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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
New rules
to
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ISSUE
YEAR,
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govern
LDOC celebration Saidi Chen
by
outside
carousing
mark the
to
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end of the school
Newly tions
regula-
implemented
and
stricter
forcement will
Last
year’s
celebration—an
Concerned
en-
of emergency
the
likely change
character of this of Classes
alcohol
Day
traditionally
visits
eight
students
dents
barbecuing,
stu-
taken
were
the hos-
to
dean
Wasiolek,
of
students and assistant vice pres-
and
drinking
number
last LDOC—an estimated
event
features
the
department
pital—Sue
that
yeqr.
by
ident of student affairs, said officials
hope
Main
die A-Team around
will
points
be
of
where
as
hand
on
minimize
to
campus
number
of alcohol
administra-
an
group known
oversight
the
the
on
Quadrangle.
Members of tive
and
consumption
programming
promote
abu-
discourage
to
sive alcohol
CHRONI
distribution
large
Mike
explained.
Cases
champagne
will
tells
an
NCCU audience that he will continue to investigate
allegations against the Duke
men's lacrosse team.
quantities
handed out, she
are
Nifong (center)
of
beer be
likely
DA still
or
lax
pursuing
con-
case
rape
fiscated, Wasiolek added. In addition, Residence Life and
Services
Housing
students
longer permit its
LDOC
grills.
members
SPECIAL
New
the Last
Day
using
RLHS
of Classes
said
their
“We’re
tions
DNA
to
grills SEE LDOC
ON PAGE
9
test
results
evidence
to
Mike
Nifong
assault
to
allega-
the
Duke
team.
assertion
that did
day
event.
woman
raped,
will continue
against
men’s lacrosse
own
appeal
to
he
sexual
made
The
going
Attorney
Tuesday
investigate
equipment.
this year will pro-
University policy
hibit students from
during
TO THE CHRONICLE
District
use
negotiating
on
Katherine Macllwaine THE CHRONICLE
allow students
to
barbecue
to
to
by
no
committee
still
are
with officials
will
not
members team at a
“I
despite
returned connect
obtained
Mon-
players
from
a
Jared
Mtjftt.fr
Bowman
news
is
of
coverage
fed
Ted Vaden, the up
with
the Duke men’s lacrosse
against
the
allegations
rape
team.
of the
paper’s reporting Vaden
wrote
at
a
Nifong
media has
alleged
victim’s
evening,
while
of
and the
the
terized and
both
nity
QHcIIVSIS
[Duke
Durham],
proba-
and
they
he
contrasts,”
were
tempted by
‘“Rich
white
school, poor black town,’ makes ter
story than the
real story, verse
which is
complexities ‘diverse
bet-
a
of the
school,
Washington anced
and
as
some
students
members—said
such
at
as
Post
Newsweek have
thorough
coverage
panel
North
over,”
Carolina Cen-
alleged
adding
of
other
yield
a
that do
rapes
DNA
different
75
to
not
Nifong
and
elists addressed an
audience
four other panthe
questions
of
about
Durham residents and students
that
ex-
and
while
and
The
conducted bal-
reporting,
her
hiding the
providing
same
University
said
he
had
not
re-
of alleged
SEE NCCU
ON PAGE 5
assault
the
identity, opportu-
was
visiting profes-
a
of North Carolina
quoted
a
“free shot
46
at
way of contesting The
lacrosse
requests
to
people
who have
provide
have
declined
media outlets—in-
The Chronicle—with their side
which the rape
Jan Yopp,
and
as
no
anything.” players
of the story about the March 13 party
fessor
at
in the column
and described the March 25 interview
at
Mass
the
allegedly
Walter School
took
of
at
place.
Spearman
Pro-
Journalism
Communication
at
UNC, TOM MENDEI7THE
much
of the incident has been
SEE MEDIA ON
PAGE 8
Reporters
swarm
defense
attorney
at
student.
the
of
of
500
“skirted
account
80
leave
DNA evidence.
Ni-
discussion
where the
outcome,
percent
my presence
not
from
the accused.
the
cluding
well
community outlets
of the
di-
town.’”
Several reporters and journalism
perts —as
to
Chapel Hill,
said.
a
by is
results
rape in
by printing
Davis “Buzz” Merritt, sor
lack
they
of fairness”
edge
without mischarac-
information, the
por-
University
because
bly
inaccurate
city.
“They’ve
lacrosse
ceived
tests, which could
criticized his
alleged
that the N&O
the
trait
at
University,
victim is
men’s
by
2 column.
April
an
Bowman, president of the Durham
an
was
editor of The
public
News & Observer,
Raleigh
Convention & Visitors Bureau, said the
painted
she
one-sided and sensationalist.
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Reyn
you
case
said
Some media experts lament coverage by
of the
assure
Tuesday tral
claimed
party March 13.
here, this
fong
comes
who
choked and sodomized
Joe Cheshire at
Monday's
about the DNA press conference
test
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results.