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Durham Kenyans unite amid strife Student dies after Locals come together for support as violence continues collapsing in Wilson Aalok Modistricken Thursday night during IM basketball game by
David Graham THE CHRONICLE
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Caren Ochola,owner of the Palace International Restaurant on Broad Street and a native of Kenya, says the recent violence in Kenya has sparked the Kenyan community in Durham to come together and donate money to the African country. Mingyang Liu THE CHRONICLE
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Dozens of Kenyans gather each week at the Palace International Restaurant for some genuine Kenyan chapati, Tusker beer and mutual support at a time when uncertainty looms over thefuture of their
homeland. Caren Ochola, a native of Kisumu, Kenya, and owner of the Broad Street establishment, began
hosting the gatherings after President Mwai Kibaki’s disputed victory
in the country’s Dec. 27 elections spawned a wave of tribal violence. The meetings provide a network for Triangle area Kenyan natives to support each other and their families back home, she said. “Everyone in Kenya is a victim regardless of which tribe they are from,” Ochola said. “We’ve been trying to get people together for
support and to donate money for people who are displaced and who are going withoutfood. Every now and then we talk about the political views, but we try not to let that get between the different tribes.” The violence, which has killed more than 1,000people so far, came as a surprise to both the people ofKenyaand many Kenyan-Americans. SEE KENYA ON PAGE 5
Pratt officials name 5 candidates for top post by
Joe Clark
THE CHRONICLE
Officials at the Pratt School of Engineer-
ing have announced five finalists to replace former dean Kristina Johnson.
The candidates are Robert Clark, interim
dean of Pratt, Frangois Sainfort, senior associate dean for Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Frank Doyle, a professor at the University of California at Santa
Barbara, Tom Byers, a professor at Stanford University and Tom Katsouleas, a professor the University of Southern California. “The selection committee is looking for someone who is going to take their viat
sion and help us build on whatKristina has done,” said April Brown, chair of the Pratt dean search committee. “We want someone great for this position.” Much of the debate among the candidates focused around their individual vision for the school, its current ranking among graduate and undergraduate programs and the potential to obtain a higher ranking in the future. “Right now, [Pratt is] ranked in the top 30 among graduate engineering programs and in the top 25 in undergraduate engineering programs,” Clark said. “But we’renot going to be in SEE PRATT ON PAGE 4
Junior Aalok Modi collapsed and died Thursday night. He was 21. Modi collapsed around 9:45 p.m. during an intramural basketball game in Wilson Recreation Center and was taken to Duke University Hospital emergency room. He died at about 11 p.m. At the hospital shortly after midnight, Modi’s friends and acquaintances came to pay respects. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, who was at the hospital, said the cause of death was not yet known and that there was no obvious reason for the collapse. Junior Xiaoyu Wang, a member of Modi’s basketball team, said in a telephone interview that he had just subbed into the game for Modi when the incident happened. “I high-fived him when he was getting off the court, and I looked in his eyes, and he was panting a little, but that’s normal in an IM game,” Wang said. “We kept playing, and we didn’t think anything of it. It was not more than two or three seconds when we were down the court, and I think some-
one shouted or someone blew a whistle and we all ran over. As soon as he got out of the game he basically collapsed. He was on the ground, and he was having [what seemed] like a seizure.” Modi had played the first half of the game without any indications of trouble. Wang said a bystander attended to Modi until
professionals arrived. He added that Duke University Police Department, Duke Emergency Medical Services and professional EMS all responded. Modi was a chemistry major and premedical student from
Pickerington, Ohio, according to his Facebook profile. Moneta said the University had notified Modi’s parents and was preparing a response plan with Modi’s friends. Staff from Counseling and Psychological Services will be on call to assist students with grief, and plans for commemoration will be worked out in a few days, he said.