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Sanford director to step down in June by

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Bruce Jentleson, who brought public policy studies to the forefront of Duke and the academy,

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First-year public policy graduate student Joe Ingemi received a letterthat mandated two more years of active service.

Student protests Army’s call by

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While other graduate students eagerly await the arrival of offers from lucrative investment banks or renowned hospitals, first-year public policy graduate student Joe Ingemi dreads opening his mailbox. A letter may come that forces him to leave the University and return to active military duty. Ingemi was committed to

eight years of mandatory service obligation after he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1997. His duties expire this spring, but he has been stoplossed—prohibited from leaving the Army even after his has fulfilled his commitments. About six weeks ago he received a letter that mandated two more years ofactive service. He said he does not wish to

be an active member of the Army again and is now petitioning for an exemption from service. “I don’t know when I will hear back,” said Ingemi, a captain in the Army when he left active duty in 2003. “I’m in limbo.” Ingemi said he is frustrated because he has already fulfilled his service in the Army SEE

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will step down as director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy June 30, he announced in a memo to colleagues Monday. Stretched by the demands of administrating, teaching and advising on global and national policy, Jentleson will turn his focus to a new two-book deal and two high-profile think tanks while remaining on the faculty as a fulltime professor. ‘You have this push and the pull: you really want to help build institutions, but you’ve got a real opportunity,” said Jentleson, who also serves as professor of public policy and political science. “And as someone who’s also been involved in the policy debate, I feel we’re at one of those critical junctures as a country.” As a culminating move following five-plus years as director, Jendeson also announced the creation of a task force to examine a potential upgrade from an institute to a School ofPublic Policy. “We’ve been thinking about that for several months, and that task force will be put in place relatively soon,” Provost Peter Lange said, adding that the task force should report back to him and President Richard Brodhead by the end of the summer on the

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Public Policy head Bruce Jentleson will stay on as a full-time professor. prospects of a full-fledged school that is a “serious possibility.” The potential reassessment of the Sanford Institute would cap off the success Jentleson has had in reaching the four goals he laid out upon his appointment

in 1999—maintaining high-caliber undergraduate teaching, strengthening the graduate programs, committing to interdisciplinarity inside and outside of Duke and pushing the Institute’s “international dimension.” In just 66 months, Jentleson will have weathered a rough review of the undergraduate SEE

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Panel discussion focuses on community, diversity Kelly Rohrs THE CHRONICLE

Seated within a fully constructed kitchen set on the stage at the Griffith Film Theater Monday afternoon, five people staged a casual conversation about community. The multi-generational and multi-ethnic panelists quipped about everything from 1950 radio to evolving notions of diversity. The discussion, sponsored by the Samuel Dußois Cook Society, focused on the ironies of fostering communities while still promoting diversity. President Richard Brodhead and Johnnetta Cole, president of the historically black Bennett College for Women, recalled an era when universities were closed communities that did not admit minority students. Pointing out the value of being surrounded by people with multiple backgrounds, they spoke of how admitting black students in the wake of the Civil Rights

Movement enriched academic inquiry. “That turned out to be more educational and more fun at the same time,” Brodhead said. “You don’t want to assemble a community that’s only diverse on paper.” In fostering interaction among racial groups, universities could look to the struggles of previous generations to learn which questions to ask and when to provoke people beyond their comfort areas. With agreement from the other participants, Brodhead noted that although schools cannot structure such interaction, they have a responsibility to encourage it. “I guess I do not believe in values-neutral universities,” he said. “Some form of moral education is at the heart of a serious institution.” “If we cannot identify some decent human values than we are in serious trouble as a University,” agreed Cole, who was later TOM MENDEUTHE

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President Richard Brodhead and four others spoke at the CookSociety's kitchen tablediscussion Monday.