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DUKE UNIVERSITY Ninety-Ninth Year, issue 131
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7,2004
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The University is re-examining its residential damage policy in hopes of compelling students to take a more active interest in the well-being of their living environments, said Eddie Hull, director of Residence Life and Housing Services. Potential changes include financial acfor countability independents for damage in theirresidence spaces and restricted access to dormitories. In theory, the University bills students or student groups responsible for damaging buildEddie Hull ings, furniture or equipment beyond normal wear and tear. In practice, however, such enforcement becomes difficult when those responsible for the damage cannot be identified, especially while access to each residence hall remains open to all undergraduates. “Right now we incur a great deal of financial costs in buildings that are not collected from students,” Hull said, noting that the financial impact varies from year SEE DAMAGES ON PAGE 7
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Unions rule Yale-New Haven relations Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE
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unit, a power voting block that many view as representing the rights of the New Haven residents. During the strike, Yale’s bath-
and technical workers and service workers,
respectively—who had walked off the job for higher wages and better pension benefits after bargaining began in February 2002. Schuck, like many “townies” as they are
Students lugged futon mattresses and of school supplies, rolled boxes of rooms went uncleaned, trash accumulated and dining halls shut down for weeks. Yale clothing and personal affects into the corridors of their college houses in the mornlearned once again that it could not func- called in New Haven, cites the strike as a tion without its union workers visible representation of ing hours of Aug. 27, 2003. It was movingmmm Yale-New Haven relations, in day at Yale and anxious first-years with and New Haven reaffirmed that it their parents crowded the campus, along could not survive without its Roughly 2,000 union memwith some 700 disgruntled union workers largest employer. Mayor John hers— most, if not all from and well-known activist JesseJackson. DeStefano is credited by both New Haven —marched on New Haven is a union town, a Yale town, sides as an integral part of the neYale’s campus as the strike a town of unionized Yale employees —and gotiating boardroom. neared to an end. what the school can do for its workers and “The strike demonstrated a For much of Yale’s histotheir community is often at the forefront of lot of bad blood in the air be- DISPATCHES FROM YALE New Haven has been simdiscussion. Unlike in Durham, where tween the workers and Yale,” ply a backdrop for the school The fifth in a series of articles unions often play a minorrole both on and said Christopher Schuck, a examining nfeatYaie University, and while in recent years the off Duke’s campus, unions have a powerful 1999 Yale graduate who cur- home to Dean Richard Brodhead, institution has made some Dukes future president moves to improve local life, place in Yale-New Haven relations. rently lives in New Haven. At 5:45 a.m. on that Wednesday morn“There had been some superficially re- such actions have been limited. Richard Brodhead, dean of Yale College ing, as Duke students slept in their beds solved things from past conflicts and the before a long day of classes, Yale’s largest strike just tore apart all of that.” and president-elect at Duke, acknowledged two unions and workers at Yale-New Haven Jackson had come to rally the troops of that in the past, Yale overlooked New Haven theLocal 34 and 35 of theFederation ofUniHospital began a 23-day strike. The unions are a collective bargaining versity Employees—which represent clerical SEE UNIONS ON PAGE 8 crates
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When President Nan Keohane called on the University to conduct a “ruthless analysis” of its academic offerings in an October address to the faculty, other highlevel administrators—those who wotdd be around to conduct such an analysis—took notice. The officers who will assume the reins of the University after Keohane steps down July 1, including President-elect Richard Brodhead, said they will follow through on Keohane’s call to “reconceptualize the enterprise” through specializacollaboration, tion and though perhaps not in as dramatic a fashion as some anticipate. Keohane’s call to take a fresh look at Duke’s offerings and possibly make cuts in certain areas came as part of a broader address to the faculty about challenges that lie in Duke’s future. Speaking of growing costs in higher education, Keohane suggested that the University could spend less money on certain inefficacious expenditures and instead look to nearby institutions to provide the absent services or opportunities. Following through on her suggestion could mean a new era of increased specialization and collaboration for Duke, but it is unclear how drastic the changes will be. “Close collaboration with other institutions, both those physically nearby and through virtual linkages, will allow us to offer a full range of courses for students and collegial ties for faculty members without having to produce everything on our own campus,” Keohane said in her speech. ‘This would require us to get away from the attitude that everything is always better if we provide it here and be more open to the strengths of our collaborators. It will mean accepting some modest inconvenience in travel time, or learning technological skills, and over time reducing the scope of what we offer in some areas as we decide where Duke’s own comparative advantages lie.” Brodhead, the incoming president and current dean ofYale College, said he had no interest in getting rid of departments at the University and that collaboration was “not a magical solution,” suggesting a desire for a limited application of Keohane’s specialization and collaboration idea. More likely is the phasing out of faculwhere the University lacks a positions ty SEE DEPARTMENTS ON PAGE 9