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Burglaries strike 14 dorm rooms N.C. death swiped from unlocked rooms in over penalty draws fire Someone
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ByAMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle
The Duke University Police Department received 14 reports from students who said cash was stolen from their unlocked rooms as they slept sometime between early Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. DUPD Maj. Robert Dean said about $897 total was taken from wallets left on desktops or in desk drawers from three separate dorms: Six rooms were entered in Brownstone Dormitory, five in the Theta Chi fraternity section and three in Jarvis Dormitory. “At about [6 a.m. Sunday!, someone entered "nur building and tried to open every door in the section and in unlocked rooms... he tried to find any wallets and took the cash from those wallets,” said junior John Wiemann, president of Theta Chi. He estimated that about 15 brothers had reported their cash taken. One fraternity member said he was awake when the suspect came into his room. “I heard somebody in my room and knock on my loft, and I looked up and thought it was one of my neighbors. It turned out to be some random guy,” said junior Chris Marki. The suspect is described as a 6’ tall, 30-year-old black male of thin build, with a shaved head and thick mustache, wearing a gray shirt and gray pants, possibly a gray jacket and a tie of unknown color. Dean added that it would not be easy to find the suspect but that anyone with information about the crimes should call
Campus Police. “We have a very competent police
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FOURTEEN UNLOCKED DORM ROOMS, in three separate dormitories, were burglarized sometime between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. department, but no police department can solve/prevent crimes alone,” Dean wrote in an e-mail. “We need your assistance. Let’s develop a partnership.” He said students can help in four principal ways—by asking the police to
help set up a dorm watch program, keeping their doors locked at all times, learning the names of everyone in their dorms and reporting suspicious activity to the police immediately, See THEFTS on page 17
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North Carolina. That it was the first Charlotte City Council vote to ever override a mayoral veto is momentous in its own way. But more relevant is that with it, Charlotte joined an ever-growing debate over halting, however indefinitely, North Carolina’s execution of criminals. A Charlotte Observer investigation this week asserted that capital punishment in the Carolinas is tainted with inequities and incompetencies and spares some of the state’s most vicious killers. A bipartisan legislative commission in N.C.’s General Assembly is currently examining alleged racial bias in death penalty cases and whether to exempt people with mental handicaps from execution. Additionally, in a national study released last June, a team of legal scholars found that more than two-thirds of appealed death penalty convictions in North Carolina are sent back to the courts for retrial. “For us, it became a question of equiSee MORATORIUM on page 10 �
A Growing Community said that the first thing A typical day for freshman Adam SanBy JODI SAROWITZ The Chronicle dler includes attending class, doing homean observant student work and eating meals. It also includes looks for on a campus is praying several times a day and wearing a kippah and kosher food. The FCJL holds a very tzitzit. strict standard of Kashrut (the dietary laws). Sandler is an Orthodox Jew, one of just a few on campus. Unlike most freshmen, you won’t find Sandler in Tm not on the freshman meal the Marketplace come dinner, but at the Freeman Cenplan,” said Sandler who eats the ter for Jewish Life, eating kosher food with fellow Jews. kosher lunches in Trinity Cafe and A few years ago, however, such a picture would not at the Cambridge Inn and dinners have presented itself. at the FCJL. ‘The food is delicious, my lunches and dinners are taken Junior Eldee Stephens, also an Orthodox Jew, recalls, “When I was a freshman, Hillel was a shack and care of—it’s great.” kosher food was only available on Friday nights. Now The FCJL offers dinners five we have a multi-million-dollar place.” nights a week, for $lO payable by AT A KOSHER DINNER AT THE FCJL, (left to right) Andrea Feit, Zach Robertson, Shancash, food points or flex. The dinners non Whitaker, Rachel Rosenthal and Renan Levine share the day’s news. Sandler and his fellow Orthodox Jews mark an increased movement of making life at Duke more acwere offered last year, but the lunches are a new addition. Sandler calls the FCJL his second ing to make Duke a place for Orthodox Jews to come,” commodating for those who wish to practice strict Jewish traditions. home on campus. said Sandler. Strictly observant Judaism is away of life, not just Still, “Being here is culture shock,” Sandler said. “I Some of the special accomodations include placing a religion. Thus, observant students have special needs standard lock and key entries to the dormitories bemiss seeing guys in kippahs, girls in long skirts and that need attention. cause these students can not use the electronic Duke- everyone being religious.” The University has made special accommodations Card system on Shabbat. The construction of the FCJL has alleviated some of for the several Orthodox and observant students on “The University has been really accommodating that shock by providing a place to eat and gather for See ORTHODOX on page 18 campus. Assistant FCJL Director Rabbi Bruce Seltzer with housing and dining and everything; they are try-
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