September 11, 2000

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Sports Another football fiasco The Blue Devils visited Evanston, 111, and left town with a humbling 38-5 defeat against Northwestern. See page 6, SPORTSWRAP

Indiana turns back on Bobby Knight By JOE DRAPE and BRODY GREENWALD N.Y. Times News Service and The Chronicle Bob Knight’s storied career as bas-

ketball coach at Indiana University ended yesterday when the university president, Myles Brand, fired him for demonstrating a pattern of “uncivil, defiant and unacceptable” behavior since May that culminated last week with a student’s allegation that Knight physically and verbally assaulted him. Brand acknowledged that the severity of Knight’s confrontation last Thursday with the student, Kent Harvey, outside Assembly Hall on the Bloomington campus was in dispute. But Brand then offered a list of transgressions by Knight that he said violated the zero-tolerance policy laid down on May 15 after an investigation by the board of trustees. “I still believe we had to give him one last chance,” Brand said at a news conference in Bloomington. “He failed to live up to that. That was his decision. His unacceptable behavior not only continued since then but increased.” Brand said he spoke with Knight by phone last Friday, and Knight wanted to keep his job. Brand said he gave Knight the option yesterday morning of resigning, but Knight would not. Brand then told the coach who has displayed a temper as fiery as his trademark red sweater that he would be dismissed. See KNIGHT on page 9, SPORTSWRAP

Hanes Annex: A new hub for the humanities By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

What was just an abandoned building last year will soon be a place for fostering intellectual thought and the use of cut-

ting-edge technology. On Oct. 2, several faculty members from offices across the University will move into the renovated Hanes Annex, now the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies. The center, the first of its kind at Duke, will facilitate interdisciplinary and international study in the humanities. The $3.5 million facility, which will occupy 36,000 square feet, will house 15 programs including the Franklin Institute and the centers for South Asian, European, and International Studies. “[The center} gives the faculty a very selective and special [facility] from the academy to engage in the kind 0f... research and intellectual projects that not only brought them to Duke, but makes them so special to Duke,” said Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences Karla

JONATHAN OANIELMLLSPORT

COACH BOBBY KNIGHT leaves Indiana University after 29 tumultuous years of service, three national championships and 17 weeks of supervision under a zero-tolerance policy.

Holloway. By sharing a building, members of different humanities departments across the University will interact more frequently and in a different manner than ever before. See HANES ANNEX on page 14 P-

Fuqua sets sights on top-five rank Legislative ballots By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

Watch out, Wharton: The Fuqua School of Business is gunning for you. As part of the University’s strategic planning initiative, Fuqua has created its own long-range academic plan. The goal is simple: to become one of the top five business schools in the nation. But the means by which Fuqua plans to get there is more complex.

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FUQUA DEAN REX ADAMS has grand plans for increasing the number of faculty by 36, expanding the Cross Continent program and building a new student center.

The document calls for a number of changes, but the most substantial lie in two important components—more money and more faculty. “Right now we don’t have adequate faculty resources,” said Fuqua Dean Rex Adams. ‘There is no such thing as a top five business school with a faculty of less than 100.” Adams hopes to increase the size of Fuqua’s 69-member faculty to 92 in the next five years and to 105 a few years later. In order to reach this goal, Fuqua officials will have to hire a net of four or five faculty members per year, an unusually large number. Making the task more daunting is the fact that the school will have to combat retirements and other departures. With those factored in,

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omit 3 candidates By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

Six months after Duke Student Government’s bungled executive elections, election officials made ballots incorrectly for last Thursday’s legislative election. Senior Mike Lieberman, freshman Stephanie Crissy and one othercandidate were initially left off the ballots. Lieberman and Crissy were put on the ballot before 10 a.m., and both won. But the other candidate, who did not win, was missing until the afternoon. DSG would not release the third candidate’s name and did not make public the mistakes until contacted by The Chronicle Sunday afternoon. “Mistakes were made that were careless on our part and should not be repeated in the future,” said Attorney General Jessica BudofF. Til take some personal blame for the situation.... I’m new to DSG and I think I had a lot of learning to do very quickly to prepare for this election.” She said the names were deleted while DSG officials cut and pasted names onto the ballot. Budoff said DSG officials told the third candidate she could file a complaint, but she chose not to do so. The numbers didn’t suggest that she was very closely in the race,” Budoff said. “[We told her] she would have to ask first in order for us to consider anything [like] redoing the elections.” See

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