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TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 122
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Fifty years of Goodall work to be digitized
Duke to end pay freeze for fiscal year ’11
by Michael Shammas and Julian Spector
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terns and so on. It’s a wonderful resource on several levels.” Although time-consuming, digitizing the data will make it easier for primate researchers to draw conclusions about trends and patterns, Goodall said. She said jokingly that until recently, her pages of field data remained unexamined,
University employees meeting certain performance qualifications will receive pay raises starting in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, President Richard Brodhead officially announced Monday. The raises will go into effect July 1, Brodhead wrote in a Monday email to University faculty and staff, who have not received salary increases since 2009, when Duke froze salaries across the University. “The suspension of the annual pay raise for the last two years protected hundreds of jobs at Duke and prevented the Richard Brodhead widespread layoffs suffered elsewhere,” Brodhead said. “But it’s time to return to a more normal approach to recognizing the good work of Duke employees.” Each school within the University will receive a 3 percent increase in funding that deans can use for salary increases and other expenditures, such as promotions and faculty retention efforts, said Provost Peter Lange. Individual employee raises will be at the discretion of each school’s dean and will be based on performance evaluations. “What we announced was that a 3 percent pool would be available as a minimum within each school,” Lange said. “Different deans are approaching this differently.” The process for instituting salary
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Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall has brought her research to Duke. In a keynote address titled “Gombe and Beyond: The Next 50 Years,” Goodall formally announced the transfer of 50 years’ worth of research and called on the world’s youth to protect rapidly vanishing chimpanzee habitats and the environment. She spoke Monday to a packed Page Auditorium, with an overflow crowd filling Reynolds Industries Theater. The speech marked the conclusion of the recent Primate Palooza, the week-long festival on primate conservation presented by Duke’s evolutionary anthropology department and the Duke and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Roots & Shoots, a local chapter of an organization founded by Goodall to promote people, animals and the environment. “The tragedy is that even as we speak, there are chimpanzee populations being threatened by human development,” Goodall said during a press conference before her speech. “This points to how important it is to preserve and protect chimpanzees.” Anne Pusey, chair of Duke’s evolutionary anthropology department, and a team of researchers are currently in the process of digitizing approximately 400,000 documents from more than 50 years of research Goodall conducted at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Pusey previously worked on the collection at the University of Minnesota before coming to Duke about a year ago.
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Primatologist Jane Goodall spoke Monday in Page Auditorium, discussing the digitization of more than 400,000 of her documents on chimpanzees and the need to preserve their habitats. Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in an interview that the arrival of Goodall’s documents provides multidimensional benefits to the University, such as introducing new methods of data mining. “If you have 50 years of data, you can digitize that and have it available in a meaningful form,” Crumbliss said. “You can form hypotheses, look for data pat-
vice president for athletics, services and the environment
Men’s Basketball
Lieu, Liberman vie for renamed VP spot Smith named All-American by Sony Rao
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Junior Christina Lieu plans to encourage student engagement to further Duke’s goal to be green.
Budget cuts threaten Governor’s School funding, Page 3
Two candidates will run for an established DSG committee with a new name. Current Duke Student Government senators Harry Liberman, a sophomore, and Christina Lieu, a junior, will compete to serve as vice president for athletics, services and environment in the organization’s April 5 election. Earlier this semester, DSG changed the name of the committee—which currently exists as the athletics and campus services committee—to reflect internal restructuring. Both Liberman and Lieu serve on the athtyler seuc/The Chronicle letics and campus services committee this year. Dining, once a responsibility of the committee, now Sophomore Harry Liberman, also a member of the Duke Debate team, See dsg on page 4 worked to shorten C2 bus routes.
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For the first time in five years, a Blue Devil was named to the AP All-American first team. Senior Nolan Smith received 61 of 65 votes from a panel of national media after a stellar campaign that saw him win the ACC Player of the Year award, ACC Tournament MVP and be named to the ACC All-Defense Team. He averaged 21.3 points, 5.2 assists and 4.6 rebounds Nolan Smith
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“Measure the candidates by those criteria, not by what they promise in their platforms.”
—Senior Gregory Morrison on DSG president elections. See column page 10
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Duke and Connecticut face off in Elite Eight battle, Page 7