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Big 'Cats battle in cactus country In a duel between the nation's top two teams, the ArizonaWildcats currently hold a slim lead over Duke's women's golf team. See page 13
Duke may privatize remaining University eateries By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle
In a move they had repeatedly promised not to make, Dining Services officials have begun negotiating with a private company to manage Duke’s last few campus eateries. Citing declining revenue at the Oak Room, The Great Hall, the East Campus Marketplace and the University-owned
Chick-fil-A franchise, Joe Pietrantoni, associate vice president for auxiliary services, has begun talks with $7 billion ARAMARK—a Philadelphia-based food ser-
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The decision to begin privatization negotiations represents a significant shift in dining policy. For years, Auxiliary Services officials said they would never privatize their core restaurants, but after Pietrantoni completed the most recent Auxiliary Services strategic plan, he said that privatization had to be explored.
continually “To stay abreast of the market is more challenging than it was a few years ago. It’s time for us to realize that we could not keep up with student demand without more expertise,” he said. “Our employees do good work, but strategically what we’ve learned is that we needed to be trained to provide more diverse foods; more than just meat and potatoes and meatloaf. I can’t provide training in the foods students want.” ARAMARK currently manages major eateries at several colleges on the East Coast including the University of Virginia and Wake Forest and Clemson Universities. The company, whose food services division is valued at nearly $2 billion, has a network of test kitchens and chefs that allows it to develop menus and training courses. Additionally, the company has already developed stations at other universities that provide vegetarian cuiSec PRIVATIZATION on page 12.!*
THE GREAT HALL, one of the University’s four remaining Duke-mn restaurants, may soon be operated by ARAMARK, a Philadelphia company that now manages eateries at the University of Virginia and Wake Forest and Clemson universities.
Council gives initial OK to Ganyard OIE checking up on Health System By MATT ATWOOD The Chronicle
DEAN MICHAELS, president of the Watts Hospital-Hillandale Neighborhood Association, speaks to the City Council Monday.
In a five-hour meeting Monday night, the Durham City Council considered two development plans that opponents said would place too much stress on already-crowded schools. The council denied a request by development firm Olde South Homes for an 82-horae subdivision in East Durham in a 5-7 vote, but approved the initial rezoning for a larger project on Ganyard Hill Farm in Southeast Durham by an 8-4 vote. Both projects were recommended by city planning staff, but the seven-member joint City-County Zoning Committee had recommended denying both. Protest petitions against both were filed, but only the petition against Olde South Homes was found sufficients meaning that the council needed 10 votes to pass that plan, compared to seven for the Ganyard Farms proposal. A1 Alphin, the attorney for Olde South Homes, said the firm’s plan—which called for rezoning 23.14 acres to allow up to 82 homes, rather than 75—would help improve East Durham. “East Durham needs this kind of development because it’s an ownership-type thing, and by nature people owning property contribute more to the community,” he said. But neighborhood residents and Zoning Committee members opposed the project, saying it would place an undue burden on the neighborhood’s infrastructure. Steve Bocckino, a Zoning Committee member, cited the impact on local schools, which are already using portable trailers to house classrooms. Bocckino said 17 of Durham’s 27 elementary schools are now over capacity. “Facilities are overburdened,” he said. “Some of those kids eat lunch at 10:15 in the morning. How See CITY COUNCIL on page 7
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By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle
An office that was created six years ago to serve the Duke University Health System is this week taking its first recent steps toward that goal. For the first time, later this week, Vice President for Institutional Equity Sally Dickson will meet with officials from several Health System components including Durham Regional Hospital and Raleigh Community Hospital to discuss Duke’s policies of inclusiveness, diversity, affirmative action, harassment and compliance with the Americans with Disability Act. Dickson has been meeting with DUHS employees and administrators in order to evaluate the relationship between the Office of Institutional Equity and the Health System and recommend improvements. “We don’t have the presence in the Health System that I would like to have. I don’t think employees fully know we are a resource to create a diverse and respectful workplace,” Dickson said. “I see us at Duke University, that includes the Health System, making sure that Health System employees view us as a resource.” Some employees said that although they are not familiar with OIE specifically, they did know the procedure for filing a complaint. “We have real good supervisors who keep us well-informed,” said front desk receptionist Dorothy Daye. “There’s not enough time in the day for-us to read all the material, but I know there are rules and I would know how to [make a complaint! Since its inception in 1995, the Office of Institutional Equity has played a small role in the health system. That, however, was not by design. When President Nan Keohane created the department, she specifically envisioned that OIE would be an active See OIE on page 12 P
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