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Top 10 Showdown Duke and Northwestern—top 10 schools in the latest U.S. News rankings—will face off on the football field Saturday. See page 1t
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Duke ties for 4th in ranking � The rating is Duke’s highest in U.S. News since the magazine ranked the University third in the nation in 1998.
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Duke jumped four spots in this year’s US. Mews & World Report ranking to share fourth place with four other universities. Princeton University
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pulled the top spot-, followed by Harvard and Yale universities tied at second—all maintaining their spots.
THE DURHAM BULLS celebrate the triple-A minor league baseball championship Thursday night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
Bulls win Governor’s Cup with 3-0 sweep By JEFF VERNON The Chronicle The Durham
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a pleted three-game romp through the Governor’s Cup Finals last night, besting the Buffalo Bisons 2-0 to capture their first
championship in over 30 years. The game remained knotted at zero until the bottom of the sixth inning, when catcher Paul Hoover belted a fastball to the warning track in right-center field, knocking in Emil Brown See BULLS on page 12
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By WHITNEY BECKETT and ALEX GARINGER
Up from No. 8 last year, Duke shares its position with the California Institute ofTechnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and University of Pennsylvania. Dartmouth College, Columbia and University Northwestern University round out the top 10. Provost Peter Lange said he was happy with the magazine’s recognition of the University. “We are pleased to learn that the quality of the undergraduate experience that Duke students receive has once again been ranked by U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey as being among the very best in the nation,” he said in a state-
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■ 2nd Best Biomedical/Biomed. Engineering ■ sth Best First-year Experience ■ 24th Best Undergrad Engineering Program ment. “It is gratifying to have
the exceptional quality of our faculty, programs and students so recognized.” The Pratt School of Engineering also moved up two spots in the rankings for engineering programs to 24 in a three-way tie with the University of California at San Diego and the University of Maryland
at College Park. Ranking top in the category was MIT. In engi-
neering specialties, Duke made it to the top five only in biomedical engineering at second, The magazine also added several new categories this year, In “Great Schools at Great Prices,” the University ranked See U.S. NEWS on page 10
Chafe addresses state of A&S Durham Regional Arts and Sciences must recommit to diversity, dean says reports S2M loss By ANDREW COLLINS
By DAVE INGRAM
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William Chafe, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, addressed diversity issues and budgetary concerns at Thursday’s Arts and Sciences Council meeting. In his annual “state of Arts and Sciences” address, Chafe stressed the need to develop a broader definition of diversity. He said although racial diversity in the undergraduate population will not be significantly altered, the University is working to increase faculty diversity, student economic diversity and diversity in its course offerings. “There has remained a tendency to think of Duke as a place of wealth, whiteness and privilege,” he said. We aim to change that.” Chafe noted faculty diversity has increased in recent years. The Black FacSee ARTS
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DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES WILLIAM CHAFE speaks to the Arts and Sciences Council Thursday afternoon
David Ferriero spoke out against the patrint Art and how he believes it is endangering access to information See page 3 University Librarian
Durham Regional Hospital lost $364,000 more than expected in the fiscal year ending July 1, but it has moved closer to ending its long-standing budget deficit, according to a hospital report released Wednesday. The hospital’s $2 million operating deficit exceeded the projected $1.7 million loss but was down from $7.5 million the previous year and $16.9 million the year before. Officials expressed optimism that Durham Regional—managed by Duke University Health System since 1998 has finally turned a comer after recent cuts in jobs and services. “Everyone’s very pleased with how we’ve done in the last fiscal year. We’re certainly trending in the right direction,”
Discussions about the future of Central Campus were underway this week, as developers talked with administrators and students. See page 5
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spokesperson Katie Galbraith. “This year was a roller-coastertype year for us... but our staff did an incredibly good job managing their budgets and we saw incremental increases in patient volume at the end of the year.” The deficit equaled about 1.3 percent of the hospital’s total expenses of $155 million. An unexpected, one-time $1.9 million payment for insurance hurt Durham Regional when its prior insurer stopped offering the service. Galbraith said the bill, along with a decrease in patients and fewer days spent in the hospital, contributed most to the deficit. Adult and pediatric admissions were down 3.7 percent, reSee DRH on page 10
A judge finally ended a dispute between two young ladies, both of whom claim the Miss North Carolina tiara as the Miss America Pageant gets underway. See page 5