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To: Locomotive Breath

From President Pind*ck's letter:
"When the Campus Culture Initiative was announced, I mentioned that I would establish a Presidential Council to act as a sounding board for our efforts, critiquing our recommendations and setting an appropriately high standard for our work. I’m pleased to announce the membership of this group. It will be co-chaired by former trustees Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke ‘67, a member of the first cohort of African American undergraduates admitted to Duke and now Provost of the University of the District of Columbia, and Roy Bostock ‘62, who has led a distinguished business career and now chairs the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Judy Woodruff ‘68, the respected broadcast journalist and another former trustee, will serve as well, as will three leaders in higher education: Shirley Tilghman, President of Princeton University; Morton Schapiro, President of Williams College; and Phail Wynn, a notable Durhamite and President of the Durham Technical Community College. Four younger alumni have also agreed to serve: Adam Silver ’84 (NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer, effective July 1), Sarah Dodds-Brown ‘95 (currently counsel for the American Express Company and a former young trustee), Julian Harris ‘00 (a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania and former head of the Duke Honor Council), and Katie Laidlaw ‘04 (associate with The Parthenon Group in Boston and currently a young trustee)."

These people are more related than they appear. They appear to all have been selected by Bostock. Not only is he a huge donor his buddies have been the root of most of Duke's fundraising. He was on, I believe, Duke's best football team in the 1950s and I have it on very good authority that he has some familiarity with "partying" students.


134 posted on 06/22/2006 10:03:57 AM PDT by RecallMoran (Recall Brodhead)
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To: RecallMoran
Oh how nicely diverse. Looking at that list, I can write the report for them right now and save them all those pesky meetings. Can we have a Durham Culture Initiative to discuss some of the problems there? I guess not.

I've been resisting calling him Brod Dickhead but I've finally decided to give in to my "dyslexia". Wait! That makes me a member of a protected group! I want my extra rights.
137 posted on 06/22/2006 10:26:00 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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