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www.chronicle.duke.edu Vol. 98, No. 95
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Indoor Champs The women’s tennis team won the most prestigious indoor tournament in the country Sunday. See Sportswrap page 6
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
In reversal, history adds grad class
State plan, DUHS ink agreement
By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle After voting not to have an entering graduate class last semester due to in-
The accord between the State Employees Health Plan and its biggest client, DUHS, sets the stage for broader negotiations this April.
sufficient funds, the history department
has reversed its decision and will admit a class, albeit a smaller-than-usual one of four or five students. The department’s problem stemmed from admitting too many students over the last three years, said Ron Witt, history professor and director of graduate studies. Departments are able to cut expenditures when graduate students drop out, study abroad or opt to obtain a master’s degree rather than a doctorate—departures that are expected with every class. However, fewer departures than were expected occurred this year, leaving the history department overextended. “It’s always a game because the amount of money you actually have is never equivalent to the number of students you have in-course,” Witt said. ‘We were playing that game—and every department does that—and I guess we just played it badly.” The department’s smaller incoming class comes at a time when its applicant pool is strong, said Dean of the Graduate School Lewis Siegel. “The thing that should be realized is that there aren’t any fewer graduate
students [applying],” Siegel said. “The
By MIKE MILLER The Chronicle
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SENIOR MICHAEL MITCHELL scored a 6-0 victory over Maryland’s Sean Collins Saturday, helping to set up the Blue Devils’ first conference victory since 1997.
Wrestling wins in ACC By MICHAEL JACOBSON The Chronicle
19 Believe it. Despite close calls Maryland 16 in the past few years, the Blue Devils had been the doormat of the ACC for the last six seasons. But when junior 174pounder Tim Marcantonio held off Duke
Maryland’s Pat Cissne’s late rally in
the meet’s final bout for a 9-7 win, Duke made waves in the conference standings. The Blue Devils (8-7,1-1 in the ACC) beat Maryland (5-6, 0-3) 1916 and sent the Terps spiraling to their third consecutive conference See WRESTLING in Sportswrap page 7
See HISTORY CLASS on page 8
After more than a month of tense memo exchanges, Duke University Health System agreed Thursday to rate reductions by the State Employees Health Plan, which had been threatening to end its contract with DUHS effective April 30. According to SEHP representatives, DUHS—the state insurance plan’s biggest client—was the only North Carolina hospital not to agree to reduced rates of compensation for three services: inpatient mental health, rehabilitation and chemical dependency. The agreement was reached Thursday afternoon when DUHS Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Morris and Assistant Vice President of Managed Care for DUHS Corporate Finance Elizabeth Nowak met with Jack Walker, the executive administrator of the state plan, and Zorba Howell, a hospital contracting specialist. The officers agreed on a contract that sets rates for the three services for a one-year period. See STATE PLAN on page 12
Chronicle staff elects Garinger as editor of 99th volume From staff reports
The editorial staff of The Chronicle has elected junior Alex Garinger to serve as the newspaper’s editor for its 99th year of publication. At a meeting Friday afternoon, Garinger, now the newspaper’s University editor, was named editor of The Chronicle and president of Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc., the independent corporation responsible for publishing the campus’ student-run daily newspaper. Garinger will succeed senior Dave Ingram for a oneyear term beginning May 11. As editor, Garinger will determine the newspaper’s content and lead a staff of more than 100 student volunteer reporters, editors, photographers and layout
designers. His responsibilities as DSPC president will include preserving the corporation’s dual mission of providing journalism opportunities for Duke students and delivering information to the community. In his speech, Garinger offered the staff an ambitious agenda that includes updating the newspaper’s design, expanding staff training and incorporating greater narrative voice into The Chronicle, Recess and TowerView. “As The Chronicle enters its 99th year of publication, we need to bring a new sense of ambition and risk-taking to the creation of a paper that our readers will see
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as more personal, visually appealing and provocative,” he told the staff. “It is time to push the envelope.” Garinger said a redesign ofThe Chronicle is essential to making the newspaper more accessible to readers. He hopes to organize a design team that will pro-
mote fresh layouts and coordinate the daily interplay of stories, photographs and graphics. During his term as University editor of the 98th volume, Garinger helped lead a staff of nine associate editors through extensive coverage of Duke affairs. Staffers report that Garinger has been an enthusiastic, dedicated leader with an endless source of fresh ideas. Garinger began his career at The Chronicle as a reporter for the University department during the first semester of his freshman year. He then served as an associate wire editor the sec-
ond semester of his freshman year before moving to the University department in his sophomore year, working as an associate editor. He also served as an associate film editor for Recess that year. One month after his February 2002 election, Ingram appointed Garinger University editor. Hailing from Greenwich, Conn., Garinger is a literature major and plans to earn certificates in journalism and film and video. After graduation, he intends to pursue a career in journalism, film or theater.
Administrators met with the faculty of the biological anthropology and anatomy department Friday regarding the department’s probable downsizing. See page 3
ALEX GARINGER, a junior, will begin a one-year term as editor of The Chronicle beginning May 11.
Students and administrators offer mixed reactions to the first year of finked housing, which allowed current sophomores to live with freshman dormmates. See page 4
A student and her mother reported that, after wiring $260 to a supposed basketball ticket-holder in Miami, they never received the tickets they were promised. See page 5