T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y
The Chronicle
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 44
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Housing lottery yields controversy Sororities unite, will be housed on Central; Other groups split by Arden Kreeger THE CHRONICLE
The expansion relies heavily on support from contributors, said Ric Richards, President of the Ronald McDonald House’s board of trustees and owner of the Bryan Center McDonald’s. “We are like a three-legged stool here, with support from Duke, Durham and the Ronald McDonald House,” Richards said. “We need money and volunteers from each leg because we can’t pay for everything we do. [Charity] gets in your blood, like [McDonald’s] ketchup in your veins.”
The house model lottery was not without drama Wednesday night, as sororities, fraternities and non-greek selective living groups learned where they will live under the house model beginning Fall 2012. All nine Panhellenic Association sororities will be housed on Central Campus next year, along with six fraternities and seven non-greek SLGs. The remaining 10 Interfraternity Council fraternities and 13 SLGs will be housed on West Campus. Housing assignments were determined by lottery within each size category. SLGs—including fraternities and sororities— cannot petition for different houses, though they can trade houses with administrative approval. These assignments mean that Central is significantly more concentrated with selective groups than West. Twenty-three of the 51 houses on West are marked as selective and 22 of the 29 houses on Central are occupied by selective groups, according to a Housing, Dining and Residence Life document. This brings the total number of houses under the model to 80. The logistics of the houses inevitably favor some groups over others, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. “West does not have many extra-small and small houses,” he said. “There are four houses of this size, which was insufficient to meet the demand—seven groups of this size hoped to be on West.” Gonzalez added that groups on Central could have an even greater potential to flourish on Central than affiliated houses. IFC President Zach Prager, a senior, could not be reached for comment. Following Friday’s announcement that Panhel chapters
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The Ronald McDonald House on Alexander Avenue will undergo a $6.7 million expansion, scheduled for completion in mid-2012.
McDonald House to expand by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE
Put a smile on—the Ronald McDonald House is slated to expand by 25,000 square feet. The Ronald McDonald House of Durham—located on Alexander Avenue on Central Campus—celebrated the beginning of its expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony held Wednesday. An additional three-story building will be connected to the original facility, according to official plans shown at the ceremony. The $6.7 million project is expected to be completed by the summer of 2012.
First DKU academic program HDRL releases 38 juniors approved by Fuqua faculty from housing contract by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE
After months of delays, faculty at the Fuqua School of Business approved the first academic program for Duke Kunshan University. Fuqua faculty approved a new Master of Management Studies program Wednesday. The new program, which is still pending Academic Council and Board of Trustees approval, mimics the one offered at Duke and has students spend the Spring at DKU. Fuqua administrators and faculty said this vote is evidence of growing faculty support of DKU. The program was endorsed with a very positive vote, said Jennifer Francis, senior associate dean for programs and the Douglas and Josie Breeden professor at Fuqua.
A vote on this program, as well as an executive MBA that was not discussed at Wednesday’s meeting, was originally scheduled for June 20, but the vote was postponed due to a lack of market research and consensus among faculty. This vote shows that, for the most part, Fuqua faculty members now have faith in DKU, said Preyas Desai, Spencer R. Hassell professor of marketing at Fuqua, who has been actively involved in faculty-wide discussions about DKU. “Actions speak louder than words, and today’s action says [we are reassured],” Desai said. Students in the 10 month-long program will spend their Summer and Fall terms in Durham and their Spring
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by Tiffany Lieu THE CHRONICLE
About a third of the 111 juniors who applied for off-campus housing this Fall will be able to live off campus in the Spring. Thirty-eight juniors were granted exemptions from their three-year residency requirement, Housing, Dining and Residence Life announced Monday. This wave of applications followed a round of exemptions granted in April, when 60 of 140 juniors were released from their housing contracts. Fewer juniors were released from their housing contracts this year when compared to 2010, when 165 students were granted exemptions. This is partly due to the opening of Keohane 4E Quadrangle this Spring, which will add 150 beds to
West Campus and whose brand new facilities are in part acting as an incentive for students to remain on campus. “I know that a number of students that I spoke with that were going to be abroad had very high interest in living in K4 when they returned,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of residence life. Many students share this sentiment. Junior Abby Mathieson, who is currently studying abroad, was granted off-campus housing in this second wave but said that given her preference she would have chosen differently. “To be honest, if I could have been guaranteed a room in K4, that would have been my first choice,” Mathieson SEE JUNIORS ON PAGE 7