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01’ Kentucky Snub Although the 1-0 Blue Devils face Louisville this Friday, the Cardinals refused to exchange video highlights with Duke. See page 11
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Task force plans BFSI successor � The group will look at the success of the Black Faculty Strategic Initiative 10 years after its creation, and how to create a lasting, cooperative environment. By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle
will not happen again.” The damage to the rooms varied, but was concentrated on the top three floors of Building B in rooms near the elevators, residents said. The room the problem originated in received the most extensive damage, and its occupants will most likely not be able to return
As the Black Faculty Strategic Initiative heads toward its final months, a new task force is meeting next week to begin shaping a new University effort to increase faculty diversity over the next decade. The Provost’s Task Force on Faculty Diversity will likely seek to expand the scope of diversity efforts to include other minorities and women for the next stage of the initiative, Provost Peter Lange said. “We reached our goal,” he said. “Now we need to think about what our next step will be.” Lange added that the BFSI is on schedule to reach or even surpass its goal of doubling the overall number of black profes- Rex Adams sors by fall 2003. The University initiated the effort in 1993 to focus attention on the “under-representation of black faculty on campus The new task force, headed by professor and former dean of the Fuqua School of Business Rex Adams, is charged with three goals: to draw superior faculty members and students; to create an environment that retains minority faculty; and to prepare students for life in a diverse society through education.
See WEL RESPONSE on page 7
See BLACK FACULTY on page 10
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TWO WEST-EDENS LINK RESIDENTS climb onto construction scaffolding Monday, as the WEL cleanup progressed and the sun came out in Durham for the first time in over a week.
Officials respond to WEL flooding By WHITNEY BECKETT The Chronicle
Sunday’s flooding of the West-Edens Link left over 30 students homeless the last two nights, but most of the new building’s 350 residents were able to return early Monday morning. A “small design flaw” in a fire sprinkler head that was accidentally knocked off in a sixth-floor closet triggered all of the hall sprinklers on the floor to go off, said Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta. It took about 90 minutes before officials shut
“I’m not happy it took almost an hour and a half to stop the sprinklers,” Moneta said. “Now there are a couple of pieces of information we need to find: why it took so long to turn it off, and how to make sure this
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The resi, *entlal smolcin 9 ban was instituted last year, and some students are offering mixed reactions to the policy. See page 3
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Dr. Nancy Allen will chair her first Academic Council meeting this month. The first female chair since 1977, Allen hopes to address several key issues. See page 3
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Quad council elections appear to have gone smoothly, but voting in the West-Edens link was postponed and final results will be announced today. See page 4