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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2005
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Computer hacker hits DUMC sites by
University to change security
leadership
Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE
Duke University Medical Center officials announced June 3 that a May 26 security breach allowed an intruder to ac5,500 users’ cess approximately passwords and nearly 9,000 fragments of Social Security numbers belonging to medical school alumni, medical center staff, faculty and trainees. Officials with the Medical Center’s information technology department said there is no threat of identity theft. Once officials discovered the breakin, they shut down' the websites in order to prevent any further loss of data and reset the passwords the hacker found so that the codes could no longer be used to access information. DUMC administrators notified users of the intrusion June 3 and advised them to change their passwords if they were using them for other websites. “There is no reason to suspect malicious activity with the information taken,” said Asif Ahmad, vice president and chief information officer for Duke University Health System. “The nature of the information compromised was partial—parts of Social Security numbers, no addresses, no usernames.” All password-protected information is safe from being stolen, Ahmad said. Though officials estimated there was a 12-hour timespan between the break-in and their knowledge of it, Ahmad said the intruder would have needed more time to gain additional SEE SECURITY ON PAGE 7
ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE S4
by
Saidi Chen
THE CHRONICLE
TOM MENDEI7THE CHRONICLE
As part of a new DUPD policy, officers must fill out contact formsfor the individuals they stop or question.
DUPD implements new contact by
reporting policy
Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE
The Duke University Police Departhas adopted a policy earlier this month requiring all officers to fill out a “Contact Report” form that provides biographical information—but not the names—of people they stop or question while on patrol. The policy aims to determine if DUPD officers target people in a biased pattern. In 1999, North Carolina became the first state to pass a law mandating that all state highway patrols and municipal police agenment
cies collect statistical data in an attempt to prevent racial or other bias-based profiling. Leanora Minai, senior public relations specialist for DUPD, said bias-based profiling is the selection of individuals substantiated solely on the perceived common trait of a group. DUPD, Minai added, has no record of allegations of bias-based profiling. “The contact form is based on a larger policy not to discriminate based on race, age, sex or sexual orientation,” she said.
The University will not immediately seek a new police chief when current Chief Clarence Birkhead steps down June 30, officials said Wednesday. Instead they have begun a search to fill the newly-created position of associate vice president for campus safety and security under the division of campus services. Kernel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, said the new seniorlevel position is an “enhanced role” with broader responsibilities than those of chief of Duke University Police Department. The individual who assumes the role, Dawkins explained, would be in charge of the police department as well as external consultants and contract staff to ensure “a more integrated response” to safety and security challenges. Although the role of a head of DUPD will not be eliminated, Dawkins said it has not yet been determined whether the University will hire someone who holds the title of police chief. A search—if any—for someone to assume the title would not start until SEE SEARCH ON PAGE 6
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Duke names Student Health director by
Steve Veres
THE CHRONICLE
Duke spent 18 months searching nationwide for its first executive director of student health, but it turned out its future head was working by their side all along. Duke administrators named Dr. Bill Purdy as the executive director for Student Health Monday. Purdy, the former interim medical director for Student Health, will assume his new role July 1. “Dr. Purdy will be an excellent director, and I’m thoroughly satisfied,” Larry Moneta, vice president for Student Affairs, wrote in an e-mail. “Watch for exciting developments.” Student Health is a division of the department of Student Affairs and reports to the Department of Family and Community
Medicine in the Duke University Medical Center. The search process for a new executive director began soon after Dr. Bill Christmas, the former director for Student Health, announced his retirement in early 2004. The leadership and organization of Student Health was restructured after Christmas’ departure. During the search, a trio of interim directors—Jean Hanson, administrative director, Franca Alphin, the direc-
tor of health
promotions, and Purdy—each partially fulfilled the vacant position of executive director. The University hired an outside firm to feed potential candidates to the Duke search committee. Purdy did not apply at that time. In January, the committee chose several applicants to visit the campus and offered the position to the only suitable candidate, Hanson said. She added that the initial pool was “thin,” and none of the other candidates had the proper qualifications to fulfill the needs of the position. The selected candidate, who first accepted the job, later declined the offer after she received a raise and an expanded SEE DIRECTOR ON PAGE 7
Duke officials have begun a national search for a new associate VP for campus safety and security.