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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
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Senate OKs new election timetable
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 6
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Earl causes marine lab evacuation
Trivial pursuit
by Shaoli Chaudhuri THE CHRONICLE
“We really wanted to capitalize on what it meant for Duke to be really the world’s first legitimate business school,” Hargrove said, adding that Fuqua employs staff in five regions of the world to help with recruitment. “Having a physical presence gave us more manpower and it also enabled us to relate that strategy to prospective students because we were able to see more people in person and connect them with our alumni.” It was a record year for the Daytime MBA program, which received a total of 3,551 applications—the most it has ever received, she noted. Specific GMAC data was not released, but Sam Silverstein, GMAC manager of media and public affairs, confirmed that Fuqua was one of the programs surveyed. Silverstein added that 13 percent of all full-time MBA programs surveyed saw a “significant increase” of 21 percent or more applicants.
The Duke University Marine Lab has issued a mandatory evacuation of all dormitory residents effective Thursday afternoon, in preparation for Hurricane Earl. Cindy Van Dover, director of the Marine Lab, wrote in an online announcement Wednesday morning that classes will be held at the Beaufort campus until 1:30 p.m. today. Twenty-seven undergraduate students and a visitor must leave Pivers Island by 2 p.m., the statement says. According to the National Weather Service, Hurricane Earl—designated a Category 4 hurricane as of Wednesday evening— will pass over the North Carolina coast tonight through Friday morning. “Different models have the hurricane [eye] going offshore by 60 miles or so,” Van Dover said. “It’s a large hurricane, so we’ll get hit by something.” Gov. Bev Perdue declared a state emergency Wednesday afternoon, issuing mandatory evacuations for the Outer Banks starting with locations accessible only by ferry. Although Beaufort is not included in the areas identified as most vulnerable, administrators prefer not to take any risks with students’ safety, Van Dover said. “We want to get undergraduates off the island the night of the storm,” Van Dover said. “We tend to be pretty conservative when students are involved.” The lab’s Pivers Island location is accessible only by a bridge that is susceptible to flooding. The hurricane is predicted to reach coastal North Carolina during high tide, which could easily result in 2- to 5-foot waves, explained Van Dover. “We don’t want students on the island where we can’t get to them in an emergency,” she said. The Marine Lab is no stranger to hurricane alerts and evacuations, said Dominick Brugnolotti, assistant director of auxiliary operations at the lab, who estimated that he has to facilitate hurricane evacuations at least once a year. “I know, going back through history, I think the most they’ve had to do was [evacuate] five times in a semester. It’s always better to be safe than sorry,” he said. Students were notified by e-mail of the hurricane and evacuation alert Wednesday morning, and the majority of students will most likely leave the island by carpooling. While students are not required to return to Durham, arrangements have been made to accommodate them on Central Campus
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by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE
In its first meeting of the year, Duke Student Government approved a new timeline for the 2010-2011 DSG elections, creating one election for all DSG Executive Board candidates and a separate one for senatorial candidates. This reverses last year’s reshuffling of the election calendar in which vice president and Senate candidates were elected in a different election than the office of president and executive vice president. “The turnout in the election for vice president [and Senate] was actually very low, about 25 percent,” said DSG Executive Vice President Pete Schork, a junior. “It was really discouraging. Usually we have a combined election combining all of [the DSG Executive Board] at one time and the turnout... is comparable to all of our peer institutions.” Last year’s split was an attempt to raise voter turnout in Senate elections and allow losing DSG presidential and executive vice presidential candidates to run for a vice presidential position.
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Students enjoy drink specials and 50 cent wings and answer trivia questions Wednesday at Trivial Wings, an event hosted by Devil’s Bistro and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.
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Fuqua applications buck national trend by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE
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Against national trends, the Fuqua School of Business received a 21 percent increase in applicants this year.
At a time when many business schools are seeing slow, if any, growth, the Fuqua School of Business’ global approach has allowed it to attract a record number of applicants. Many of Fuqua’s programs enjoyed large increases in the number of applicants last year, including its Daytime MBA program, which saw a 21 percent increase, said Liz Riley Hargrove, associate dean for admissions at Fuqua. The rise can be partially attributed to Duke’s global strategy and recruitment efforts across the world, Hargrove added. Fewer business schools across the world are reporting such increases, however, according to an Aug. 25 Graduate Management Admission Council study. Only 44 percent of the 476 programs offering MBAs reported gains in the number of applications, as opposed to 66 percent in 2009 and 70 percent the year before.
ONTHERECORD
“We found the old model of lecturing not really effective.”
—Biology Department Chair Dan Kiehart on intro classes. See story page 3
With The Record, vinyl art takes over the Nasher, Recess page 4
ATC to become home of entrepreneurial complex, Page 3