January 18, 2001

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Lucky 18? In its 18th game of the season, women's basketball faces N.C. State, which defeated Duke in its 18th game last season. See page 13

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Undergraduate DSG elects Ensign exec. VP body may grow By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle

Provost Peter Lange and other high-

ranking administrators are considering eventually boosting the engineering school’s enrollment by up to 200, but they must first expand facilities and services. By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle Now that the Pratt School of Engineering has secured the funding and finalized the plan for a large-scale faculty and facilities expansion, topranking University officials are trying to engineer away to get the school an additional 100 to 200

undergraduates. “Our initial thoughts are that as we expand the engineering faculty, we will want to train more students in these new and exciting areas,” Provost Peter Lange said. “There is a discussion that down the road, there may be an expansion of somewhere between 100 to 200 students to meet the school’s needs, but there are serious problems that have to be resolved.” Although these discussions have been tabled temporarily, Lange continues to investigate the repercussions of admitting an additional 25 to 50 students to each entering class of the Pratt School of Engineering. Administrators believe that with

the significant faculty growth proposed by engineering school dean Kristina Johnson, there may be an opportunity to boost its relatively small size of about 900 students. The engineering school’s long-range plan calls for increasing the school’s faculty from 71 to 120 over the next decade, with emphasis on scholars of nanotechnology, information technology and bioengineering. See STUDENT BODY on page 7 �

Last night’s Duke Student Government meeting swept out the old and brought in the new, with the fanfare of a much-anticipated January election for a replacement executive vice president. In a contest of four candidates, DSG legislators voted junior Drew Ensign to fill the position junior Daryn Dodson abdicated. With the unusual mid-year switch, Ensign acknowledged his role as executive vice president will, by necessity, be different than the experiences of those taking the office at the beginning of fall semester. “Because there are only two-anda-half months left, there cannot be any time for transition or awkwardness,” Ensign said. “[The new executive vice president] needs to get off to a running start.” Ensign, who boasted the most DSG experience, became a legislator his freshman year, vice president for academic affairs his sophomore year and the Student Organization Finance Committee chair earlier this year. Ensign ran on his experience, which became a pivotal factor in the election against opponents first-year legislator Alex Bama, a freshman, and juniors David Cummings, a second-year legislator, and Henry Ho, DSG treasurer and a legislator last year. “I want you to judge me on how involved I have been this semester and what I have shown my commitmerit to be,” Ensign said. As his first order of business, EnSee DSG on page 6

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DSG CHIEF JUSTICE ALEXIS HIGHSMITH, a senior, swore in Executive Vice President Drew Ensign last night after he was elected by the Legislature.

Library toughens overdue penalties for recalled books By MATT BRADLEY The Chronicle

LIBRARY USERS LIKE freshman Morgan Qualls (right) will now need to return recalled books kept past their original due dates within seven days or they will face severe fines.

For many students, the libraries are quiet places to study, check out books and fulfill other“requirements.” However, a new library policy may change the way undergraduates, graduate students and faculty think about ignoring library rules. In an effort to encourage library users to return books more promptly, library officials have tightened late book policies on recalled books. The new policies have decreased the grace period for recalled book returns from 10 days to seven days and increased fines after the grace period from $1 to $3 per day. Students who do not return recalled books after the seven-day grace period will now also face a suspension of library lending privileges. Books can only be recalled if a user has kept a book longer than the initial check-out period. “This is really a very small percentage of users that this will apply to,” said Ashley Jackson, head of access services for Perkins Library. “The Perkins Library system’s long loan periods work only if people return recalled books promptly.” The changes, which took effect Jan. 10, have been in the works for a year and half, waiting for approval from the University’s Library Council, which includes graduate, undergraduate and faculty representatives. The last change to the late book policy was made during the early 19905. See LIBRARY on page 5

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