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After 20 years of ups and downs, the East Campus Coffeehouse is still a funky, offbeat alternative to Duke's traditional scene.
N.C. welcomes tobacco ruling Leaders in one of the nation’s top tobacco-growing states lauded a Supreme Court decision that stripped the FDA of its authority to regulate cigarettes. >
By CHRISTINE PARKINS The Chronicle
While the proponents of the tobacco industry are rejoicing, anti-tobacco organizations are regrouping in the wake ofTuesday’s U.S Supreme Court ruling that the Food and Drug Administration does not have the authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug. Many North Carolinians expressed relief at the good news for the state’s top cash crop. ‘Tobacco is away of life for the people in North Carolina,” said Dean Rouse, chair ofFriends of Tobacco. “Without it, our people have no way of making a livelihood.” Rouse explained that he saw the FDA’s interference in the tobacco industry as a threat to the well-being of the citizens ofNorth Carolina. “That’s how we make our living... by growing a legal product,” he said. ‘The FDA would be putting our people out of work.” Members of anti-tobacco groups, however, vehemently disagreed with the ruling. T hate to be pessimistic, but this definitely was a disappointment for us,” said Tim Filler, program manager ofAmerica for Nonsmokers’ Rights. ‘They won this stage of the battle on the war against smoking.” Across the state, tobacco proponents were pleased that the industry was receiving a brief respite from increased regulations. [ “This is welcomed news for the tobacco industry at time when it seems everyone in the world has irned against this legal crop,” said N.C. Agriculture immissioner Jim Graham in a statement. In Tuesday’s 5-4 ruling, the court said the FDA •eached beyond its delegated authority in its attempts regulate cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. The FDA stepped up efforts against tobacco in 1997
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ifter U.S. District Judge William Osteen ruled that -he agency could regulate nicotine as a drug. In 1998, the tobacco industry sued and a federal See
WYCLEF JEAN, the hip-hop star of Fugees’ fame, played to a nearly sold-out Page Auditorium crowd Thursday night, dazzling students with his repertoire of music and off-the-cuff humor.
Wyclef lights up Page Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean knows how to move a crowd, and he used this knowledge to entertain an energetic audience in Page Auditorium last night. See WYCLEF on page 8
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cademic Council discusses alcohol scene DATA bus Ie
vice president for student affairs updated faculty on Duke’s drinking culture
Some have recommended that the Unifirst meeting Wednesday in a discussion The Chronicle versity ban the substance completely that was initiated after a junior’s alcoholThe University’s now-pervasive alcorelated death last November. while others have admitted hol discussion spilled over into an un- that their own children have Dickerson stressed that setting yesterday as members of drinking problems but that she and the task force are he Academic Council shared their they have chosen to avoid the envisioning a campus culnoughts on the topic. ture that is not reliant upon subject until now. Janet Dickerson, vice president for alcohol —a culture to be The presentation stirred udent affairs, told the faculty that it up memories of another era achieved not simply through v as time to move policy enforcement and regupast adjusting the for some faculty members « lation but by helping stuarchitecture of who recalled when fraternithe campus and |. h ft focusing on its social and psychodents help themselves, she ties and other living groups ogical architecture. said. “It’s a question of what “We need to look at would host cocktail parties e na ture, need to do and what we we of and invite to a setprofessors extent and consequences Janet Dickerson can do,” Dickerson said. “It’s iru° mes of °ur students’ use ofalcohol and ting of responsible drinking. S , she said. “It was very nice, and very mature.... No not easy. There are no magic bullets, no Dickerson said the letter she sent one was binge drinking,” recalled one Neosporin solution. We can’t only deal onae during spring break has prompted faculty member. with the symptoms.” See ACADEMIC COUNCIL on page 9 � A University-wide task force held its fc^ne ndous response from parents.
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sophomore By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
At around 9 a.m. Thursday morning, a Durham Area Transit Authority bus struck a female student at the West Campus bus stop. Her leg was hit by the bus’s bumper, and then she was run over by its front left tire, which fractured her pelvis. Trinity sophomore Ruby Shandilya was taken to the Emergency Department and by Thursday night she was listed in fair condition at Duke Hospital. See BUS ACCIDENT on page 8 �
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