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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

ONE HUNDRED FIRST YEAR, ISSUE SI

Steel to Central Campus renovation lead Duke Phase One construction Trustees by

Steve Veres

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Skyward Darby THE CHRONICLE

Newly elected Board of Trustees chairRobert Steel started his life at Duke, or close to it. Steel, who was elected chair at the Board’s Saturday meeting, was bom in Durham and raised just off East Campus. When it came time to choose a college, Steel did not venture far; he picked Duke. “I started in the Duke orbit at birth,” he said. “I didn’t have a chance.” A Board member since 1993, Steel will take the helm from current Chair Peter Nicholas July 1. Steel said he plans to help Duke continue on the path of institutional development established in the University’s strategic plan, which expires this year. The new plan, which is being developed by the administration, will tweak and enhance the ambitions of the current plan, Steel said. “We are at a punctuation mark where we like what we’ve tv en doing, we’ve been continually reevaluating and now is a time to pause and review and refresh our plans,” he said. Steel said helping the University plan the project to overhaul Central Campus will also be a priority of the Board in the coming years. The Board received a report on the project and took a tour of the campus at their meeting last weekend.

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Duke officials confirmed earlier this week that they have pushed back the initial phase of the Central Campus renovation by one year. Students will now have to wait until Fall 2008 to live, study and shop in what Provost Peter Lange calls the “academic village.” “The idea to push the project to 2008 is based on our own

sense of the pace of what we can do,” Lange said. “To do this right, we felt the extra time would be very useful.” Duke officials had previously set Fall 2007 as the completion date for the first half of the housing units that are to be built in Phase One of the project. The decision was largely a result of an impending housing crunch created by the increased enrollment of the Pratt School of Engi-

delayed neering by 200 students over four years. Administrators predicted they would be able to accommodate the increased classes of 2009 and 2010 with the new East Campus dormitory and extra space in West and Central Campus housing. Officials were not initially confident, however, that they could house the extra students on West SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 8

Graduation nation Students listened attentively and anticipated tossing their caps in the air during speeches given by Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and student speaker senior Rob Painter at Sunday’s graduation ceremony. Over 3,800 undergraduate, graduate and professional school students attended commencement exercises in Wallace Wade Stadium Sunday morning, marking the conclusion of a weekend of

graduation events.

This was the 153rd commencement at the University but the first at which President Richard Brodhead gave diplomas to the

graduates.

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HIGHEST-PAID EMPLOYEES

Coach K tops list of highest-paid officials by

Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE

Men’s basketball head coach Mike

Krzyzewski is used to being first. After a year-long hiatus, he has reclaimed the spot atop the list of the University’s highestpaid employees. Krzyzewski netted a total of approximately $1.5 million in salary and benefits—a 70.1 percent increase from his $875,000 income from Duke last year. The University and Duke University Health System filed their Internal Revenue Service 990 tax forms in February, disclosing the financial details of both organizations for the 2003-04 fiscal year. The forms are required by the IRS ofall non-profit or-

ganizations and include a list of the highest-paid executives and employees. “This is the first year [Krzyzewski’s salary] was reflected in the budget'based on the arrangements of his lifetime con-

tract,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. Krzyzewski signed the lifetime contract with Duke in November 2001.

Last year’s highest earner—founder and former president of Duke University Management Company Eugene McDonald—was this year’s second-highest paid employee. He was paid approximately $1.2 million, despite the fact that he has not worked at the University for over three years.

Approximately $856,000 ofMcDonald’s salary this year came under the category “expense account and other allowances;” $269,388 of his earnings came directly from his salary. Burness said McDonald’s high earnings were a result of contractual stipulations, even though he is no longer employed at the University. “He made the judgment that he wanted some payment deferred,” Burness explained. Ralph Snyderman, chancellor emeritus of Duke University Health System, was the University’s third-highest earning employee, netting over $1 million. Snyderman’s total inSEE INCOME ON PAGE 8


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