Thursday, June 12, 2003
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www.chronicle.duke.edu Vol. 99, No. S4
The Chronicle
Going to court? Five Big East Conference schools filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference last week. See page 9
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Keohane: ACC expansionplan flawed Duke patient By MIKE COREY
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The proposed expansion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which appeared to be progressing quickly just one week ago, has been considerably disrupted following President Nan Keohane’s withholding of her support for the expansion plan, a lawsuit filed by the Big East Conference against the ACC and would-be members Miami and Boston College and a call for mediation from the NCAA by Virginia governor Mark Warner. Keohane deferred comment in an email Wednesday morning, saying only that “we will continue to follow the due
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Bylaws and discuss the issues as we see them.” our
Keohane’s conference-wide e-mail was sent Nan Keohane
Friday, a day after the University of North
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Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser announced his intention to vote against ACC expansion in a letter writ-
ten to conference leaders.
That Keohane and Moeser were leery of expansion has never been in doubt, as Duke and UNC were the lone schools initially to vote against expansion in May. However, both voted in favor of beginning formal conversations with Miami, Syracuse and Boston College—the three schools invited to leave the Big East for the ACC—just a
week later.
According to Friday’s e-mail, Keohane’s misgivings have always been centered on “time spent in travel, the length of playing seasons, complex logistics and costs of travel.” She was able to See EXPANSION on page 12
shows SARS symptoms
From staff and wire reports A patient who arrived at the emergency room of Duke University Hospital Tuesday night may have SARS, the Herald-Sun of Durham reported Thursday. According to a memo released Wednesday to Duke University Health System employees, the patient is “being treated as a special interest case” by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. “CDC doesn’t consider this a ‘suspect’ case at this time,” Carol Schriber, a spokesperson for the N.C.
Department of Health and Human the Herald-Sun. Services, told “Whether that will change, I don’t know. There are no cases in the state right now that warrant the ‘suspected case of SARS’ categorization.” See SARS on page 12
Senior hires bolster new, small crop By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle
The year in faculty hires was long on quality but short on quantity, as senior hires dominated but the overall number of new faculty members decreased from normal levels. Major hires included Albert Chang in and physics nanoscience,
cial arrangements to be completed Sept. 1 for tax reasons. A new parking office in the basement ofthe former Facilities Management building off Science Drive could also be ready by September at the earliest, said Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joe Pietrantoni. Transportation officials suggested, however, that most planning is still in the embryonic stages.
Harris Cooper in education, Sherman James in policy public and studies Wendy Wood in psychology, said William Chafe Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe, who called 2002-2003 “a banner year in terms of recruiting leaders.” Three departments—history, education and religion—searched externally for a new chair. Although the religion department was unsuccessful in its recruitment efforts, Cooper has been hired to lead education and Sarah Deutsch has been identified as the desired candidate to succeed current history chair John Thompson in 2004. Deutsch’s appointment must await up-
See MERGER on page 6
See HIRES on page 6
Officials prepare for parking merger By ANDREW COLLINS The Chronicle
The long-anticipated merger of the University and Medical Center parking systems will take place as scheduled on July 1, but transportation officials said that date is of little practical significance, as meaningful changes will take place further down the road. Bill Baker, parking manager for the Medical Center, said it could be six months to a year before the new
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parking system is a “truly functional combination.” Registration for parking permits will remain separate this year, for instance, and any rate changes will not go into effect until the start of the new parking cycle. “Bringing these two entities together is not something that we’re going to flip the switch, and all of the sudden it’s combined,” Baker said. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said the merger of parking operations will occur July 1, with flnan-
An 1,1 baby sustained non-iife-threatening burns covering 1Q percent of jts body at tfie Duke university Hospital last weeks. See page 3
Genetics experts at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy have contributed to a major new genetics encyclo-
pedia for high school students. See page 4
A Harvard study debunking myths about college voting practices has been debunked in turn by several Duke professors. See page 5