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suddenly Kolb, law student, succumbs to illness

Nifong reaffirms his intentions to prosecute

Saidi Chen

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A master’s of law candidate at the School ofLaw passed away Sunday morning after a brief illness. Maja Kolb, a 29-year-old student from Berlin, had been studying at the University since August. “I saw her almost every day of the week because she was very outgoing and would come over to the office to chat,” said Judy Horowitz, associate dean for international studies at the law school. “She loved Duke and was a very active participant in all activities.” Horowitz added that Kolb’s illness was

likely pneumonia. “It was very sudden,” she said. Kolb’s friends described her as a very

energetic person who loved dancing and

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Melissa Hagberg, Trinity ’O6, passed away Saturday, Oct. 21 at the age of 22. At the time of publication, the cause of her death could not be determined. “Melissa was smart, funny and blonde,” wrote Puja Ghandi, a high school classmate and graduate of Pennsylvania State University, in a tribute to Hagberg on her blog. “She will always be loved and missed.” Hagberg is survived by her parents, William and Margaret Hagberg, and her siblings, Barbara, Kelsey and Billy Hagberg. As of last week, friends and Duke officials reported that the cause of Hagberg’s death remained uncertain. While at Duke, Hagberg majored in history and was a cum laude graduate. Before coming to the University, she graduated from Fox Chapel Area High School in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 2002.

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Officers will be out in full force whenthousandsflock to Franklin St. to celebrate All Hallows Eve tonight.

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Hagberg, Trinity 'O6, dies of unknown causes

2nd dancer reveals more about night

Up to 70,000 pirates, witches and other revelers are expected to crowd Franklin Street tonight, and local bars and the Chapel Hill Police Department have taken measures to ensure the annual Halloween festivities run smoothly. CHPD has hired 40 additional officers to staff this year’s event, bringing the total to a SEE FRANKLIN ST. ON PAGE 5

The second dancer present at the March 13 party at which members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team are alleged to have committed a rape said Monday that the alleged victim told her she wanted to have “marks” on her. During an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Kim- Roberts said the alleged victim was “talking crazy” after leaving the March 13 party. Roberts said when she tried to forcibly remove the alleged victim from her car, the woman told her, “Put marks on me. Go ahead. That’s what I want” Roberts added that she did not speak up earlier because she is afraid of the evidence’s affect on her standing as a witness. “It is something that has been weighing on my heart, and I worry that maybe I won’t be called to trial,” she said. Three members of the of the 20052006 men’s lacrosse team have been charged with rape. Also Monday, Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong told The Associated Press he felt a responsibility to pursue the case. ‘You can make the case go away pretty easily. Anybody could,” he told the AP. “But that does nothing to address the underlying divisions that have been revealed.” After an initial flurry of media appearances, Nifong has spoken very little publicly. But in Monday’s interview, he acknowledged missteps in his initial response. “I think it was pretty clear that I SEE ROBERTS ON PAGE 6

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Faculty gender ratio lags behind national average by

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Decades after equal opportunity laws allowed significant numbers of women entry into American academia, female faculty members still continue to lag behind their male counterparts. A recent report by the American Association of University Professors examined four indicators—employment status, tenure status, full professor rank, and average salary—to assess the situation of female professors at more than 1,000 institutions nationwide.

According to the report, Duke’s gender equity numbers are lower than the national average. “Over the past couple ofyears in our search for faculty, we’ve tried to make sure that our search pool is diverse in terms of gender and racial background,” said George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and a professor of chemistry. Eighteen percent of full professors and 23 percent of tenured faculty at SEE FACULTY ON PAGE 7

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Kim Roberts, the 2nd dancer at the March 13 party, said the alleged victimasked herto'put marks'on her.

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KFC to eliminate trans fats

U.S. Army Oct. death toll passes 100 by

Steven Hurst

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BAGHDAD, Iraq The American death toll for October climbed past 100, a grim milestone as a White House envoy turned up unexpectedly in Baghdad Monday following a rough patch in U.S.-Iraqi ties. At least 81 people were killed across Iraq, including 33 in a bombing targeting workers. . A member of the 89th Military Police Brigade was killed in east Baghdad Monday, and a Marine (lied in fighting in insurgent-plagued Anbar province the day before, raising to 101 the number of U.S. service members killed in a bloody October, the fourth deadliest month of the war.

At least 2,814 American forces have died since the war began in March 2003. According to an Associated Press count, October has also recorded more Iraqi civilian deaths—1,170 as of Monday—than any other month since the AP began keeping track in May 2005. The next-highest month was March 2006, when 1,038 Iraqi civilians were killed in the aftermath of the Feb. 22 bombing of an important Shiite shrine in Samarra. The war and the rising American casualties have produced a huge drag on Republican candidates as the U.S. midterm election approaches. The vote is seen in many cases as a referendum on the war, which

has stretched into its 4Mi month. President George W. Bush’s administration has invested heavy attention on Iraq in recent weeks, trying to put a new face on the conflict with mixed results. Upon arriving for an unannounced visit, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley went straight into meetings with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his security chief, Mouwafak al-Rubaie, telling them he “wanted to reinforce some of the things you have heard from our president.” “It was a useful visit,” he said, but refused to give any details, saying only that Hadley’s meetings were limited to alRubaie and al-Maliki.

2 arrested in deadly Calif, wildfire by

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CABAZON, Calif. Authorities investigating an arson wildfire that killed four firefighters questioned two people Monday as crews remained confident that the blaze would soon be fully contained. Sheriffs deputies took two men and three bags of material from a house in Cabazon, said neighbor Robert Dunham, 70, who lives three doors down from the residence a quarter-mile from where the fire started. Authorities released little information about the two people who were inter,

viewed at a sheriffs station and later released. No arrests had been made. “We’re trying to work through the leads that we have, and going through the process,” Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle said in a telephone interview. Authorities said the fire was deliberately set at the base of a slope in Cabazon, west of Palm Springs. Cabazon residents have said they saw two young men leaving the area where the fire began. Since it started around 1 a.m. Thursday, the fire has burned 63 square miles, or 40,200 acres, as fierce Santa Ana winds swept through the region and fanned the

flames. It was about 90 percent contained, and authorities expected full containment Monday night. It has destroyed 54 structures—34 homes and 20 other buildings. Last week, a shift in the winds turned deadly when a gust pushed a wall of flames around five firefighters trying to protect a house. Four of the firefighters died, while another was hospitalized with serious burns over most of his body. Pablo Cerda, 23, remained in critical condition Monday, three days after undergoing surgery to remove damaged skin. About 50 of Cerda’s relatives gathered at the hospital, praying for him.

KFC Corp. said Monday it will start using zero trans fat soybean oil for its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, Potato Wedges and other menu items.The transition, which has already begun, will be complete by April 2007.

Pachyderm sees self in mirror

Researchers at the Bronx Zoo have shown that a 34-year-old Asian elephant at the zoo is able to recognize herself in a mirror. Self-awareness had previously only been seen in humans, chimpanzees and, to a limited extent, dolphins.

Nigerian pilot ignored advice A plane crash that killed 96 people in Nigeria might have been averted if the pilot had heeded advice from air traffic controllers to wait for a lightning storm to clear before taking off, the aviation minister said Monday.

Red Cross announces changes The American Red Cross, stung by criticism of how it handled Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 attacks, announced plans Monday for a major overhaul that would include slashing its 50-member board and apreducing the influence of

pointed overseers. News briefs compiled from wire reports "Facts and truth really don't have much to —William Faulkner do with each other."

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Senior FeliciaWalton studied images ofcell division to identify proteins that makeCryptococcus drug-resistant.

pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

identify proteins crucial to the infectious Lots of little kids ask how things work. organism’s ability to resist certain drugs. Felicia Walton asked how a cell divided. “The idea is that perhaps we can find a Walton, now dnig that can a senior, maintarget these tained her sciproteins and “Cryptococcus is a major problem inhibit their entific curiosiher activity,” Walty, and in Africa and other subtropical ton said. latest research regions because it infects many The on an infecretious search could fungus patients.” AIDS was published help develop Felicia Walton ways to comSeptember in the research bat Cryptosenior, Biology researcher coccus, which journal Molecular Biology of infects people the Cell. with compromised immune systems, such as chemotherThe paper was co-authored by Dr. Joseph Heitman, professor of molecular apy or organ transplant patients. genetics and microbiology and director of “Cryptococcus is a major problem in the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Africa and other subtropical regions beand Alexander, Idnurm, postdoctoral recause it infects many AIDS patients,” Walton said. search associate. Walton studied images of the disrupted SEE RESEARCH ON PAGE 7 pattern of cell division in the fungal THE CHRONICLE

Program brings Duke, UNC together in faith BY

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The interfaith dialogue between Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has gotten a little bit louder recently, now that the two schools are collaborating to promote religion and interfaith understanding. UNC’s Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue Club and Duke’s Interfaith Dialogue Project, which was founded by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Duke Chapel in 1998, began a partnership last spring when the two programs applied for a Robertson Scholars Collaboration Fund grant. With the additional funds, the two clubs began planning for a speaker series this fall—which has hosted two speakers so far in order to promote interfaith understand-

ing on a broader, community-wide scale. Mark Rutledge, chaplain for Chapel services, said the UNC-Duke partnership comes at an important time considering

global current events.

“Every time bullets fly in the Middle East, something happens on campus,” Rutledge said. “The trick on campus is to encourage positive dialogue instead of having students demonstrating against each other.” To encourage such conversations, Zubeyir Kilinc, a UNC graduate student and a member of the lIDC, said that students involved in the interfaith understanding programs are trying to stress the similarities among different religions over differences.

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Chronicle nabs top awards at national media convention The Chronicle was honored in a number of categories at the National College Media Convention held last weekend in St. Louis. The annual event brought together hundreds of college newspapers, yearbooks and magazines for a four-day conference. Duke’s independent daily newspaper took second place in the Best in Show category for four-year daily tabloids, which honors a single issue from the current academic year. The Chronicle submitted its Oct. 16 issue, which featured front page stories about, and campus reaction to, the “60 Minutes” episode that examined the lacrosse rape case. “I’m incredibly proud ofThe Chronicle and of this year’s staff in particular,” said junior Ryan McCartney, editor of the paper. “We have a great team, and it’s nice to see everyone’s hard work recognized on a national level.”

INTERFAITH from page 3 “We talk about God in different reli-

gions... [but] we may be believing in the

same or similar God,” Zilinc said. To get that message across more effectively, Duke’s Interfaith Dialogue Project is trying to gain Duke Student Government approval as an official student group. Mike Higgins, a Duke senior involved with the initiative, said the change would allow the group to cater to student interests more direcdy, with student leaders having an increased role in shaping consistent interfaith programming. “It would create more sustainability, having more [students] involved on the leadership levels,” Higgins said. He added that the rationale behind this year’s focus on intercampus cooperation has been on “taking this issue out beyond Duke’s boundaries.” The groups are emphasizing panel discussions that combine both academic ex-

Senior Alex FanarofF, Towerview editor, won first place in the “features story” category, for “The Chronicles ofRedick” in the April/May issue ofTowerview. “It’s exciting, I didn’t expect to win,” Fanaroff said of his article, which details former men’s basketball captain J.J. Redick’s career at Duke. “I interviewed him through the whole year... and I got to watch him in a variety of situationsand see how he reacted to all of them. I felt like I could really get into his head.” Towerview magazine’s April/May issue also won Best in Show in the Magazine Feature-Special Audience category. McCartney placed third in the four-year reporter of the year category. He was recognized for his work last year, including traveling to New Orleans to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and community reaction to the lacrosse incident in the neighborhood ofWalltown.

—compiled from Staff Reports perts from the universities and community members that represent different faiths. As a result, Higgins said he is working to network with student religious leaders at other regional universities, as well. A third panel will convene at Duke Nov. 6 to discuss the interaction of culture and religion, and a fourth talk will take place at UNC Nov. 13 that will relate to “the cosmos and more metaphysical questions,” Higgins said. The speaker series will also feature a keynote address about using community service as away to promote religious tolerance, which will be delivered at Duke Nov. 12 by Eboo Patel, the founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core. Kilinc, a Muslim, encouraged students to attend the discussions and said the benefits ofinterfaith understanding are visible. “People are all respectful of other people, as far as I can see,” he said. “I can pray in my office, and I can reschedule appointments that conflict with my prayer times.”

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As many as 70,000 people grace Franklin St. each Halloween donning a variety of wacky costumes.

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Many bars and restaurants on Franklin Street will be open throughout the event and are expecting high cus-

tomer turnouts. record-high ofabout 400. “The more officers there are, hopeful“It’s usually a pretty hectic night,” said ly the safer the event will be,” CHPD Paul Dailey, manager of Top of the Hill Restaurant and Brewery. “The rooftop spokesperson Jane Cousins said. For the first time at the festival, severdining area is very popular on nights like al Highway Patrol members will be monithis because you can see all of Franklin toring the street’s perimeter on motorcyStreet, and people like to watch the pacles, and four officers will be on horses. rades.” “The horses will give them some Dailey added that the restaurant always height advantage... and will be able to increases its security and bouncer staff for give the officers a method to get through the event. He said the general precautionthe crowd,” Cousins said. ary measures should also help with crowd She added that there have been some control on the street. security incidents in years past, including “Just having police officers visible will approximately 11 arrests last year. help eliminate any problems, riots or The event—estimated to have cost crowd mentalities,” he said. the town $220,000 to host—will be exRobert Poitras, owner of the Carolina tended two blocks this year on West Brewery, said he expects a great deal of Franklin Street. business and fun at his bar tonight. Portable lights will be made available “We do have a lot of foot traffic... but to areas not normally illuminated in they beefed up security and police,” he order to enhance public safety. said. “Hopefully there will be no probThere will also be checkpoints in lems, and hopefully it will just be a fun place throughout the street to prevent night in Chapel Hill.” party-goers from bringing alcohol, The festival will run from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., and Franklin and adjacent weapons, animals or other prohibited items into the area. streets will be closed to traffic.

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always had time for a friend in need. “Maja knew how to enjoy the little things in life, she was a lot of fun and the best of friends,” her friends in the LL.M. class of 2007 said in a statement. “She shall be clearly missed.... It is very strange to think we shall not see her in the law school’s corridors.” Kolb immersed herself in many areas of Duke life outside the classroom, including planning for International Week and participating in the Graduate and Professional Student Council campout for men’s basketball tickets. “She loved to laugh and loved to live,” her friends said. Plans for Kolb’s memorial will be announced after her family arrives in Durham. Kolb was at Duke working on her LL.M.

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Maja Kolb, a 29-year-old master's of law student from Germany, passed away Sunday after falling ill.

degree—a program that educates foreign law graduates about the American legal system. Before arriving at the University, Kolb received her law degree from Free University in Berlin in 2001. She then worked with a private firm and wrote her thesis, a comparative study of minors’ capacities to contract under German, English and French law. Kolb was fluent in German, English and Spanish and proficient in French, and supplemented her language skills by enthusiastically pursuing abroad experiences. While in high school, she spent a year as an exchange student in Clark County, Va., and later studied for two trimesters at Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, Spain, as the recipient of the European Union’s Socrates Scholarship. Most recently, Kolb completed a summer externship with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

HAGBERG from page 1 Following her graduation in May, Hagberg moved to Madison, Wis., where she was employed as a project manager by Epic Systems Corporation.

A memorial for Hagberg was held

Monday in the Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church. Remembrances may be made to the Duke University Memorial Fund for Melissa Anne Hagberg, Office ofAlumni and Development Records, Box 90581, Durham, NC, 27705.

The Chronicle is accepting remembrances of Maja Kolb and Melissa Hagberg. Please send them to

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camera,” he said. “Certainly what I was trying to do was reassure the community, to encourage people with information to come forward. And that clearly was not the effect.” The interview comes just three days after Nifong said at a pre-trial hearing that he had not spoken with the alleged victim about the events of the party.

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Nifong defended that decision Monday. “Why do I have to be the one that’s interviewed somebody?” he asked. “The police, other people can deal with interviews and they can report to me what they do and I can direct them from that. It’s not necessary for me to ask you about a specific event from your life for me to get a good sense of whether or not you’re a reliable individual.” On ABC, Roberts said she has not spoken with the police since March and has never been interviewed by Nifong. She added that she might not be called to the stand at the trial. “Because... so much of [the alleged victim’s] statement differs from mine... I might not help the prosecution at all as a witness,” she said. Roberts’ most recent interview adds another detail to an account that has differed with itself on several occasions. She previously said allegations were a “crock,” but said on other occasions that she did not know whether a rape had occurred. Legal experts said her credibility could be called into question. “When people change their stories, most of us think that makes them seem less reliable but not always, so it’s really a common sense credibility judgement the jury makes,” said Sara Beale, Charles L. B. Lowndes professor at the Duke law school. ha Wojciechowska contributed to this story.

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Duke are women, and the average female Duke professor is paid about 20 percent less than her male counterparts. McLendon said he does not know why Duke has historically had low numbers of tenured female faculty. He added that he has never seen a female faculty member turn down a tenure offer. te look at the pool in an open search, and if the short list of candidates to be invited to campus contains no women, we’re likely to sit down with the chair of the search department and say ‘get real—of all these people, none of them are women?’”' McLendon said. “If there are few women in the search pool, we can go and look for extra scholars.” In the wake of controversial remarks about female scientific aptitude by former Harvard President Lawrence Summer last January, many groups have analyzed the status of women faculty. According to the report, one of the largest gender equity concerns within higher education is the discrepancy between the number of women in graduate and doctoral programs and the number of women in university faculty ranks. This discrepancy is particularly striking in so-called “STEM” fields—science, technology, engineering and mathematics. A 2006 study by the National Science Foundation reports that less than 21 percent of all faculty in science-related fields are women, and less than 2 percent of those women are minorities. The AAUP study found that in 2004 women earned more than 59 percent of master’s degrees, and among U.S. citizens, 53 percent of Ph.D. recipients were women. Women, however, constituted only 34 percent of full-time faculty at doctoral universities in 2005-2006. r

The AAUP report revealed that tenure is one of the largest hurdles for female faculty. In 2005-2006, women held only 31 percent of tenured positions and 24 percent of full-time professorships. But women represented more than 52 percent of non-tenure-track faculty at doctoral institutions. The report’s examination of average faculty salary across all ranks and institu-

“In the end, one can make a lot of moral arguments, but ultimately it’s a competitiveness issue.” George McLendon Dean, Faculty ofArts and Sciences

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The initiative details projects targeting female and minority faculty, such as a Flexible Work Arrangements Policy, a Black Factions found that in 2005-2006, the average ulty Caucus and a networking and support female professor’s salary was 81 percent of group called the Faculty Women’s Network. the amount earned by their male counterAccording to Lange’s report, the projparts. This figure has remained virtually ects detailed in the initiative are a response to the low numbers of female and minoriunchanged since the AAUP began collecting salary data in the 19705. ty professors, and nationwide concerns According to the report, institutions about a perceived bias in academia against like Harvard University and Stanford Uniwomen in the STEM fields. versity boasted higher gender equity levThough the situation of female faculty els than Duke. at Duke is an issue that is receiving much Twenty percent of Harvard’s tenured attention, some female professors still unfaculty is female, and Stanford cites a figure derstand that subtle hurdles are a continuof 19 percent. Almost 28 percent of fullal part of the gender equity situation. time faculty at Harvard are women, while at “The effort [to recruit women] is very Stanford, the number is 23 percent. g00d... but I also understand the social The average female faculty salaries at connotations involved,” said Haiyan Gao, Harvard and Stanford are 81 and 86 perassociate chair of the physics department. “We work very hard, just like our male cent that of male faculty, respectively. Sherryl Broverman, an associate professor counterparts, and we should be judged as in the biology department, said her depart- physicists, as professors, as scholars, periment has made efforts to hire female faculty. od—not as women who happen to be “There’s a very strong interest in the de- these things.”

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partment to recruit women,” Broverman said. “Three women have been chairs of the department, and I know that the biology department looks very hard for opportunities to recruit minority candidates.” McLendon said hiring and tenuring more women is essential for Duke to maintain its status as a top academic institution. “In the end, one can make a lot of moral arguments, but'ultimately it’s a competitiveness issue,” McLendon said. “Duke won’t continue to attract the best students if we don’t represent what’s most important to these students, or reflective of them.” This month, Provost Peter Lange released a faculty diversity initiative to the Academic Council with the stated goal of “increasing the number of women faculty and minority faculty of both genders in areas at Duke where they are under-

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Her findings also greatly increased the current research on the genes involved with the chemical melanin—a pigment that helps the pathogen evade immune systems. This is the second scientific paper Walton has published since beginning research as a freshman, Heitman said. Walton began her Duke career by participating in the biotechnology-related Focus program. With a professor’s encouragement, she contacted Heitman and soon began researching with him. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh! I’ve never had any research experience before and they’re not going to want to talk to me,’” Walton said. Instead, she found Heilman’s lab a tremendous support system, especially for undergraduates. Heitman said Walton was “pretty extraordinary,” and added that he welcomed the chance to work with under-

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at the level of a grad student and a post doc,” Heitman said. Walton’s research began with a chance discovery of an abnormal strain of Cryptococcus neoformans. “It started with just a very innocent observation of a really cool-looking strain which was very different than what we were used to seeing under the microscope,” she said. Heitman said he, Walton and Idnurm were happily surprised to learn that an image of the strain would be on the journal’s cover. “1 think it’s even more stunning to think about aesthetic beauty of the picture when you understand the genetics and the science behind it,” Walton said.

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Red Auerbach s legacy The morning after Red Auerbach died, I went to the library. I went looking for a book that John Feinstein wrote with Auerbach in 2004 called Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game. I knew that Auerbach built the Boston Celtics and coached them when they won nine championships in 10 years. I also knew that he may have been the most important figure in basketball since James Naismith and that I couldn’t call B myself a real basketball fan until I had read those stories. a j ex When I was check£ ££ tanarOTr ing the book out, the girl at the counter said, “Oh, Red Auerbach. He died last night, didn’t he? Sorry if you liked him.” But I could only smile back at her and nod. I couldn’t tell her he was one ofmy heroes, or that I admired him, or tell her my favorite Red Auerbach story. I hadn’t heard the stories. When I got back from the library, I read the book in three hours—l couldn’t put it down. It talked about these lunches, where Auerbach would eat with his friends (including Feinstein) and talk about everything—teams, players, other coaches, referees, his life. How he traded the Ice-Capades for Bill Russell. Why Adolph Rupp wasn’t a racistbut “cheap, that was another story.” How he served as the go-between when Muhammad Ali challenged Wilt Chamberlain to a fight—“Ali would’ve killed him.” How he invented the concept of the sixth man—“If I send one of my two or three best players into the game at that point... he’s going to be able to take advantage of people.” Quite simply, Auerbach had his hand in every major happening in the world of basketball for over 50 years, even the ones that it would seem he couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with. Coach K’s career at Duke? Auerbach had a hand in it. Twice. Krzyzewski might never even have been

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Red Auerbach taught PE at Duke In the early 1950 before taking the job as Boston Celtics head coach.

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The sign hangs modestly at Koskinen Stadium, unassumingly strapped to the chain-link fence on the far side of the field. The simplicity of the design—white words on a navy background—belies the grandeur ofits text NCAA Champions 1986. Head coach John Rennie remembers when this was the only such sign on campus, back when national championships were a rarity instead of a regularity at Duke. 1986 was Rennie’s eighth season at Duke, the same year that Mike Krzyzewski first led the Blue Devils into the Final Four behind a star guard named Johnny Dawkins, only to be upset by Louisville in the finals. That was the year the men’s soccer team made history, becoming the first Duke team to win a national champi-

onship. While Rennie and the BlueDevils didn’t win the tide until that ’B6 season, the seed had been planted years earlier, when Rennie became Duke’s first full-time soccer coach in 1979. “[Former President] Terry Sanford and [Former athletic director] Tom Butters had developed a strategy in scholarship allotment in figuring out where—demographically and in terms of our recruitment base—Duke had the best chance to be successful, and then identifying those sports and putting resources into those sports,” said Chris Kennedy, Duke’s senior associate athletic director and a member of Duke’s athletic department for the last 29 years. “Sports like tennis, soccer, and golf were inevitably going to be significantly better and were inevitably going to be competing for national championships,” Kennedy added. Rennie made the Blue Devils a chain-

JohnKerr (right) was one of the stars on the 1986 team that won Duke's first national title.

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ately, leading them to the NCAA tournament in his second season and reaching the title game in 1982. Duke entered the 1982 championship bout against Indiana with a 22-1-2 record and without having lost a conference game, but lost in truly heartbreaking

fashion, 2-1, in an astonishing eight overtimes. “Certainly losing in ’B2 was very, very, very difficult to take,” Rennie said, a hint of pain lingering in his voice. A similarly talented team in 1983 SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 12

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When the Owls and the Falcons had a birds-of-prey batde this weekend, the Blue Devils were anointed with a dubious honor. Temple’s 28-14 upset over Bowling Green was the Owls’ first victory in 20 games, leaving Duke’s Iffgame winless streak as the longest active in the country. “Good for Temple,” offensive tackle Cameron Goldberg said. “Our day is coming soon. As you can see we are really close, and we are working as hard as we can. It’s going to come it’s not going to be like this forever.” After last Saturday’s failed comeback against Vanderbilt, the Blue Devils hope to win for the first time in over a year when they face Navy this week. The members of the freshman class, who were used to winning more games in high school, are still withouttheir first collegiatevictory. And the team s upperclassmen —

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realize the impact that finishing strong could have on the team in the future. “It would be a great stepping stone—for recruiting and the attitude of the guys coming back next year,” senior defensive tackle Eli Nichols said. “It’s not what I want, but it would be a little bright spot on my career on my way out to know that we finished with a few wins and to know that we left the guys coming back next year with a good foundation.” In recent'weeks, the Blue Devils have come out flat in the first half, which has contributed to their inability to secure their first victory. Duke’s last two losses to Miami and Vanderbilt have featured lopsided halves, with the Blue Devils falling behind early and then rallying late. The Hurricanes and Commodores scored a combined 45 points in the first SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 10

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half, while Duke mustered just seven. The Blue Devils outscored these two opponents in the second half, however, 36-20. Head coach Ted Roof said correcting this growing problem of slow starts has been a major issue addressed in practice, but the team is still sticking with its original game plan. “We try to tweak things every week,” he said. “But to totally change from week to week, we

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Duke’s coach if Auerbach hadn’t turned the job down first. In 1949,Auerbach quit his job with the Washington Capitols, a professional team, and came down to Durham as an assistant basketball coach. Only there was no such thing as paid assistant coaches back then, so the man who would later win nine NBA titles in 10 years taught PE classes. The head coach, Gerry Gerard, had cancer, and Auerbach was basically brought in to be available if Gerard got too sick to work. But Auerbach wasn’t comfortable in that situation, and he left after only a few months. Forty years later, Auerbach almost altered Blue Devil history again. In 1989, before Krzyzewski had won his first national title, Auerbach offered him the head coach’s job with the Celtics.

are all creatures of habit.... Players have to go react and do what they have been trained to do. And knowledge and repetition leads to confidence.” Although the hopes of a winning season this year have been extinguished, Nichols said the team remains confident in its ability to grow throughout the remainder of the season and into the next. “A lot of [the team’s errors] come with the youth on our team,” he said. “You can already see the improvement on the real-

ly young offense from the begin-

Krzyzewski flew to Washington, D.C. and met with Auerbach. “If it had been anyone other than the Celtics and Red... I wouldn’t even have gone up for the meeting,” Krzyzewski said. “But... I

know it wouldn’t exist. Auerbach even started Dick Vitale’s broadcasting career. Vitale agreed to trade the Celtics M.L. Carr and the Detroit Pistons’ No. 1 draft choice in 1980 for Bob McAdoo, who was past his prime. Through another trade, Auerbach turned that pick into Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, both Hall of Famers. Vitale was fired by the Pistons, and the rest is history, Reading Auerbach’s words was a bittersweet experience. I knew that I’d never have a chance to personally listen to the greatest basketball mind ever talk about

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ning of the season [with] the mistakes they were making. I think it’s moving in the right direction and, with time, as the younger guys get some experience, some of those things will diminish.” This year’s senior class will not be able to graduate with a winning season, but Nichols said he expects to see growing success in the Duke football program when he visits the campus as an alumnus. “I really think it’s going to happen,” he said. “I really think it

Soccer seeds announced The ACC announced the seedings for its men’s and women’s soccer tournaments Monday. With the No. 1 seed, Duke’s men’s squad (12-3-1, 5-2-1 in the ACC) earned a first-round bye and will play the winner of Tuesday’s game between eight-seed Virginia Tech and nine-seed N.C. State Nov. 1 at 2:30 p.m. in Germantown, Md. The Blue Devils, who were ACC regular-season co-champions, enter the postseason as the fifth-ranked team nationally. Duke’s women received the No. 7 seed and will face secondseededFlorida State Nov. 1 at 5:30 p.m. at SAS Soccer Park in Cary. Also released Monday were the men’s soccer regular-season honors. The Blue Devils, along with Virginia, led all programs with four honorees. Forward Mike Grella and midfielder Michael Videira were named to the AllACC first team, forward Spencer Wadsworth to the second team and midfielder Joshua Bienefeld to the All-freshman squad.

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Men’s golf wins match The men’s golf team upset No. 6 Clemson Monday in the Consolation B bracket of the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship in Fort Worth, Texas. The No. 20 Blue Devils went 31-1 against the Tigers, with Clark Elaasen, Jeff Edelman and Jake Grodzinsky winning their match-

John Thompson, JFK, Jr. andJ.J. had to listen. I even had to think about it.” Of course, Coach K didn’t take the job. But it just goes to show how profound Auerbach’s impact was on the game of basketball. If one of those decisions went the other way, Duke Basketball as we

Redick. (Auerbach thought Redick, as a sophomore, was more athletic than people gave him credit for, and thought he’d be a good NBA player.) I even teared up a little bit when I got to the end of the book. But it was great to finally read the stories.

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lost in the second round of the tournament, and, following two average seasons, Duke entered the 1986 campaign with humble expectations. And while the sign in Koskinen commemorates the final achievement, it cannot accurately reflect the tumultuous and exhilarating journey that earned the Blue Devils immortality. “Our goal was to do well enough to get into the NCAA tournament,” Rennie said. “The team took almost the whole season to find its identity. We had to make a lot of changes. It was kind of a work in progress all season.”

A rough start to a special year A season-opening loss to Division II Catawba College in Raleigh didn’t do much to raise those expectations. “It was a tough pill to swallow,” said John Kerr, a senior forward on that ’B6 team and the current head coach at Harvard. “It was a frustrating beginning to that season because we had so many high hopes.” The Blue Devils quickly responded, however, by running off four straight victories by a combined margin of 22-0. In those four games—played against Vanderbilt, Connecticut, Hartwick and Davidson—Duke established the three-headed offensive monster of Kerr, junior Tom Stone and freshman Brian Benedict. The left-footed Stone and the righty Benedict flanked Kerr —who went on to win the Hermann Trophy as the nation’s best player that year. The trio combined for over 30 goals during the season. The beginning of the conference season, however, brought the Blue Devils back down to earth. N.C. State defeated Duke, 4-3, in Raleigh. Shutout losses to Maryland (1-0) and Virginia (4-0) left die Blue Devils a modest 3-3 in die ACC. “It was then the best league in the country, and it still is,” Rennie said. During the rigorous conference season, Duke was sustained by its stout defense. Senior sweeper Kelly Weadock, who started every game over his four years, teamed with the goalkeeping duo of Mark Dodd and Troy Erickson to pitch nine shutouts in the regular season. “Kelly Weadock was to me the best defender in the country and a tremendous leader on the field,” Rennie said. “Between the goalkeepers and Kelly, there was a lot of leader-

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ship back there and a lot of heart.”

Erickson, however, broke his wnst during a practice before a late-season loss at UCLA, leaving Dodd as the surefire starter. The junior didn’t waste the opportunity, shutting out North Carolina in the regular-season finale and gaining confidence with each game in goal.

Pieces fall into place for championship run Duke’s mediocre performance in the conference, when combined with the losses to Catawba and UCLA, left the Blue Devils precariously on the bubble for the NCAA tournament. But once they got in, they refused to leave quietly. “It wasn’t undl the NCAA tournament itself that we really started to believe in ourselves, starting from the first game and all the way through,” Rennie said. Fortune was on Duke’s side, as three of their first four games in the tournament were played at home. The Blue Devils opened the tournament with a 3-2 victory over South Carolina, which had ended Duke’s season a year earlier. Duke exacted some more revenge in round two, knocking off N.C. State in Raleigh, 2-0. Kerr said being sent on the road provided even more motivation for the surging Blue Devils. Duke returned home for the quarterfinals with Loyola a 2-1 win—and a memorable semifinal match with Harvard. “I remember in particular that Harvard game we had about six or seven thousand people in the stands, and that gave us a lot of energy,” Kerr said. “That was probably one of our best games in my career.”

The 3-1 defeat of the Crimson sent the Blue Devils across the country to Tacoma, Wash, for a date in the championship game with the equally streaking Akron Zips. But Rennie’s first memory of the title game isn’t what happened on the field—it’s the field itself. “It was played on what I call green sandpaper,” Rennie said. “It was a carpet laid over a hockey rink in Tacoma, Washington. It was a terrible, terrible surface. It was not a great game because of that surface.” The hard, quick surface —which Kerr recalled was held in place in some parts by duct tape—didn’t change Rennie’s game plan, however, as the Blue Devils prepared for a defensive struggle with the Zips. With Kerr facing constant pressure from the Akron defense and in particular the Zips’ Grahame Evison, who committed 11 fouls in the match, it was up to Stone and the other Blue Devils to provide the offense. Just two minutes into the second half, freshman Joey Valenti sent a cross to the fur post for midfielder Carl Williamson. Williamson quickly redirected the ball to Stone at the near post, where the left-footed junior banged the ball into the back of the almost-open net for the 1-0 advantage. The defense made Stone’s goal stand up over the final 43 minutes, and Duke had finally claimed its first team title, and maybe, its most improbable one. “That team was not as talented as the ’B2 and ’B3 teams,” said Kennedy, who still has a picture of the 11 seniors from the ’B6 team hanging in his office. “This was a team where the talent level wasn’t quite as high, but their chemistry and their work ethic was just absolutely outstanding.” Kerr echoed those sentiments, saying the team’s camaraderie carried it through the tough games. “At a time of my life 20 years after, it’s one of the best years of my life,” Kerr said. “As a person, as a student and as a soccer player, I’ll never forget it. The memories and the camaraderie—we still share.” Kerr added that he still stays in touch with Stone and that he’s looking forward to the reunion for the team planned for Alumni Weekend. By that time, though, Rennie hopes his current Blue Devils can add another sign in Koskinen, right next to the one earned 20 years ago. “It would be incredible to have a repeat of that—both for the players that are here now and for those guys,” Rennie said. “It’d be something they’d be very proud of as well.”

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dunks slammed. But they seemed to not like each other very much, A Zoubek-Mcßoberts rivalry is nothing short telling ghost stoof frightening, ries or makingeditorial Let’s hope they spooktacular puns, however, we’ll explore a were just trying to give the few of the scariest things ’rents a good show, Central Campus delays about Duke. Let’s be honest. Waiting A Zoubek-Mcßoberts rivalry If you went to the Blue- for Central Campus is like White game Saturday you waiting for Godot. No one knows what is comprobably cheered for the future of Duke basketball as ing, or when, or why we, as curfreshman seven-footer Brian rent undergrads who will never Zoubek led all scorers in his live there, should really care. The looming “academic first game at Cameron Invillage,” brought to life only door Stadium. But the first-half competithrough hype and some tion between Zoubek and pretty impressive artistic Josh Mcßoberts, the star soph- renderings soin far, has no sight, let omore big man, was a little beginning discomforting. Words were alone an end. This year, freshmen and exchanged, bodies sacrificed,

Halloween

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The horses will give [Chapel Hill police] some height advantage... and will be able to give the officers a method to get through the crowd.

—Jane Cousins, Chapel Hill Police Department

spokesperson, on the use of police officials on horseback to patrol Franklin Street this Halloween. See story page 1. The question: will the horsemen be headless?

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the right direction. Venturing into the world of ACES can be a harrowing experience, and the lack of effective pre-major advising only makes it worse. An old and moldy West Campus Scary story (that could totally happen): a urinal explodes in Craven in August. The un-air-conditioned heat combined with a new water environment and pre-existing mold introduces a new mold plague that spreads into and forces evacuations of Mirecourt and ATO. It fails to take over the rest of West Campus because it can’t navigate its way out of the linoleum labyrinth. Rising tuition costs The cash required to attend Duke is an incredibly

pricey investment for most Duke families. It’s scary to think that Duke is the major force in thousands of families on deciding how to save, invest and spend their money. By the time our kids are going here, hopefully the Financial Aid Initiative will have countered inflation and ris-

ing costs. Larry Moneta’s decision-

making style Unilateral decisions com-

pletely side-stepping student demands have made us scratch our heads. But what’s really scary is that he pretends to listen. Case in point: Thursday cookies on the Plaza. Shooters II on a rainy night If you’ve been, you were probably scared. Especially if it was a Wednesday and you met some locals.

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sophomores will gather around campfires for Halloween and tell horror stories about Oregon pot holes, laundry-room sexual assaults and geographic isolation —only to help them cope with having to live on the current Central in the next couple of years. Signing up for classes freshman Spring Duke professors are good at a lot of things, but premajor advising is not one of them. Most seem to look at it as a chore, meeting with students for five minutes, handing out a PIN and moving on to more important things. Trying to figure out your correct major path shouldn’t be guess-and-check. Someone reliable should be there to point every freshman in

I prepare for my final 7 a.m. bout with ACES, I realize that over the years these registration windows have been geared as much toward satisfying graduation requirements as they have my intellectual curiosity. Along with (and at times more than) the content of classes, we are driven by the contributions they make to fulfilling matrix—or

nowadays, completing a list. This phenomenon contributes to an administrative orientation, and detracts from an acadavid kleban demic one. We are here to study and leather-bound books leam, but also to go through a set of bureaucratic motions along the way. For example, you would think that a class titled “Problems in Philosophy of Science” would be a slam-dunk STS—albeit as a transfer course. But instead of being given the benefit of the doubt, I had to submit a two-page memo, complete with attachments of course readings, to get awarded this “Mode of Inquiry.” It contained “Supporting documentation that is relevant to my request for STS coding as it relates to ‘Focus on science and/or technology but interface with society addressed consistently,’ pursuant to part (3) of the ‘Required Documentation’ section of die ‘Form for Requesting Modes of Inquiry Coding for a Domestic Transfer Course’” (my words). Apparently this was sufficient to establish my summer course as—beyond merely an interruption of my pajama-clad online poker career—an adequate critique of the science-society relationship. (As it turned out, I would have STSs coming out the ass for the next couple of years, so this was all pretty pointless. Although I did consider that the memo might have been a creative ploy to prepare me for work as a regulatory attorney.) The argument that curriculum requirements cause students to step outside their comfort zones into fields or disciplines they otherwise wouldn’t is compelling. Indeed, I’m in a great class right now, selected from a list of ALPs, which I probably would have missed had it not been designated as such. But Curriculum 2000 strictures, more than effectively “exposing Trinity College students to a broad array of course work in a variety of academic disciplines,” encourage us to strategically game the system. Anecdotally, I would say that stories like my lucky ALP are outnumbered several fold by those

touting a particularly easy fulfillment, or an efficient “matrix-filling” class. And the fact that graduation requirements cause us to enroll in classes we wouldn’t take voluntarily is not an inherently good thing. A fellow senior recently said of a class, “It counts as ALP, Writing and it’s a seminar.... I was going to take it no matter what it was.” Is this really the best motivation we can think of to participate in an academic forum? Even within the confines of the Curriculum 2000 language and framework, there is inconsistency and irrationality.

At the end of this semester, I will have fulfilled the two-part “Research” requirement. One class assigned two short papers, neither of which required a terribly significant amount of outside research. The other bases the final grade solely upon a 20-25 page independent research paper conducted over the course of the semester —but initially had no “Research” designation in the ACES system! I pointed out to my advisor that this seemed like a mistake. At first he told me there was nothing to do; course designations are final once the course begins. Luckily, he seems to have some clout in the department, and was able to jump through (or go around) the necessary bureaucratic hoops, and get my class designated appropriately. This points to a phenomenon among faculty that mirrors students’ tactical matrix-filling. The rules create incentive for strategic teachers to put extra effort into having their classes designated attractively. Others, who don’t worry as much about filling the class roster to the brim, may not pay attention to the bureaucratic regime, and thus not invest time in getting whatever “credit” may be appropriate. This is completely understandable on their part: I doubt many academics have long dreamed of navigating a bureaucratic process in order to prove to administrators that their work fits within a rigid set of categories and designations. The result is that classes which may be the most

edifying, inspiring—even cross-disciplinary—are necessarily the ones chock-full of CZs, Els and

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QIDs. There is

an inevitable tension between the classes and professors we are most drawn to, and the ones that do the bureaucratic trick. President Richard Brodhead has encouraged students to make the Duke experience their own. I respectfully submit that the most important aspect of this is that selection ofclasses not be governed by a set of inflexible, arbitrary and ultimately meaningless acronyms and abbreviations.

David Kleban is a Trinity senior. His column appears every other Tuesday.

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any good ghost stories? Any spooky tales of the weird and uncanny? I don’t. Of the very many I’ve heard over the years, I can’t recall a single one. You’d think afteryears as a Boy Scout and countless hours spent around campfires in isolated patches ofnational forests, I would have picked up a terrifying yarn to |3Hk| fm spin this Halloween.

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ad astra knife-sharpening techniques, lies and farting. I was never big on horror stories anyway. For me, they rarely delivered the expected payoff of be-

nign terror that makes them enjoyable in the first place, mosdy because I couldn’t help thinking that the witches and goblins that populated these tales were kind of cool. Ghost stories offered evidence that my little-kid fantasies were real: that there was more going on here than my own childish life, that right around any given corner lurked a parallel world that was scary and uncontrollable but also hugely exciting. Some part of me hoped deeply that monsters really were under my bed. Of course, by college you realize that you were-pretty stupid as a kid, that witches were probably just misguided old women who got burned for being cranky and that ghosts are mosdy just used to sell you candy products. The mystique ofHalloween gets blown away with the rest of the childhood detritus—Santa Claus, cowboys and your dreams of becoming an astronaut leaving you with the vague feeling of being had. At this age our scary stories tend to come from CNN, and we’re more likely to be haunted by credit card debt than ghouls and goblins. Some of us have encountered real'demons, the kind that are usually left out of kid’s books—serious illness, depression, the death of family and friends. The simple joy of a good scare has been obscured by a deeper knowledge of some of the real terrors the world has to offer. Now that we’re older and wiser, now that we don’t have to invent things to be afraid of anymore, does Halloween have a point? I would say this is just the cynical voice of tin aging, decrepit 22 year old, but for once it seems like society agrees with me. By many accounts, the classic Halloween of safe thrills and merry pranksterism is on the outs, not just for adults, but for everyone. The New York Times just ran an article two days ago detailing the rise of “retail trick-or-treating” (cruising for candy at a shopping center or business district) and

the subsequent decline of the more traditional, neighborhood variety. According to surveys from the National Confectioner’s Association (hey, where else are you going to get hard data on trick-or-treating?), nearly 20 percent ofAmerican families

plan on taking their kids mall for Halloween. When asked why, most parents cited safety concerns. Apparently, the threat of a razorblade-studded candy apple from a creepy neighbor was too much for some adults to risk. I saw the same thing first-hand in my own town. The streets of my neighborhood used to be a Mecca for candy-grabbing and good-natured mayhem, hundreds of hyped-up kids swarming the sidewalks. Now, my mom reports she’s lucky to get five, maybe six rings at the doorbell, and those are often from youths whose parents are escorting them around in the family mini-van. I know it’s usually misguided to psychoanalyze an entire society based on isolated examples, but it seems to me that, ironically enough, we’ve become too scared for Halloween. We’re so frightened now that we can’t even handle a holiday based on the premise of harmless terror. And that’s damn sad. The best Halloween costume I ever saw was when a guy in my neighborhood dressed as Osama bin Laden. It was Oct. 31, 2001, and here was this idiot traipsing to a

If it’s true that as a society we’re too fearful to celebrate Halloween, that only means we need Halloween more than ever.

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down the street in robes and a turban, a half-assed cotton beard hanging from his face, throwing handfuls of flour into the air from a canvas bag labeled “Anthrax.” Some people were scandalized. I thought it was awesome. That guy was everything Halloween should be: terror and fear brought down to our level, made ridiculous and accessible, if only for one night. Most of us spend much of our lives in a state of low-level anxiety, dimly aware of our own mortality and other horrors waiting at the edges of our comprehension. On Halloween, we get to become what we’re scared of, and realize that what we thought were ghouls are really just kids in cheap rubber masks. If it’s true that as a society we’re too fearful to celebrate Halloween, that only means we need Halloween more than ever. Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday.

letterstotheeditor Admissions policy for Thursday’s basketball game

This Thursday, Nov. 2, is this season’s first men’s basketball exhibition game against Shaw University. The policy for admission will be a walkup line on a first-come, first-served basis. Students may form groups of up to six people, and 50 percent of the group must be present at all times. Official registration of the line will begin at 2 p.m. All members of the group must be present at 5 p.m., with a DukeCard. The game is scheduled for 7 p.m., and the doors will open 90 minutes before that (5:30 p.m.). Come out and support our 20062007 men’s basketball team! Mara Schultz Trinity ’O7 HeadLine Monitor Professor claims mischaracterization In an Oct. 25 article in The Chronicle, “Faculty Push For Voice in Culture Talk,’ a reporter grossly mischaracterized comments that I made in

the town hall meeting that was the subject of the article. I never said that trustees and alumni encouraged the drinking culture at Duke. Nor did I say that the trustees and alumni “need to get moved along or left behind.” What I did say was that based on my experience as a member of the Lacrosse Ad Hoc Review Committee, I believe that the nostalgia for “Old Duke” on the part of some trustees and alumni made it difficult to deal with the drinking culture on campus. I said that I learned that past efforts by the administration to curtail excessive drinking had been met with “push back” from alumni and trustees, and that we needed to either “bring” them along or leave them behind in our efforts to change the culture at Duke. I was surprised to read the reporter’s characterizations of my comments, but even more surprised when she and her editorrefused to correct the record.

Kerry L. Haynie Associate Professor, Political Science

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month or so, there is an ad in The Chronicle. Way in die back with die ads looking for bartenders and care for die elderly. The ad has been placed by a loving couple. They’d like you to be tall. Maybe adiletic. Your SAT scores should be at least 1400. Maybe diey want brown hair, green eyes and Anglo-Saxon descent. Or maybe diey want blonde hair and Scandinavian descent. They prefer there be no messy medical history; no psychodc aunt or history of cancer. These couples want college students’ eggs. And they’re willing to pay a hell of a lot of lindsay white money for diem. Sometimes it’s around $5,000, but odier biweekly sass times it can top $15,000 or $20,000. There have been cases where the price offered for these eggs has reached $50,000. It’s a lot of money for what they’re asking for, considering what the procedure for extracting eggs is. The donor must take fertility drugs so that they produce excess eggs, submit to an ultrasound or two and then go under anesthesia while a doctor extracts the eggs with a needle. The whole process takes some time, and does involve a big needle going somewhere less than fun, but it’s hardly overly-invasive or traumatic. The ads these would-be parents place raise many questions, mostly about the ethics of shopping for an egg, of defining the donor to such a degree that it seems they might, in fact, be designing a baby. One also wonders if they realize that having an attractive Harvard-educated woman provide the egg for their baby does not guarantee that their baby will be attractive and smart. What I’m wondering, though, is do we, women from elite universides who may or may not meet the requirements these couples put forth, have the right to charge such exorbitant fees for something that is essentially useless to us? And what are the repercussions of this exchange? In 1999, The American Society for Reproductive Medicine came to the conclusion that a woman should be compensated for donating her eggs to a couple, but that compensation over $5,000 requires justification, and anything over $lO,OOO is inappropriate. This announcement hasn’t seemed to influence anybody greatly, but it makes sense. As women deeply entrenched in our education, some with years and years to go before we even consider having children, we barely think about our eggs, much less assign any great value to them. The question arises; Ifsomething is worth nothing to me, but it’s worth $20,000 to someone else, do I have a right to sell it to them for that much? A friend of mine insists that something is worth what people will pay for it. I disagree. Women should be compensated for the trouble they go through, but nothing more. These ads also tend to appear in newspapers of Ivy League colleges and the like. They show up elsewhere, but more money tends to be offered to the top-tier college students. It seems that my ova are worth more than someone from N.C. State. While part of me is secretly pleased by this new prestige, I also find it a little disturbing. Because these ads begin to look like they’re assigning reproductive value to college-educated women, making them into commodities. In 1985, Margaret Atwood wrote a book called The Handmaid’s Tale. In it, a nuclear explosion renders most of the world’s women barren and the few fertile women become highly valued. Despite this value they are basically enslaved and awarded to rich and powerful men. These “Handmaids” are commodities. Their reproductive fitness elevates their value but also reduces them as people. Don’t worry. I’m not insane enough to say that we’re anywhere near Atwood’s dystopia. But it does make you think, in a country where my ova are considered by some to be more valuable than my friend’s because I’m taller and my SAT scores are higher, and I can ask ridiculous amounts of money for them, something is wrong. Obviously, couples still want these “valuable” eggs, and college students still need money, so this reproductive trade will continue. As long as there is someone willing to sell and someone willing to pay. I’m lucky enough not to worry about how I’m going to pay for my education, so I don’t have to make decisions like this. It’s probably a pretty tempting proposition when you’re looking at paying off student loans years after you’ve graduated. But, when you engage in this kind of exchange, I think you have to consider what kind ofvalue you are being assigned, and whether how you value yourself matches up.

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

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