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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2004
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 24
N.C. job Brodhead discusses student concerns by
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McGowan Jasten CHRONICLE THE
Unemployment and job losses
continue to affect North Carolina residents, according to the most recent state Budget and Tax Center report. The BTC report found thatjob growth in the state is proceeding at too slow a pace to accommodate the state’s rapid-
ly expanding population, particularly that of unskilled workers. Despite a recent flurry of pos-
itive reports on North Carolina’s economic recovery, job creation numbers in the state have dropped to 2,900 new jobs in August, a significant downturn from the 10,700 new jobs in July. Although the unemployment rate dropped from 5.4 percent in July to 4.9 percent in August, experts say the rate was largely influenced by a reduction of 35,000 people in the state’s labor force. Recent releases from the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina suggest that the unemployment statistics could be LAURA BETH DOUGLAS/THE CHRONICLE
SEE
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President Richard Brodhead speaks to the combinedDuke Student Governmentand Graduateand Professional Student Council.
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Stolberg THE CHRONICLE
In his first state of the University address Tuesday night, President Richard Brodhead told a joint meeting of Duke Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Council that he wants to know it all. “I aspire someday to know the answer to every question you could ask me,” he said. As of right now, however, Brodhead acknowledged he is still getting his bearings within a new campus and in a new community. Rather than outlying his goals for the University in the traditional format for such an address, he referred those concerned with a larger agenda to his inaugural address Saturday and spent close to an hour fielding questions from Duke’s student leaders. Brodhead expressed enthusiasm for his interaction with students in the first month of his sidency and mentioned his jekly office hours as one of the avenues for connecting on campus issues. “I don’t like presidents who have abstract views of what is good for a place,” he said. In the question-and-answer SEE BRODHEAD ON PAGE 8