INC NEWS - Re: [DukeDurhamTownGown] Response to John Schelp

[kjj1 at duke.edu]

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Kelly Jarrett

--On Friday, April 29, 2005 10:35 AM -0400 kjj1 at duke.edu wrote:

> Come on, John. With all due respect, a snide put-down is hardly the same
> as  a serious response. And trying to minimize community concerns and
> fears  ("mistrust," if you will) about how Duke's actions affect Durham
> by  attributing them to John Schelp and trying to discredit him on a
> public  website seems like a cheap shot to me.
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> I've pasted below all the references to Peter Lange's comments in
> yesterday's N&O article, and while I find another of the rather generic
> reassurances that Duke is concerned about Ninth Street's viability that
> we've heard before, I don't find a specific denial or a clarification on
> the car wash or retail.
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> Now, I'm willing to consider the possibility that Peter did make such a
> specific clear denial ("there will be no car wash on Central Campus") to
> the reporter and that it simply didn't make it into the article. But
> readers have no way of knowing that. We're still waiting for some kind of
> clear public commitment on Central Campus retail.
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> Duke Provost Peter Lange said
> the university has an interest in offering its
> students educational and social guidance along with
> increasing levels of responsibility and independence
> over the course of four years.
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> Lange says the university is open to community
> comments at public meetings but has made no effort to
> negotiate the complex array of community concerns with
> select individuals because the development process
> remains in its infancy.
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> Lange said this week that he is aware of a certain
> level of community distrust and fear about Duke's
> Central Campus plan. Lange said he hopes a public
> meeting that was held in February and future efforts
> will assuage community concerns.
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> "I think that what you are seeing in some of those
> proposals is people thinking out loud," Lange said. "I
> have said repeatedly that we have no desire to make
> Ninth Street or any of the other commercial operations
> nearby less attractive to students."
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> --On Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:23 PM -0400 John F Burness
> <john.burness at duke.edu> wrote:
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>> Come on, John, do you really believe that  because a few students
>> suggested--- in an open ended brainstorming session-- putting a car wash
>> on Central Campus that we'd do it? No way in hell. Peter Lange told the
>> reporter that yesterday. Your decision to take it seriously shows why so
>> many people are finding it difficult to take you seriously.
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>> John F. Burness
>> Senior Vice President for Public Affairs
>>    and Government Relations
>> Duke University
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