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Tiny rooms, Plaza carts cause controversy Business complications no AC haunt cost Duke time, money Edens quad Rob Copeland THE CHRONICLE
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The $lOO,OOO worth of dining carts planned for the West Campus Plaza have been delayed by production complications
Neal SenGupta THE CHRONICLE
and conflict between the University and the manufacturer, Mobile Solutions Foodservice Inc. of Littleton, Colo., sources close to the situation confirmed. University lawyers are now working to either recover the school’s investment or arrange the delivery of the carts, Wulforst said. A bestcase scenario would have the carts arriving on campus in October, two months late. The costs to Duke have been enormous, Wulforst said. He estimated that he has spent 50 hours trying to resolve the issues and now lawyers are working on the University’s behalf from both Durham and Denver. Mobile Solutions owner Bruce Robertson, who was arrested last week in an unrelated incident for larceny, declined to comment Tuesday. Wulforst said Robertson lied repeatedly about the status of the carts, which were supposed to be delivered Aug. 15. “When they didn’t arrive [Aug. 17], I called him and he told me there was a problem with the doors,” Wulforst recalled, adding that Robertson said the
One week into the school year, some residents ofEdens Quadrangle had their air conditioning shut down, losing one advantage of living in the quad. Edens houses roughly 20 percent of West Campus residents, who often corn-116 WS plain about living there, citinB isolation anaiucic f distance and small room size as disadvantages of the location. According to data compiled by The Chronicle from floor plans on the Residence Life and Housing Services website, the average room size of an Edens double room is about 170 square feet. In comparison, an average double in Crowell or Keohane Quadrangles has about 220 square feet of floor space. Sophomore Dan Shankle, an Edens resident, currently lives in one of the smallest doubles on West, with a floor size slightly larger than 150 square feet: “How am I supposed to bring a girl back to my room if my bed is touching my roommate’s?” Shankle said, adding that he cannot fit a decent-sized beerpong table in his room. The size of Shankle’s double combined with the 101-square-footsingle across the >
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The West Campus Plaza was supposed to feature student-run carts (inset), but complications have arisen.
Duke forbids exotic dancers by
Katherine Macllwaine THE CHRONICLE
the Bulletin of Information and RegulaChanges tions regarding judicial policies have sparked concern among a number of student leaders this year. Leaders said they are questioning, among other modifications, a provision that prohibits students from hiring exotic dancers to perform at events. The University makes additions and alterations to the bulletin every year. Like the other changes, the rule regarding exotic dancers is effective this academic year. In Chapter 5 of the bulletin, “Event Guidelines and Registration,” the new rule states “strippers may not be invited or paid to perform at events sponsored by individual students, residential living groups or cohesive units.” Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director ofjudicial affairs, said the change was not an addition but rather the inclusion of an accidentally removed policy. to
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