Severe weather policy under fire
(09/13/96 4:00am)
By MISTY ALLEN
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By MISTY ALLEN
Duke Student Government drew about 25 percent of the student body to the polls Thursday to vote in its annual legislative election.
Again, the primary settings are Las Vegas and Hollywood. Again, the Don does not want his children and grandchildren to become a part of the family business. Again, the reader is confronted with a bitter sister whose husband was murdered. And yet again, there are multiple mass-homicides, crooked politicians and sleazy women coupled with a deluge of betrayal and bravado-like glory.
The Duke University Police Department continued Tuesday to investigate the fire that took place in East Campus' Alspaugh Dormitory early Monday morning.
The Duke University and Durham Police Departments recently began working together to try to assuage the perennial tensions between University students who live in Trinity Park-a residential area near East Campus-and their landlords and neighbors.
By MISTY ALLEN
Tsunami-like waves that at times towered 15 feet above the North Carolina shoreline and gale-force winds as ferocious as 120 miles per hour prefaced the arrival of Hurricane Fran, which reached the hollowed walls of the University early Friday morning around 2 a.m. Surprisingly, however, the University-barring a few sparse incidents-remained unscathed.
Duke made history Thursday morning with its fourth-place ranking among 229 of the nation's accredited four-year universities-its highest ranking ever-according to an annual survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.
At least three resident advisors reported Tuesday morning alleged individual and living-group violations of the alcohol policy that took place this past weekend, said Paul Bumbalough, associate dean of student development.
For a group that would like to represent the political and social interests of 60 percent of the undergraduate population, the Independent Students Association has a long road ahead.
Although they had hoped to have it up and running by Sept. 22, Duke Student Government officials said that the revamped Safe Walks program will not be operational until some time later this semester.
Seeking to strengthen its constituency, the Independent Students Association sent a memo to upperclass resident advisors from each independent and non-selective Greek dorm Aug. 1, asking them to help the group establish its Dorm Liaison Council.
Along with the 11 administrative offices that made their pledges last month, various South Square Mall merchants have agreed to help fund the fall semester shuttle service to the South Square area-a move that is raising the expectations of Duke Student Government officials who would like to make the service permanent.
The new center will be located at the northeast corner of Swift Avenue and Campus Drive. And although this location is not within walking distance to either East or West Campus, Gretchen Cooley-an administrative assistant in the development office and secretary to the CJL Board-said most people are pleased with the site, which will have its own bus stop.
After working during the summer with auxiliary services administrators, Trinity junior Chris Lam, Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs, fulfilled his much-lauded campaign promise of bringing more juice machines to campus.
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Since its inception about six or seven years ago, the University's Safe Walks program has been plagued with logistical problems that eventually led to its disappearance last fall. In response, Duke Student Government officials are trying to combat the lack of student volunteers, slow service and public confusion regarding the policies that distinguish Safe Walks from its cousin program Safe Rides with a new proposal.
Responding to a strong demand among the undergraduate student body for shuttle service to the South Square Mall area, Duke Student Government officials recently sent letters to various University administrators that requested funding assistance for the project's renewal this fall.
In an attempt to forge better relations between University students who live off campus and their Durham neighbors-who include other residents as well as landlords-Trinity senior Takcus Nesbit, president of Duke Student Government, attended the Trinity Park Association's monthly meeting in July and asked the committee's president if DSG could place two student representatives on their board of directors.
While the number of professorial inquiries relating to academic dishonesty increased markedly during the 1995-96 academic year, the number of academic dishonesty cases actually forwarded to the Office of Student Development for formal resolution came to less than half that amount, wrote Paul Bumbalough, associate dean of student development, in the cover letter that accompanied the annual disciplinary report released by his office May 31.