we wrote our parody ofPaul Haagen’s Faculty Athletics

continued its inquiry into college sports. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education (SepAssociates Program? The answer is simply tember 22, 2006) “Lawmakers are concerned that that Professor Haagen’s program appeared to be big-time sports programs are evolving into entera public relations exercise for a beleaguered Athtainment businesses that are only marginally conletics Departnected to the tax-exempt purposes of colleges and ment, a banduniversities....” Congress is considering whether aid that did not to tax revenues of the NCAA, conferences and & Richard hain address any of big-time college athletics programs. If Congress the fundamendoes, athletics revenues will fall significantly. How fred nijhout tal issues conwill Duke adapt to the shortfall? Will it affect acaguest column the demic programs? cerning role of athletics The increasing size and power of athletics on at Duke and other universities. Our goal was to campus also affects the allocation of resources, draw attention, through humor, to the asymmetry sometimes away from areas where they are critibetween athletics and academics in Professor Haacally needed for academic programs. The most recent example is the stream of facilities congen’s program. The issues surrounding athletics are much structed for Athletics during the last decade, cullarger than a lack of communication between minating in the construction of the new extencoaches and faculty. They are considerably deepsion to Cameron Indoor Stadium, the “Center er and go to the core of the institution and its valfor Athletic Excellence,” which will further conues. We are not opposed to athletics and we symtribute to the “academic-athletic divide.” Some pathize with the difficult double lives of of these construction funds might have been betstudent-athletes who are caught between the deter used to help alleviate the critical shortage of mands of their studies and their sports. What we classroom space on campus. True, Athletics and many other faculty seek is an honest, open needs new and upgraded facilities, but so too do and constructive discussion about the role ofathmany academic units on campus. letics at Duke. Not all issues relate to budgets and priorities. Recent editorials and op-eds in The Chronicle Student-athletes are subject to increasing time deseem to suggest that athletics and academics are mands for travel and practice, which often have sigequal partners at Duke. They are not and never nificant impact on their studies. An athlete in one should be. Duke is a non-profit educational instituof our classes a few years ago was on a team whose tion. Like all research universities, Duke’s primary coach scheduled practice the minute her classes mission is the creation, exploration and disseminaended. To avoid penalty, she had to leave class early tion of knowledge through research, scholarship in order to attend practice on time. and teaching. Athletics serves a significant auxiliary During the first full week of classes this fall, role by helping cultivate school spirit and by creatthe women’s field hockey team missed Thursday ing a healthy diversion for students from their in- (as well as Friday) classes to travel to a Saturday tellectual pursuits. For many faculty, the primary isgame in lowa. Such incidents are commonplace. sues concern the relationship of athletics to the Are these demands fair to student athletes? University’s mission and its priorities. Universities, in the ideal, are places of honest, The relationship between academics and athopen and vigorous debate. It is time for the Duke letics is not static. During the last decade, the community to undertake a thoughtful debate Duke Athletics budget has grown at about twice about the role (current and future) of athletics the rate of the Arts and Sciences budget. If this on campus. The Chronicle would be one of severtrend persists, Athletics will be half as large as Arts al excellent forums. Let the debate begin. and Sciences in 2030 and as large by 2046. This raises very serious questions for the Duke commuRichard Main is a professor of mathematics and Fred nity. But the issues extend well beyond Duke. This Nijhout is a professor of biology. Both have chaired their summer, the House Ways and Means Committee respective departments.

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letterstotheeditor Head line monitor explains Blue/White Scrimmage

ticket sale The Blue/White Scrimmage tickets will be on sale on Wednesday, Oct. 4, beginning at 6:30 a.m. It is a first-come, firstserve walkup line until all tickets are sold. Students may validate for 1 free ticket and purchase up to 2 additional tickets at $20.00 each cash or check only, with Duke ID. Tickets will be sold at the ticket office on the far side ofCameron Indoor Stadium. Come out and see our men’s basketball team play for the first time this season! Mara Schultz Trinity 'O7 Head Line Monitor

Yesterday,

a friend ofmine leaned over to hug her friend. She ended up half in his lap. She giggled. She and the friend started to talk. “Wow,” interjected some guy, sitting next to them. “That totally just gave me wood.” My friend giggled and, after a minute, walked away. She had wanted to say, What’s your problem? That’s disgusting. Why would you say that? But she didn’t. She laughed and 11 fIOSSy WnltG walked away. Not that I blame her. I would biweekly sass probably have done the same thing, afraid to be seen as some enraged feminazi. I would have stuck to the script, laughed, maybe thrown in a light-hearted “Eeeeew,” but nothing more, because that’s how conversations go at Duke. Duke is a very pleasant island. It is pretty. We are relatively safe. We have food and alcohol. Many of us lead a mostly untroubled existence and we have learned to speak as though we’re untroubled and entitled. Once we step outside of class or study groups, or get off the phone with parents, we slip into a language that ranges from dumb to grotesquely graphic. There is a script that we seem to follow, a series of responses that we must supply if we want to fit in and not be categorized as dull or humorless. When someone tells me that they had a rough night, drank a lot and that they have a wicked hangover, I react with sympathy and amusement. I never roll my eyes or tell them I don’t care. At Duke, the appropriate response is to laugh and give them a verbal pat on the back for being such a badass. Never mind if you aren’t that impressed. My friends and some of the guys I hang out with call me a “whore.” Sometimes. And it’s fine, because I’m not a whore, and they know that and I know that. But the word, and others like it, has still slipped into our vocabulary and passes back and forth without notice. My brother, aged twenty-two, came to visit Duke last year. In a moment ofbrilliance I took him to a frat party called “Secs and Execs.” A few of the guys there, .

Wulforst deserves praise

In the last two days, stories about Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst have unfairly tarnished his reputation. In the October issue of Towerview, the blurb accompanying Wulforst’s photo suggests he has left unfulfilled “nearly a decade of promises.” Although all (notably Wulforst) acknowledge that there are improvements to be made, to suggest that the history of dining in the last ten years is composed of empty promises is patendy false. Ten years ago, dining on West Campus consisted of a cafeteria known as “The Pits,” a restaurant known as “The Rat” and the lowest-grossing Burger King in the nation. Today, there are more than\ 20 unique dining options on West. Almost all of this progress can be traced to Wulforst. Even more frustrating, Friday’s Chronicle contained a frontpage article strongly implying that the Oktoberfest beer snafu was Wulforst’s fault. In fact, it was the Union that ran afoul of North Carolina law (and ALE) by advertising alcohol distribution, and it was the Union that failed to give Dining Services enough time to obtain a vendor. Despite these mistakes on the part of the Union, Wulforst still worked to provide free beer to students at Friday’s festivities. The man deserves a hug, not a lambasting. Duke Student Government gives the Dean Sue Wasiolek Award to the administrator who is most responsive to undergraduate concerns. Jim Wulforst won the award in 1997, 2000,2005and 2006. He has consistently been one of the most accountable and dedicated administrators at this university. For Towerview and The Chronicle to imply otherwise does a disservice to him and to Duke. Kevin Troy Trinity ’O9 PR Director, Duke Student Government

over the course of the night, referred to me in less than

flattering terms. My brother is a remarkably level-headed guy and ignored them.

But the next morning, as he relished Marketplace waffles, I was embarrassed. I realized that my “nickname” just didn’t work in die real world; it didn’t work with die people I loved, those I had left to go to college and those I would eventually return to. I saw, not for the first dme, diat I was leading a double life. I was a good girl, a girl who got into Duke and who went home during breaks to be with her family. And then I was the girl who lived at Duke who somedmes seemed to speak anodier language. The disparity between here and home still bothers me, but I haven’t changed much; I usually give as good as I get when it comes to diis kind of language. More recendy, I was walking home from a party with a couple of guys who were, to be fair, a litde drunk. These two boys, one a pledge and the other an older member of the ffat, began to talk about the girls they had had sex with and potential hook-ups, one of which was a frat brother’s sister. I wasn’t really offended by their verbal pissing contest, but it was boring and annoying. Their conversation was fake and postured in such an odd way, like they were trying to see who could come across as the biggest amoral tool. I began to wish that I’d been stupid and wandered home alone in the middle of the night. All of these conversations, these names we call each other, have become part of our everyday life at Duke. You hear them on buses and benches, from girls and guys, sober and drunk. And it probably won’t stop any time soon. But bragging about drunkenness and throwing sexual slang around places us in an unreal world, one in which there is no embarrassment in crossing verbal boundaries because everybody’s too scared to look lame. We need to step out of line and realize that these habits we form pull us out of touch with where we came from and where, we will go. I’m not saying we should all elevate our conversation to a higher echelon. Why not make fun of each other’s drunken behavior or*a much-regretted hook-up? If we don’t, we may end up taking ourselves far too seriously. But we need to find a middle ground, a language both engaging and irreverent.

Lindsay White is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

Teenage wasteland

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yourself at downtown Durham on Main Street, take a right at the light onto Buchanan, and make your first left into the parking lot of a red brick warehouse. It’s a building that might be interesting somewhere else; here it’s nondescript among the other relics of the town’s tobacco years. You find yourself in a concrete yard surroundBrian kindle ed by panel trucks and Ford F-250s converted to ad astra run off of biodiesel. In front ofyou is a row of rusty dumpsters filled with beer cans, Snapple botdes, the tattered remains of months of Econ homework. The ground is coated in a gritty crust ofbroken glass, mud, the residue of various kinds of alcohol and bleached-out hunks of cardboard boxes. This is the Duke Recycles warehouse. This is where college goes to die. also where I work this semester, something of a <ob for me. When I was a kid, being a garbage man like pretty much the ideal occupation to me (I eamt of mowing lawns and being a janitor, so it’s remarkable I’ve made it this far), and it’s a fantasy tuck with me through the years. >ut it simply, I’ve always been fascinated by trash, was young I marveled that I could take something in working order and make it trash simply by virtue of it in a trash can. Objects that moments ago were usevalued became worthless instantaneously, food that :e delicious became automatically disgusting and large trucks would come weekly to whisk it all away.

Where did it go? I had no idea. There were some hazy images of landfills (I did grow up in New Jersey, after all), but to my young mind these were mosdy filled with seagulls and toxic waste. That was the magic of it all: Trash existed in an alternate reality, a world that was totally separate from my own. Once I threw something away, I never had to think about it again. It became somebody else’s problem. It’s an understanding of trash that never really changed from my childhood, and one that I think most people share. Here at Duke, it’s an understanding that’s continually reinforced by how remarkably convenient it is to throw things away. We get annoyed when we have to walk 20 feet to find a trash can. We don’t even have to roll the cans down to the curb here; someone will come get them from our hallway. If we’re drunk or careless, we can even throw our trash on the ground and not worry too much about it. Somebody else will clean up our mess. Now that I work for Duke Recycles, trash is no longer somebody else’s problem. It’s mine, and I get a first-hand look at how wasteful this college—students, faculty, and staff—can be. A few days ago I hauled dozens of boxes out of Pratt and the Divinity School, filled with hundreds of glossy admissions brochures, unopened and unread, to be thrown in a dumpster and reprocessed. After the Graduate Student Campout, I watched as a truly remarkable number ofunopened cans of Busch Light were crushed and compacted with the rest of the empties. Every day on the job I handle huge bags of white printer paper, most filled with misprints and unwanted pages from e-Print stations all around campus. Although it’s true that all of what I mentioned is destined to be recycled, it’s small comfort when you consider that none of it should have been thrown away in the first place, and that only 25 percent of the waste produced at Duke gets

recycled. For every pound of white paper I recycle, there’s probably several hundred more speeding to the Durham municipal waste transferstation in the back of a dump truck. According to figures compiled by Duke Recycles, the undergraduate student body produces 3,500 tons of trash every year. With 6,534 students at this University, that’s roughly 1,070 pounds per student, per year. On top of that, we’re only here a little less than eight months of the year, and God only knows how much trash we produce on breaks. Would it help if we recycled more? Probably so. Based on observation, we throw away a stunning number of plastic botdes and aluminum cans every day, even though this is technically illegal. I know it may be inconvenient to carry around an empty botde for a couple of minutes, but with more than 2,000 receptacles all over campus, finding the proper place for it shouldn’t be too hard. At this point, though, telling people we need to recycle more is like telling them murder is wrong. This is not a revelation, nor is it a cure-all. A more complete solution involves us producing far less waste in the first place. To do that we need to address our relationship with trash described earlier. We need to acknowledge that what we throw away is not somebody else’s problem but our own, and that we have considerable control over how much garbage we create. This may include not taking a bag at the Lobby Shop or Uncle Harry’s unless we really need one, or using the same plastic fork for the whole day instead of getting a new one at every meal. It may include being more careful when we use e-Print, and less careless about our recyclables. Above all, it should include thinking about what we consume and get rid of. Some waste is unavoidable, especially on a college campus. Most is the result of thoughdessness. BrianKindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday.

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