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Fra nks-fu tier Football head coach Carl Franks wants to end the season on a high note to give next year’s team momentum See page 13
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Luneberg wins Miss N.C. USA pageant By JENNIFER HASVOLD The Chronicle
Duke girls may be betterlooking than critics give them credit for. Senior Kristen Luneberg
will travel to the national Miss USA pageant to represent the state of North Carolina, after winning the state
pageant Saturday. The 2003 Miss North Carolina USA pageant was held last weekend in High Point, N.C., drawing 40 participants between the ages of 18 and 26 from across the state. of Luneberg—president Delta Delta Delta sorority and acting chief executive officer for Devil’s Delivery Service—is the first Duke student to be crowned Miss North Carolina, although female Duke students have competed in years past. “What the judges really were was by struck [Luneberg’s] intelligence and her ability to connect with the audience... Her leadership ability certainly came through loud and clear,” said Nido Quebin, chairperson of the Miss
employee files charges
North Carolina USA board. Luneberg’s award package is estimated at $75,000. “I don't have a southern accent, I'm not your typical southern belle,” said Luneberg, former Miss Teen Rhode Island and 2nd runner up in the Miss Teen USA pageant. “I was just shocked because I've been planning on competing for a while and I have been working hard on getting in shape and preparing myself mentally for the interview,” Luneberg said. The Miss USA national pageants, and subsidiary state pageants, consist of a swim-suit competition, an evening gown competition and an interview. Each portion of the competition is weighted equally in determining the winner. “Delegates participate in the pageant because they [want to] pursue scholastic funds as well as other aspirations for career developments,” said Quebin. “She really shined throughout the weekend.” See LUNEBERG on page 12
Local 77 Melton Summerville, a 14-year Duke employee, filed a complaint against the union for inadequately representing its workers. By CINDY YEE The Chronicle
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KRISTEN LUNEBERG gasps in delfghl as 2002’s Miss North Carolina, Alison English, presents the 2003 crown and sash
Accusing the largest labor union on Duke’s campus of inadequately representing its constituents and coercing members into accepting a smaller wage increase than in previous contracts, a dining services employee and member ofLocal 77 has filed charges challenging his union’s new contract. Days after this summer’s ratification of the new contract —which provided for wage increases totaling 6.25 percent over the next three years—Melton Summerville submitted his accusations against Local 77 to the national union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Summerville had a hearing with the national union Oct.' S in front of John Seferian, chair of AFSCME’s Judicial Panel. Seferian’s decision on the case is still pending. Members of the Local 77 negotiating team, however, did not attend the hearing. Summerville is accusing Local 77 of failing to present a genuine offer to its constituents after the summer negotiations. The union represents about 950 employees in housekeeping, campus dining, grounds keeping and animal care. “[Local 77 President Carlos] McCovey told us at the vote that Duke had made two offers. One was for a 2.4 percent raise and one was for 2 percent, but the 2.4 percent had strings attached,” he said. “They said they would deny health benefits to new hires in Local 77 if we took the 2.4 percent.” Summerville said he did not believe the University had actually made this offer, and that McCovey had presented it at the vote in order to coerce union members into rejecting the more substantial pay increase. McCovey could not be reached for comment despite repeated phone calls during the last several weeks. “Whatever the union did, they did it for a reason,” Summerville said, adding that he thought the actions amounted to racketeering. Documents proving that the University had in fact made such an offer
should exist, Summerville said, because
a recording secretary should have been taking minutes during the negotiations.
See LOCAL 77 on page 8
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UNC and Duke facu,ty remembered the late Sen - Paul Wellstone from his days as a college student in Chapel Hill. See page 3
A smaM 9 rou P of Duke studenls and ,acult v are increas ingly drawn to alternative medicine and holistic approaches to health. See page 4 '
The N.C. Student Rural Health Coalition is approaching 25 years of medical student community service for North Carolina residents. See page 6