A fifteen-year-old male has been arrested and charged with common-law robbery for robbing two Duke graduate students on Morreene Road Monday, Kammie Michael, Durham Police Department Information Officer, wrote in an e-mail to The Chronicle.
The teen is being held at a juvenile center in Wake County, Michael said. The suspect’s name and background could not be disclosed because he is a minor.
The teen committed the first of two robberies Monday night with an accomplice who remains at large, Michael said. This suspect has been described as a black teen standing at about five feet nine inches tall and wearing a blue hat and a blue baseball jacket.
Tips provided to investigators led to the teen’s arrest, Michael said. Anyone with information about the second suspect has been asked to call DPD Investigator D.C. Smith at 560-1020 or the CrimeStoppers hotline at 683-1200.
Be sure to read The Chronicle online or in print Monday for more details on these crimes.
At the peak of midterm season, problems with a storage array sidelined wireless Internet access and kept students from accessing Duke Web sites Tuesday evening.
Technological assistants are typically on call in Perkins at the OIT Help Desk until midnight. But due to Tuesday’s snow, no employees were present to assist students with the glitches.
OIT officials could not immediately be reached for comment, but a voicemail recording on the organization’s hotline shed light on the problem:
“We are experiencing problems with one of Duke’s storage arrays. We are working with the vendor, and this has been escalated as a highest severity issue. We suspect a hardware problem and the vendor has parts on standby. We are working to maintain critical services such as web and other services with significant impact. Currents and services that appear to be affected include DHCP, which affects wireless services, web services including the Duke homepage and other Duke sites, Duke Wiki [and] U Portal. There may be other services affected as well. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve these issues.”
The automated message then instructed callers to visit OIT’s Web site for further assistance with their technological dilemmas—but the site was down for the evening.
Visitors to www.duke.edu were instructed to call the Weather Information Line at 919-684-INFO.
Fortunately, The Chronicle’s Web site has weathered the storm. Pick up tomorrow’s paper or check back with www.dukechronicle.com for more on this story.
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A student sustained minor injuries when he was run over by a car while sleeping in the walk-up line for tonight’s matchup with UNC, ABC Eyewitness News reported Wednesday.
Witnesses told ABC that driver severely bruised the student’s knees while attempting to steer around the crossbar to enter the parking lot. The driver drove away from the scene when she realized what had happened, ABC reported.
“I’m asleep, right, and a car comes, and the tire is right here on my knees,” the student told ABC. “I wake up, start banging on the hood, these guys start yelling. She stays there for about seven seconds until she realizes she’s on a human being.”
The student told ABC he was feeling sore but expected a full recovery. He declined to comment to The Chronicle.
Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek and DUPD Maj. Gloria Graham told The Chronicle they were unaware of the incident Wednesday afternoon.
Freshman Dan Barron told The Chronicle he did not witness the hit-and-run but had heard the student would be in Cameron Indoor Stadium for Duke’s matchup with UNC nonetheless.
“True dedication,” Barron said. “That’s how dedicated we are to hating Carolina.”
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The Duke University Police Department arrested a man for an attempted burglary in a West Campus residence hall Saturday morning, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an e-mail to students Saturday.
Police suspect that the individual was responsible for the “recent rash of student residence burglaries” and plan to charge him for these crimes, Moneta said.
Two dorm rooms in Kilgo Quadrangle were robbed in the wee hours of Jan. 15, Duke University Police Department Maj. Gloria Graham confirmed earlier this month. In addition, two campus residents were robbed on Central Campus near Erwin Road, DUPD officials discovered around 11:45 a.m. Friday. University officials have not yet confirmed which incidents the man may be responsible for.
Students residing in the dormitory reported the man for suspicious behavior early Saturday morning, leading to the suspect’s arrest, Moneta said. In the e-mail, Moneta thanked the residents for their vigilance and urged students to be proactive about their safety.
Update: The Chronicle’s print edition ran a story on the same topic.
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Even the slightest shift in higher education rankings provokes many questions on campus: Why did Duke’s position change? How far ahead is the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triumvirate? What can Duke do to stay on the upswing?
These and other questions came to mind when the Fuqua School of Business leapt to No. 22 in the Financial Times’ list of best full-time business schools in the world, a six-spot improvement from last year.
It is probably too soon for Fuqua’s five-site global network, announced last August, to be giving Duke a boost in the curent rankings, Elizabeth Hogan, Fuqua’s assistant dean for marketing and communications, told The Chronicle when Fuqua rose to eighth place in BusinessWeek’s Best B-Schools of 2008 issue.
But Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government relations and public affairs, hinted that the Multinational Growth Plan could give Duke a boost in future rankings.
“As Fuqua’s global programs continue to expand, we expect that Duke’s stature will only grow among international leaders,” Schoenfeld wrote in an e-mail to The Chronicle when Fuqua’s position in the Financial Times’ rankings was announced.
Even so, Dan LeClair, vice president and chief knowledge officer of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, said he doubts Fuqua is launching the global outposts to best its competitors in the rankings.
“I know that Fuqua is not doing this to increase their rankings,” he said. “This is part of their mission, an important part of their strategy. [Improved rankings] may be an outcome–it’s certainly a reasonable thing that could come out of this. But I think it’s important to note that business schools like Duke don’t let the rankings drive their strategy…. I know [Fuqua Dean Blair Sheppard] well enough to know that [rankings] are not the key driver.”
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It’s amazing how quickly Dukies can burn through food points. But this week, many students knew their appetites were no match for their DukeCard records.
A number of students who logged onto the DukeCard Web site noticed that they had been billed twice for the same purchases made on food points or FLEX Saturday, said Matthew Drummond, Office of Information Technology director of the DukeCard Office. The double-charging was simply a display error—students were not actually charged twice–but the glitch seems to have ruffled some students’ feathers.
It should have been just an uneventful trip to The ‘Dillo. But something about the experience did not sit well with senior Qing Wang when she was assessing the state of her food points the next day.
“I knew I did not order two burritos,” she said. “I guess being an alert individual, I just noticed it…. I was just practicing responsible individual finance.”
Word of the apparent double-charging spread quickly in the student community. Wang notified hundreds of Duke students of the apparent double-charging by e-mail, and many of those students in turn seem to have passed the news on to their friends. Most students Wang contacted reported that their accounts no longer showed the double-charges after Tuesday, and the items did not appear to have been deducted twice from their balances, she said.
But Wang said one double-charge still appears on her balance, noting that she has done the math and it seems she was indeed billed twice for the item. DukeCard officials have sent an e-mail explaining the glitch to students, but Wang still wants answers.
“I’m definitely going to follow up on that—not because Food Points are important to me but just for peace of mind,” she said. “What is going on? How credible is the Duke dining system?”
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