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UNIVERSITY
Ninety-Ninth Year,
DURHAM, N.C.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7,2004
72
issue
WWW.CHRONICLE.DUKE.EDU
McLendon
MEET THE PRESIDENT-ELECT
Campaign for Duke
named
concludes
A&S dean
12.2628
at
as
Andrew Collins
by
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chair of Princeton
George McLendon, by
Cindy Yee
University’s
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New much
sity’s
year
to
celebrate Dec. 31 ambitious
most
came to
much
a
had
ty
in
brought
officials
said
campaign
close.
Campaign
$2,262,256,475. final
figures
of dean of the
position
the Univer-
as
capital
anticipated
As of Dec. 29, the
had
Sciences.
He
succeed
William
Universi-
will
return
be
not
down
ping
to
Lange
faculty
the
of Arts and
will
Chafe, who is
for Duke
has
department,
been named by Provost Peter
administrators
aside,
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in-
the
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Brodhead finds
the
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success
to
by
haven in Durham
of
all Alex Garinger
President
Nan
wrote
in
an
e-mail. “Since
we
what seemed like to
raise
$1.5
rewarding more
to
than
The
University of the
Brodhead
started with
continued
campaign.
had raised
during
the
As of Dec.
Brodhead,
is among
right
at a
current
are,
you
when the
Ivy
with
Duke.
for
dean of Yale Colas
local
members
Duke’s
and
was
flanked
him
was
the
to
after the second Freudian he
a
himself
came
slip.
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the
12
employee,” derful life
Trustees
one
at a
curiosity got
Presidential
and he
Search Committee.
is
experience
to
who
“a
to
best of him,
some
“Duke is
marks,
meant
one
he
handful of top
say
because
of
their four
his
SEE BRODHEAD
to
principal
tasks
sustain the Uni-
of the student
ulty
and
address the
of
to
to
said take
ON PAGE
his
improve
to
and fac-
body
ongoing impor-
interdisciplinary
challenges, praising
perhaps,
letters and
of the
intellectual trajectory,
highly qualified
universities in the world, after all, and if
to
set
“Duke”—understandable,
faculty
our
said.
diversity
said,
learn about Duke and
of the
programs. McLendon
on
scholarship
SEE MCLENDON
Burakow, Va. freshman, dies
and his
ON PAGE
“Sasha
was
outstanding Alexandra
rakow,
a
letics
“Sasha”
freshman
Marie
Bu-
from Fairfax
Station, Va., died Dec. 17, 2003,
at
the age of 19. Burakow suffered
Duke,
care
become in
a
with
hospital a
children
patients
neonatal in-
unit. She
physician
treating
planned
to
specializing with
brain
disorders. “We had this
only begun
talented
whose school
“Her
young
achievements
ranged
from
to
know
woman,
in
varsity
high ath-
Intel Science
President
Competition,”
only
schizophrenic
national semifinals
prestigious
Keohane
13.
and with infants in tensive
of the
she volunteered with
brain aneurysm Dec. At
a
the
to
said
death
in
is
Nan
not
for her classmates who lived her
on
East
and
Campus
who shared classes and activities, but
for
all
of
community. deepest ily
and
We
friends
on
and
touched
people’s
deeply
to
our
her fam-
campus,
everywhere lives.
in
Sasha
She
will
missed.”
Burakow Thomas
Duke
the
extend
condolences
Virginia
be
in
us
success
High
in
“Sasha and
variety
a
was
who
was
an
ed
in
all
people
and will be
outstanding
300 as
TJ
deeply
students a
families
touched
“[She] in the
to
young
was
an
learner interested
in all academic
areas.
[She]
touched
people
in the...
communi-
munity and
missed.” was
so
many com-
so
one
deeply
of
will be
missed.”
nationwide
semifinalist
in
Elizabeth Lodal,
the
from School
an
and
areas,”
Elizabeth
letter
avid
who
11
woman
young
Last year, Burakow
only
woman
areas.
academic
of students.
ty
of
an
a
exuberant
considerable
Principal
TJHSST
in
avid learner interest-
Lodal wrote in
many
Technology
achieving
exuberant
chosen
graduated
Jefferson
and
Science
2003 after
statement.
a
great loss
a
for
was
these and other
6
PAGE 9
From staff reports
our
students
Lange
out,”
the
Administrators
prepared
provide
graduate
will be
successor
versity’s
all that it offered.
his
the
won-
great institution.” But his
the
began
had
we
to
fit the bill.”
“George really Chafe said
has
for
some-
of the ed-
quality
that
and
carry
committee
one
during
take Duke
to
of the
“America’s least disaffected
as
for
looking
was
past
as
University
and the level of research that
and described
calling,
here
terms
undergraduate
looking
not
when Duke search
job
the
at
Brodhead’s
Keohane,
who
intentional,
fresh vision and energy.
level in
next
Nan
members
ninth
national
officials,
of
a
goal
chimed in
tance
took off in
SEE CAMPAIGN ON
too,”
I did it
Brodhead said
we
reach-
$1.5 billion,
campaign officially
okay,
predecessor, right,
but
conference Dec.
press
University
Twice
of
the
to
“Our
President
Richard
of its top brass?
accepted
included
media,
1, the
divisions.
original goal
said
time and he
long
ucational
Brodhead said ‘Yale” when he The
decision
a
for his
that
last
for all but
such
school.
“That’s
research uni-
claims
introduced
was
president
and
$2.22 billion,
one
also would have
in
pull
can-
Lange
are
celebrating
to
as
top
and
If you said Yale,
tremendously to
nation’s
versities
lege,
fundraising goals
ten
the
billion.”
donations
weeks of the
the
look forward
University
significant
ing
billion—it is
$2.2
What
Keohane
very ambitious goal—-
a
external
an
one
has four letters,
the
across
than 38 years of service
League
make
happen—donors,
volunteers and staff members
more
THE CHRONICLE to
posi-
didate.
a
who
people
in this
deans had often been
by
the
worked hard
that
high-ranking
and
campaign
deeply grateful
University,”
new
marks
time
tion has been filled
delight-
were
first
decades
spectacu-
ed with the
it
McLendon
any standard.
“We
the
The selection of President Nan Keohane talks with President-elect Richard Brodhead after the Dec. 12 press conference.
the earli-
those
volved with
results
later
principal SEE BURAKOW ON PAGE
11
of Burakow’s
high
school