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Lawyers clarify union vote plan
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By MARKO DJUKANOVIC The Chronicle
HILLSBOROUGH Last Thursday, the lawyers for the International Union of Operating Engineers and Duke University Health System scheduled a unionization vote for early June and decided which nurses will be allowed to participate. With about a dozen nurses in attendance and in front of a National Labor Relations Board representative, the lawyers from lUOE and DUHS agreed to allow all registered nurses on Duke’s main campus to vote on whether to join
Requirements So you took UWC and all your math classes, but are you really ready to graduate? By PERI EDELSTEIN The Chronicle
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hen the Class of 2004 enters the University l/l this fall, it will face a new set of academic f V requirements under Curriculum 2000. Yet five graduation requirements remain the same—the unI
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official ones. “Part of it is tradition and part of it just bragging rights. Part of it is just doing a couple more really stupid things before you graduate and have to be out in the real world,” said Trinity senior Cory Chen of the five unofficial
tasks’ appeal. Most students said the unofficial requirements are a topic of late-night conversations more than personal goals. There are also those undergrads who see them as an essential part of Duke tradition. “It was definitely a priority of mine to accomplish them,” said Trinity senior Dan Huber.
University Archivist Bill King said the origins are unknown, but probably not oflong-lived tradition. ‘They were not here in 1961 when I graduated; they could well have begun in the late ’6os when students started questioning authority,” he said. Indeed, all five of the requirements are criminal acts that the administration does not condone. That being said, with just two weeks left until the members of the Class of 2000 reach their deadline, The Chronicle decided it was time take a closer look at the five tasks and provide a little guidance for those who have yet to unofficially graduate. Driving
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Mike Israel, CEO of Duke Hospital, said the filed petition mainly addressed issues at Duke, so nurses at Durham Regional and Raleigh Community hospitals should not be included in the June vote. lUOE lawyer Seth Cohen said the agreement approved 37 separate classifications of nurses for voting and removed the names of supervisors one by one. Union supporters collected around 1,000 signatures to force the vote, which is scheduled for June 2 and 3. Previous estimates suggested that 1,400 nurses would participate in the vote, but the final list, which will be released Thursday, is expected to include about 2,000 See UNION VOTE on page
Committee drafts event policy plan
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By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle
After incorporating the feedback of about 20 students, a set of suggested changes to the University’s
event planning policies was submitted last week to Vice
President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson.
Tm actually very pleased with the process that the nnal product included, in that there were students putting input into every single word of the recommendations,” said Duke Student Government Vice President lor Student Affairs Jasmin French, stressing that the report to Dickerson is only a recommendation. Dickerson could not be reached this weekend to comment on how likely she is to implement the suggested changes. An earlier draft—crafted without student feedback ey officials from student affairs, auxiliary services and ampus Police—suggested several controversial changes. But the final report relegates these issues—like Prohibiting alcohol purchases with University funds, al°wing only small gatherings in commons rooms, requir‘rrg all events involving alcohol to be registered and subsidizing security costs—to a section of “items requiring hrfther discussion.” See EVENT
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95th volume on the Cheps of the Stapel After 142 issues, The Chronicle’s 95th volume is giving up the ghost and heading to the coast. The Diet Coke Can Dynasty has ended, but the torch has been passed to mastermind Greg Pessin, the Trinity junior who is fourth from the left in the bottom row. He’s the man with the plans. Any questions? Call him at 225-GREG.
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