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Former president Bill Clinton will speak University officials announced Wednesday. Clinton will attend an event June 11 hosted by the University to honor the late historian John Hope Franklin and his wife Aurelia Franklin. “A Celebration of theLives of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin” will begin at 11 a.m. in the Duke Chapel in honor of Franklin and his late wife Aurelia, who passed away in 1999. The couple was marriedjune 11,1940—next week’s event marks the couple’s 69th wedding anniversary. “I think [Clinton’s attendance] is really significant and meaningful for the Franklin family—significant and meaningful for the many coundess admirers of Dr. Franklin, his former students, his colleagues,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “He lived in so many different worlds over the course of 94 years. Having the former president of the United States come and participate in this celebration is really a demonstrationof [Franklin’s] impact on the country.” Other speakers for the celebration include Vernon Jordan, an attorney and a civil rights advocate who was a close friend of Franklin, Franklin’s niece Cynthia Gibbs Wilson, trustee emerita Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans and President Richard Brodhead. The event is open to the public and a live webcast will be available online.
ica, Franklin expressed his sentiments when asked if he admired Clinton and his presidency. But not without some hesitancy. “Yes, I do [admire him],” he said. “You see, when you say that, it’s a sweeping question. This doesn’t mean I’m not critical of some of his policies and some of the things
Uncle Harry’s general store will relocate this summer to vacate space for a new restaurant coming to Central Campus. The store will close for the summer June 7, and is expected to reopen in its new location in November, said Paul Manning, director of project management with the Facilities Management Department. “Uncle Harry’s is going to move 50 or 75 yards away up into a space that is referred to as the Mill Village,” said Jim Wilkerson, Duke’s director of trademark licensing and stores operations. “There are some older buildings there that are now being renovated and one is being renovated for the new location for Uncle Harry’s.” Administrators have been looking for some time to add restaurants serving alcohol and other social facilities to help make Central Campus a more enjoyable place to live, particularly with the economy putting construction on New Campus indefinitely on hold. “I mean this has been an issue that’s been around for a while, and we started talking in earnest about this particular solution about six months ago,” Manning said.
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Former president Bill Clinton awards John Hope Franklin with the Presidential Medal ofFreedom in 1995. Clinton will speak in the Duke Chapel next week to honor the late historian and his wife Aurelia. While in office, Clinton awarded Franklin the Charles Frankel Prize and the Presidential Medal ofFreedom—the highest honorawarded to civilians. Clinton also selected Franklin to head a national task force on race in 1997. In an August 1997 interview with The Washington Post shortly after his appointment to lead the seven-person White House initiative to improve race relations in Amer-
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■ Historic general fund figures The city of Durham's 2009-2010 overall budget saw a 3.1 percent cut from the previous fiscal year. Its general fund expenditures decreased for the first time since 1996.
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As revenues fall during one of the deepest recessions in recent memory, Durham city officials will approve a budget with some of the largest cuts in more than a decade. The 2009-2010 fiscal year budget—which was presented by City Manager Tom Bonfield May 18 during a city council meeting—calls for $ll million worth of spending cuts for a final budget of $344.4 million, a 3.1 percent decrease from the previous fiscal year. There was a $4.75 million reduction in revenue and a $9.28 million reduction of expenditures for the general fund, which is financed by taxes and fees and used to fund nearly every public service and job provided by the city. The Durham City Council will vote to approve the budget June 15. The 4.3 percent decrease in approved expenditures from last year represents the first decrease since 1996. City officials suggest, however, that the budget is simply a reflection of the current economic difficulties. “This was an exceedingly difficult budget and if you look at the state budget—good God almighty,” said City Council member Eugene Brown. “We have had two re-
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RALEIGH President Richard Brodhead spoke in front ofhundreds of international representatives at a science and technology parks convention Wednesday. Brodhead, a member of the Research Triangle Park board of directors, presented for a session titled “Creating New Partnerships to Enhance Innovation” at the International Association ofScience Parks’ World Conference on Science and Technology Parks. This year, RTP hosted the events at the Raleigh Convention Center. In his speech, Brodhead explained the mutual benefits of cooperation between research universities and science parks. “Duke is very much benefited by the community that surrounds us,” Brodhead said in an interview after the event “It gives us an effect of mass far beyond what any university can
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