Executive Vice President Tallman Trask’s picture on his profile page is at first glance what you’d expect: The chief financial and business officer poses in an engineering building wearing a sharp suit and his signature round-frame glasses.
But a scroll over the image reveals a very different side to T3; in his place a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator pops up. Looks like a hacker decided to have a little fun. We’ll leave the speculation up to you all on what exactly they were getting at, but we won’t deny that the trick is entertaining. Hasta la vista, baby.
Update: Associate news editor and recess editor David Graham informed me that Trask has a full-size cut-out of Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in his office. He has also dressed up as the character at events like “Save Tailgate” and K-ville checks. What do you think–is T3 behind the bluff?
Duke Student Government and the Intercommunity Council will be electing the next undergraduate Young Trustee tonight. They are currently in session, and associate editor Lisa Du is covering the meeting. She’s also live-tweeting it; follow her twitter here.
The three finalists, announced Jan. 27, are seniors Jane Chong, Jordan Giordano and Sunny Kantha. Each of the candidates will be speaking and taking questions in alphabetical order. DSG and ICC are each delegated 50 percent of the weighted vote.
Update: Kantha is the new Young Trustee.
At about 5 a.m. Monday morning, Chapel Hill’s Department of Public Safety announced that they were unable to verify the bomb threat to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Pit area, The Daily Tar Heel reported. All buildings in and surrounding the Pit were searched.
Alert Carolina, UNC’s alert system, states that the University is once again operating under normal conditions. In response to several students’ complaints about the lack of notification, Alert Carolina sent UNC students an e-mail Monday morning clarifying its protocol. An armed person on or near campus, a major chemical spill or hazard and a tornado are contexts for which UNC’s alert system would be used. UNC students who had signed up for the opt-in text message alert system began receiving text alerts around 11:40 p.m., more than two and a half hours after the threat was first reported.
DukeALERT’s outdoor siren system would be used in the same three instances, according to its Web site. Duke’s opt-in text messaging system also sends notifications during situations of “imminent danger.” DukeALERT e-mails have been sent in a few cases of campus crimes, such as armed robberies.
Update: As of 5 a.m., UNC police decided that the bomb threat called in around 9 p.m. Sunday was not valid and issued an all-clear, according to the AlertCarolina Web site.
Updated 11:26 p.m.
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Zachary Tracer/The Chronicle
A man called in to Orange County police and made a bomb threat against The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The threat reportedly concerned the Pit area, which is the center of campus activity. The Student Union and several libraries have been evacuated. Additionally, police have closed areas surrounding the Pit, and bomb-sniffing dogs are checking the location. AlertCarolina has been updated, and confirms that UNC Public Safety investigated a bomb threat and took precautions. During the first hour or so after the threat was reported by various news outlets, the alert system stated that the University was operating under normal conditions.
Associate editor Zachary Tracer, who is currently residing at UNC, is reporting from Chapel Hill in addition to calls being made from Duke. The Chronicle learned about the threat via Twitter.
Check these student Twitters for updates:
Or, you could follow the term “UNC” on Twitter.
A high school student alleged sexual assault Monday morning, reporting inappropriate touching from someone they knew. The incident allegedly occurred while visiting the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Duke University Police Department Maj. Gloria Graham confirmed. Neither the high school student nor the acquaintance are Duke-affiliated, Graham said. As of Thursday night, a full police report has not been released.
Anthony Zinni - AP
Retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, a former distinguished lecturer in residence at the Sanford Institute, has been part of a tossing game with the Obama administration, The Washington Times reported today. National Security Advisor James Jones had offered Zinni the role of ambassador to Iraq, which Zinni accepted two weeks ago and even received a congratulatory call from President Obama, according to Foreign Policy’s “The Cable.”
But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called him into a meeting Monday asking for his views on Iraq, and the news following the meeting was surprising for Zinni:
“To make a long story short, I kept getting blown off all week,” Zinni said. “Meantime, I was rushing to put my personal things in order,” to get ready to go.
“Finally, nobody was telling me anything,” Zinni said. “I called Jones Monday several times. I finally got through late in evening. I asked Jones, ‘What’s going on?’ And Jones said, ‘We decided on Chris Hill.’”
“I said, ‘Really,’” Zinni recalled. “That was news to me.”
Politico.com had predicted last year that Zinni would be considered for national security advisor, but Jones was the pick for the post and ended up delivering the recent bad news to Zinni. A senior official speculated on issues of conflicting interests and the fact that another general, Karl Eikenberry, had already been named ambassador to Afghanistan. Chris Hill, on the other hand, does not have such military connections but rather experience as assistant secretary of state. The Washington Post said he was an “unexpected choice” for ambassador to Iraq.
