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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2005
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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, ISSUE 39
Architects selected for Central by
Duke mulls over steroid regulations
Tiffany'Webber THE CHRONICLE
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The plans for the new Central Campus are one step closer to completion. Elkus Manfredi Architects of Boston was hired as the principal designer and Ayers Saint Gross of Baltimore was hired as the coordinating architect to take on the challenge of reviving Central Campus, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said this week. The mass overhaul of the 278-acre campus will include the destruction of current facilities to make way for new ones that will create an area that is more conducive to academic, social and residential life, administrators have said. Five architectural firms were interviewed by a committee of University officials in September, Trask said. The findings were then presented to the Board of Trustees earlier this month and administrators selected the two firms based on past work, among other factors. Trask added that it would be ideal to have two architectural firms concentrate on facility designs for the campus. “We’re probably going to hire at least one more firm,” he said. Trask noted that the new Central Campus will consist of at least four buildings, SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE 8
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THE CHRONICLE
GraduatestudentYektan Turkyilmaz, who was jailed for months in Armenia over the summer, spoke Thursday.
Grad student recounts months jailed in Armenia by
David Graham
THE CHRONICLE
'Yektan Turkyilmaz, a fourth-year gradustudent in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, spoke to a crowd of about 70 Thursday at the von der Heyden Pavilion. He recounted the tale of his arrest and incarceration in Armenia this summer. Tiirkyilm; iz was arrested June 17 for ate
exporting books more than 50 years old from Armenia shortly before he was scheduled to leave. His speech focused on his situation in relation to the political conflict between Armenia and Turkey that centers around the so-called genocide of 1 million Armenians in 1915. ON PAGE 14
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After two former baseball players admitted last April to using steroids while at Duke, the University is scrutinizing its performance-enhancing drug policy. A committee formed by President Richard Brodhead last spring hopes to have a new policy solidified by the end of the semester and in place for the next academic year. Brodhead asked the five-member group, led by James Coleman, senior associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Law, to reconsider the performance-enhancing portion of the drug policy less than one year after the University made punishments more lenient for its current drug policy. The committee is not looking at revisions to the recreational drug policy. Former baseball players Aaron Kempster and Grant Stanley told The Chronicle they injected themselves with steroids during the summer of 2002. Kempster and Stanley said other teammates were also using steroids while at Duke. “This clearly came out of the discussion around baseball last spring,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said of the reSEE STEROIDS ON PAGE 21
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Steve Veres
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In an impassioned speech to the Academic Council Thursday afternoon, Provost Peter Lange detailed the University’s progress in creating Duke’s next strategic plan. Developed by the Office of the Provost, the University strategic plan will guide administrators’ decisions for the next five years. Lange stressed that this plan will focus on building upon Duke’s unique strengths. “We need to lead and not copy. We need to achieve distinction with distinctiveness,” he said. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it. We need to plan and invent our own future for Duke.” Lange highlighted some of the new priorities that were not included in “Building on Excellence,” Duke’s SEE PLAN ON PAGE 11
Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE
Theresa Rodgers found an unexpected surprise when she sat down to lunch at the Duke Hospital South Food Court Oct. 12. To her dismay, Rodgers took a bite of her turnip greens, only to find that she had chewed off the better half of a cockroach. After Rodgers discovered the insect she turned the greens over to a supervisor at the Food Court. Rodgers, a medical assistant, said the supervisor issued an apology the following day, along with three meal passes to the Duke South Food Court. She said she initially accepted the passes, thenreturned them, refusing to dine at the same eatery at which she had found the roach. “Nobody wants to take this matter seriously,” she said. “[Sanitation] is very important. You’re serving the public and the sick and things have to be right.” Food served in the Duke South Food Court is first prepared in the Duke Hospital North Food Court and then transported. The location of where the cockroach entered the turnip greens is unknown. When asked about the tainted food, Eddie Anderson, an SEE
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A medical assistant at Duke Hospital found a cockroach in her lunch from the Duke South Food CourtOct 12.