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Harvard prof critical of Ivy faculty diversity by
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J. Lorand Matory, co-chair of Harvard’s Association of Black Faculty, Administrators and Fellows, will join Duke as chair of the African and African American Studies department in July 2009, relocating to the Gothic Wonderland after nearly two decades in Cambridge. The professor of anthropology and AAAS received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard and held appointments at the university for 18 years. But he was a vocal tory critic offormer Harvard Lawrence president Summers, and he leaves raising questions about the ethnic diversity of the Ivy League university’s faculty.
“Duke made it very clear that they very much wanted to have me,” Matory told The Boston Globe. “The dean of [Harvard’s] Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Mike Smith, did not make that as clear....
Duke adds voting site to campus
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Head coach David Cutcliffe went under the knife for emergency triple-bypass surgery in March 2005. Wiserand more grateful, he became the Blue Devils' leaderless thanthree years later. SEE STORY, SW 4-5.
As the presidential election draws nearer, students, faculty and staff will not have to go far to cast their ballots. An on-campus voting site will debut Oct. 16 ki the Old Trinity Room in the West Union Building —a result ofefforts by Gunther Peck, associate professor ofhistory and public policy studies, to boost Duke students’ votes. Peck said it was “dismaying” that of3,000 registered Duke students, only 343 voted in the May primary. There was nearly 60 percent turnout at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and 20 percent voted in the primary at North Carolina State University, Peck said. “The Duke students I knew and taught were not self-absorbed and politically apathetic,” he said. “The only clear and obvious difference was that only Duke did not have an on-campus voting site.” Peck noted that this site will be unusual because most voting locations are at public places. The nearest voting site forDuke students during the primaries was at the old Durham Athletic Park, close to East Campus. This summer, Peck discussed his findings with Provost Peter Lange, who then set SEE VOTING ON PAGE 2
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Offshore drilling emerges as issue in N.C. races by
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The nation inched closer to increased offshore drilling last Tuesday when the United States House of Representatives passed an energy bill that would allow states to decide about drilling in their waters. Currently there is a congressional moratorium on any new offshore drilling leases. The Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act would lift that moratorium if the Senate passes it as well. The bill follows the impact Hurricane Ike had on drivers’ wallets across the country, prompting candidates up for election in November to take stances on a potential domestic source of energy: the continental shelf. “It’s an election year, which means that it is silly season for politicians,” Michael Munger, the Libertarian candidate in the North Carolina Gubernatorial race and chair of the department of political science at Duke University, said in a press release. “The supporters of new drilling are promising miracles, and the opponents are predicting disaster.... They are both exaggerating for their owp political purposes.”
Monger’s plan takes a hands-off approach, asserting that “the increased price of oil and gas will solve this problem for us, if we letit” by driving down demand and opening up new supplies. His plan does not address environmental concerns. Pat McCrory, Republican nominee for governor and mayor of Charlotte, believes “just the threat of drilling would reduce prices immediately,” Amy Auth, communications director for McCrory’s gubernatorial campaign, wrote in an e-mail. She said McCrory also supports drilling in the Manteo Project region, an area Mobil Oil attempted to tap into during the ’Bos and ’9os until North Carolina forced the company to abandon its efforts through a lawsuit. Moreover, McCrory would petition the federal government for the right to drill for oil off its coast and receive 37.5 percent of the revenue. States receive all royalty fees from drilling within the first three milesoff their coast But after that they can currently only receive up to a quarter of the royalty fee—with the rest going to SEE DRILLING ON PAGE 5
The U.S. Houseof Representatives passed a billTuesday allowing states to decide whether to drill offshore.The Senate has yet to vote on thebill.