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Campus Council ponders RA description, duties

(11/12/04 5:00am)

Campus Council discussed the role of resident assistants in building community and enforcing University policy in residence halls at its meeting Thursday. Senior Josh Allen-Dicker, president of the Student Staff Advisory Board—a group designed to represent the interests of RAs and graduate assistants—addressed the council, speaking about current problems and potential improvements for the role of the RA.









Coffeehouse gets new manager

(10/28/04 4:00am)

Senior Andy Kay hopes the East Campus Coffeehouse will keep its offbeat feel while it goes through serious renovations to its physical appearance. Control of the once-popular venue for live, alternative music was awarded to the Duke University Union this fall. Kay, chair of the East Campus Coffeehouse Committee, will be the first Union representative to lead the Coffeehouse.


ICC mulls campus climate

(10/26/04 4:00am)

At its meeting Monday night, the Inter-Community Council discussed ways to foster dialogue and understanding at the University following the prolonged and often bitter disputes over the Palestine Solidarity Movement conference and Philip Kurian’s Oct. 18 column in The Chronicle. ICC agreed to draft and release a letter recognizing the right of The Chronicle to publish as it sees fit and empathizing with anyone offended by what The Chronicle had printed. The letter will urge the community to move on from a battle waged in the newspaper’s editorial pages to a more open-ended colloquium.


YMCA alters fee structure

(10/21/04 4:00am)

Nearly four months after the University and the YMCA of the Triangle Area decided to terminate their agreement because of differing definitions of “family” in YMCA billing policy, YMCA changed the pricing structure for its members. The new structure will charge same-sex couples with children at the same rate as heterosexual families, but will not categorize such groups as families.




Grant to fund new cancer research

(10/14/04 4:00am)

The National Cancer Institute awarded an $11 million grant Wednesday to scientists at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. The grant’s recipients plan to investigate the genomes governing pathways that regulate cell growth—the malfunction of which causes cancer. The researchers hope to discover genomic patterns in the outcomes of cancer cases. The grant is part of the National Institutes of Health’s new focus on analyzing cancer as an intricate biological phenomenon.