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As the undergraduate community digests the unquestionable success of University Hall's Harvard State Fair and continues to enjoy administration-sponsored events such as Pub Nights in Loker Commons, student leaders have increasingly found themselves faced with an uncomfortable question: What should be the UC's new non-monopolistic role in campus social organization?
By Steve Lee in News

2. NBA: Off-season moves
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

As training camps just begin to get serious, the frantic trade buzz that arrives every summer is slowly fading away. The dealing of Eddy Curry appears to be the last major transaction we can expect before the season begins. But damn if it wasn't a dramatic summer.
By Daniel Burke in Sports

3. Red Sox: cursed again
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

Three straight losses to the Chicago White Sox in the American League Division Series suggest this season's Red Sox lacked the seemingly magical momentum that propelled them to win the 2004 World Series. With the team now out of the running for a championship victory, some students are asking whether Red Sox fever at Harvard is still going strong.
By Caroline Corbitt in News

4. Turnin' Two: A sports lexicon
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

leafer (n.) Definition: An individual who shows great promise or potential, yet somehow manages to be a perennial disappointment; someone whose inability to perform is matched only by his/her intolerable personality and abrasive nature
By Colin Twomey in Sports

5. Ivy News Roundup
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

The Daily Princetonian Yale map heist stirs University concern By Ross Liemer (October 12, 2005) Following a foiled theft of maps from the Beinecke Rare Book library at Yale, Princeton librarians said they are committed to preventing similar crimes here but declined to specify whether anything might be missing from University collections.
By Peter Ekman in News

6. Musings: Playoff baseball and man-crushes
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

Muthu: Welcome back to another edition of Musings, your home for in-depth analysis on the sports stories that matter most. Thanks to the heroics of Chris Burke in an eighteen-inning marathon, we now have a rematch of last year's NLCS. And thanks to El Duque's gutsy performance with the bases loaded and no outs, there is not a rematch in the AL.
By Andrew Mugica and Naveen Muthu in Sports

7. Pigskin Preview
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability...My penchant for melodrama - and love of sci-fi movies - aside, being a football fan in the age of the Belichick Pats is starting to evoke powerful feelings of déjà vu. You can feel it in the room.
By Vivek Ravishanker in Sports

8. Catholic Church blames gay priests
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

The Catholic Church is in danger of becoming a bygone institution - a relic of history, irrelevant to the modern world. And they know it too. Among the many, the two greatest problems that the Vatican faces today are a shortage of priests and an even greater lack of credibility in the eyes of both their flock and also the world at large.
By Susana Bejar in Forum

9. Protesting military recruitment
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood a few weeks from now. A bright and sunny fall day in front of the Science Center. Orange leaves swirl past the garden of rocks and anxious tourists click their shutters at Mem Hall. There's only one thing missing from this pastoral scene - the protestors.
By Shelly Steward in Forum

10. Video gaming at Harvard
Published Thursday, October 13, 2005

Walk through the halls of any Harvard lodging late at night and one of two sound patterns will meet you. A loud, sustained torrent of noise replete with obnoxious music and obnoxious people - this is an alcohol-drenched dance party. Discussed incessantly by popular culture, the fundamentals of the booze bash need not be revisited again.
By Mike Ragalie in Forum