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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 105

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24,2004

DURHAM, N.C.

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Experts help Duke fight ‘brain drain’ by Cindy Yee THE CHRONICLE

After years of watching most Duke students leave the area for the bright lights of big cities like New York, Duke administrators are hoping to entice more students to stay in the Triangle area. The region’s draw seems to be rooted in its ample employment

opportunities, especially

for those in the high technology and biomedical arenas. And although many students are unaware of the full extent of the Triangle’s resources, local residents attest that the region is a good place not only to work but also to live. Now, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, wants to know just how much Durham and the Triangle remain of interest to students

once they graduate. He said that recent conversations with Reyn Bowman, president and CEO of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Thomas White, president of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, have turned to the region’s ability and efforts to retain students, “We’ve been raising questions about ‘brain drain’ and whether we should be more assertive in encouraging students to stay in Durham or in the Triangle,” Moneta said, noting that the issue has risen more out of curiosity than a sense of crisis, To help with the assessment, Mbneta has enlisted Todd Hoffman, president of Campus Visit, Inc., whose company has SEE BRAIN DRAIN ON PAGE 7

Students: area lacks metropolitan appeal by

Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE

Four years and $160,000

later, you’ve finally made it out of Duke, and .it’s time to see the world. So where will it be Paris? London? L.A.? How about... Durham? With rising tuition costs and a greater pressure to go pre-professional than ever, the City of Medicine, once something of a post-graduation hot spot, has been on a downward spiral in the eyes of exiting Blue Devils. But for Barbara Williams, Trinity ’74, the decision was a no-brainer. “It was a choice between leaving Durham, or staying and being with the man I had fallen in love with,” she said. After opting to stick around, Williams launched a career in publishing. ‘When I decided to marry in 1984, I knew I was committing to living in the Durham area and haven’t regretted it,” she said. “Durham is of a size to encourage connections among various groups without the ‘fishbowl effect’ I’ve ob—

served in smaller towns. Graduate students from all over the world enlarge my horizons; acquaintances from families who’ve been here for generations connect to deep roots.” John Valentine,Trinity ’7l, and co-founder of The Regulator on Ninth Street says “good weather and good basketball” drew him to Duke originally, but, like Williams, the allure of Durham made him stay. “It’s a wonderfully supportive community,” Valentine said. “At that time in the early 1970s we were really just a bunch of hippies, we all just wanted to move to the country,. start small businesses... you know, drop out for a while. Durham had a lot of cheap rent—there were a lot of co-op houses.” The laidback mindset, however, seems either to have vanished or withered, as most Dukies, it seems, are now more career-oriented. For Ade Wise, a Pratt sophomore from Orlando, the SEE DURHAM ON PAGE 9

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DSG may vote tonight on the future of ARAMARK Corp., which operates the Marketplace (above), the Great Hall and other eateries.

ARAMARK IN JEOPARDY Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE

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In closed-door meetings late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, two student representative groups—East Campus Council and the Student Affairs Committee of Duke Student Government—considered recommendations regarding the future of the University’s dining services. Their discussions came in

light of DSG’s planned

vote of confidence Wednesday night for ARAMARK Corp., which manages many of the University’s dining facilities—including the Great Hall, the Marketplace and Cambridge Inn. Controversy swirled about campus and opinions circulated Monday over what should be done with the corporation. Lack of information—both of student

feedback and ARAMARK’s corporate data—has added a thick layer ofconfusion to the upcoming decision about the fate of the local campus division of a company that had $B.B billion in global sales in 2002. The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee presented a recommendation to the SEE ARAMARK ON PAGE 8

Model to speak on perfection by

Katie Xiao

THE CHRONICLE

In an industry where the most beautiful women are told they are not beautiful enough, New York City model Laura Krauss Calenberg has managed to keep herself grounded amidst the ups and downs of a career in fashion. A Christian Dior model at the age of 19, Calenberg has graced the covers of magazines like Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. She has walked on the runways of Paris and Milan and appeared on “Oprah” for having what were called the “perfect legs.” Over her 20 year career, Calenberg has stayed for as long as two months in Japan for a modeling job and spent as little as a morning in France, to fly back to Germany for an afternoon mod-

eling event. Tonight, she will rekindle the discussion on effortless perfection and speak to students about the unsettling downfalls of such

Model Laura Krauss Calenberg will discuss her 20-year career and how students can find their inner beauty in a speech tonight at the Sanfordinstitute.

an environment where flawless

SEE MODEL ON PAGE 10


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