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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Officials Trask shuffles Auxiliary Services reveal plan Retirements of Black, Pietrantoni prompt restructuring of division Reorganizing Auxiliary Services for housing By KEVIN LEES

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Next year’s housing plan will not be much different from the one that provoked an outpouring of student anger last year, Assistant Dean of Residence Life Bill Burig revealed at Thursday’s Campus Council meeting. The plan features changes to the lottery process geared toward ensuring that seniority continues to be a factor in housing, but it also allows other factors to influence the lottery through revisions to the point-based system. The lottery process has been altered from the past system of assigning point values from one to four based on class;

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With the upcoming retirements of Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joe Pietrantoni and Director of Facilities Management Jerry Black this summer, Executive Vice President Tailman Trask has decided to reorganize the Division of Auxiliary Services and create a new position of vice president for campus services. Auxiliary Services—which currently manages a slew of different functions, from parking to dining—will be divided three ways. Technological functions will be absorbed into the Office of Informa-

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This is the first story in a three-part series profiling this years finalists for undergraduate young trustee.

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By MATT BRADLEY The Chronicle

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Many of Duke’s finest undergraduates spend a good part of their semesters abroad in far-flung corners of the world, worrying about where they are going to get their next drinks. And so it goes with senior Brady Beecham, except that her drinking—of water—is turning into her senior thesis. Beecham’s trip last fall to Urucurea—a Brazilian rainforest village “just” six hours by boat from the nearest medium-sized town—will form the backbone of her thesis on drinking water quality in developing countries. “No roads, no electricity, no beds—very different from the Gothic Wonderland,” said the biology and environmental science and policy double major. “I slept in a hammock and cooked by candlelight. I’ve never been further from home than that little town.” Despite the hardships, Beecham said life abroad provided a much needed reprieve after her work as the Duke University Union president last year, as

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Interfraternlty Council rush is midway finished and fraternity presidents report that several changes to this year’s process have largely worked well. See page 5

Two members of the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy met with William Chafe, dean ofthe faculty of arts and sciences, and Berndt Mueller, dean of the natural sciences, Thursday morning to discuss proposed cuts to the department’s faculty. At a department meeting last Friday, Richard Kay, professor and chair of BAA, told colleagues that the two deans had proposed cutting the tenure-track fac-

A national perspective Professors from some of the leading anthropology departments in the country express shock at planned cutbacks to Duke’s Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy. See page 3

ulty from 10 to four and the research faculty from seven to two. Faculty members have said such deep cuts would mean the demise of the department and would likely endanger the Primate Center as well. “We exchanged some really good ideas,” Chafe said, noting that he would not discuss any more details in

See BEECHAM on page 9 The Academic Council passed the University’s new vision statement on the future of athletics at its monthly meeting Thursday. See page 6

See BAA on page 10 Various illnesses are infecting the student body this week, in part, health officials say, because of tenting, greek rush and cold weather. See page 7


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