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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 14
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by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE
Administrators announced a
policy last week that will limit in-
dividuals’ bandwidth usage in order to speed up network service for students on the residential student network. The policy, which should go into effect some time next week, will limit computers on ResNet from sending more than five gigabytes of data off campus per day. Under a similar bandwidth cap imposed last November, the University limited bandwidth usage globally for residence halls. Now, usage will be monitored individually—a change inspired by the Office of Information Technology’s findings that 10 percent of the people on ResNet were using 90 percent of the available bandwidth. Christopher Cramer, information technology security officer, said the new policy would affectfew students, at least initially. ‘The five-gigabyte threshold won’t even impact the whole 10 percent that was using most of the bandwidth before,” Cramer said. “It may impact 50 to maybe 100
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University caps ARAMARK put bandwidth use students at this moment in time, but that may change as everything else changes. If some people stop using so much bandwidth, other computers may pick up the slack.” To put things in perspective, Cramer said five gigabytes is roughly the amount of data one DVD or eight CDs can hold. He added that it can cost around $3O per month to buy five gigabytes of bandwidth from a commercialized Internet service provider. Cramer said the University’s new cap of five gigabytes per day should provide students with ample bandwidth to use the Internet comfortably. “It’s hard to come up with something that uses that much bandwidth,” he said. Students who exceed the fivegigabyte daily limit will receive a warning from OIT letting them know they are using too much bandwidth. OIT will also provide information on how to reduce personal bandwidth usage and will help students get in touch with the appropriate officials to petition for more bandwidth. Some network SEE BANDWIDTH ON PAGE 8
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Members of the Class of 2007 sign the new Community Standard, which renews the University's.
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After a major renovation of the Great Hall this summer, the eatery’s management is facing high expectations from the University—what Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst called an “acid test.” ARAMARK Corp. is in the third year of its contract to manage the Great Hall and several other on-campus eateries. Wulforst said the company was hired to train employees and upgrade service, and while he said there is “no immediate question mark” about the company being retained, he added that the recent renovation put an onus for improvement on ARAMARK “I’ve done everything I can for you guys,” Wulforst said of the company. “You can’t just say [the Great Ha 11 is] old and broken-down.” ARAMARK Regional Manager David Randolph said he was conscious of the additional pressure to live up to the high standards of a renovated Great Hall. “There’s certainly more pressure from employees [and] customers to live up,” Randolph said. “We’ve raised the bar and it needed to be raised. Now the SEE ARAMARK ON PAGE 8
Council approves
Students ordering their late-night study break meals will have to get used to a new roster of vendors this semester, as four establishments are no longer on the list and two new ones have been added; The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee decided not to renew contracts with La Fonte and Wild Bull’s Pizza, co-chair Sean Biederman said. In addition, Cafe Parizade and Jimmy John’s both decided to not renew their contracts, while Cinelli’s and Torero’s have joined the Merchants on Points program. Biederman cited contract violations, slow delivery and poor quality food as the reasons for removing La Fonte and Wild Bull’s from the list. “Wild Bull’s was calling people in their rooms, trying to solicit business by cold calling, and that’s explicitly oudawed in the contract they’d signed to be a Merchant on Points,” he said. “La Fonte was allowing students to swipe their cards in
After months of heated debate and negotiations with various neighborhood associations in Durham, the unanimous approval of the University’s rezoning plans by the City-County Zoning Committee Tuesday night has propelled the University one step closer to realizing its campus overhaul. Although the Zoning Committee voted 5-0 in favor of the plans, the City Council will not cast the final vote on the rezoning plans until late October or early November. John Schelp and Tom Miller, representatives of the neighborhood associations through the entire rezoning process, said they were satisfied with the City-County’s votes. The 11-point development plan for rezoning involves over 1,400 acres of University property. Areas of West, Central and East cam-
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re-zoning by
Aaron Levine and Liana Wyler THE CHRONICLE