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Bring in Bozman The Princeton field hockey coach has been selected to head up the Blue Devils next season See page 9
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Keohane may stay past 2004 By KEVIN LEES The Chronicle
Rumors of Nan’s retirement have been greatly exaggerated. Or at least that’s the message the University’s president is seeking to send. Despite campus speculation about a coming
departure, President Nan Keo-
hane said last
week that she
has not decided to step down at the end of the 2003-2004 academic year and
A NEW “MAIN STREET” would cut through Central Campus, between Anderson and Alexander Streets as a continuation of Ninth Street, according to a plan released by the University architect. The street would feature stores, apartments and possibly a hotel.
Planners release Central proposals
that she has not
planned much of her career past the end of The Campaign for Duke on Dec. 31, 2003. “I would be really interested to know where that [rumor] comes from, because I don’t ever recall saying in my life that I’m going to leave at the end of 2004,” Keohane said. “I know a lot of people think that.... People come up to me and say, ‘Gee, I’m real sorry you’re leaving.’ And I say, ‘What?’ So somehow it’s out there.” Keohane noted that- when some
Nan Keohane
Long-range plan for redesigning Central Campus includes monorail By ALEX GARINGER The Chronicle
Wouldn’t it he cool if Duke had a monorail? That question, fodder over the years for quite a few pie-in-the-sky conversations among late-for-class bus passengers, may not be so pie-in-thesky after all. The University’s recently unveiled
See KEOHANE on page 6
preliminary plans for the future make over of Central Campus include some type of monorail or electric train connecting East, Central and West campuses. The proposed transit system is just one ofthe many innovations of the proposed changes to Central Campus, which would involve a complete gutting of almost every current structure in the 275 acre area. Officials hope a new
“University Village” will rise up in the area, complete with a “Main Street” with retail space, new apartments for 800 undergraduate students and at least 200 graduate and professional school students, faculty and staff housing, a hotel, an amphitheater and an expansion of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. See CENTRAL on page 8
Panuccio aims for improved academics UNC files brief in Michigan law case for This is the third story in a three-part series profiling undergraduate young trustee. this year’s finalists
By KEVIN LEES
By MELISSA SOUCY
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Senior Jesse Panuccio’s playful dream before graduation is to have his own show on Cable 13—he calls the concept Totally Panuccio, which would amount to Panuccio’s 30-minute rants on a variety of University issues. With little over three months until graduation, don’t count the show out yet. Panuccio is the president ofthe Duke University Union, which oversees the student television station, and anyone who’s met Panuccio knows he has plenty to say, whether he’s rooting for his hometown favorites, the New York Jets, or passionately discussing the direction of intellectual life on campus. Panuccio has criticized what he says has been the dominant role the Athletic Department holds at the University, an undergraduate experience that does not quite match up with what is advertised to prospective students and Curriculum 2000 for not going far enough to create a senior capstone experience.
The University of North Carolina announced its involvement in the “monumental” US. Supreme Court affirmative action case Grutter v. Bollinger last week, supporting a policy President George W. Bush has called discriminatory and unconstitutional. University of North Carolina System President Molly Broad announced last week that the UNC system will stand behind an amicus brief—an opinion filed with the Supreme Court by an outside party—issued by the American Council on Education, supporting the use of race in the college admissions process. In addition, Gene Nichol, dean of the law school at UNC-Chapel Hill, said his school will submit its own amicus brief offering similar support of affirmative action policies. In Grutter u. Bollinger, plaintiff Barbara Grutter, a white applicant, claims she was denied acceptance to the University of Michigan’s law school in 1997 due to the school’s use of race in the admissions process. Last December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, which marks its first affirmative action case since Re-
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JESSE PANUCCIO, president of the Duke University Union, ranks academics high on his list of priorities for the University.
The Durham City Council will vote on an ordinance next month that wou|d create jnd jvjc| ua zon jn g districts for colleges. See page 3
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In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush will focus on the need to go to war with Iraq, according to Duke experts. See page 4
See UNC on page 6 The men’s and women s track teams excelled at the Tar Heel Indoor Track and Field Classic in Chapel Hill Monday, See page 9