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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2010
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 67
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Group to discuss entrepreneurship, int’l expansion by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE
$5.5 million over the first five years of the campus’s operation to maintain academic programs and campus operations. The construction is expected to be completed by summer 2012, with classes beginning that Fall. “That number may go down if we’re as successful at raising money as we think we will be in China,” Jones said. Jones’ team is close to finalizing an agreement with a
The Board of Trustees will focus discussion this weekend on entrepreneurship, internationalization and risk assessment. At the close of an eventful semester, administrators noted that the group will spend more time discussing the status of ongoing projects than approving concrete plans. Kimberly Jenkins, Trinity ’76, Graduate School ’77 and ’80, will give a “major presentation” about her plans for expanding Duke’s programs in entrepreneurship, said Board Chair and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73. Jenkins resigned from the Board this Fall to serve in the newly-created Dan Blue position of senior advisor to the president and provost for innovation and entrepreneurship, a post she assumed Nov. 1. “Kimberly has been a wonderful trustee, a potent trustee,” Brodhead said. “She understood all along that if she was going to take this job, she would have to do it instead of be on the Board. So now we will have this funny thing, which is for Kimberly to come to present to the Board that she herself was a member of until September.”
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Seniors gathered to celebrate the end of first semester during the annual senior pubcrawl Thursday, hosted by the Senior Class Council.
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First phase of China campus to cost $11M by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE
The completion of “Phase One” of Duke’s new campus in Kunshan, China will require an estimated investment of $11 million, the Academic Council learned Thursday. An initial investment of $5.5 million is needed for design, consulting and construction oversight, said Greg Jones, vice president and vice provost of global strategy and programs. He predicts that Duke will need to contribute an additional
Popular TV show airs episode inspired by Owen PowerPoint by Julia Love THE CHRONICLE
After a raunchy PowerPoint detailing the sexual encounters of a Duke alumna went viral, some sympathetic Dukies found themselves asking a rhetorical question: Could it get any worse? Only in the world of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, apparently. The PowerPoint, originally created by Karen Owen, Trinity ’10, was posted all over the web within days after she e-mailed it to her close friends. Now, two months after the presentation surfaced, Hollywood has picked up the story. In an episode of the show that aired Wednesday night, a young ad mogul named Caitlin winds up dead after a PowerPoint she created ranking the penis sizes of her office conquests—titled “My Lay List: A Scholarly Treatise On Office Relationships”—goes viral. As the investigation into the victim’s death proceeds, detective Olivia Benson rehashes the debate that raged on the blogo-
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sphere: “Cutting edge technology but the same ol’ double standard. Guys who sleep around are studs, girls are sluts.” The episode mirrored the details of the real-life scandal so well—just two more men were ranked in a document that was 10 pages shorter than Owen’s presentation—that one blog satirically quipped: “Is Karen Owen in danger?” In an interview with The Chronicle, Owen said she did not watch the episode and is not offended that her character was killed off—she sees it as a distinct work of fiction. Owen agreed to an interview with The Chronicle but declined to be quoted directly in this article. SVU Producer Dan Truly, who wrote the episode, said Caitlin’s death should not be read as a reflection of his feelings about Owen’s actions. “It’s really kind of a selfish thing from a writer’s point of view—it’s easier if the victim dies,” he said. “She could have told us See svu on page 5
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Wednesday’s “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” featured a premise that closely paralleled Karen Owen’s now infamous PowerPoint, featuring a young woman murdered after the circulation of her “Lay List.”
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“OK, so I’m gaga for recycling. What’s your story?” —Fourth-year grad student Liz Bloomhardt in “Story time.” See column page 10