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Alston aims to correct budget, inspire youth Joshua Chapin

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Alston hopes the second time is the charm as he enters the home stretch of the 2005 Durham mayoral race. The GulfWar veteran and Department ofHomeland Security supervisor ofcheckpoint screening at RaleighDurham International Airport ran for office and lost in 2003

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Mayor Bill Bell in a landslide election. This year Bell is again the favorite, and challenger Jackie Wagstaff, a former City Council member, is receiving significant publicity for her “Hip-Hop Agenda for City Hall.” Even with a fourth candidate—Vincent Brown —enlarging the slate of contenders, however, Alston said he has no intention of conceding anytime soon.

Check The Chronicle's coverage of the 2005 Durham election next week for a profile of another mayoral candidate.

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put my faith in God and never setde for less,” he said. “If she beat cancer, then I can achieve anything with the determination.” Alston is no stranger to the Durham area. Raised in Chapel Hill, he attended Chapel Hill High School—a fact that can only help his standing in the race, he said. “As a local, I feel like I can truly be a force for the people,” Alston explained. The candidate said he believes there has been “a true neglect” of Durham in recent years. Alston is a proponent of correcting Durham’s budget crisis and helping the city’s youth population,. He stresses the importance of

tackling gang-related violence. ‘'Gangs are such a problem for Durham—they manipulate our children. And for some reason, our current mayor believes that there is no gang problem,” Alston said. Young people, Alston said, are his number one priority. “Who’s going to defend our nation if all our kids are behind bars or are not even given the opportunity to succeed?” he asked. While Durham’s children and their future are of paramount concern to Alston, he said he also cares deeply about the city’s economy and its standing as a

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Amid destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, residents ofWaveland, Miss., and the surrounding area are accepting aidfrom church groupsand filing claims with FEMA.

SitWAVELAND, Miss. ting alone at a table in the New Waveland Cafe, a churchsponsored makeshift cafeteria in a decimated parking lot in Waveland, Miss., Louis Kieff stared blankly ahead, oblivious to the bustle of the crowd around him. He stayed home in nearby Bay St. Louis when Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast, Aug. 29. “The storm hit at about 11:30 Sunday night. I didn’t get picked up until four the next day,” he said. After being swept from his home by a wave, Kieff clung to a second-floor porch for nearly 17 hours, fighting against the swirling seawater. Now he is lost in a whirlwind of paperwork he cannot decipher. Rescued with almost nothing except his life, Kieff came to the relief site set up in a local Kmart parking lot seeking aid from the Federal Emergency SEE WAVELAND ON PAGE 8

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Graduate student sues term paper websites Mingyang Liu THE CHRONICLE

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Websites that sell student term papers, such as freeforessays.com, have become popular methods of cheating.

With the kick-off of the new school year, students are recommitting themselves to academic integrity as outlined by the Community Standard—but plagiarism is still alive and thriving on college campuses across the nation thanks to the Internet, as one Duke student knows all too well. Blue Macellari, a second-year graduate student in a joint-degree program between the Fuqua School of Business and the Paul H. Nitze School ofAdvanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, is suing three term-paper websites with claims they were selling one ofher papers without permission. Macellari is suing the owner of the websites for more than $lOO,OOO in alleged damages for “copyright infringement, false designation of origin, false advertising, con-

sumer fraud and deception, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and unjust enrichment.” The complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in East St. Louis, lists Rusty Carroll, the Illinois-based R2C2, Inc. and the South Carolina-based Digitalsmiths Corp. as co-defendants in the case. Caroll owns the two independent companies listed in the complaint. All three defendants are registrants for the domain name of the websites where Macellari’s paper was found. As a junior at Mount Holyoke College, Macellari wrote “South Africa’s GEAR; Using a ‘revised dependency theory’ to assess South Africa’s situation,” while studying abroad at the University of Cape SEE LAWSUIT ON PAGE 6


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