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ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 11

OARYAT DUKE UNIVERSITY

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

DUHS executive to

Congress

retire at month's end

increases

Steve Veres

by

ization. He also

THE CHRONICLE

relief by

William Donelan, the second-

$51.88

announced

Thursday

dentand chief

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON with gress

recov-

this

from Hurricane Katrina

ery

President

Thursday. Bush arid

pledged

simple

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to

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collect food

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The

transfers from Gulf CatherineFisher

KATRINA ON PAGE 8

the Duke

into

its

the

community

familiar

professors offer opinions

the

the hurricane at

a

enrolled students

University

of

policy implications

find their

to

Xavier

and

Loyola

scrambling

are

bearings

in

a new

community

rina,

allow up from

Ruptured by

usual

out

bleary-eyed pre-

class shower, residents of Craven House

gle the

R received

dormitory’s

a

watery

Quadran-

surprise

third-floor bathroom

in

early

approximately

9:30

a.m.,

the bathroom’s urinal broke, to

flood “I

a

loud

water

just

the

pipe

causing

in

water

sound,

Jeff Sheely,

bathroom when

and

The a

there’s

urinal

senior who

the

rupture

ex-

was

oc-

happened,”

by

former

responsibility

DUHS’s

for

financial and

Robert Caiiff,

Dr. cellor

for

the

Tulane of

University University

said

hall

and

to

noon.

and 9

Louisiana, Dillard

and said he is very

lot of

enroll

But

was

Sept.

at

water

a

8

on

Donelan

how

counselor

to

was

go

to

to a

him

deal with dif-

Caiiff said.

a

Research

one

than a

a

in ap-

and CEO for and

Dzau worked

only

another for

year,

close

closely

little

a

more

Donelan said he had

relationship

with Dzau.

Donelan, 58, noted that he has been last

of

thinking

retiring

few years but did in

change

both

philosoph-

“He

driving

force

Institute,

world-renownedacademic organ-

causes

with

the

men-

behind the creation of the Duke

Marijean Konopke,

pipe

as

He

having

will be missed.”

stu-

8

at

thinking. a

president Though

DUHS.

was

Snyderman

for the

not

due

leadership

to

when

and former Pres-

ident Nan Keohane retired in the

people. People

for advice

chan-

1973.

for

wisdom”

ficult situations,”

SEE TRANSFERS ON PAGE

ankle-high

the

since

Donelan

ical in his

vice

research

retired

Dzau

chancellor for health

as

affairs and

the

happen.”

Victor

Donelan have

Medical Center,

“He has been

University,

and

tor

pointed

it

Snyderman

Dr.

2004,

working relationship

a

Donelan

Clinical

close

to

with

clinical

University

had

making

After

his

Snyderman

Ralph

“home-spun

stu-

displaced

bathroom

the

dents

would

same

year.

Since

ize

DUHS’s

Donelan

then,

has worked with Dzau

to

reorgan-

administrative

struc-

ture

so

that

Donelan

would be

able

to

retire

without

disrupting

day-to-day operations. The

reorganization

occurred last

a

SEE DONELAN

ON PAGE

7

dorm to flood

went

continued down

door,

eventually

began

spilling

down the staircase. “The whole

cally

the

hallway

whole

tower

Sheely the

room

the

said every

was

flooded.... Basi-

staircase

—which is

third

room

that seemed

became

a

floor

was

to

affected. But

incur the

worst

directly

below

situated

bathroom—belonged

to

senior Yuval Patel. Patel said his

mattress

noted that Residence Services said

they

Parts of Patel’s

curred.

“Nobody

it

forced

damage

the dorm.

going everywhere. said

a

in the bathroom, and I hear

whooshing

ploded,” in

throughout

was

hind

waterfall,” he said.

Thursday morning. At

1

75 students

to

Sheely

Tiffany Webber

of the

place

Sept.

schools

new

The deadlinefor transfer

administration

water

THE CHRONICLE

In

Duke

announced

pg. 3

at

University.

In the wake of Hurricane Kat-

the

60

undergraduates

four schools:

the

at

enroll

law students—have arrived from

unfamiliarplace.

panel Thursday.

see

1999

be-

guy

scenes

in

the

was

rough-

to

vi-

Donelan

“We

this year,

appointed

was

had

sion

Medi-

[Duke

anniversary

role

lauded

Wednesday,

dents—sl

day-to-day

to

University.

As of

set-

routine for the fall semester, 60

newly

the Gulf Coast

along

THE CHRONICLE

tles

on

Donelan said.

has senior

has

As

Duke

Donelan

Duke

immediate needs. by

SEE

75th

overseeing

debit cards for fam-

on

here has been

administrative affairs.

in-

the

was

the

half of it.”

and

sig-

Sny-

derman

an

School of

Fuqua

celebrating

current

Duke welcomes 60

lawmak-

measure

ly

after being floodedby

water

tional

part.

career.

Chancellor

less than 24 hours after he

requested

football stadium lies covered in

Hurricane Katrina.Several Tulane students enrolled at Duke this week.

griev-

cleared the bill for Bush’s

ers

University

home

suffered

Mississippi

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said

help,”

and

and I have been there for ROBERT MCRILL/UPI

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government benefits.

“If you think

for 36 years—his entire

center

are

and other

stamps

of DUHS.

ical

remarkable,”

victims

storm

creation

officer of

University

“My experience

un-

presi-

orchestrator,”

person

professional

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for

possible”

as

is

the

was

Business, has worked for the med-

W.

George

Duke

at

vice

operating

alumnus of the

additional

an

billion for reliefand

$51.8

to

Con-

speed,

extraordinary

approved

affairs

he

“He

a

Califf said of Donelan’s role in the

chancellor for health

DUHS, vice

Acting

that

system

about the

executive

Donelan,

System,

into

in 1998.

30.

retiring Sept.

David Espo

Health

University

the med-

helped

transition

center

health

executive of.the

highest ranking Duke

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ical

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ruined but

Life and

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replace

ceiling

Housing it.

also fell due

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was

using

he added.

it, it just

randomly SEE FLOOD ON PAGE

7

An

overflowing

urinal in a Craven House R bathroom poured water into the dormitory's

hallways.


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