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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 91
DURHAM, N.C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4,2004
WWW.CHRONICLE.DUKE.EDU
Kerry takes 5 of 7; Edwards wins S.C. Oklahoma too close to call by
Ron Fournier
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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President Nan Keohane discusses higher education with former Cornell president Frank Rhodes at a forum Tuesday.
Keohane reflects by
Karen
Hauptman
tion currently faces in of affirmative action and diversity on campus. For over an hour Tuesday afternoon, Rhodes and Keohane discussed many of the issues they have faced as university presidents in a forum titled “Higher Education: Emboldened or Embattled?” hosted by Duke Magazine and the' Office of the Senior Vice President for Public Affairs terms
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When two of higher education’s all stars sit down to chat, what do they talk about? For Frank Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell University, and Duke’s soon-to-be-presidentemerita Nan Keohane, the hot topics ranged from the nature of the undergraduate experience to the challenges higher educa-
on tenure and Government Relations. The discussion focused on Keohane’s experiences at the University as her term ends, as Rhodes, who led Cornell from 1977 to 1995, asked questions gleaned in part from his own experience as the head of a major research university. Rhodes commendedKeohane SEE KEOHANE ON PAGE 6
John Kerry rolled up big victories in delegate-rich Missouri, Arizona, Delaware and North Dakota to solidify his position as Democratic presidential front-runner. John Edwards countered by taking his native South Carolina in a dramatic seven-state contest Tuesday. Edwards and Wesley Clark were a few hundred votes apart in Oklahoma, with Kerry close behind in the tightest race of the night. It was a critical test for Edwards, who hoped to prove his presidential mettle outside the South, and Clark, who needed a win to stay in the hunt. Howard Dean earned no wins and perhaps no delegates, his candidacy in peril. Joe Lieberman was shut out, too, and dropped out of the race. “It’s a huge night,” Kerry told The Associated Press, even as rivals denied him a coveted sweep. Racking up a string of victories, Kerry dismissed Edwards’ singular win. “I compliment John Edwards, but I think you have to
run a national campaign, and I think that’s what we’ve shown tonight,” the four-term Massachusetts senator said. “You can’t cherry-pick the presidency.” An Associated Press analysis showed Kerry winning 65 pledged delegates, Edwards 43, Clark five and A1 Sharpton one, with 155 yet to be allocated. Kerry’s wins in Missouri and Arizona were the night’s biggest SEE PRIMARIES ON PAGE 4
J&SEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES KERRY WINS: Arizona (43%)
Runner-up
Clark (27%)
Delaware (50%) Liabarman (11%) Missouri (51 %)
Edwards (28%)
New Mexico (42%)
Clark (21%)
North Dakota (50%)
Clark (24%)
EDWARDS WINS: S. Carolina (45%)
Runner-up Kerry (30%)
TOO CLOSE TO CALL: Clark t Edwards (30%) Oklahoma
Subway may Open-access journals debated come to East by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE
Here’s an idea; Instead of paying over $20,000 for a
by
Seyward Darby THE CHRONICLE
Week after week, community members living and working on East Campus say they find themselves in an all-to-familiar dilemma: they are hungry, but there is nowhere they want to eat. Dissatisfied with the limited hours and dining options on East, students often choose to travel to West Campus, order from among the various Merchants on Points or even rely on vending machines for their meals. In response to this dissatisfaction, Duke Dining Services is investigating the possibility of putting a new food vendor on East Campus next fall. Currendy, the most likely option is a Subway kiosk located in Trinity Cafe, the upstairs lounge or the downstairs lobby of the East Campus Union —a project that Duke Dining Services Director Jim Wulforst said has been a long time in the making. “Three years ago, the original focus was to have Subway on East because first-year students wanted a good brand there to compliment Trinity Cafe,” Wulforst said. ‘We didn’t have the money to launch it there at the time, so we put it on West. But there’s a renewed interest in putting something on East.” SEE SUBWAY ON PAGE 6
year-long subscription to a scientific journal, get it forfree.
Sounds great, right? Open-access publishing has been championed by its chief advocates as a researcher’s best friend and a librarian’s saving grace. By creating online journals that do not charge subscription fees, open-access publishers say scientists can have unlimited access to information on new developments in their fields. Librarians, for their part, are saved the pressure journal their subscriptions put on crunched budgets. But there is, of course, a catch. In order to cover the journals’ production costs, open-access publishers are charging authors to put their articles in print a move some say would drain important grant money from many research projects. In addition, many non-profit scientific societies, which use revenues from theirjournals to pay for such things as infrastructural costs, travel grants and scholarships, say the open-access publishing model could hinder rather than further scientific progress. Although Duke administrators are wary of endorsing —
the open-access publishing movement, they agree that a drastic change is in order. “It is... time that publishers become in touch with their library market and realize that libraries will not continue to pay increasing costs,” said Patricia Thibodeau, associate dean for library services at the Medical Center. Virginia Gilbert, head of collection development for Perkins Library, said Duke’s libraries currently pay less than $lOO a year for some subscriptions, but more than $15,000 or $20,000 a year for others. This year, the Medical Center Library had to cancel 525 of its 1,753 subscriptions due to rising journal prices. The University announced recently that it is cancelling $400,000 worth of tities from scientific publishing giant Reed Elsevier, because Elsevier wanted a no-cancellations contract that could have left the University vulnerable to unbridled price increases. “The industry needs to rethink its cost structure and find more cost-effective way of delivering services and processing their publications,” Thibodeau said. She cited SEE OPEN ACCESS ON PAGE 5