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If the party climate at Duke seems a little different this year, it is because the forecast calls for a dry season. This year, three campus fraternities— Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Nu, and Phi Delta Theta—have adopted national alcohol-free measures. Theta Chi will follow suit in 2003. The measures are part of the national Greek system’s attempt to revamp its bacchanalian image—and reduce insurance liability. Over the past several years, 11 national fraternities independently enacted dry policies that would remove alcohol’s presence from fraternity sections. The dry policies run the gamut in stringency from permitting alcohol to be distributed by vendors at out-of-section parties to forbidding all alcohol consumption in the fraternity’s dorm. “Basically there are two different angles,” said Interfratemity Council President Chris Dieterich, a senior. “The first one, the Sigma Nu angle is one of moderate dryness, maybe you call it ‘moist.’ And then there is Phi Delta Theta and Delta Sig, which is very dry, a ‘desert’ maybe.” So far, many of Greek leaders have maintained a positive outlook.
“I don’t think it is going to affect us that much,” said Phi Delt president Johan Hernandez, a junior. “The switch away from alcohol will make us a stronger brotherhood and will allow us to come up with alternatives.” Theta Chi president John Wiemann agreed. “People who are not in a frat or the greek system think frats are all about drinking, but that’s not all Theta Chi is about,” the junior said. However, even if fraternity members abide by the new rules, they may find difficulty regulating other students’ conduct in their section.
procedures � Long-range academic planning, dean searches and the Campaign for Duke top the Board of Trustees’ full agenda. By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle
When its members come to campus next month, the Board of Trustees will face the new academic year with a packed agenda and a fresh set of procedural changes designed to increase efficiency and facilitate discussion. Like most administrators, the trustees will spend a bulk of their time this year scrutinizing the long-range academic planning initiative. Because the board is designed in part to guide the University’s long-term path, the trustees will play an especially important role in critiquing the plan. In fact, the board’s December meeting will be an off-campus retreat focusing almost solely on that plan. The board will vote on the plan at its Febru-
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THIS BEER CAN AND BOTTLE-FILLED TRASH BIN was found inside one of the fraternities that is set to go dry this year. For many fraternities, going dry is not as simple as making a rule. In an instance this weekend, a student was vomiting in the Sigma Nu section and was taken to the Emergency Department for treatment. “My understanding is that he was drinking on East Campus and got sick at our section,” said Sigma Nu President Mark Davis, a senior. ‘Then we took care of him and made sure he would be safe.” The efficacy of dry policies on cam pus is still hotly debated among fra-
temity leaders. Many argue that such policies could have an adverse impact, “One concern present is that when people started cracking down on alcohoi in general, it went behind the doors, with front-loading and people getting really drunk because they had to hide it,” said Wiemann. T don’t think there isn’t anyone who couldn’t hide alcohol if he wanted t0... just look at East Campus.” See DRY FRATS on page 9 �
ary meeting. “A focus of the board is to take this over-arching plan and look at the strategic direction of the ways the schools and the University is moving,” said University Secretary Allison Haltom. “Part of the fiduciary responsibility of the board is to look beyond what happens just this year and to take a long-term view of what Duke University is and what it’s going to be.” Maintaining the momentum of the Campaign for Duke, assessing and voting on the president’s recommendations for this year’s four dean and vice presiSee TRUSTEES on page 16 �
Students doubt ACES security Computer cluster users inadvertently stumble upon other students’ accounts By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle Security in ACES Web has been called into question after several students reported accessing others’ information from computer clusters..
A student reported Monday that she accidentally accessed two students’ ACES Web accounts from the Brown Dormitory computer cluster but was unable to access her own. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, she said that upon logging into the computer and opening ACES Web, she was taken directly to the welcome screen for another student. She logged out ofthe ACES Web account and opened a different browser but encountered the same problem. Shinpei Takeda, a senior whose information the student was able to access, was troubled about the incident. “It does bother me,” he said. “You know, it’s scary what could happen. The consequences totally could change your [scheduling!
process.” Takeda confirmed that he had recently used the Brown computer cluster to schedule classes. Robert Carter, director of the Office of Information Technologies systems administration, said authentication information stays on a coputer until the user logs out. If the user logged out of the computer, accessing his account should not be possible, Carter said before knowing the specifics ofthe reports. But five students have reported otherwise—that they logged into a computer and pulled up someone else’s ACES Web account. Takeda said that on Monday, he experienced this problem himself in the Perkins Library computer cluster and was able to access two different accounts. Junior Alan Halachmi, Duke Student Government co-director of undergraduate computing, said it is highly unlikely a student could access
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