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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2005
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
IFC, Panhel deter off-campus rush by Tracy Ke THE CHRONICLE
As on-campus fraternities face their third year of competition from two organized off-campus fraternities during rush, greek administration is working to reinforce the on-campus network. The Panhellenic Association and Interfratemity Council announced a resolution Jan. 10 refusing to recognize non-IFC fraternities. The resolution also prohibits member chapters of Panhel and IFC from associating with these groups —a move that members of off-campus fratemi-
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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 75
Widening the walkway
ties Eta Prime and Delta Phi
greek organizations from associ-
ating with unofficially recognized fraternities for the past several years. “The collective chapters felt it necessary to take this action for a number of reasons including, but not limited to, risk management, national policies and a desire to define and strengthen our affiliated fraternity and sorority community,” IFC president Will Connolly said. Leaders in off-campus fraternities found the amendment to be anti-competitive but expected SEE FRATERNITIES ON PAGE 12
Preeti Aroon
THE CHRONICLE
Online poker tournaments. Charity mixers. Benefit shows. Dance workshops. These are a sampling of the diverse fundraising ideas put forth Friday at Duke’s tsunami aid meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to create a single unified response from the Duke community to Dec. 26’s Southeast Asian disaster. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said that he was “proud and pleased at the amount of response that has emerged” and indicated that there is now a need to coordinate communication and ideas among student organizations, the University and the general student body. Moneta said he hoped such coordination would result in a long-term sustained response to the tsunami’s impact, given that relief will still be needed many months and years into the future. Keith Lawrence, associate director of the Office of News and Communications, said a soon-tobe-launched Duke tsunami relief website will serve as a clearinghouse for fundraising events, vok unteer efforts, faith responses and other forms of aid. The website will include contact information for various student organizations and Duke offices that are
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Alpha say was unnecessary, as existing regulations from national chapter have prevented many
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Locals in Blang Pidie, Indonesia, load humanitarian aid for distribution throughout affected areas.
assisting with tsunami relief. A link to the website will appear on Duke’s homepage. Senior Mary Ellison Baars, co-director of the Community Service Center, hopes the CSC will facilitate collaboration and discussion and serve as an information center. She encouraged anyone with tsunami relief ideas to contact her. To date, the Duke community’s response to the tsunami has SEE RELIEF ON PAGE 11
Seyward Darby THE CHRONICLE
The Bryan Center walkway will soon be a thing of the past. After discarding the initial construction timeline almost six months ago to reevaluate the scope of the project, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the revised plan for the new West Campus student plaza is right on target—and he’s prepared to initiate a “frenzy” of fundraising efforts to make it happen. After a presentation to the Board of Trustees next month, Moneta said construction is set to begin in early summer 2005 and conclude in September 2006—pending final approval. But the $lO million design is pared down in comparison to the original plan presented in October 2004, further reducing what was once projected to be a grand student “village” to a revitalization of the area connecting the West Union building, Page Auditorium and the Bryan Center. Moneta emphasized that
A large plaza that features several stage-type areas, green space and a fog fountain will link the Bryan Center with other student areas on West Campus. Construction on the $lO million project will likely begin in Summer 2005 and be completed by Fall 2006. neither construction nor design will inhibit students’ ability to use the Bryan Center—though the route to enter the building may change periodically. ‘We don’t have the details worked out of how we’ll actually sequence the construction, but the clear understanding is that the Bryan Center has to be open and accessible all the time,” he said. “If there’s a point at which the walkway isn’t accessible... we’ll build temporary stairs if we have to.” Though it will be a “coorditimes, nation challenge” at Moneta added, dining services in the West Union and opera-
tions in Page will also proceed as usual “One of the things we’ve been working on diligently is the [size],” Moneta said. “The way that we would do this wrong is that we would make this so cavernous that we would have gone from this small, narrow concrete walkway to something oversized for the area.”
Spanning approximately 40.000 square feet, the plaza will be larger than the current 6,000 square-foot walkway but signifi-
cantly smaller than the initial
60.000 square-foot design. SEE PLAZA ON PAGE 9