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Legislators lament budget constraints A budget passed by the North Carolina Senate last week would drastically cut health and human service funding but proposes adding several education initiatives. The House will take up the matter in the upcoming weeks.
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A 24-HOUR DINER could be in the works once ARAMARK takes over the remaining eateries managed by Dining Services July 1.
plans changes By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
Although food services corporation ARAMARK will not officially take over until July 1, the University’s transition to entirely privatized dining options is already cookin’. “Everybody was afraid of aligning Duke with a big food conglomerate,” said Jim Wulforst, director of Dining Services. “There’s nothing to fear here.” After a full year of negotiations with ARAMARK, the University last week signed a fiveyear contract that will give the Philadelphiabased company control over The Great Hall, the
Marketplace and the other remaining non-privatized campus eateries. ARAMAKK’s plans for The Great Hall and the Marketplace include several stations with different themes, such as Bene’s Pizza, Cranberry Farms—a Boston Market-style eatery—and Pan Geos, which will serve a rotating selec-
tion ofinternational foods. Wulforst also discussed the eventual creation of more space, possibly between the Bryan Center and the West Union Building. In addition, the changes include moving Chick-fil-A to The Great Hall’s serving area and See ARAMARK on page 16
With the tightest state budget in many years, North Carrounding the Senate budget olina legislators have had to has focused on the closing of make some difficult choices four facilities under the manabout which programs to cut agement of the state Departand which programs to keep. ment of Health and Human In the version of the budget Services: the Eastern School for passed last week by the state the Deaf in Wilson, the School Senate, members chose to cut for the Deaf in Morganton, Dorothea Dix psychiatric hospisome health and human services, while adding some educatal in Raleigh and the Whitaker tional programs. School for troubled youths in The 35-15 vote was split Butner. While these facilities cleanly along party lines, with will not be closed for up to two Democrats supporting the bill years, many legislators on both and Republicans opposing it. Senate Minority Whip Jim Forrester, R-Gaston, said many Republicans voted against the budget because they didn’t have input on its proposals. “We would have had some good ideas if we had been asked,” he said. The budget is scheduled for discussion in the House of Representatives next week, where more even division between Democrats and Republi-
sides of the aisle are worried
that the services they provide will not be replaced by community-based programs. “I’m very troubled,” Sen. Wib Gulley, D-Durham, said. “I think we’ve made unconscionable cuts in those areas.” While Gulley said he is concerned that community programs similar to those provided by the schools for the deaf See BUDGET on page 17 >
Primate Center employees feel left out of decisions By JAMES HERRIOTT The Chronicle
In the wake of the University’s announcement last week that it would not renew current Primate Center director Kenneth Glander’s contract, the center’s staff has voiced concern that they have been left out of important discussions. But seniorlevel administrators say they value the employees’ input and have not made any long-term decisions about
making definite decisions about the center for at least another year or two,” he said. “It would be absurd to say they are not informed of the full
discussion.” But employees say that they had hoped the reviews, which have thus
far remained confidential, would lead the administration to revitalize the center. Clark said the first time she knew differently was when she read an article published in The Chronicle last the center’s fate. describing discussions October, was dissummarily “The director missed with no notice,” said staff about disinvestment at a meeting of specialist Dorothy Clark. “And if you the Arts and Sciences Council. “With so little information from think they could do it at the top, what do you think they would do to the administration, we fear the worst,” said Melissa Dean, a staff asthe bottom?” sistant at the Primate Center. “We WednesIn a memorandum last day, Provost Peter Lange informed all believe that the review is a good Clark and other staff members thing. The fact that they have kept it about the Glander decision, citing so secretive and we still don’t know the results of two recent reviews of anything—we are going, ‘Oh my God, they are going to close us.’” the center. Lange said the reviews demondean faculWilliam Chafe, of the ty of arts and sciences, cautioned strated that the Primate Center is not living up to its research and against unnecessary panic. teaching potential. As a result, the to He said he and Lange plan meet with the employees to discuss University will extend resources to See PRIMATE CENTER on page 9 � the matter. “We’re not going to be
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THE PRIMATE CENTER, which houses the world’s largest collection of lemurs and other prosimian primates, may one day close. Employees have expressed fear that they will be left out of future decisions.
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