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For the first time in two years, students at Tailgate were not the only ones flipping burgers —the administration did all the grilling for them. Students showed up in droves Saturday morning to the first University-sanctioned Tailgate since administrators decided to divorce itself from the pre-football game ritual in Fall 2006. Vendors provided Tailgate attendees with free botded water, hamburgers, hot dogs and several other food choices. Administrators and student leaders made arrangements earlier this month to provide funding for the event—including provisions for security and portable toilets—on the condition that students be held responsible for their behavior. As planned, students brought food, grills and stereo speakers before the event began and removed their cars from the Blue Zone parking lots by 8:00 a.m. Also, security personnel checked the IDs of any student carrying alcohol inside and upheld the limit of one case of beer per person. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said the new policies made for a problem-free Tailgate with few instances ofpoor behavior. “In general, there was a focus on good, friendly camaraderie,” he said. “There were some people who feel excessive consumption is part of the norm, but the vast majority were there to enjoy themselves and raise the spirit of the football game.” Moneta said the only major problem that occurred during Saturday’s Tailgate was the confusion among students when security started leading them out of the
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Chelsea Allison THE CHRONICLE
Less than a week after the exonerated former lacrosse players filed suit against the city of Durham, the Durham Police Department and Durham’s former district attorney, their former coach Mike Pressler is suing the University, seeking relief from a confidential agreement he reached With Duke in March 2007. The suit, which was filed in Durham County Superior Court Thurs-
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torney Jay Trehy, accuses the University of violating terms of the settle-
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Studentsrevel in thefirst Duke-sponsored Tailgate in two years by dancing tomusic and spraying beer in the air.
parking lot at 12:00 p.m., when the football game began. “My understanding is that there were some problems terminating Tailgate and getting people to leave,” he said. “The arrangements that the group agreed to was that Tailgate ended at kickoff. I heard there were some students who were resistant.” Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery, a senior, said the administra-
live support convinced students to show up Saturday even if they had been unsure whether or not they would attend. “I think this is the biggest one we’ve had this year, by far,” he said. “With the food and with the sense that it’s not so underground, people who were on the fence decided to come.” As part of the effort to dissuade Tailgate SEE TAILGATE ON PAGE
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Shuchi Parikh THE CHRONICLE
A mounted plaque in the Duke Student Government office proudly displays the names of the organization’s presidents since it was established in 1967. Of the 38 names gracing the plaque —which dates up to the year 2002—only seven are the names of women. The last time a female was elected DSG president was in Spring 1999 “In a campus full of women who were student government presidents in high school, it makes very little sense that we would go eight years with no women elected to the top DSG post,” Donna Lisker, director of the Women’s Center and co-director of the Baldwin Lisa Zeidner, Trinity 'OO, was in 1999 the seventh and last female to be Duke student government president.
ment by making defamatory statements against Pressler. “The defendant wrongfully fired Coach Pressler on April 5, 2006, and publicly and falsely suggested he bore responsibility for the alleged misconduct,” the suit reads.
Pressler led the team for 16 seasons until he was pressured to resign as allegations of rape surfaced against members of the 20052006 lacrosse team. SEE PRESSLER ON PAGE 5
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Duke assets see high returns Eugene Wang THE CHRONICLE
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The University’s largest asset, its endowment, recently grew by more than $1 billion, creating opportunities for new programs, construction development and future research. Duke’s endowment received a 25.6 percent return on its investments in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, raising it from $4.5 to $5.9 billion. The return is the third highest among top U.S. universities. Yale University’s and Amherst College’s endowment returns surpassed Duke’s with 28. percent and 27.8 percent increases, respectively.
The endowment’s five-year re17.5 percent and 10-year of 17.1 percent are the third and second highest in the
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