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MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2005
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Sanford considers transition to school by
Seyward Darby THE CHRONICLE
Public policy studies, a field known at Duke for its interdisciplinarity and breadth ofacademic degrees, may soon change its institutional structure, as the University is weighing the possibility of creating a new school of public policy. If formed, the school would encompass the department of public policy studies —currently a part of the division ofArts and Sciences—as well as the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and its various research centers. Provost Peter Lange created a task force comprised ofadministrators and faculty in March to investigate the feasibility and desirability of including the transition as a part of the University’s new strategic plan. Initially proposed about a decade ago, the issue of creating a school resurfaced recently in the wake of Sanford’s growing acclaim, pressure from faculty and questions about how the institute and its centers relate to other departments. A Universitywide focus on using knowledge to improve global well-being also provided an impetus for new discussion about creating a school. “We have put this theme of knowledge into the service of society very much as one of the themes of the new strategic plan,” Lange said. “We need to see
where public policy fits into that.” Bruce Jentleson, outgoing director of the Sanford Institute, noted that many of Duke’s peer institutions have public policy schools, setting the stage for Duke to enhance its competitive edge by creating its own school. Jentleson said there is also a need for the various parts of the public policy program—including the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degree programs—to officially come together under one institutional umbrella. As a school, the unified components of public policy would become a largely autonomous entity in the University’s management structure. It would retain its revenues and be responsible for its own expenses—aspects of management currently handled through Trinity. Whether a new school could support itself financially is one of the questions, Lange posed in a charge to the task force. He also asked the committee to consider how the transition would affect the undergraduate major, the role the institute and its centers play on campus and Duke’s overall quality of education. Professor Bruce Kuniholm, chair of the task force and incoming director of the Sanford Institute, said “enhancing” the undergraduate major would be a SEE SANFORD ON PAGE
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Johns Hopkins' Kevin Huntley scored his third goal with about a minute remaining in doubleovertime to give the Blue Jays the win.
Blue Devils drop heartbreaker in 2 OT by
Jesse Shuger-Colvin THE CHRONICLE
BALTIMORE In the end, the only people left at Homewood Field were a television crew quiedy packing their gear and a group of DUKE Duke fans the I*| mostly JHU players’ families, on the other side of the stadium. The din of the nearby Johns Hopkins group emanated from inside the locker room. Minutes before, the Blue
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Devils (11-1) had lost arguably the most important regular season game in program history—an 11-10 double-overtime loss to Johns Hopkins—and along with it their record undefeated streak and a chance for a firstever No. 1 ranking. Yet as the Duke team filed out toward the bus and said its goodbyes, the looks on the faces of most still showed amazement rather than sorrow. For 60 minutes of regulation and almost two overtimes—on
IZA WOJCIECHOWSKA
Seasoned students have all grown to know Duke’s secrets: the five o’clock bells, East Campus tunnels, tenting
mayhem and Cosmic quesadillas. But for someone visit-
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Sun-Young Chung, a senior in high school and nominee for the University Scholars program, came to get a taste of Duke this weekend.
one of the biggest stages and
against lacrosse’s most storied program—No. 2 Duke and No. 1 Hopkins (9-0) competed, trading leads in every quarter. The Blue Jays’ Kevin Huntley finally secured the victory when he forced his diving shot past goalie Aaron Fenton with 1:05 left in the second overtime period. His score extended Hopkins’ record home win-streak to 32 before 7,136 fans in attendance and a SEE
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Testing Duke s waters
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ing for the first time, Duke might just be popped collars and Gothic architecture, foam parties and iPods. Or it might be something more. Sun-Young Chung showed up at the door of Brown Dormitory’s smallest room Saturday, eager to spend four days as a college student. Chung, a senior at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va., was here for Scholarship Interview Weekend as a finalist in the University Scholars Program. She became interested in Duke after reading about the campus phenomenon of “effortless perfection.” “I kept following that, and I wanted to know what this university was really like,” Chung said. “I think it was a big issue for women across many universities, and I think it’s good that Duke was one of the first to tackle that.”
When she got here, her first impression of students fit with the gist of the stereotype, though she soon acknowledged that Duke students are far more multifaceted than what first impressions might convey. “At first I thought everybody’s blonde and a foot taller than me,” she said, “but I realized the people are just so amazing—these are really the cream of the crop students, and they know so much.” As a scholarship finalist, her weekend kicked off with an introductory meeting with current University Scholars and fellow finalists and a lecture about the Civil Rights Movement. Following the lecture, the “Unis” attended a catered fish ffy-yDuke’s attempt to expose the p-froshes to its southern side. The effort succeeded—“What are these?” Chung asked, pointing to the hush puppies. She and a friend sat at a table that eventually filled with other prospective University and Benjamin N. SEE P-FROSH ON PAGE 8