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Sdqt Missouri misery A weekend in St. Louis wasn't the vacation the field hockey team hoped for, Duke lost twice, falling to Michigan 3-1 yesterday. See page 17
VA teams up with national developer By SARAH McGILL The Chronicle
The Veterans Affairs campus opposite Duke University Medical Center is expanding, and it isn’t just adding a few bed spaces. The major project, one of the first of its kind, will include
restaurants, hotels and banks
along with office and lab space—all on federal land. “It’s the largest mixed-use project in the country for VA campuses and it really spotlights Durham, the VA and Duke,” said John Infantine, vice president of LCOR, whose Bethesda, Md. office will be developing the property for the VA.
The
possibility
for
the
650,000-square-foot, six-building Erwin Road development was created in 1991, when Congress passed a law that allowed VA campuses to lease their property for private de-
velopment in exchange for new research and hospital space. “I think the whole nature of the project is really creative,”
said Dan Miller, spokesperson
for the VA. “If we don’t do this, the likelihood that we will be able to serve the needs of our nation’s veterans is remote.” In return for allowing LCOR to develop the prime real estate adjacent to Duke into a mix of retail, commercial and research space, the VA will receive 19,000 square See VA HOSPITAL on page 9 Is
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A PRIVATE DEVELOPER plans to build office, retail and lab space in front of the VA Hospital on Erwin Road. The publicprivate union could serve as an example to other hospitals around tf le country.
Academics double on corp. boards � Universities like Duke are reaping the benefits from connections made by their presidents crossing into the corporate world. By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
From the Pratt School of Engineering to the Medical Center, from the De-
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A SAFE RIDES VAN picks up three students at 2 a.m. Sunday. Students say they want more vans to provide quicker late-night pick-ups
DSG proposes Safe Rides expansion ByAMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle
Apparently, Safe Rides is not making people feel that safe. Duke Student Government sent a proposal to Auxiliary Services officials in favor of expanding the program by adding vans and extending pick-up service to its entire service area, bounded by Club Boulevard, Duke Street, Chapel Hill Street, Anderson Street, Chapel Hill Road, Cornwallis Road, 15-501 Bypass and Hillsborough Road. For years, students have complained that Safe Rides does not adequately serve student needs, mostly because it involves long waits.
Most recently, two students were mugged March 20, 1999 while they were waiting for a van at the Towerview Drive speed bump across from Cameron Indoor Stadium. Two other students waiting for a ride Oct. 24 were robbed at gunpoint at the West Campus bus stop. “A lot of students have voiced concerns about there being a high wait time and not enough actual Safe Rides vans,” said junior Mandrill Taylor, DSG’s director of student services and the plan’s author. “It’s not meeting the students’ needs adequately... Safety is one of the most important issues that shouldn’t be an issue.” Associate Vice President for Auxil-
AtHLETIC DEPARTMENT WORKS ON TENNIS POLICY,
iary Services Joe Pietrantoni, who had
not yet seen the proposal, said the University already plans to add one van to the two already in service this year. “We had so many calls on the use of it,” said Pietrantoni, who added that graduate students’ concerns prompted the increase. “It wasn’t overloaded but it was very heavily used, very busy.” Pietrantoni said his plan is designed “to keep the process going at a good, steady pace.” Off-campus expansion bears significant financial implications beyond
Pietrantoni’s current plans. DSG’s proposal would require adding several more vehicles, each at See SAFE
RIDES on page 6
partment of Economics, to the Sanford Institute, scholars’ interaction with counterparts in the corporate world is skyrocketing. And the University’s leader is leading the charge The Compaq gift to the Pratt School and the
University’s genomics initiative,
both
of which
cross the lines be-
tween corporate academic, and demonstrate scholarship’s attention to its practical implica- an Keohane lions and corporations’ focus on applying scholarship in the “real world.” The move began long ago and may have started at the top, with corporations bringing prominent college presidents onto their boards of directors. Now, the numbers of academics on the boards of major corporations is growing, and President Nan Keohane is one of them. “An increasing proportion of univerSee CORPORATE BOARDS on page 8
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