The Chronicle Months in, Few project only 10 percent complete LeChase Construction: We love a challenge by
Ally Helmers THE CHRONICLE
Despite the sounds of hammering and arrangements of yellow tape on Main West Quad, the renovation ofFew Quadrangle is only 8 to 10 percent complete, site superintendents said. “A project of this nature and scope, in my opinion, should be allowed approximately 10 months for completion. We have seven,” Wes Foushee, project executive for LeChase Construction Services, which is overseeing the project, wrote in
an e-mail. “LeChase loves a challenge.” Foushee added that the 116,000 square-foot renovation was progressing as scheduled, with students able to move in as early as Dec. 29. Around 120 to 200 people are working on the project every day, increasing to 300 people at the project’s “peak,” Foushee said. Construction workers are working 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week to complete the job in fewer than SEE FEW ON PAGE 22
A crew memberworks to complete the renovations to Few Quadrangle by mid-December.The$2O-million project whichstarted May 5,isaboutBto 10 percent complete as of late June, site superintendents said
Felker, editor of 44th volume, dies at 82 Long before the rest of the world discovered Clay Felker’s brilliance, Felker honed his talent and devoted his journalistic acumen to The Chronicle as editor of its 44th volume. Felker, the founder of New York Magazine, died July 1 in New York. He was 82. His experience at The Chronicle was modest compared to his future endeavors—creating a magazine about the city that enthralled him and editing a stable of writers that reads like a Who’s Who of New Journalism, among many others—but it was in these pages where he foreshadowed the rest of his career. He was expelled from the University in
1948, the fall of his editorship, for keeping his future wife out past the Woman’s College’s curfew. When he was readmitted in 1950, Felker crawled back to his home in newsprint, where he used the pedestal of a column so effectively that he was almost dismissed again for exposing controversies in 1951, the year he graduated. He later catapulted to bigger and better publications —Life, Sports Illustrated and Esquire were his first three stops after Duke. Still, Felker’s legacy lingers in the halls of 301 Flowers, The Chronicle’s office, where he became a writer, an editor and a man.
—from staffreports