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THE FIRST ISSUE [ What’s Inside ]

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First Things First Two students ahead of their time; a case of identity crisis; Kinsey’s tie with Sly; and a man-on-man makeout with Tom Selleck. Nine of the 10 moments that helped shape IU.

14 Searching for Neil

Writer Michael Sanserino tracks The General’s first defector – Neil Reed.

He discovered less than he hoped but learned more than he imagined.

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departments

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Editor’s Letter 5 Ms. Noitall 4

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Our resident expert discusses Fiji fairies, the river’s end, and cancer.

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The hottest electronic trends you can actually afford.

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Cover illustration by Nate Bethea

Confessions

A fashionista in first person: Tales from the root of a runway.

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Self-Enomics

Football or video games? Sex or sleep? We help you decide.

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INside Out

Silly questions for a smart man.

Call of Duty

What inspires an enlistment in the Army? Why now? The questions are complex, but for IU’s ROTC cadets the answers are simple.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

THE FIRST ISSUE Let’s set the record straight. We’re not trying to be self-serving by calling this “The First Issue,” even though it is our first issue. You’ll notice that future issues will always be called “The Something Issue.” That’s because every issue of INside is going to have a theme, and there will be a multitude of elements related to that theme each time. For instance, we’re featuring 10 historic “firsts” this go around, split between little blurbs and a full-

length feature on Neil Reed – Bob Knight’s first defector. You’ll also notice that our “Confessions” department is about a trendsetter (familiar with firsts), and our last page is a Q&A with Dean McKaig all about his memorable firsts and lasts. And speaking of the departments, I encourage you to visit our Web site, inside.idsnews. com for a full explanation of each one and a chance to submit your own ideas for future issues. Enjoy.

Fall 2006 Staff Editorial

Business

Brian Janosch

Jordan Smith

Editor

Advertising Sales

Elisha Sauers

Casey Bjustrom

Managing Editor

Creative Manager

Allie Townsend

Caroline Hackman

Managing Editor

Creative Manager

Jordan David

Jennifer Ripberger

Art Director

Creative Manager

Nina Mehta

Rob Bock

Art Director

Marketing Manager

Nancy Comiskey

Matt Paral

Adviser

Marketing/Creative Manager

INside magazine, a new enterprise of the Office of Student Media, Indiana University at Bloomington, will be published twice each academic semester: October and November, and February and April. INside will operate as a self-supporting enterprise within the broader scope of the Indiana Daily Student. INside magazine operates as a designated public forum, and reader comments and contributions are welcome. Normally, the INside editor will be responsible for final content decisions, with the IDS editor in chief involved in rare instances.

All editorial and advertising content are subject to our policies, rates and procedures. Readers are entitled to a single copy of this magazine. The taking of multiple copies of this publication may constitute theft of IU property and is subject to prosecution.

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I WAS my parents’ first baby, and this magazine is mine. OK, so the birth of INside wasn’t nearly as excruciating as what my mom went through, but plenty of similarities do exist. I spent nine months in my mother’s belly before being born; the magazine spent roughly five months in my brain.

Both the magazine and I needed to be named. And more than anything, just as my parents take pride in me, there is an immense amount of pride poured into the pages of what you’re holding right now.

That pride is the return on the investment of loads and loads of hard work – in both cases. I can’t imagine what my parents felt like when they sent me off to my first day of school and realized, wow, he’s really growing up. It makes me think of the first INside story I read. It was the “Confessions of a Trendsetter” piece, and when I finished reading the work of Managing Editor Allie Townsend, I got chills. It was just what I had envisioned, and I anticipate that becoming a trend in itself with Allie.

But life’s not perfect. Several years after that first day of school, I got my first-ever F. It was only a spelling test, but I bawled and wanted to quit school forever. My mom snapped me out of it, and long story short, I never spelled “friend” wrong again. Like life, the production of the magazine wasn’t perfect either. We originally had a writer assigned to write an ROTC story, but two days after it was due, the writer E-mailed and said he was terribly sick and couldn’t do the piece. We already had beautiful photographs, so again, I panicked, and again, I relied on the brilliance of a strong woman to bail me out. My other managing editor, Elisha Sauers, agreed to get up at the crack of dawn (twice!) and follow around the cadets

to do her own story.

Those firsts are all well and good but let’s be honest, the first we ALL remember best is our first love – our first real appreciation of beauty in the physical form. Mine was named Apple. Yes, Apple, short for Appolonia.

Tell me that’s not sixth-grade sexy?

Either way, it might be the beauty of this magazine that excites me the most. And if Apple got her looks from her parents, then that would make the true parents of this magazine Jordan David and Nina Mehta. They donated, yes donated, all of their time into making us look good, and all I could offer in return was a title. They technically are not part of the paid “staff,” but the greatest disservice I could have done would’ve been neglecting to include those two in the masthead.

That’s why you can read their names in the corner of this page above the words “Art Director.” I would dare say that their production is the Apple of my eye.

So I guess that brings us to this moment. Maybe it compares best to that first day our parents drop us off at college. Their work is kind of done at that point, or at least it seems that way. For us here at INside, our baby is all grown up and off on its own, and like a kid at college, who knows how many people are laying their hands on it? I know that when I came to IU, all I really wanted to do was have a positive impact on the people of this University, and in return, hoped they would like me. And now, I want the same thing of my baby. I hope it has an impact on you, and most simply, I hope you like it.

– Brian Janosch, Editor

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MS. NOITALL

INside’s answer guru proves that every Q has an A IS FIJI WATER REALLY FROM FIJI? – TROY, SOPHOMORE Why yes, yes it is. According to fijiwater.com, the precious substance is carefully gathered from a volcanic chamber deep beneath the surface of the earth. The water is then taken up by the Fiji fairies, and somehow bottled before ever touching the air. No,

I’m not making this up (except for the part about the fairies). However, here is the ironic part. The Web site also says: “Fiji is far away. But when it comes to drinking water, ‘remote’ happens to be very, very good.” Au contraire Fiji folk. According to a Fiji Times news report from June 2006, the local water supply caused a deadly outbreak of diarrhea that resulted in at least one death. According to the report, the Fiji Nursing Association declared the water unfit to drink without boiling first. Is there a moral to the story? Drink Fiji water, unless you are actually in Fiji.

WHERE DOES THE JORDAN RIVER END? – MIKE, SOPHOMORE If you choose to brave the treacherous waters of the Jordan River, you will find your vessel winding through Dunn Meadow and then being pulled underneath Indiana Avenue. Assuming you survive the water tunnel experience, you’ll emerge a

mile later where the river resurfaces south of First Street, according to a 2002 Indiana Daily Student article.

Then you will set sail for Clear Creek, where the ‘Mighty Jordan’ empties. Happy sailing.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO AMELIA EARHART? – ELSA, FRESHMAN Don’t you know, Elsa? She landed her plane in Fiji to hoard all of the precious water to herself. Unfortunately, she forgot to look underneath the volcano and diarrhea got the best of her. Just kidding. Actually, there are some popular theories as to what really did happen to Ms. Earhart.

Some believe she was captured on a spy mission for then-President Teddy Roosevelt. Others think that she flew her plane into the Pacific on purpose.

But Ric Gillespie, author of the new book Finding Amelia: The True Story of The Earhart Disappearance, says evidence suggests that Earhart crashed her plane off the coast of the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. The U.S. Navy attempted a search and rescue but abandoned it after a few flights over the islands. Since then, Gillespie says human remains were found in

the 1940s but were dismissed when a doctor said they were the bones of a short male. After recently entering pictures of the remains into a large database, technology claims that these were, in fact, the bones of a woman.

Gillespie is now leading an effort named “The Earhart Project” to locate these remains for DNA testing and will also visit the Phoenix Islands to search for the airplane wreckage next summer.

ARE CLOVE CIGARETTES BETTER OR WORSE FOR YOUR LUNGS THAN REGULAR ONES? – ASHLEY, FRESHMAN Clove cigarettes are made from tobacco that has been sprayed with clove oil, a product primarily used in dentistry as a local anesthetic. According to a recent report from IUPUI Health Services, clove cigarettes contain two or three times more nicotine and tar than normal cigarettes. Thusly, clove cigarette smokers are 20 times more likely than regular smokers to develop an abnormal lung function (a.k.a. CANCER!).

NEED AN ANSWER? SEND A QUESTION, ANY QUESTION, TO NOITALL@IDSNEWS.COM

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CONFESSIONS

Confessions of a...

trendsetter

I’m too jazzed about the show.

Normally designs just come to me. I’m not constantly sketching. I like to go in spurts.

I usually get ideas from the fabrics themselves. I’ll see the right fabric, and the cut just hits me.

It’ll be like, “Oh, you’re a dress.”

I’m really impatient when I get an idea. I need to get it out. I love to design a set of ideas that will sort of go together, and then I’ll throw something completely different in there. At the last minute before this show, I put together a satin bikini and asked a model if she would wear it on the runway. She totally went for it. She put on some really high heels and then strutted right down the stage. The place went insane. It wasn’t the best construction, but it got the best reaction. Everyone was like, “Oh my God, who is this girl?” That made the show for me.

Before you know it, it’s all over, and you look around at the empty room and breathe. It’s such a sigh of relief. You just finished cutting, sewing, sketching, pinning, fitting, then suddenly, all you do is stop. A show is so much stress, but it’s good stress. You pack your things up, take your favorite designs with you, and as soon as you hit the door, you miss it. Then all you can think is, “What’s next?”

–As told to Allie Townsend

Fashion is everywhere, but designing is an entirely different story. Senior apparel merchandising major Hannah Myers sat down with INside to share her experiences of the night that marked her arrival as a full-fledged fashion force.

Hannah Myers has a job lined up with Urban Outfitters after interning for them this summer. [ Photograph by K.A. MacDonald ]

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PEOPLE WAITED all night, but everyone still had so much good energy. The girls were in outrageous hair and makeup.

It was such a rush – it is every time. I knew the designs were amazing, so if somebody didn’t like them, I didn’t care. I always love watching my models walk out. It’s all of my hard work, all of my free time, walking out in front of the crowd. It was my third fashion show, and I was only a junior. I had just dabbled a bit previously, but this time I wanted people to look at the designs and say, “Yeah, Hannah made that.”

It was so late when the models finally took the runway, but everybody was excited to support the art. That’s what fashion is to me – my art. Some people have music, or painting, or dance – I have designing. It’s my artistic freedom. That’s why I don’t like patterns. I’ll never use them. They are so cookie-cutter. I’d rather just eyeball it, then take it and fit it again. It seems like most people steal stuff straight from high-fashion designers. I’ve never really bought into all of that. I’d rather do my own thing. That’s what fashion is about: just doing and not worrying what anyone will say about it. I don’t have time to second-guess my designs on the runway anyway. By that time,

HANNAH’S PICKS— WHAT TO WEAR THIS FALL LONG MARCHING TRENCH $78, GAP.COM MOCK TWEED GAUCHO $20, WETSEAL.COM FREE PEOPLE SCROLLING FLOWERS TOP $48, URBANOUTFITTERS.COM BLACK SCRUNCH BOOT $37, HOTTOPIC.COM WOMEN’S BEAD AND TASSEL EARRING $6, OLDNAVY.COM [ Photos courtesy of Web sites listed ]

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THE TIP JAR

Inspector Gadget CHIP CUTTER is

The Verizon LG Chocolate cell phone is the new item editors from cnet.com are calling “sexy.” Sweeter than candy, Chocolate comes with Bluetooth technology, a digital music player with expandable memory options, and a 1.3 mega-pixel camera. ($150, verizonwireless.com)

Take ease, cash-strapped students. Whoever said you can’t pay less than $150 for today’s hottest technological gadgets? From a trendy new cell phone to an all new slacking extreme, these products prove it’s easy to get “plugged in” on a college income.

BEST ACCESSORY

Swimming or showering doesn’t have to be silent anymore with the Otterbox. The waterproof enclosure protects an iPod from water at depths of up to 3 feet. ($20-$50, otterbox.com) [ Photos courtesy of Web sites listed ]

Spare roommates from the noise of TV and other electronics with Sony Infra-Red TV Listening Headphones. An infrared transmitter connects to a TV, VCR, or DVD player, and the wireless headphones pick up the signal. ($59, brookstone.com)

Monitor your motion with the new Nike+ System that links your shoe to an iPod nano. A small shoe sensor transmits runners’ speed, distance, and calories burned directly to their iPod receiver. The info is then displayed on the screen and announced through audible messages. ($115 – $140 for shoe-transmitter combo, nike.com/nikeplus)

Never miss a lecture – or radio broadcast – with the Gadget Universe 12-hour Digital Voice Recorder. With 80feet worth of recording range, you can sit in the back of lecture and listen to the football game on the built-in FM radio while the recorder listens to your professor for you. ($150, gadgetuniverse.com)

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SELF-ENOMICS

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T

HERE APPEAR TO BE TWO OPTIONS when it comes to working out: Say “screw it” and be lazy, or hop to it and get crazy. Nobody wants to look like they’re preparing to hibernate for the winter, but at the same time, it’s hard enough to pass econ, let alone hit the gym on a regular basis. But alas, INSIDE has found the perfect solution – where fun rules futility, and “simple” is the law of the land. Abide by these replacements and those bears won’t know what they’re missing this winter.

sleepsex or swim

Or you could...

86 74

But what about?

calories*

30 minutes of sit-ups and push-ups

345 296

take your dog for a walk

sleep an extra 30 minutes

39 33

6 minutes of swimming

65 55

have sex

take a billiards elective

180 154

an hour and 10 minutes of aerobics

718 616

take karate

drive 10 minutes to class

29 25

45 minutes of yoga

164 140

leave 20 minutes earlier and walk

play video games for 45 minutes

97 83

2 hours of weight lifting

517 444

start a pickup game of football

sit around and stare at your messy room

129 111

a 30-minute jog

302 359

get up and clean your room

watch TV for an hour

*Calories burned according to caloriesperhour.com based on average male and female weight according to National Center for Health Statistics.

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[ Photograph by Ashley Wilkerson ]

You could...

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st campus computer

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Today, almost all IU students own their own computer, many of which can fit in a backpack. But it was not long ago when there was only one computer on campus, and it filled an entire basement behind the women’s locker room in the HPER. IU has had computer-like machines spitting out solutions since the 1940s, but the first real computer came to campus in 1955. The 650 Magnetic Drum Calculator wasn’t ever really “owned” by IU at all but rather rented from IBM at the exorbitant rate of roughly $2,500 a month. By today’s economy, that would be equivalent to about $17,176.

“We got a deal,” says E. Wainwright Martin, the former director for the University’s computer research center who programmed the 650. “They normally rented for $4,000 a month commercially.”

Various departments used the machine for scientific calculations, crunching numbers at a rate of 150 per minute with its 20,000-byte memory. Today, a personal computer can do about a million calculations per second and usually holds 300 million bytes of memory.

“This computer was a box about the size of a refrigerator but about 8 feet deep,” Martin says. “The really big ones were a lot of boxes. It looked like a room full of refrigerators.”

The machine didn’t have an operating system, just punch cards that were used to “teach” it how to solve a problem. Professors hired their advanced students to draft the math problems into computer code. Martin says they would often spend entire nights energetically trying to find a solution. “It was gangbusters.”

–Sarah Core

st lawsuit against IU to reach the Indiana Court of Appeals

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On a stormy day in June nearly 80 years ago, Kenneth Deckard, a campus groundskeeper, took a break from his work to seek shelter under a tree.

It turned out to be a fatal decision. Lightning struck the tree and killed Deckard instantly.

Despite Deckard being an IU employee at the time of his death, his widow and son were denied compensation by the state industrial board.

His family appealed, and in 1930, the Deckard case became the first lawsuit against IU that went to an appellate court – in this case, the Indiana Court of Appeals, which denied the

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Deckard family’s claim.

Lightning deaths are difficult to pin on employers since electricity from a storm is a danger to the general population, not just workers. One case cited in the Deckard decision noted that even an employee sitting on the wet ground in a tent next to a pile of steel rods was denied worker’s compensation for a fatal lightning strike.

IU has been named as a defendant in countless lawsuits, and many have gone to state and federal appellate courts, but the University has yet to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.

–Suzannah Evans

6 people, 1 dog, a big box, and IU’s swim for social equality ILLUSTRATIONS BY NATE BETHEA

st major act of desegregation

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During homecoming week in 1993, Clarence Boone Jr., director of diversity programs at IU, observed a unique reunion 50 years overdue – that between a former IU president and a former IU football guard.

“My fondest memory of that afternoon was having Mr. Coffee use me as a tackling dummy in Dr. Wells’ living room,” Boone recalls.

J.C. “Rooster” Coffee was a student in the early ’40s, and a “well-known football player ... who had won the heart of the campus,” as Wells described him in his autobiography Being Lucky.

Coffee came to know the president through a subtle, on-campus victory, rather than his public, on-field tackles.

During a calm week in 1943, Wells called then-Athletic Director Zora Clevenger to his office and asked for the name of the school’s best black athlete. Clevenger answered, “Coffee, of course.” Wells told Clevenger to tell Coffee to “strip down and jump in”on an afternoon when the HPER pool was particularly full.

A few days later, Coffee swam in the “white only” pool for about a half-hour. And then again the next day, and every day after that for two weeks before anyone realized the policy change.

Mind you, this was more than 10 years before another symbolic gesture aboard an Alabama bus would spark racial turmoil nationwide.

Well ahead of its time, IU suffered little to no unrest after its own act of desegregation.

“I knew the great president was doing something great to help us as black people,” Coffee said during his reunion with Wells. When asked about why so few people objected, Coffee said: “Because I loved everybody, and everybody loved me.”

– Liz Dilts

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st Hoosier to enter orbit

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That kid next to you in lecture might seem like he’s back from outer space, but David Wolf actually is. The IU grad spent 160 days on the space station Mir, lived in zero gravity, and was subjected to scrutinizing FBI sting operations.

After messing around at a piddling engineering school in West Lafayette for four years, Wolf obtained a doctorate of medicine from IU in 1982. He eventually went on to work for NASA during a time when lawmakers were hesitant to send any American to the decadeold space station. Explosions and power failures were among the greatest concerns, but Wolf eagerly rocketed toward space to assist the Russians with necessary Mir repairs.

Wolf’s Hoosier integrity helped him overcome an FBI sting operation in 1993. According to an In-

dianapolis Star article, he was treated to a lavish dinner and taken to a topless club where a former colleague offered him money in exchange for Wolf’s transportation of bogus medical projects aboard the space shuttle, as part of an undercover operation to weed out criminal activity in NASA. Wolf threw the prospectus in the garbage and ignored phone calls from the former colleague to thwart the operation, clearing him of all accusations of wrong-doing.

His family still lives in Indianapolis, and during his tour of duty on Mir, he was able to converse with them for 16 minutes on Thanksgiving via satellite, courtesy of a teleconference set up, in part, by IU’s University Information Technology Services.

– Andrew Roberts

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This should be a question on VH1’s “World Series of Pop Culture”: Name the first IU graduate to kiss both Meg Ryan and Tom Selleck, and win an Oscar to boot. The answer? Why, Kevin Kline, of course.

The movie star who made being a boorish French crook attractive to women across the United States in 1995’s “French Kiss” turned around two years later to share a makeout moment with Tom Selleck in “In & Out.” As to which makeout scene was steamier? That’s for you to decide.

Kline performed in several productions while at IU, starting with a part as the Bleeding Captain in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” during his freshman year – a far cry from his more recent roles in New York’s “Shakespeare in the Park” series.

Kline, who began as a music major in classical piano, switched to

acting two years into his degree, after discovering that musical composition just wasn’t as exciting for him as acting. And, most musical composers don’t have the opportunity to make out with Selleck under the guise of “acting.”

He graduated from IU in 1970 and began making his way in Hollywood with such notable films as “A Fish Called Wanda” and “The Big Chill.” Probably the luckiest role he landed in life was marrying ’80s sex goddess Phoebe Cates (Remember that pool scene in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”?).

As for kissing both women and men, Kline has done more of that, most recently while portraying Indiana-native Cole Porter in “De-Lovely.”

“Well, I have kissed a few men,” Kline told the gay newspaper Out & About in July 2004. “And it sure isn’t fun when they are not clean-shaven.”

–Sarah Core

st stage of the Hoosier identity crisis

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st female student (and professor)

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Sarah Parke Morrison never planned on being the first female student at IU. In 1867, she was a 34-year-old woman who had already received formal education at women’s colleges.

Her parents were progressives who had started their own girls’ school in Salem, Ind. Her father, a former president of the IU board of trustees, suggested that she write an appeal to the University on behalf of women.

As motivation, he promised her five bucks.

To everyone’s surprise, the trustees could not find a clause in IU’s regulations that prohibited women from enrolling. Unspoken cultural rules had done the trick since the University’s founding in 1820. And so, with nothing stopping her, Morrison applied for enrollment.

The board voted 4-3 to admit Morrison, making her not only the first female student at IU, but the first at any state university. That fall, Morrison joined 300 male students in Bloomington and wore a large sunhat with a broad ribbon tied around her chin as protection from the men “casting a sly glance” at her. Some hollered at her when she walked by: “Mixed colleges will

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not live!”

But Morrison grew bolder, eventually removed the sunhat, and participated in class discussions – even when professors told her she didn’t have to (not so subtly indicating they actually believed she shouldn’t). She completed a year’s worth of study in her first semester, and

by January, there were 19 women joining Morrison in Bloomington.

In 1874, Morrison became IU’s first female faculty member, teaching English literature. Again facing adversity, many students refused to accept her as a professor. The anonymous student publication The Dagger offered this advice: “Ol’ Sallie that you may not make a consummate ass of yourself, hasten to your mother’s breast, seize the nipple of advice and fill your old wrinkled carcass with the milk of common sense.”

Morrison left IU two years later and went on to become a significant religious and women’s rights writer. She died in 1919 at the age of 85.

– Suzannah Evans

In the Big Ten, every university has a mascot with the exception of Indiana’s Hoosiers. But it hasn’t always been that way. IU has actually had many mascots through the years. The problem? No mascot ever lasted.

The cry for a school mascot began in 1923.

“Our Kingdom for a Goat,” read an Indiana Daily Student article that year.

“Stubborn, peppy, wild and wooly,” a goat would be the perfect mascot to represent IU, the editorial decried. Students could even volunteer to feed the goat their old clothes. But the grass-regurgitating mascot never came to fruition.

In 1935, the first official mascot made its debut at halftime during the IU-Purdue football game.

“It is more beautiful than any other dog,” thenUniversity President William Lowe Bryan said of IU’s first mascot.

Who would have thought he would be talking about the Hoosiers’ version of Lassie? That’s right, IU’s first mascot was an alabaster-colored collie dog, purchased for a mere $75. But Lassie didn’t last, and IU has struggled to define itself ever since. An old, decrepit schoolmaster, a bull, a bulldog, a bison, a half-bison half-man incarnation, and a man in a wide-brimmed cowboy hat have all been given a chance but each retired to the bench that is the Hoosier mascot purgatory.

– Jamie Ward

st Kinsey director to manage a funk band

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June Reinisch, a former director of the Kinsey Institute, used to flush a lot of rock stars’ coke down the toilet. From 1968 to ’69, two decades before her reign at Kinsey, Reinisch was the manager of rock ‘n’ roll hall-of-famers Sly and the Family Stone, famous for hits like “Everyday People” and “Dance to the Music.”

“My rule was ‘no hard drugs,’ other- wise I wouldn’t stay,” Reinisch reminisces.

Back in the ’80s, Reinisch spent 11 years on IU’s campus as the first female Kinsey director and a professor of psychology. She believes her experience as Sly’s manager may have contributed to her being hired, in addition to her acquisition of major research grants and areas of research study.

One of the most highly publicized studies Reinisch led revealed that 60 percent of IU students didn’t believe participating in oral sex was “actually having sex.”

Because Kinsey released this research after the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton, the conclusions appeared in publications worldwide.

As director emeritus, Reinisch still conducts research on behalf of the institute. She currently resides in Brooklyn and is the executive director of loveandhealth.info, an educational and informational Web site on all things sex. Reinisch is also a practicing marriage counselor and the curator of the Museum of Sex in Manhattan.

Her passion, though, is merely educating others.

“I feel that knowledge is power and also erases anxieties,” she says. “With knowledge you can really make people’s lives better.”

– Michelle Manchir

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st alum to make out with Tom Selleck ... on screen, anyway

st for the future

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Firsts at this University happen on a neverending continuum. Take Richard DiMarchi, IU’s chemistry department chairman. For virtually all of his career, DiMarchi has devoted considerable amounts of research to improving the quality of life for people with diabetes. For the past three years, he’s done that research in an IU laboratory.

His newest invention might very well be one more notch on the ol’ belt of Hoosier firsts.

At the IU Innovator of the Year award ceremony, DiMarchi took home the trophy for his development of an artificial glucagon for insulin-taking diabetics. If a diabetic goes into hypoglycemic shock, an attack caused by having too little blood sugar, the sufferer needs an injection of the glucagon hormone, which causes the body’s

liver to release sugar into the bloodstream. But natural glucagon has some temperamental qualities: It doesn’t dissolve well in water, and it tends to break down at room temperature.

So DiMarchi and his fellow researchers created a synthetic glucagon with enhanced properties, making it easier to formulate and administer. If DiMarchi’s super glucagon passes drug-testing and makes it on the open market, it might be the first portable glucagon to be sold in a ready-to-use pen-sized injector.

DiMarchi is co-founding a new company called PhySci Pharmaceuticals that recently received a $2 million grant from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation to help pay for its research.

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EW PEOPLE know what it’s like to be Neil Reed.

Maybe Bill Buckner does. He never asked for sports infamy. It just sort of... passed through him.

With his Red Sox in position to win the World Series, Buckner let a ground ball roll through his legs that allowed the go-ahead run to score. Boston didn’t win the World Series, but Buckner won a lifetime of hate mail and death threats.

Better yet, maybe Steve Bartman knows what it’s like to be Neil Reed. He didn’t ask for sports infamy. It just fell in his lap.

Bartman sat in the stands, about to watch his Cubs make the

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World Series, when a foul ball sailed his way. He didn’t catch it, but neither did Chicago outfielder Moises Alou, and many fans blamed Bartman for the collapse that ensued. As a result, he went into hiding.

Buckner and Bartman had no malice in their mishaps, but they suffered nonetheless. They became a vent for sports fans – rather fanatics – who cared more about a team than the people who define it.

Former IU basketball player Neil Reed is no different. Only his role in sports history didn’t roll through his legs or fall in his lap. It wrapped around his throat.

I explain that I don’t want to reopen the wound; I just want to see if it’s healed.

FLASH FORWARD to this August. I’m sitting on a porch along Dunn Street, still a little sweaty from tossing around a football. With a beer in his hand, the editor of INside approaches me and first shares some story about his house having the name “Nipples.” He somehow transitions this to me writing an article for him. It’s hard to take him seriously.

He tells me that the issue is going to be all about “firsts” and that he wants me to try and track down Neil Reed – “The General’s first defector.”

Right away, the story seems tough, but my ego tells me otherwise. The ego wins, I agree, and my editor re-enters Nipples.

NEIL NEVER again slid his head through an Indiana jersey. His teammates voted him off the squad at the end of his junior season. In an Indiana Daily Student article, Neil said Knight told him: “I don’t care if you go to school, but you are not going to play here.”

But before any of that, something happened.

Something that resulted in Neil no longer being a Hoosier, and something that then inspired him to head home. Nobody knew what that something was except for Neil and the Hoosiers, and it would remain that way for the next three years. Time Neil would spend with two simple options: Stay quiet, or stand up and face The General.

MY SEARCH for Neil starts right here at IU – at there, but I call the number to see if it’s connected. the alumni association to be exact. From my reTo my surprise, a deep, aged voice with a noticeable search I’ve found that he transferred to the UniverSouthern accent answers the phone. It is Terry Reed. sity of Southern Mississippi, but perhaps IUAA has I tell him who I am and explain what I am tryhis phone number in its records. I’m transferred to ing to do – that I’m looking for his son, more than the proper person and ask her what they have on anything, just to find out what his life is like now.

Neil Reed.

“Let me tell you what,” Mr. Reed says. “I think “I don’t think he’s too happy with us,” says the it would be best if we didn’t go there.” woman who’s looking through the database.

I explain that I don’t want to reopen the This is my first inclination that the search will wound; I just want to see if it’s healed. be more difficult than I had anticipated.

“I understand you’ve got a job to do,” he reSurprisingly, the alumni association has plies, “and I appreciate what you’re trying to do, a match for Neil, but there is no phone numbut I’ve got a son.” ber, only a street address in Nipomo, Calif. Fair And then he hangs up. enough. So I plug the address into WhitePages.com By the time I realize the connection is lost, his but come up with a screen bearing no results. I words start sinking in. Neil’s teammates turned on try similar Web sites only to receive the same rehim and his fans threatened him, but his family sponse. I’m thinking that Neil probably does not never left his side. list his phone number – for fear of rabid IU fans I want to give up at this point – not because or, even worse, journalists.

I think finding Neil will be too hard but because I Following my lead, I place a call to a newspathink this article could do more harm than good. As per in Santa Maria, Calif., and ask if they have any much as I say I won’t reopen any wound, I know noinformation about this address, perhaps in a local body tears through scar tissue faster than the media. phone book or a city directory. A woman from the newspaper calls me back about 10 minutes later.

IN MARCH of 2000, almost three full years after No luck.

Neil left IU, he finally made his decision. He wasn’t I give up on California – for now. going to stay quiet anymore. He appeared on televiMy next shot is at Southern Mississippi, where sion, alleging that Bob Knight choked him at practhere is no record of Neil Reed, even though a stafftice during his junior season. That April, a practice er in the athletics department says he played there tape was leaked to the press showing Knight move after IU. Not only that, but his dad Terry was the his hands toward Neil’s throat. Knight said he nevteam’s assistant coach. Regardless, I’m no closer er choked Neil, but that’s not important. What is, than when I started. though, is how IU fans sympathized – with Knight.

So I try Louisiana State University. Several arBy alleging assault from a state employee, it was ticles released when Knight was fired say Neil went Neil, not The General, who became the villain in to grad school at LSU, but a call to the school’s the eyes of IU fanatics. After a few more television alumni association reveals the same answer as interviews, Reed vanished.

Southern Miss.

Other sources say Neil might have later transON THE last legs of my search, I call Neil’s high ferred to New York Universchool basketball coach sity. So I make another call. only to find out he And I get another “no.” hasn’t spoken to Neil At this point, I am bein two years. ginning to wonder if all my I also discover the efforts have been in vain. All man living at that Nithis work and I may never pomo, Calif., residence find the man. is “Vernon Stanley.” So Searching for more I call every Neil Reed clues, I remember that his This video surfaced shortly after Neil accused listed in California, but dad was an assistant coach Bob Knight of choking him during a 1997 practice.

I never find the Neil at USM. So I google (jourReed. It’s obvious to nalist’s best friend) “Terry me now that this is a Reed” and “basketball coach” hoping for the best. man who does not want to be found.

One promising article from 2002 tells me Mr. Reed But I still want one more conversation with took a coaching position at Henderson State UniMr. Reed, just for closure. I don’t want to ask him versity, a small college in Arkansas. for his son’s number; I just want to talk. I make the At about 8:30 in the evening, I browse the unicall early in the afternoon. He answers again – with versity’s Web site to find a staff directory with Mr. that same deep voice – and remembers me.

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EIL REED, a Southern-bred basketball player, moved to Bloomington with a blank slate. He graduated from East Jefferson High School in Metairie, La., in 1995 and ventured north to play for legendary coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers.

It was an ideal move for a kid who spent part of his childhood in Bloomington. Not surprisingly, Neil and basketball were close companions. His father, Terry, who coached basketball, nurtured that relationship and developed Neil into a high school standout ready for the next level.

Neil played 94 games for the Hoosiers, averaging 9.8 points in three years. He even tied IU’s record for most 3-pointers in a game, with eight against Iowa in 1996. Heading into his senior season, Neil hoped to be a leader for IU, but he’d never get the chance.

An IU ROTC cadet advances across the tailgating fields during a drill designed to demonstrate how small infantry units can clear fortifications safely.

CALL OF

DUTY Students by trade. Soldiers at heart.

STORY BY ELISHA SAUERS PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON BERNSTEIN

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pack of IU students with fluorescent reflector belts jostling at their hips were trudging steadily along 10th, then 17th Street. It was almost six o’clock on a weekday morning, and the intersections, which still flashed off-peak reds and yellows on the traffic lights, were quiet and empty.

The stammering heavy breaths of the runners puffed into visible clouds and hovered in the foggy air.

Perhaps one cadet was thinking about his friends, still asleep, and how he’s already burned more calories than they will all day. Perhaps another was recalling her mantra as to why she’s giving herself shin splints.

And maybe another has momentary doubts floating through his brain – questions all too commonly pointed toward any member of the IU Reserve Officers’ Training Corp. “Why join in the time of war?” “Why go to Iraq at all?” “Why, if you’ve been there, would you ever want to go back?”

TO LEAD...

The pack kept silent as it traversed its usual Wednesday route to the football stadium. It was not until the group reached the dewy field that 21-year-old senior Leo Jansen, a compact, muscly sort, uttered a word.

“OK, A-group,” Jansen’s voice echoed. “We’re gonna do four laps up.”

The word “up” was a literal order: “Up” was the direction from the bottom of the cement bleachers to the nose-bleed section. With a few huffs, the fittest of the fit paired off in twos – some spitting preparatory loogies over the bottom step railings – then began scaling the sharp incline.

“Be tough, be tough,” Jansen threw his voice.

“Quick steps on the way down – explosions all the way up.”

Explosions reverberated as each foot hit the concrete. “That’s right, guys. Right when it hurts real bad – only makes you stronger.”

One straggler keeled over from the waist, panting. With one hand on the soldier’s back, Jansen nudged him encouragingly. “Come on, buddy, we’ll do this one together, you and me.

Let’s go.”

When the A-group finished its physical training for the day, the sun had barely pealed over the horizon.

“I mean as far as ROTC is concerned, everything is focused on leadership,” he says. “My major is political science. I want to serve my country and do great things for America, but really, what I want to get out of it is the leadership training – and it’s knowing that as a leader of men, you’re only as affective as your people are.”

Teamwork, responsibility, valor, honor: These are the core values Jansen and the other cadets live and breathe, from the moment they rise for training or drills to their afternoons spent in lecture.

But this leadership development program doesn’t

come without future obligation. After junior classmen become contracted with the Army, they are required to four years service after they receive their IU diplomas, either in active or reserve duties.

Despite the lengthy commitment required of them, college ROTC enrollment is on the rise.

Since Sept. 11, heightened patriotism is among a handful of reasons cited for a steady growth in officer training programs nationwide, and IU is no exception to that trend.

In a time of war, there’s no doubt that many of the ROTC students will launch their careers straight into the heart of Iraq. But, will they be ready?

“That’s one of those things that I can’t speak to – it’s really tough to say,” Jansen demurs. “But when I do go, I know that I’ll live out my life trying to do all of my duties to the best of my ability.”

And when asked if the thought of going into Iraq is frightening...

“I’d prefer not to answer that.”

The cadets await instruction from their fellow ROTC leaders for the morning drills. Soon they will distribute a stockpile of “rubber ducks,” the nickname for the fake weapons used to resemble the weight and feel of an M-16 rifle.

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TO SAVE A LIFE...

Cadet Brett Kirby is tall, sturdy as a Redwood – a storyteller and a cynic. At times, he can be quiet and reserved; others, he is sarcastic and jovial. When it comes to his officer training, though, he’s all business. For the IU ROTC program, he is only one of 10 to have already been deployed to Iraq. And Kirby has been twice.

On a Thursday morning in the tailgating fields, he stood attentively, respectfully as another cadet a couple years younger than him instructed his platoon on the protocol for a basic military tactic. This time, it was how to lead troops across a Linear Danger Area, or as normal civilians refer to it, a road. Kirby, however, has already crossed many roads.

Sometimes when he goes through the repetition of drills, it will trigger a memory or two from Iraq, but Kirby downplays these occurences.

“That’s also kind of like how in math class when one problem reminds you of a time you did a similar problem or something. It’s like that only a little more magnified. I don’t have flashbacks in the sense. But the adrenalin high in combat is ... well, any time that you’re scared, your body pumps out a whole lot of endorphins. If there was a way you could bottle that feeling, I mean, it would be worse than crack.

“The main thing that I kind of feel when I go through training is ... I won’t say contempt, but a mild sense that I’ve already done harder than this.

I’ve already done harder than some will ever do in their lives. It’s almost a pride thing, and I’m just trying to stay humble.”

Unlike most of his fellow cadets, Kirby joined the Army straight out of high school. Four years later, he was sent to Iraq. It was in the midst of war that he had what he deems “a great epiphany.”

He wanted to become a leader himself, but his lack of higher education was holding him back.

He came to IU just for the ROTC. “Just didn’t want to be the low guy on the totem pole again,” he says.

While in Iraq, Kirby was outraged by the kind of leadership he observed. He thought he could do better than the officers who led him.

“One of them died from a booby trap on the side of the road; the other one almost got me killed a few times. And then he said to me if I thought I could do so much better, why don’t I try to outrank him next time? So I thought, yeah, I’ll take the Pepsi challenge.”

Kirby is older than his peers because his edu-

cation has been interrupted by his multiple deployments. But when asked about the possibility of returning to Iraq – “Oh, I’m planning on it.”

He’s chosen a general studies major because, he says, it’s the quickest way of getting through IU so that he can get back to his Army duties.

Kirby doesn’t withhold anything when asked if he has fears about war.

“The only thing that frightens you is knowing that your life is in the hands of someone else. I’ve already seen the elephant, and I believe I could make a difference by making the right choices under pressure. So I’ve got to go back – I’ve got to try.

“When I was 16, I was a proclaimed atheist.

But I realized at that age that it was kind of my life’s mission to save a life. And that’s why I joined the Army to begin with. So I try to look at my time in ROTC the same way. I’ve been there, and these kids haven’t. I look at this as just another opportunity to save a life. I try to mentor these kids, tell them what I know. Because they know the textbook version of the real world. I only know what happened to me.

“I might be able to delude myself by thinking that if I tell these kids some stories or whatever that I’m saving them. But who knows. It might actually come down to that. Is that likely to happen? No ... but I’ll still try.”

TO CARRY TRADITION...

Cadet Jamie Lemon, a 22-year-old senior, looks quite small when she stands by her fellow ROTC members. Nevertheless, her physical stature and gender have not hindered her dream to become an Army leader like her father and family generations before him. Her goal is to make it in the medical services branch, which she will find out about in December, but admits she would be happy to serve in any of the branches.

On a Thursday morning at the tailgate field, Lemon knelt down beside a large tactic board, moving the pieces around to demonstrate a maneuver to her platoon. Only then was her flaxen blonde ponytail visible from underneath her camo cap.

Some might wonder what inspires a woman to join the military. In Lemon’s case, it was her father. Ever since she can remember, it’s been her dream to follow in his footsteps.

“My dad raised us in the military mindset.

We had to stand at attention when we were in trouble,” Lemon laughs.

Lemon is the middle child of three sisters, and the only one of her siblings to join the

The tailgating field becomes a mock battlefield for cadets during the week.

THE IU ROTC RAP SHEET 1840 — The first military instruction is initiated on the IU campus. Three years later, the program disappears.

1861 — The program is reinstituted for one year as voluntary course during the Civil War. 1868 — Military instruction returns to IU with the advent of U.S. President Andrew Jackson appointing Maj. Gen. Eli Long to the post; however, the program was abolished for the third time in 1874 for lack of interest.

1916 — IU faculty decides to make ROTC mandatory for all male students in response to WWI. 1918 — ROTC college division pays students $30 per month from the government as well as tuition funding.

1919 — The Department of Bands separates from the Music Department, joins the Department of Military Science and Tactics. It’s the first band in United States to incorporate precision drill formations in performances.

1926 — After WWI, IU students vote whether compulsory ROTC is necessary. The majority oppose, but because only 25 percent actually vote, the University Board does not take action.

1942 — ROTC becomes a separate entity from COAS during WW II. 1964 — Several student groups protest the mandatory enrollment into ROTC for all male students. ROTC then becomes elective.

1969 — Student groups protesting the ROTC attempt to burn down the ROTC building.

1972 — IU is one of the first 10 universities in country to accept women as cadets in ROTC. 2006 — IU ROTC is now a four-year program; students contract with the Army by their junior year.

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National Guard and ROTC. Car“One of the things that my rying on the family tradition was dad really taught me is to take every very important to her, she says. opportunity to be trained. Train as She might not be the typical if you’re going to fight, have a plan girly-girl, but even in her combat and have a backup plan. Because boots and fatigues before the light this affects your life.” of dawn, Lemon had a swoop of mascara across her lash lines. The The members of the ROTC are fact that she is a woman merely often asked to explain themselves makes her more determined to – why join up in a time of war, why prove herself among her cadet go at all, why go back? peers.

Cadet Kirby has much experi“I’m not a very strong runner. ence in the way of answering those And we’re not all going to be the questions. fastest runners ever, but it’s some“If people ask me if I want to go thing that I work at and try to max back, they’re either the intrepid jourout the female record because we nalist, or they want to see if I’m one On this cold autumn morning, cadets are forbidden to stuff their numb hands in have to constantly prove ourselves. of those bloodthirsty, baby-killing their pockets while they grit through various drills.

And it does get tough. If you’re on guys who gets their jollies on with your period, you’re like, ‘I don’t feel this. Really, people who ask those like running. I don’t feel like doing sit-ups.’ kinds of questions aren’t really interested in know“Going to Iraq is something that’s just expectBut you do it anyway.” ed. I joined the National Guard after Sept. 11, so ing why I want to go back; they’re more interested Lemon says she’s heard the worst of the I knew what I was getting into. And I know what in wanting to know the motivations behind why it’s like to have someone close to you deployed. Of worst horror stories about the war from her dad, I want to go back. I guess they’re just trying to course, I have concerns. It’s a very, very scary place. who re-enlisted at the age of 49. find out whether I’m the ally or the enemy.”

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“I know you said you wouldn’t get me in contact with your son, and that’s fine, but I wanted to ...”

“It doesn’t matter what you’re doing.

There’s nothing I am going to say, and there’s nothing that he’s going to say.”

“I understand your concern, but ...”

“No, you don’t understand. You don’t understand how often this gets brought up.

You haven’t gotten any hate mail recently, have you?”

“No, I haven’t.”

“Well we do.”

In these two conversations with Terry Reed, I don’t have to ask him any questions, but he answers them all. This man is fiery.

He is hurt. He is broken-hearted for his son.

And he’ll do anything to keep his son from facing the fury he felt when he left Bloomington.

Terry doesn’t hang up on me this time, rather he makes one request.

“If you care at all,” he says, “you’d just leave us out.”

So I tell him thanks. And then I hang up.

Bob Knight and Neil Reed were brought together by basketball and torn apart by controversy.

Six years later, Reed can’t be found and Knight won’t even speak about IU. [ AP photograph ]

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THE FIRST ISSUE

INSIDE OUT

Q &A

INSIDE: What was the last book you read?

MCKAIG: A Jim Collins book called

Good To Great, but that’s too academic. Frankly, the last book I really read was on a beach. It was a murder mystery called Blow Fly, by Patricia Cornwell.

When was the last time you put your foot in your mouth?

That I do daily, the problem is I just can’t remember each precise example. But I do go around saying some crazy things.

When was the first time you received a bad grade?

Well, what happens when you get older is that you purge all of the disappointing memories. Halfway through

Birthday blunders, bourbon, & beanbags IU Dean of Students Dick McKaig shares his most memorable firsts and lasts writing my thesis, I was relatively convinced that I would never finish my doctorate because I would never finish my dissertation. I can certainly remember that evening very vividly where I was just surrounded by the sad set of events I was in because this dissertation was going to hell right in front of my eyes. But, of course, the sun came up the next day.

served soup, and I was the delivery boy.

What was the last thing you forgot?

I think it was her pledge class dance, which she always says she asked me to. But actually she claims that she asked me out of a joke, and I was so quick to respond with a “yes” that she had to take me. I guess it was more of a joke at the time and I just got lucky.

On July 10th, I was driving back from a conference with my wife and my daughter called to wish my wife a happy birthday. And it totally, I don’t mean I knew the day before and forgot to mention it, I mean it totally slipped my mind. I didn’t even acknowledge that the month of July involved her birthday, or that she had a birthday, or that she was even born. It was terrible.

Speaking of your wife, when was the first time you saw her?

That was probably my sophomore or junior year in college. We worked together in a cafeteria line. She was a server on the line. She

What was your first job?

It was either bagging groceries or cutting weeds for the city of Anderson. I can’t remember which came first.

Where did you go on your first date?

When was the last time you sang your favorite song?

I’m not sure that I have a favorite song. I usually just sing along with my iPod while I’m cutting my grass.

Unfortunately sometimes I sing so loud other people can hear me.

What was the first drink you ever had?

Bourbon. I am a bourbon fan.

What would be your last meal?

Probably something with shrimp or a light white fish. Maybe sea bass.

What is the last thing that made you laugh?

I laugh all the time. I have an interesting sense of humor. It’s sort of important to have in a job like this.

[ Photograph by K.A. MacDonald ]

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What was the last embarrassing thing that happened to you?

This isn’t the last, but it comes to mind. Last year, I had an opportunity to appear on a radio show and the announcer said, “We are very pleased to have with us tonight Dean of Students Damon Sims.” And it was me, and Damon, of course, is the associate dean. I found that awful embarrassing.

What was the last sport you played?

The beanbag game. That was the last game I played and I won. We had a student party, and I smoked the IUSA folks – they would have to admit it if you asked them. They went down hard that day.

When was the first time you got in trouble?

Well you see, again, when you get older you purge the bad memories, and everything becomes much rosier.

But I have a brother who is 15 months younger than I am, so we were pretty good at getting in trouble as kids.

What was your first car?

It was actually my parents’ car, an old Buick. It was in the ’60s, so the model was an absolute tank — literally indestructible. It could harm everything, but nothing could harm it.

What is the last thing you would ever possibly want to do?

I’m not a wild thrills person. I would have to say bungee jumping.

Dean McKaig won a national award for outstanding performance as a dean in 2005, and he’ll be your Facebook friend if you want him to.

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