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SSM gift goes to grad fellowships

An anonymous donor’s matching gift will help satisfy one of the University’s highest priorities in The Campaign for Duke. By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

An anonymous donor yesterday gave Duke’s graduate students their largest financial boost ever, a $5 million matching gift that will fund graduate student fellowships, President Nan Keohane announced. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for the graduate school,” said Leigh Deneef, associate dean of the Graduate School. “We have a lot of unmet needs. We have goals that we’re trying to develop for new levels of funding.... This kind of support is a real help for us.” The donor will match with either one or two dollars of his own for every dollar given to fund graduate fellowships. If another gift-giver targets a specific area, the anonymous donor will match the amount of the gift; if the gift-giver allows Graduate School Dean Lewis Siegel to choose an area, the donor will double the amount. Therefore, the terms of this donation could increase funds for doctoral students by $lO million. “Doctoral students make many sacrifices to pursue their intellectual goals and they need considerable time to achieve the Ph.D.,” Siegel said in a statement. “And we need to help to ensure that they have this time by providing support packages that are equal to the local cost of living and competitive with other universities. Fellowship awards are absolutely necessary if we are to succeed.” But graduate student fellowships are among the most difficult targets to fund, in part because graduate See DONATION on page

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Recess tells the story of those who have seen students—and some adults—at their worst. Bouncers share their real night-time experiences.

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Police explain gunman situation ByAMBIKA KUMAR and GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

David Patrick Malone, the 46year-old gunman who entered President Nan Keohane’s office Wednesday, had been there twice earlier in the afternoon, police officials said Thursday. Throughout the day, officers updated the public on details of the incident and emphasized that quick thinking on the part of employees and police allowed for the speedy apprehension of

Malone—a former Medical Center employee av, d Malone who filed a lawsuit against Duke in 1997. At a press conference yesterday, Maj. Robert Dean ofthe Duke University Police Department described the incident as follows Just before 1 p.m., Malone, _

MAJ. ROBERT DEAN of the Duke University Police Department addressed the media and the public at a press conference yesterday afternoon at the Campus Police station.

who had written letters and made phone calls asking to speak to the president over the past five years, visited her office in the Allen Building. A secretary offered to

take a message because Keohane was not in her office. Shortly after Malone left, he returned and was told the same thing. At about 1:39 p.m., he again walked into the office and, brandishing a loaded .32-caliber re-

volver, told three of the office’s secretaries that they would have to stay in a room with him until he was able to see the president. Malone told his hostages he would not harm them, See GUNMAN UPDATE on page

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Rash of thefts prompts better security outside U. Store

In one week, police received four reports that items were taken from cubbies meant to prevent thefts inside the shop By STEVEN WRIGHT

crowds are so intense its hard to monitor people regularly,” Wilkerson said. In response to a recent rash ofbookDuring peak times at the beginning bag thefts from the cubbies outside the of the semester, one employee stands Bryan Center’s University Store, adoutside of the store to monitor the cubministrators will institute a new bagbies. However, even administrators note checking system, starting in the spring that the system is faulty. semester. , “We had a person there during [the] Instead of leaving their bags unat- rush, but my understanding was that tended, customers will surrender their bookbags were taken when the person belongings at a table in exchange for a was there,” Wilkerson said. claim ticket. “One person can’t be expected to This valet-style system was used in memorize everyone’s bookbag,” Wilkerpast years, but University stores disconson continued. “They’re more there as tinued it this year because of costs. a deterrent.” Jim Wilkerson, director of Duke Although administrators did not stores, said that because of four thefts in have estimates for the cost of goods one week—totaling $l,BOO in goods—- taken from the stores themselves, they administrators will reinstitute the said that theft was a problem during checking method this spring. The stores busy times before the cubby system was have reimbursed students whose bags implemented. have been stolen. Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke Uni“In the future we will provide a betversity Police Department said that ter means of securing those bags,” Wilkitems still get stolen from the stores, erson said. but he added that the current system Currently, the store requests that is probably effective at preventing customers place their bookbags in the those thefts. cubbies during high-traffic times, such Administrators said they do not as the beginning of the fall and spring think Duke students are responsible for semesters. “Its been our practice in the the thefts. store, during school rush, to have people “At Duke we wouldn’t expect theft put their bags in there, because the See THEFTS on page 8 The Chronicle

THE CUBBIES outside the University Store have been the site offour thefts in one week. *

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