September 27, 2006

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The magaziirie looks at Vince Oghobaase and the futuire of Duke football

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Duke University Health Syshas set up a $2BO million fund to support the University’s medical and nursing schools in promoting education and research programs, officials announced Tuesday. The funds will help to bolster initiatives highlighted in a draft of the Duke University Medical Center’s strategic plan, which will be presented tem

to the Board of Trustees this weekend. The money will support a number of areas, including discovery science, translational science and health disparities research, said Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO ofDUHS. “I think that this is a commitment of Duke medicine to academic success and to the institution as a whole,” Dzau said. There has been a regular

transfer of about $2O million from the health system to the School of Medicine for several years, Provost Peter Lange said. He added that administrators decided a one-time transfer now was a logical step for the schools. “Chancellor [Dzau] and Dean [Williams] came to the conclusion to make the block transfer cover a long period of time after seeing the outstanding results in the health system,”

Lange said, referring to Dr. Sanders Williams, dean of the medical school. John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the announcement of additional funds is timely since administrators expect the Board of Trustees will approve the strategic plan this weekend. The strategic plan is a

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Groups clash over footing LDOC bill Duke gets $90,000 supplement causes high marks Union, Council disagreement in studies Wenjia Zhang THE CHRONICLE

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A number of student groups have already begun to discuss this year’s Last Day of Classes celebration—and the role that an increased student activities fee will play in the event. The fee, which was approved by students April 2005, was raised $7.50 per student per semester this academic year. In total, $90,000 will be collected from the increase and used to help fund LDOC. Campus Council and Duke University Union representatives however, disagree, about whether the organizations will need to provide additional funding for the event. President of Campus Council Jay SEE LDOC ON PAGE 8

Alums public say image not tarnished by scandal ,

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Last Day ofClasses 2007's budget may not receive the $90,000 boost students petitioned for in April 2005.

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The Great Hall has been forced to remove spinach from its salad bar after a national E. coli threat.

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For the time being —like much of the country —Duke will be spinach-less. As a result of nearly 100 E. coli-related hospitalizations in 26 states, the Food and Drug Administration has recommended that no one consume raw or fresh spinach. As of Tuesday evening, no cases have been reported in North Carolina. The FDA warning came last week after bags of spinach produced by two California growers were pinpointed as the source of the E. coli outbreak. Duke administrators said they reacted

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tion and all campus dining locations have removed fresh spinach from their stocks. Jim Wulforst, director of dining services, said he first learned about the warning last week. “The night we knew about the [E. coli] outbreak, we e-mailed and called every manager and store,” Wulforst said. “By the next morning we had gotten rid ofall the spinach.” The entire process of ridding campus eateries of spinach took about 12 hours, even though spinach is used at nearly SEE E. COLI ON PAGE 7

For months, allegations of rape surrounding the men’s lacrosse team splashed across the headlines of the country’s most prominent publications, from Newsweek to The New York Times. But according to research recently acquired by The Chronicle, most alumni and the larger public have since rebounded from the negative impact of the controversy, giving Duke an overwhelmingly positive favorability rating. Commissioned by the University’s office of public affairs, the study was drawn from two sets of data collected in late April and mid-June to analyze the effects of the controversy on public impressions of Duke. Researchers compiled data from 786 and 801 telephone interviews conducted in April and June, respectively. “The overall conclusion that we came to was that this ultimately was not an issue of Duke University’s reputation,” said Brian Hardwick, vice president for Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, the firm hired to conduct the research. The study showed that as early as late April, alumni—and to a lesser extent, the public—displayed strong approval of Duke despite the negativity of March’s mediablitz. “I must confess, I felt some sense of relief,” said John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, of the earliest results 4 “On one level, you’re encouraged, and on another level, I don’t think you can ever feel, after what happened, complacent or confident.” Although there was a greater than 5 SEE ALUMNI ON PAGE 5


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