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The Chronicle Duke University Volume 74, Number 16 Friday, September 22, 1978 Durham, North Carolina Administration rejects Center bid packages By Ginger Sasser ted for much less than building than the Univer­ The University admin­ $15.2 million if the sity did, said Ward. istration decided last University hires a general Ward said specifica­ Friday to reject all bid contractor to cover all tions for a general packages on the Univer­ phases ofthe building. contractor would probably sity Center, and to change Until last Friday, the be sent out within the next the method of contracting University planned to act 10 to 12 days. out the building, James the general contractor According to Ward, the Ward, University archi­ — eliciting bids on administration has not tect, said yesterday. different phases of the decided whether to use an The lowest bid total for building, "including invited list of contractors the proposed student masonry, tile work, or whether to advertise center was approximately landscaping etc.— with widely for a bid that will $15.2 million— $3 million the Houston-based firm include all phases of the above Ward's estimated Construction Manage­ work. Photo by Lisa Brown cost of the center. ment, Inc. acting as the President Terry Sanford Gregg Berdy ponders a plant purchase at the bazaar that was set up on the Ward said he thinks the coordinator of the project. "may want to consult the main quad all day yesterday. building can be construc­ According to Ward, this Executive Committee of method of construction the Board of Trustees" Does Wood pick up speed? though the most economi­ before a decision is made, cal, has not caught on in said Ward. the Triangle area. A The board meets next general contractor who Friday and Saturday. $700 ad deluge swamps Duke has worked with sub­ Ward, who has been contractors for many working on the University By Margaret Donnelly years whould probably be Center since 1971, said he You've probably noticed the deluge of Evelyn Wood have been done in better taste." able to get lower bids on is "discouraged by the Reading Dynamics advertisements on campus — over Ginger Sasser, editor of The Chronicle, said she the various phases of the delay, but not dismayed." $700 worth of deluge to be specific. So what's all this agreed with Emory that the ad could have been done expenditure about? more tastefully. To find out, a reporter attended one of the free hour- "While our advertising policy is not to publish long lessons billed in an advertisement to be "the end anything that is obscene, libelous, sexist, racist, or in of cramming" and a guide on how to "handle all the any other way counter to our editorial policy, said work college demands" by increasing your reading Sasser, "unless an ad is blatantly against our policy, it speed. Sound phenomenal? will run." .Well, it is a phenomena, but not the one it's cracked "I don't think the Evelyn Wood ad was blatantly up to be. The reporter's speed only increased from 336 sexist," she said. to 472 words per minute and upon repeating the test The criterion for determining whether an ad is sexist two hours later, her speed was back to 340 words per or not is very subjective, she added. minute. Sexist or not, there are a lot of hard-sell techniques That's not much help with the "eight chapters of being used before, during and after the free lesson. Babylonian history" the student is supposed to During the free lesson the student is repeatedly told conquer while "Cathy's waiting". that he/she must make a deposit to hold his/her place Ken Brown, the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics in future classes. Brown told students after the session instructor who gave the free lesson, said "the course is that they would be contacted by phone before the next basically eye training that increases memory recall lesson. and concentration, not necessarily speed. The "I'd just caution all students to be smart technique is not good for Shakespeare or math texts consumers," said Emory. "We wouldn't let Brown be but works well for novels and prose texts." on campus if we had doubts about the course's So much for you engineers. legitimacy." The basic technique is to teach the student "not to Brown, discussing student skepticism about the read one word at a time, but to look at the whole page course, joked that Woody Allen once said he had taken with 180 degree peripheral vision as one looks at a a speed reading course that enabled him to read War parking lot full of cars," said Brown. and Peace in four hours. Photo by Rob Brandt How did Evelyn Wood get on campus? "It was about Russia," said Brown, quoting Allen: Hey, Andrea Livingston, what's it like finding a Frank Emory, ASDU president, OK'd them camera lens in your mailbox in the morning? organization during the summer without realizing he was tacitly giving it ASDU-sponsored status, said Emory. Post office eases mailbox shortage Many forms are being cleared now, and "they are By Betsy Pfeiler here for a one-time evaluation practice" said Emory. The apparent post office box As a result, many boxes were She was notified in August that "Some people have said they're pushy, but I'm pushy shortage which affected held for owners who did not no boxes on West campus were sometimes, too. I don't have any qualms about that." currently available. Some complaints have also been voiced that the line approximately 150 students on want them. • ' "And Cathy's waiting" on one flier that appeared in East and West campuses last The boxes could not be re­ "I just came to school The Chronicle is sexist. week is now under control, assigned until the former assuming that I didn't have a "I think it's sexist myself," said Emory. "It could postal authorities at Duke said owners contacted the post box," she explained "so I went recently. office, or until it was discovered in and got on the waiting list." Duke Station Master Jim that the box rent had not been A list of students waiting for Hoileman said the problem was received. In many cases, this box assignments was furnished In this issue: due to "lack of communication" did not occur until a week after to the post office by Barbara between post office employees school started. Buschman, student housing Bagels pg. 6 and returning students. Kyle Simpson, a junior and coordinator. Satellites pg. 8 Many students changed West campus resident, was one During the delay, the excess residences over the summer, of the students affected by the mail was handled by general Economics pg. 9 either moving off campus or delay. Before moving to West delivery, a process which from one campus to the other, campus this fall, Simpson wrote involved lines at post office and failed to notify the post to College Station to request a windows, and slowed service. office of their plans. change of box to Duke Station. Continued on page 10 Page Two The Chronicle Friday, September 22, 1978 CLASSIFIEDS Announcements x2663. 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