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Trustees have Dorm project forges ahead new chair, Yoh By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle
� Harold “Spike” Yoh,
current Board of
Trustees vice chair and a major donor to the football program, will replace Randall Tobias as of July 1. By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle Loyal alumnus and football program supporter Harold “Spike” Yoh will take over as chair of the
Board ofTrustees July 1,replacing Randall Tobias. At the same time, two new Trustees will join the group responsible for guiding all major University decisions. Yoh, engineering ’5B, who is currently the Board’s vice chair, said in a statement that he plans to work with other Trustees “to help Duke build on its excellence and to anticipate change in the future.” Tobias, who will step down from the Board June 30 after serving 14 years and the last three as chair, said Yoh’s orga- Harold “Spike” Yoh nization skills, willingness to solicit input from different groups, success in the business world and commitment to the University make him a perfect fit for the position. “If someone clipped his finger, it would bleed Duke blue b100d.,.,” said Tobias, chair emeritus of Eli Lilly and Co. “He has, without exception, gotten the praise of his colleagues for the work that he’s done.” Now that the University has jumped to the highest See
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After nearly two years of frequent, sometimes drastic revisions, the upperclass residential review is right on track and chugging full speed ahead. For the first time in months, administrators seem comfortable with their current plans and are busy refining, not revising, them. “We’re real close,” said Judith White, director of the Residential Program Review. If all goes according to schedule, crews should fence off the construction area for a new dorm this summer to begin preparing the site; officials hope to break ground in the fall. The construction will have removed 450 parking spaces—all of the Ocean and the spaces along Wannamaker Drive between the traffic circle and Towerview Drive—by the time students return from summer vacation. White insisted that there are “workable” ways around this parking crunch and added that she is working with the University’s parking consultant to find a solution. ‘We have to have something that we can announce after spring
break, so that people have time to get used to the idea,” she said. She added that administrators and the consultant agree that these spaces can be “found” by reallocating and rezoning the cur-
rent lots. There may be some additional surface lots built, but no one
is anticipating constructing a parking garage in the next few years. White’s small office is lined with colorful architect’s drawings for a new set of dormitories that will bring all sophomores onto West Campus and serve as the
much-desired link with Edens Quadrangle, the current West Campus nd-man’s-land.
The current plans would create 380 bedspaces along with a cafe, student lounges, service centers and vast landscaped areas in what is now the Ocean parking lot. The number of beds will likely go back down to around 350 as cost constraints come into play. At this point, White and the ar-
chitects are simply tweaking the designs so the entire project— See
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From Washington, D. C. to Young Trustee?
Trinity senior Justin Fairfax seeks to boost financial ai d and inform students about The Campaign for Duke This is the first of three stories profiling the Young Trustee candidates.
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TRINITY SENIOR JUSTIN FAIRFAX, a finalist for Young Trustee, draws on the experiences he had growing up in Washington, D.C.
for Duke. “One role of the Trustee is to serve as a strong link between the Trustees and the rest of the undergradSOSTEK ®y uates, to show them that this is how the e romc e capital campaign affects you,” he said. Growing up, Trinity senior Justin He is especially interested in ensurFairfax had a routine: daily trips be- ing that the campaign’s resources are tween his row house in impoverished distributed to financial aid, an issue northeast Washington, D.C. and an ex- that hits close to home, elusive, predominantly white Fairfax is financing all of Catholic school. his education through scholarComing from a neighbor- ■■■■■■■ ships, grants and summer hood where many take up jobs. He receives 75 percent of inalj:^ ts\ crime and drugs and few fin[± his tuition from the Reginaldo ish high school, Fairfax Howard Memorial Academic stands out as a success story simply by Scholarship organization, a group which graduating from college, much less he served as co-president of last year. Duke, much less by becoming a Young Partly as a result of his work, the scholTrustee arship will offer full tuition next year. For Fairfax, it’s all part of the routine. Through his experience on the schol“l’ve seen all that there is out there arship committee, Fairfax gained a betthat’s offered to people that will work ter understanding of the complete cornhard, and I don’t want to waste that,” he mitment needed to expand the financial said. “It’s more about the broader pic- aid program. ‘There was a willingness ture—what I can help others achieve— to recognize need when I worked with than what I can do for myself.” specific people, but there needs to be Fairfax, a public policy major and University-wide effort, dedication and French minor, believes the Young Trustee commitment,” he said, is in a unique position to convince stuAs Young Trustee, Fairfax also dents of the importance ofThe Campaign See FAIRFAX on pane 14
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