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University West parking crunch pops up again pushes for disclosure By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
Despite progress, Students Against Sweatshops says not enough companies that make Duke apparel have released their factories’ locations. By KATHERINE STROUP The Chronicle About one year ago, a group of
student protesters filed into the Allen Building, appropriated the phone lines, unfurled their sleeping bags and began a 31-hour sit-in that would set the standard for anti-sweatshop activism on college campuses. Now that 12 months and two deadlines have passed, most of the companies that make University apparel have honored their Duke contracts and provided lists of factory addresses. But Students Against Sweatshops members insist that,after a full year, Duke should have a full list—as was agreed upon during the sit-in negotiations. “The excuses we’re hearing hinge on them not having enough time, but we’ve basically given them a full year” said Trinity sophomore Snehal Patel, an SAS member. See SWEATSHOPS on page
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An attempt to solve one of the University’s lingering problems will soon exacerbate another. When workers begin constructing a new quadrangle on West Campus in May, the building site, equipment and delivery routes will permanently block off between 350 and 450 undergraduate parking spaces in the Ocean parking lot. Trinity junior Matt Martin wondered how much worse the parking situation could get. “It’s already pretty tough to find spots, especially during certain hours...” he said, adding that he is happy that he is not living on campus next semester. “Walking is the real pain.” Starting this summer, upperclass students living on West Campus will probably park in the perimeter lots along Towerview and Wannamaker drives, said Executive Vice President Tailman Trask. “I see enhanced security, controlled lots and shuttles,” he said. Administrators are now working with parking consultant Barbara Chance to find spaces for the displaced employees. Chance said she will release her preliminary findings in the next few weeks. Pratt junior Daniel Neill said he would be- grudgingly satisfied with satellite parking as long as there were enough spaces for each person. “It seems difficult enough as it is to find parking without them taking away 400 spots,” he said. But Chance, who has worked on parking for several other universities, See
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Weather policy undergoes scrutiny By JAIME LEVY The Chronicle
Despite a Feb. 1 announcement that biweekly employees can use sick days in addition to vacation days to make up for work missed during last month’s snow, many employees remain frustrated by the severe weather policy. “I have a problem with them saying classes are canceled and everything and me having to take my vacation or sick leave...,” said Rene James, a staff assistant in the Department of Aerospace Studies, adding that employees should be paid when dangerous weather prevents them from coming to work. “If they don’t expect students to walk over here for classes, how do they expect me to drive?” Executive Vice President Tailman Trask is forming a committee to evaluate the policy, created in 1996 after Hurricane Fran. “Now that we’ve been through it with a couple of hurricanes and a couple of snowstorms, we’ll see if it needs to be tweaked,” Trask said. “I think it does.”
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BIWEEKLY EMPLOYEES, such as Patricia Cross of the registrar’s office, can now use sick days to make up for January’s snowstorm, Because Duke’s work force is so large, he said, it is difficult to xind a single policy that works well for everyone. “I’m sympathetic to that. There are complicated questions, particularly given the range
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