The Chronicle T h e i n d e p e n d e n t d a i ly at D u k e U n i v e r s i t y
WEDNESday, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 29
www.dukechronicle.com
Rise ’n Shine: Time for Lunch? Busy schedules and late nights are forcing more students to skip breakfast by Christine Chen
I
The chronicle
t’s almost noon, but the line for bagels, scrambled eggs, freshsqueezed orange juice and other breakfast staples at Alpine Bagels is 20 students deep. Students could cut their wait time dramatically if they could get up at a time when breakfast is traditionally served, Alpine employees suggested. “People order breakfast meals all day, but more people come at lunch than at breakfast,” Alpine employee Brittany Spain said. Breakfast is billed as the most important meal of the day. But after a long night of hitting the books, many Duke students find that they simply cannot rouse themselves in time for the morning meal. Flocking to breakfast spots like Alpine en masse in the afternoon, these students often eat their first meals of the day when they should be having lunch. Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said he does not have any
Top admins consider new Keohane wing by Zachary Tracer The chronicle
Duke administrators have begun to discuss the construction of a fourth wing of Keohane Quadrangle, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said Thursday. Several top administrators will present a proposal to the Board of Trustees Saturday, asking for $75,000 to study the feasibility of a 150-bed addition to the quad, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. The new building, code-named K4, would run across the back side of the quad near Edens Quadrangle, turning the horseshoe-shaped set of buildings into a square. “I’m hoping that by adding residence space we can improve the residence model quicker and that we can piggy-back some of this into creating social dining spaces that really bring out the potential of McClendon [Tower], which has never been realized,” Nowicki said. He added that the new dormitory, first conceptualized in Duke’s Action Plan 2000, will help link Edens with the rest of West Campus. The project would also be an early piece of the New Campus plan, a long-term $500 million effort to revitalize
See breakfast on page 5 See keohane on page 5
photo illustration by Woojoo kim/The Chronicle
Employee Benson dies at 26 Memorial scholarship will honor Loop worker who ‘loved to laugh’ by Lindsey Rupp The chronicle
Saber Benson, a 26-year-old employee of The Loop, has died from injuries he sustained when his moped crashed on campus Saturday night. Benson was hospitalized after he collided with the iron gates at 11:45 p.m. on Union Drive off Towerview Drive. Loop Owner Dennis Lane had known Benson since Benson was five years old. He was also Benson’s football coach for four years at East Chapel Hill High School where Benson played defensive and offensive line. Benson went on to play football at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C, but was injured and transferred to North Carolina State University, Lane said. “It’s part of life—you’re going to have friends pass away, but you never can prepare for it, especially when they’re 26,” Lane said. “It seems like a week ago he was playing football for me.” Benson was not responsive when Isaac Hatcher, Benson’s roommate who worked with him at The Loop, visited him in the hospital. Benson was taken off life support Monday, though it is unclear exactly when. “I guess they could have kept him alive as a vegetable, but that just wasn’t the kind of guy he was,” said Hatcher,
Plea deal discussed in Lombard case
who had known Benson since the two were in kindergarten. “If they’d done that, he would have gotten a gun and shot himself—or wanted to, anyway.” The Duke University Police Department is investigating whether Benson was trying to maneuver through the gates as they were closing when his moped collided into them. Alcohol was also found on the scene. DUPD Chief John Dailey said DUPD has asked the Durham Police Department to handle the investigation of the accident scene. A Durham traffic services investigator highly trained in fatal and serious accident scenes will lead the crash investigation, said Kammie Michael, public information officer for the Durham Police Department. The investigator will also follow up on autopsy and toxicology reports to determine whether alcohol was involved, she said. Benson’s Loop co-workers described him as an outgoing, hands-on guy who loved to laugh. Nate Uhlenberg, a Loop employee who had known Benson since the sixth grade, said Benson’s accident and death have been very difficult for many of his co-workers
A Sept. 18 minute entry from a U.S. District Court proceeding indicates that former University employee Frank Lombard is seeking to negotiate a plea agreement on child sex abuse charges. According to the minute entry from a proceeding held before Magistrate Judge John Facciola in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, both prosecution and defense discussed a plea agreement and Lombard’s bond status at the hearing. Christopher Shella, Lombard’s attorney, declined to comment Tuesday. Federal prosecutor Keith Becker could not immediately be reached for comment. Lombard, the former associate director for the Health Inequalities Program at the Center for Heath
See benson on page 6
See lombard on page 6
ONTHERECORD
“It’d take three of you to carry [the health care bill].... You could fit the Constitution into [a] little pamphlet.”
—N.C. Republican Party Chairman Tom Fetzer on health care reform. See story page 3.
by Will Robinson The chronicle
Men’s Soccer: No Easy Go Elon gives Duke all it can handle in 2-1 win, PAGE 7
Bon Appetit challenges students to eat locally, Page 4