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Rivalry Renewed The men’s basketball team travels to Maryland this weekend to take on the No. 17 Terrapins. See page 11
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
$2,006,684,498
Campaign for Duke surpasses overall goal some ‘buckets’ still unfilled By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
The University has reached its $2 billion Campaign for Duke goal almost a full year before its December 31, 2003 target, President Nan Keohane and campaign co-chairs Ginny and Peter Nicholas announced Thursday. With $2,006,684,498 pledged since fundraising began seven years ago, the breaking of the goal is a milestone for the most substantial capital campaign in the University’s history, and one of the largest in the history ofAmerican higher education. “All of us who have been involved in the campaign are excited to have reached this historic milestone,” Keohane wrote in an e-mail. “When we first thought about this endeavor back in 1993, $750 million seemed a stretch; now, over time, we have reached successive new highs, and met our formal goal almost
12 months early.” The campaign will not officially end until New Year’s Eve, and four of the 10 divisions—Arts and Sciences, Athletics, the Divinity School and the University Libraries—have not yet reached their goals. The Pratt School of Engineering and School of Law surpassed their targets in July, and the Fuqua School of Business, Medical Center, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences and University-wide initiatives all reached their goals in the past month. The University passed the $2 billion mark sometime last week to the surprise of the Office of University Development, which had predicted a February breaking, said Peter Vaughn, director of communications and donorrelations. “We knew we were getting close so we stopped and made sure we counted and allocated everything correctly,” he said. “By [Jan. 11], we knew we hit it.” Vaughn said December was a tremendous month for The Campaign for Duke, including several $2 milSee $2 BILLION on page 7
Effort weathers ups and downs with consistent progress By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
It began with a two-year “quiet phase” and Thursday it was still inconspicuous as the fifth story listed on the Duke News Service’s website. But since fundraising officials first planted the seeds of The Campaign for Duke seven years ago, the effort to raise $2 billion has become a top priority in every corner of the University and the fuel to the fire of Duke’s most am-
bitious plans and initiatives. Indeed, the journey from the early days in 1996 to Thursday’s announcement that the campaign had reached its target has been a prominent, smooth and relatively swift one. Building a strong individual donor base with no single gift of more than $35 million and over 225,000 pledges in total, Uni-
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donors’ resources on a previously unfathomable scale.
The campaign started silently during the third year of President Nan Keohane’s tenure, as development officials began asking Trustees and other top donors to help form the foundation of a prospective seven-year campaign as called for in the University’s long-term plan. By October 3, 1998, when the campaign finally went public with See CAMPAIGN on page 9
Alcohol remains back-burner issue Dispute threatens DUHS, state pact
By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle Anyone looking for a sign that alcohol abuse has not worsened in recent years might only look at last semester’s 22 hospitalizations for alcohol consumption—a number consistent with years past. But administrators and student leaders said this week that the same number also demonstrates that alcohol
When the State Employees Health Plan recently asked partner hospitals to renegotiate how much it pays them for some services, only Duke’s Health System refused. By MIKE MILLER The Chronicle
abuse has not disappeared and that it remains central to the lives
In a move that could prove disastrous for Duke University Health System, the State Employees Health Plan is planning to terminate its existing contract with DUHS in reaction to stalled negotiations over a proposed rate reduction. Unless negotiations are successful, the long-standing partnership between the two health care giants will end, effective April 30, sending thousands of state employees and retirees to new health care providers. The discord centers on a move by the state plan to
of students.
That became all too clear last semester when a Kappa Sigma fraternity brother fell out a window in an alcohol-related incident, leading to increased sanctions from the group’s national organization and the fraternity’s ultimate decision to disaffiliate itself from its nationSee ALCOHOL on page 6 | rf iildlUc *
ALCOHOL’S PREVALENCE ON CAMPUS contributes to dozens of student visits to the Emergency Department each semester.
The Ralph Bunche Summer Institute has received a Nat jona | science Foundation award to continue training future graduate students for three years. See page 3
The Triangle Transit Authority has won federal transportation officials’ approval to move ahead with a regional rail system. See page 4
See HEALTH PLAN on page 5 Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., will have a more prominent stage for his presidential run after gaining a seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. See page 5