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Crystal Mangum indicted for murder
04.18.11 - 11:47 pm
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From staff reports

DURHAM -- A grand jury indicted Crystal Mangum on Monday on charges of murder and larceny.

Mangum was previously charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, in connection with the stabbing of a Durham man said to be her boyfriend, Reginald Daye.

According to earlier reports, police officers were called on April 3 to 3507 Century Oaks Drive. When they arrived, they found Daye, 46, stabbed in the torso with a kitchen knife.

Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital and was treated for serious injuries, according to the reports. On Wednesday, Durham police officials said Daye had died.

Mangum has been held in the Durham County jail in lieu of a $300,000 secured bond. Jail officials said that was unchanged as of Monday.

Mangum was indicted Monday on charges of murder and larceny of chose in action, a charge that describes the theft of checks and other promissory notes with monetary value. Kammie Michael, spokeswoman for the Durham Police Department, said Mangum was charged with larceny in connection with the alleged theft of a money order.

Durham attorney Woody Vann, who said he is a private attorney who handles overflow public cases, was appointed April 5 to be Mangum's attorney, but Vann said another attorney, Chris Shella, called Monday to say he was taking over the case.

Shella was recently a candidate for one of three non-partisan Superior Court Judge District 14B seats. He confirmed by email Monday that he is representing Mangum, but declined to comment for this article because he said he had not yet been served with a copy of the indictment.

Mangum falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her at an off-campus party in 2006. The N.C. Office of the Attorney General took over the case from District Attorney Mike Nifong, declaring that the players were innocent.

In December, Mangum faced arson and other charges in Durham County Superior Court. She was convicted of three counts of contributing to the abuse and neglect of minors, resisting a police officer, and causing more than $200 in property damage to the car of a man who was then her boyfriend -- not Daye -- which were all misdemeanors.

Jurors did not reach a consensus on the felony arson charge and Superior Court Judge Abraham Jones declared a mistrial. Mangum was sentenced to 88 days of time already served, and the Durham County District Attorney's Office did not pursue the case further.
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Judge allows tape in Danziger case
Defense wanted to throw out cop's secretly recorded words
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
By Laura Maggi
Staff writer

A federal judge denied a defense request to toss out secretly recorded conversations between one defendant in the Danziger Bridge police shooting and some of his former New Orleans police colleagues who, unbeknownst to him, had become confidential informants for the government.

After a daylong hearing on a number of motions in the case, U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt rejected a motion by defense attorneys to suppress the tapes of Sgt. Robert Gisevius, which were recorded in 2009 and 2010 by two men who were also on the bridge the day of the Sept. 4, 2005, shootings.

But Engelhardt expressed some concern about how federal investigators went about getting the taped statements. He focused particularly on the taping of another defendant, officer Anthony Villavaso, by his former partner, Robert Barrios.

According to an FBI report filed into the court record, on March 26, 2010, Barrios sat inside his Ford F-150 truck, wearing a wire. He spoke to Villavaso inside the truck while parked outside of 500 Frenchmen St.

Engelhardt repeatedly questioned federal prosecutor Barbara "Bobbi" Bernstein about the fact that she and the lead FBI agent on the case had promised Villavaso's attorneys just a day earlier that they wouldn't try to speak to the officer without going through them.

"I don't care for the distinction," Engelhardt said. "I might not meet with him, but I'm going to get someone else to meet with him."

Bernstein countered that promising to go through an attorney for a sit-down interview with the target of an investigation does not mean that the federal government is barred from trying to get a target to speak to a co-conspirator turned government agent.

Barrios is one of five former NOPD officers who has pleaded guilty in the case, agreeing to testify against six officers indicted last summer in the shooting of civilians on the bridge and the alleged cover-up that followed. Barrios agreed to tape Villavaso and Gisevius, separately, in March 2010. Another officer who pleaded guilty, Jeffrey Lehrmann, also wore a wire and taped Gisevius four times in November 2009.

Three current and one former NOPD officer are indicted on civil rights charges in the shootings, in which four civilians were injured and two others killed. Two other officers, a retired and current sergeant with the NOPD's homicide section, are accused along with the other officers of participating in a cover-up.

While Engelhardt denied the defense request to suppress the Gisevius tapes, he left open the possibility that he could later toss the Villavaso tape. He asked attorneys to file briefs about a defense allegation that, in orchestrating the taping, prosecutors violated Louisiana's rules of professional conduct for lawyers.

Throughout the hearing and in written briefs, defense attorneys argued that federal investigators shouldn't have recorded their clients' statements because they knew the officers had attorneys from a failed state prosecution of the case.

Bernstein, a lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice, defended the actions of her team, which included lead FBI agent William Bezak and lawyers from the U.S. attorney's office in New Orleans. Bernstein argued that defense attorneys were saying the feds should essentially announce to a target that they intended to secretly get them to admit wrongdoing.

Prosecutors previously disclosed some of the contents of the taped recordings, saying, for example, that Gisevius called the official police investigation into the shooting a "B.S. report."

Much of the hearing dealt with other issues before Engelhardt, such as a motion by an attorney for Sgt. Kenneth Bowen to quash his indictment because of alleged taint from testimony the officer gave under immunity to the original state grand jury in the case.

Bernstein and defense attorney Frank DeSalvo questioned Karla Dobinski, a Justice Department attorney who led a team charged with ensuring federal prosecutors and FBI agents investigating the Danziger case didn't see testimony like Bowen's that was the product of an immunity agreement with state prosecutors. Under federal law, the prosecution against Bowen cannot be based on information he gave prosecutors during his immunized state grand jury testimony.

During the hearing, DeSalvo said he was trying to prove his "contention that the government has been involved from the beginning," referring to aid federal prosecutors gave Orleans Parish assistant district attorneys with their probe in 2006. But Bernstein argued that federal prosecutors made certain they were shielded from any testimony they should not hear.

Engelhardt did not rule on that issue or another set of motions asking the judge to suppress NOPD statements from the indicted officers.

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Laura Maggi can be reached at lmaggi@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3316.
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Duke denies wrongdoing in lax cases
By Zachary Tracer
April 19, 2011


Duke has denied it did anything wrong in its handling of rape accusations against members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team.

The denials come in lengthy legal filings and address claims that Duke officials misled the players and improperly disclosed some private information to the Durham police. In the filings Duke also denied claims that the nurse who examined Crystal Mangum—the woman who falsely accused three lacrosse players of raping her in March 2006—made up evidence or altered the examination report. The two lawsuits were filed by players who were not charged with rape.

The University’s two responses, filed Thursday, mark the first time Duke has formally addressed the factual allegations raised in the two lawsuits. The 732 pages of filings also provide insights into the legal strategies Duke’s attorneys may use as they defend the University and its employees.

In the documents, Duke states that any damages the lacrosse players may have sustained were caused by the false rape allegations made by Mangum and the botched prosecution conducted by former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong.

“The causation issues here I think are very real,” said School of Law professor Thomas Metzloff, a civil suit specialist who is not involved in the case. “[Duke claims] any injury comes from what Crystal Mangum did initially and then what Nifong did.”

Lawyers for the players declined to comment on the filings, as did Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public affairs and government relations.

None of the 41 players involved in the two suits were among the three Mangum falsely accused of rape in 2006. Those players—David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann—have settled with Duke but are currently suing Durham officials. The city of Durham, Durham Police Department officers and Nifong are also named in the two suits filed by the unindicted players, but have not yet filed their responses. They have until June 14 to file responses to all three suits.

One suit involving 38 unindicted players was filed in February 2008, and a second suit involving three unindicted players was filed in December 2007. The wrongly indicted players filed their suit against Durham in October 2007. A federal judge allowed the three suits to proceed March 31 after rejecting some claims.

In the filings, Duke defends the sexual assault examination that former Duke University Health System nurse Tara Levicy performed on Mangum. The lawsuits accused Levicy of fabricating evidence and altering her initial examination report in order to support Mangum’s claims and Nifong’s case.

Levicy states in the documents that all claims she made were consistent with her examination of Mangum.

“Levicy specifically denies that she ever provided false or misleading information to any investigators working for the Durham Police Department or for the District Attorney’s office or to anyone else,” one filing reads.

But KC Johnson, a history professor at Brooklyn College and City University of New York Graduate Center who blogs about the lacrosse case, says Levicy’s claims in the filings are not credible.

“Her story shifted over time, and it shifted over time in ways that did not reflect what was in her report,” he said.

He pointed out that a report issued by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said there was no medical evidence to confirm Mangum’s account that she was raped. Cooper’s report was issued shortly after he declared that the three wrongly indicted players were innocent in April 2007.

“The [nurse] based her opinion... largely on the accusing witnesses’ demeanor and complaints of pain rather than on objective evidence,” Cooper’s report stated.

In the filings, Duke lawyers wrote that they could not discuss details of Mangum’s medical information because of privacy laws.

Duke’s responses show that some University officials had doubts about Mangum’s claims almost immediately after she reported them. A day after Mangum reported being raped, former Duke Police Chief Robert Dean told Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek that Mangum “was not credible and that the allegations would likely go away.”

In the documents, Wasiolek and several other Duke officials also denied claims that they encouraged the players to discuss the situation with them by promising that they would not discuss the conversation with Durham police. Wasiolek, President Richard Brodhead and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask admitted to meeting with some team members but denied making promises of confidentiality. They also said they did not discuss those meetings with Durham police.

Duke officials also denied that they did anything wrong in their disclosure of some players’ DukeCard swipe records to Durham police. The players claimed that the University turned over the information improperly and then misled the players about the disclosure.

The University admitted that Duke police Sgt. Gary Smith gave the DukeCard records to Durham police Sgt. Mark Gottlieb March 31, 2006. Different Duke officials later received a subpoena for the records and notified the players. But those officials, including former DukeCard office head Matthew Drummond, were unaware that Smith had previously provided those records, the filing states.
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Mangum indicted on murder charge
By Chronicle Staff
April 19, 2011


Crystal Mangum was charged Monday with first-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend.

Mangum, who falsely accused three members of the men’s lacrosse team of rape in 2006, was indicted by a Durham County grand jury on a charge of first-degree murder and two counts of larceny, the Associated Press reported. The indictment comes 15 days after Mangum was charged with assault with a deadly weapon following the stabbing of Reginald Daye, her boyfriend.

Mangum has been held in the Durham County jail since April 3 after she allegedly stabbed the 46-year-old Daye in the torso with a kitchen knife after an argument.

Daye died 10 days after the incident in Duke Hospital after succumbing to his injuries, WRAL reported.

This is not the first time since the lacrosse scandal Mangum has been in custody. In February 2010, after an argument with a different boyfriend, Mangum was charged with attempted murder and arson, among other charges. Police said Mangum set some of his clothes on fire in a bathtub and assaulted him in front of her children, in addition to threatening to stab him, according to court documents.

In December, Mangum was convicted of misdemeanor charges of child abuse, injury to personal property and resisting an officer, according to jail documents.

Mangum first gained notoriety in March 2006 when she falsely accused members of the Duke lacrosse team of rape at a team party, where Mangum was employed as a stripper.

The players were declared innocent in April 2007 after state officials determined there was no credible evidence supporting Mangum’s claims.
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Trustees name three to DKU board
Board approves University application to Chinese ministry at exec meeting
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By Lauren Carroll [3]
April 19, 2011

Board approves University application to Chinese ministry at exec meeting

At its most recent meeting, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees named Duke’s three representatives to the board of Duke Kunshan University and approved the University’s documentation for the new campus for submission to the Chinese Ministry of Education.

The committee has selected James Roberts, executive vice provost for finance and administration; Thomas Gorrie, a member of the Board of Trustees; and Provost Peter Lange to sit on the board of Duke Kunshan University. The committee officially revealed its decision to the new appointees at its April 8 meeting.

“I’m very grateful to [the DKU board members],” President Richard Brodhead said in an interview Monday. “They will give the strongest possible representation for Duke’s interests.”

Board of Trustees Chair Dan Blue called the representatives “naturals” for the positions because of the variety of skills they will bring to the DKU board, which will have oversight of the new campus’s policies and operations while still reporting back to Duke’s administration. He highlighted Lange’s expertise in academic programming, Roberts’ involvement in Kunshan financial planning and Gorrie’s position as chair of the Duke University Health System’s Board of Directors, as well as his previous affiliation with the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations.

Gorrie, Lange and Roberts will fill three the seven total seats on the DKU board. Wuhan University, DKU’s Chinese legal partner, and the city of Kunshan will each select two members to fill the remaining four seats, according to the Duke-Kunshan Planning Guide, a document produced by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Strategy and Programs and released last month. Kunshan and Wuhan have not yet appointed their representatives, Brodhead said.

According to the document, any decisions made by the DKU board will have a five-vote requirement, which will ensure at least one Duke vote on each decision. Lange said he anticipates the entity will meet at least once per year. He also expects that the Duke members will use teleconferencing to meet from the United States with the Wuhan and Kunshan representatives.

The Board of Trustees chose not to include a representative from the Fuqua School of Business, even though it was the “driving force that introduced us to Kunshan” and will be a major component of DKU, said Blue, Law ’73 and a Democratic state senator.

“We’re looking at a much broader role and presence,” Blue said. “There could have been someone from Fuqua, but we think the representation selected by the Board best represents Duke at this time.”

Lange said each member will bring a variety of skills that will be a “very good compliment to the Board,” noting that his own immersion in the Kunshan project and commitment to Duke academics will be strong assets to his role as a board member.

“I’m very pleased since I’ve been well involved with the project all along,” Lange said.

Additionally, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees approved Duke’s legal proposal to the Chinese Ministry of Education, an application required by the Chinese government in order to officially establish DKU as a legal and educational entity. Duke plans to submit the proposal by mid-May, and administrators expect that the submission will be approved within three to six months.

The contents of the document—a 47-page agreement between Duke, Kunshan and Wuhan University—are summarized in the planning guide, Lange said. Some of the agreement’s details, which are not included in the planning guide, have yet to be finalized.

The three partners are still negotiating “various topics related to leasing” contained in the document, Brodhead said. He added that these issues are highly technical and unrelated to much of the faculty’s discussion about topics such as questions about academic freedom in China. He also noted that the Board of Trustees will be able to see changes to the document as they are finalized.

“There have been so many detailed documents to work through­—something was going to fall to the later part of the process,” Brodhead said.

Blue said the Board of Trustees was comfortable approving the submission despite some ambiguity because members have been extensively involved in the project’s planning process up to this point. He noted that the remaining uncertainties are not “deal-busting problems.”

“There may be a few things unresolved, but we have confidence in the administration to take care of them,” Blue said.
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2:18 AM
April 19, 2011
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Well, well, well...

This news couldn't have come at a better time considering Segalini's column yesterday called for Brodhead's resignation due to his "lack of communication" on and lack of "core commitment" to the Kunshan campus. Moreover, Professor Pfau can now rest assured that these appointments will decrease, if not eliminate, the "pervasive alienation" from the University administration.
2:39 AM
April 19, 2011
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✔✔✔✔✔ FC notes there is no alumnus, no female, no minority among the appointees. Great start, Dick!! The face of Duke.

Moreover, not one brings to the board any of the faculty expertise in China. Roberts is a European historian, Gorrie is a former big time executive of Johnson and Johnson who seems to have Duke as his retirement hobby, and Peter the Provost is ... well... Peter the Provost.

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Let us understand today's Chronicle story about Trustees for Duke Kunshan University for what it is: a clever move by the university's PR operation to divert attention from the real issue, which is the torrent of criticism of President Brodhead and his e-mail response to a faculty member who criticized him. Congratulations, Michael Schoenfeld!!!!

FC points out that the PR department did not announce the Kunshan Trustees appointments -- made in the super secrecy of a meeting of the Trustee Executive Committee -- to anyone other than the Chronicle; there is nothing posted either.

The only purpose was to try to grab the headline.
And hook, line and sinker, the Chronicle bit.

It is shameful that the Chronicle does not report at all on the president's long e-mail to Professor Pfau, the text of which was made available to the newspaper in mid-afternoon Monday. It is further shameful that the change of tactics by senior faculty who had planned a petition is not mentioned at all; they now realize a committee of the Academic Council would not have the resources for a full formal investigation of Kunshan, and plan instead to seek staff and a budget, as well as relief from teaching duties for faculty on the committee.

See http://dukefactchecker.blogspot.com/

The Fact Checker analysis of Mr Brodhead's e-mail to Professor Pfau follows:

First of three essays. The next, written in New Haven, will analyze Brodhead's handling of Kunshan, and compare how his great friend and mentor, Yale President Richard Levin handled Singapore.

✔✔✔✔✔ Fact Checker here.

Dick Brodhead's extraordinary e-mail to a member of the faculty who has been critical of his handling of the Kunshan Initiative makes three points.

A) The faculty was consulted.
B) The finances were explained
C) Academic freedom is protected.

Not one of these statements is true, and we consider each in turn.

FACULTY CONSULTATION

Brodhead says "faculty engagement was extensive," and at the March 24th meeting of the Academic Council, "the issue was discussed for the best part of an hour."

That long? Wow! Let us remember that the president identifies Kunshan as the most important development at Duke since James B. Duke forked over the money.

After the February 25-6 meeting of the Trustees, the Dean of Fuqua Blair Sheppard, himself smarting from criticism that he's left his faculty out cold, wrote the following:

"It is now time to seriously take up the question of our own (Fuqua's) presence in China. The goal of this document is to provide as much information as I can in order to allow us to begin the dialogue necessary to have a thorough consideration of our choices....:"

So who are we to believe? Brodhead that the faculty was involved since November 2009, or Sheppard saying six weeks ago that it is "now" time to "begin the dialogue."

✔✔ FINANCES

Yes Dick, you and your minion have offered financial details all along, but the trouble is, they were misleading numbers, incomplete numbers. Or as the Chronicle put it on February 22, "hazy at best."

Let us put aside the construction costs. We shall look at the numbers that Brodhead and his tribe gave us on the continuing, annual operating losses.

Dean Sheppard - November, 2009 - Kunshan will pay for everything, everything right on down to the electricity. Duke will have a "free ride." Compare please, the Trustee briefing document, February 2011 "We cannot hope to have world class education in Kunshan without (subsidy)... the founding partners (meaning Duke University, Kunshan and Wuhan University) must play a substantial role."

Sheppard - December, 2009 - Kunshan will pay 100 percent of any operating losses.

Vice President Jones - November 2010 - we expect to ask the Trustees for $1 million a year to subsidize operating losses.

President Brodhead - February 2011 - we will ask the Trustees for $1.5 to $2 million a year to subsidize operating losses. Oh by the way, Kunshan is only going to pay 45 percent of the losses.

Executive Vice President Trask - March 2011 - The Trustees gave Mr. Brodhead authority to go 20 percent over budget, in other words spent up to $2.4 million a year to subsidize.

Peter the Provost - later in March 2011 - Well yes, the numbers Mr. Brodhead gave us were not meant to mean that was the only operating loss Duke would cover. That's just the amount coming from the Strategic Initiative fund.

Later in March, 2011 - Fact Checker reports the Strategic Initiative fund is only 25 to 30 percent of the story. There is also hidden, Enron-style subsidy in:

A) The Fuqua budget. Almost as much as from the Strategic Reserve, never before mentioned.

B) Donations raised in Durham, being sent to Kunshan. Brodhead allows this will be $10 million in the first six years.

C) A juggle so that Duke tells Kunshan that money it is spending for administration in Durham is really part of the joint venture's responsibility -- and we want to count this as part of our contribution for operating losses. No word if Kunshan is letting us get away with this gimmick, or is trying one on its own with its own overhead.

D) An annual loan with no interest or repayment schedule. This is Duke money -- more than the appropriation from the Strategic Initiative -- flowing into Kunshan for operating losses. Nice trick!

The totals: Brodhead has estimated the subsidy total at $37 million over six years. Fact Checker says the grand total -- operating subsidies, capital costs and everything -- will easily be $100 million, more likely $150 million over the first ten years.

Back to November, 2009, Board Chair Dan Blue: the risks of Kunshan are "not substantial."

The Chronicle editorial again: "..the constantly shifting statements coming from Duke administrators do little to engender confidence within the greater Duke community as to the project’s economic feasibility."

So far, Fact Checker has discussed only the initial costs. The agreement for Kunshan to share losses lasts only six years. The agreement for free use of the land and rent lasts only ten years. What next?

And what happens when it comes time to fulfill the dream of a "comprehensive research university, including both undergraduate and graduate programs." There is not one word of Kunshan's contribution to this.

Mr. Brodhead, have you briefed the community on the consultant's report that says your financial estimates are a house of cards -- that we cannot possibly charge Chinese (and they are the ones who will be going to school in Kunshan) as much as we are figuring.

Why not release that consultant's report, Dick? Or the three economic models you gave to the Trustees, rather than just the rosiest of the "Monte Carlo" simulations that you provided to the faculty. Oh yes, Dick, how about the full Duke-Kunshan Planning Guide, all 47 pages rather than the 23 given to the Academic Council.

I also do not follow, Mr. President, your assertion that the Arts and Sciences are not hurt financially by money being sent to Kunshan. There is only so much in the pot. If you give it to Kunshan -- through the Fuqua budget, through the Strategic Initiatves appropriation -- there is less left for A and S.

And Fact Checker would like to know if you will grant an interview. And if you will instruct your deputies to answer e-mail questions, or will they continue to circle the wagons to try to protect you.

The totals: Brodhead has estimated the subsidy total at $37 million over six years. Fact Checker says the grand total -- operating subsidies, capital costs and everything -- will easily be $100 million, more likely $150 million over the first ten years. Or as Board Chair Dan Blue assured us in November, 2009, the risks of Kunshan are "not substantial."

✔✔ACADEMIC FREEDOM

What John Spencer Bassett began in 1903, Dick Brodhead is ending in 2011.

As Dukies are taught, Bassett was a professor of history in our forerunner, Trinity College. In October, 1903, he published an article in the South Atlantic Quarterly (notice that this circulated off campus, and was not confined to a classroom). He dared to identify a black, Booker T. Washington, as the second greatest Southerner, save Robert E. Lee, in a century.

From those words, so benign sounding today, the Trustees established a tradition of academic freedom. When the Trinity College bell was rung to celebrate a Trustee vote endorsing Bassett's right to speak his mind, it was not only heard on campus, but in the community outside the campus. In other words, no geographic restrictions on what or where our professors or students could say or explore.

And so, Loyal Readers may ask, how is this relevant to Duke's campus in Kunshan. In discussions of relations with the Chinese regime -- no friend of unfettered inquiry -- Brodhead reports he is "fairly certain" there will be full internet access. He is equally wobbly in discussing subject matter that professors can address in their classes.

What Brodhead has not told us is that the seven foot high steel wall that already looms around the 201-acre Kunshan campus -- separating it from the rest of a huge new industrial park -- is not only meant to keep outsiders out, but faculty and students in. There is no, repeat no academic freedom, none, beyond the walls. Duke professors, Duke students will be no better off than Chinese serfs.

This is not the definition of a university, much less a great one.

And here's a well kept secret: the Trustees have considered "risks to Duke's reputation" that include "if we become embroiled in wide-ranging public controversy." In other words, something akin to the current Duke concern for sweatshops or the historical involvement with the city of Durham in its desegregation attempts.

✔✔ SILENCE

Mr. Brodhead is silent on many aspects of great concern. Whether the city of Kunshan is the best that Duke could do. Whether Dean Sheppard has told officials in Kunshan that he is silently negotiating for a campus in Shanghai that would undercut Kunshan, because key Fuqua programs "won't work" in the backwater. Whether Wuhan University is the best we can do, for his own global vice president apparently was pointing to Wuhan when he identified one potential partner as "weak."

In his letter to Professor Pfau, Brodhead has another failure at time of crisis. Rather than calm the waters engulfing him personally and his administration, Brodhead has only provided velocity and volume for the torrent.

Part two of this analysis in a day or two. Thank you for reading Fact Checker.
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How Duke Lax can repeat this season
By Chris Cusack [3]
April 19, 2011

It must feel good to be back on top.

The ACC lacrosse tournament begins on Friday, and unexpectedly, Duke is the No. 1 seed in the four-team bracket. Despite ranking one spot behind rival Maryland in the latest Inside Lacrosse poll, the Blue Devils earned the conference regular season title after amassing a perfect 3-0 ACC record.

So what is reasonable to expect from this team in the postseason?

Last Saturday’s 13-11 win over thenNo. 7 Virginia suggests a second national championship is a realistic goal—even though the Cavaliers were missing Preseason All-America Steele Stanwick—especially when one also considers last month’s 9-8 nail-biter over then-No. 3 Maryland and a 14-9 victory in Chapel Hill on Mar. 3. An early-season win over then-No. 10 Loyola highlights Duke’s performance in nonconference games.

Any prediction of a repeat national championship would be pretty optimistic, though.

The Blue Devils have two major problems that they have to fix quickly to avoid an early playoff letdown: struggles on the road and a sieve-like defense. The team has compiled an abysmal 1-4 record outside of Durham, and that lone victory was just a few miles down Tobacco Road against then-No. 8 North Carolina. Duke also fell to then-unranked Pennsylvania in a major early-season upset.

In fairness, the other three away losses were against top-10 teams Notre Dame, Syracuse and Denver, and the ACC Tournament will be held at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils will be able to improve their NCAA Tournament seeding immensely with a successful weekend, but the team will eventually have to travel to Baltimore, Md., for the national championships. So far, there seems to be little indication that the Blue Devils can beat three ranked opponents in a neutral field setting.

What’s more, defense has been Duke’s Achilles’ heel away from Koskinen all season long. While the Zach Howell-led attack rates third in the nation in scoring offense, the defense gives up an average of 9.07 goals, ranking in the bottom half of Division I.

It all starts with goalie Dan Wigrizer, whose save percentage of 53.8-percent rates 26th in the nation, over six points lower than the rival Terrapin’s Niko Amato. Without a stronger performance in net, the Blue Devils will find their season over faster than CJ Costabile ended Notre Dame’s a year ago in the national championship game.

There is hope for Wiggy, though. He is coming off arguably his best week of the season, earning ACC Defensive Player of the Week honors after racking up 11 saves—eight in the second half—and four ground balls in the win over Virginia. His performance will, more than any other factor, determine the difference between a quick NCAA Tournament exit and a trip back to Baltimore for the national semifinals.

Costabile, who along with Howell was nominated for the 2011 Tewaaraton Trophy as the country’s top collegiate lacrosse player, was a third-team All-American a year ago, and will be largely responsible for picking up any of Wigrizer’s—and the rest of the defensive unit’s—slack throughout the postseason.

Duke will also have to narrow the gap in the turnover battle. The team, on average, creates 10 fewer turnovers than it produces, and ranks outside the top half nationally in both categories. While the offense has shown its ability to capitalize on the opportunities it creates, as evidenced by its 12.87 goals per game, the back unit simply cannot afford to give opposing teams chance after chance to score.

Wigrizer, Constabile and the rest of the defensive unit will have to prove themselves once again in a first round ACC Tournament matchup against the Cavaliers’ top-ranked scoring offense. A win Friday, though, would just be one small step towards an elusive repeat national championship, one that will only make it back to Durham if the Blue Devils can take their hot play on the road.
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3:54 AM
April 19, 2011
2011

An Open Letter to Kyle and Larry, i.e. the Dudes Who Thought It Was Cool to Test a Tornado Warning System During a Torrential Downpour:

Dear Kyle and Larry,

On Saturday afternoon I was leisurely working in my room, one window open by my desk to alleviate some of the stuffiness that permeates West Campus dormitories. Occasionally, a gentle breeze wafted in through the windows, and I thought “Ahh, what a great time to be a Duke student, living on campus.”

At around 3 PM (times approximate), what I will describe as a “a rain so vicious that the wind howled of 1000 dying cats and that the freshman took boats – not buses – between East and West” shattered my idyllic trance. Thunder shook the earth, and the engineer down the hall began drafting plans for a large ark that would save the Greeks, the Independents, and stray kittens in groups of six (per the new House Model guidelines, obvi.)

Panicked thoughts filled my head: Could this be the start of what I had been hearing the was a very serious potential for tornadoes nearby? Was I going to be safe in my second-story, window-lined, brick enclosure? Or worst of all – if I didn’t close my window in time, would the fierce winds capture my laptop and steal my thesis before I was able to turn it in? As I struggled to close my window, moving aside my now-soaked curtains, impending doom seemed inevitable.

Half an hour later, as I huddled in my room in despair, my worst fears seemed confirmed: I began to hear the tell-tale sirens of the severe weather alert system outside my window.

What was I supposed to do during one of these, again? Was it safest to go to the basement or would simply relocating to the center-most area of the building suffice? I had heard “test sirens” a few times a year during my time at Duke, but, well they were always simply “just a test,” and I had never been expected to necessarily act on them.

OH! I began to hear garbled language following the sirens. I strained my ears to make out the words over the din of the pounding rain against my now closed windows. Garblegarble. Alert. Garblegarblegarble. Duke. Garblegarble. Test.

Wait – alert? Duke? TEST???

Yes, Kyle and Larry, what I – and some of my hallmates who had come out of their rooms to confirm - had just experienced was a "TEST" of the tornado warning system, IN THE MIDST OF A TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR. As I tried to wrap my head around the inanity of such a stupid decision, I heard it again – yes, a second "test" of the severe weather alert system during, oh I don’t know, SEVERE WEATHER.

You write in your letter that “During the day, Duke University police were in constant communication with a subscription weather service that provided us specific information concerning the track of the storm and any tornadic activity in the area” but did you LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW BEFORE YOU DECIDED TO THAT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO SOUND AN ALARM SYSTEM WHEN A RAIN SIGNALING THE APOCALYPSE HAD TAKEN OVER DUKE’S CAMPUS?

As a student, I would say I’m relatively low-maintenance. I did not get overly upset when either Tailgate or Beer Trucks got canceled, and did not even raise too much of a fight about the whole raised dining fee fiasco.

I do, however, ask that you think wisely before running a “test” of an alarm system during a cause for alarm.

Oh, Kyle and Larry, I only have a few weeks left. Let’s just use the little time that I have remaining by exercising some common sense. In the future, (preferably a little more in advance of impending-doom befalling campus) please just send me an email or text: I know it's what you do best.

Yours truly,
2011
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http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/response-dukealert-silent-during-storm

In Response to “DukeALERT silent during storm”
letter to the editor
By Kyle Cavanaugh and Larry Moneta
April 19, 2011



We thought it might be useful to provide additional information about the activity this weekend to help ensure the safety of students and other members of the Duke community, most of which was included in an article posted on Duke Today on Sunday following the storm.

Throughout the day Saturday, we were monitoring the situation closely and were in regular contact with leaders from campus, facilities, the health system, police, communication and student affairs. We were prepared to launch communication in the event the storm threatened the campus.

If the tornado watch for Durham had been upgraded to a tornado warning, the DukeALERT emergency notification system would have been immediately activated to direct people to take shelter.

Duke’s outdoor warning system was also tested about 3:30 p.m. Saturday before the storm arrived in Durham. Given the power outages that were being reported in other communities, the sirens and a test message were activated to ensure everything was working properly in case it was needed.

During the day, Duke University police were in constant communication with a subscription weather service that provided us specific information concerning the track of the storm and any tornadic activity in the area.

Precautionary plans began as early as Friday as Athletics moved to reschedule a men’s lacrosse game against Virginia Saturday for earlier in the day to avoid the incoming storm.

Duke University Hospital was also on alert after the storm in preparation to receive large volumes of patients from several small regional hospitals.

We were fortunate that Duke and Durham were not directly impacted by the storm, but we were prepared to warn the community had there been an imminent threat of danger.

Kyle Cavanaugh

Emergency Coordinator and

Vice President for Human Resources

Larry Moneta

Vice President for Student Affairs
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http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/04/19/1139192/ex-easley-aide-to-learn-his-sentence.html

Published Tue, Apr 19, 2011 02:00 AM
Modified Tue, Apr 19, 2011 04:55 AM
Ex-Easley aide to learn his sentence in May
STAFF WRITERS ANDY CURLISS AND ROB CHRISTENSEN


Ruffin Poole, a longtime aide to former Gov. Mike Easley who was described in court documents as the "little governor," is set to be sentenced for income tax evasion next month.

Poole entered a guilty plea one year ago this week in federal court, and he pledged cooperation in what was then a wide-ranging probe of Easley.

There were mixed views at the time about whether Poole's deal would lead to more indictments or charges.

Poole struck the plea bargain in exchange for prosecutors' dropping of more than 50 counts of corruption-related charges.

Then, late last year, Easley entered a guilty plea in state court on a felony campaign finance charge in a three-way deal that halted the federal probe without any other federal action against him.

Easley paid a $1,000 fine and was not sentenced to any active jail time as a part of the plea.

Poole faces up to five years in prison on the income tax evasion charge, though it is unclear whether he will receive active jail time.

The sentencing is set for 2 p.m. May 4 in federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Terrence W. Boyle.
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http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/04/19/1139275/crystal-mangum-charged-with-murder.html

Published Tue, Apr 19, 2011 02:00 AM
Modified Tue, Apr 19, 2011 04:15 AM
Crystal Mangum charged with murder in stabbing
BY JESSE JAMES DECONTO - Staff writer


DURHAM A grand jury has indicted Crystal Mangum on a murder charge in the death of a man she was dating.

Police arriving at Mangum's 3507 Century Oaks Drive home on April 3 found Reginald Daye stabbed in the torso. She is accused of stabbing him during a domestic argument.

Daye, 46, died Wednesday at Duke Hospital, police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said.

Mangum, the woman at the center of the Duke University lacrosse scandal five years ago, is being held in the Durham County jail.

She originally faced a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. On Monday, the grand jury upgraded that charge to murder. Her bail is set at $300,000.

Five years ago, Mangum accused members of the Duke lacrosse team of sexually assaulting her while she was working as a stripper for an escort service.

The accusations were eventually determined to be false, and the charges were dismissed by state Attorney General Roy Cooper. The controversial case, however, left a vicious aftermath of devastated careers and reputations. Many lawsuits generated by the case are pending in the courts.

Since that spring night in 2006 when Duke lacrosse players hired her to strip at a team party, Mangum has been in and out of courtrooms and social services offices.

"She can't get a job because people know who she is, and if she does get one they fire her once they figure it out," said Vincent Clark, Mangum's friend and co-author of her memoir, "The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story."

Mangum made headlines last year when Durham police charged her with felony arson, child abuse, vandalism and resisting a law-enforcement officer. In February 2010, police accused Mangum of slashing the tires of her boyfriend, Milton Walker, smashing his windshield with a vacuum cleaner and setting fire to a pile of his clothes in a bathtub while the police and her three children were in her apartment.

Mangum was convicted in that case of child abuse, vandalism and resisting an officer.
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http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/articles/?p=40070

Murder, She Wrought
by DBR, April 19th, 2011 | Main |

Crystal Mangum’s sordid downward spiral continues as the former stripper/accuser now stands accused of murder after stabbing her latest boyfriend. He held on for several days but ultimately died, and now Mangum has been indicted.

Since there appears to be a fair amount of evidence, including one would assume a bloody knife with her fingerprints, her odds don’t seem very good.

And speaking of people who are recently indicted, former Virginia laxer George Huguely has (finally) been indicted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley Love. Since Huguely’s attorneys admit guilt but deny intent, we can probably dispense with the alleged.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/18/north.carolina.lacrosse.accuser/?hpt=T1

Duke lacrosse accuser charged with murder in boyfriend's stabbing

(CNN) -- A North Carolina woman who stirred national headlines when she accused three Duke University student-athletes of rape is now herself accused of murder, a county law enforcement official said Monday.

Crystal Mangum, 32, was charged Monday with murder, five days after her boyfriend succumbed to stabbing-related injuries at a Durham, North Carolina, hospital, according to Candy Clark, a spokeswoman for the Durham County District Attorney's Office. She also is now facing two felony charges of larceny.

Prosecutors reassessed the charges against Mangum after the death of Reginald Daye at Duke University Hospital on Wednesday.

Reginald Daye dies last week

Police say she stabbed the 46-year-old man in the torso during an argument early on April 3 at the apartment the couple shared in Durham.

Later that day, Mangum was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, police said. She was placed in the Durham County Jail without bond, where she remained Monday.

Mangum's next court appearance on the murder charge has not been scheduled, but the district attorney's office said it will occur no earlier than May 2.

In March 2006, Mangum claimed she was sexually assaulted by three players on the Duke lacrosse team -- annually one of the best collegiate squads in the nation -- while performing as a stripper at a team party.

North Carolina's attorney general later found no credible evidence that the attacks occurred and the charges were dropped.

Anderson Cooper in 2007: What went wrong at Duke

The scandal, however, forced the cancellation of the men's lacrosse season that year and the resignation of team coach Mike Pressler. It also led to widespread criticism of then-Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, who was eventually disbarred for his handling of the case.

In February 2010, Mangum found herself on the other side of the law when she was charged with attempted murder after a fight with her then-boyfriend. She also was accused of arson, identity theft and resisting arrest, among other charges.

CNN affiliate WTVD-TV reported that this arrest happened after she had set fire to a pile of the boyfriend's clothes while her children were at home.

In a June 2010 interview with the station, Mangum said her boyfriend had attacked her, and she said that her involvement in the Duke lacrosse case had influenced police handling of the case.

"I do feel that I am being unjustly treated because of preconceived notions about my character in the media," Mangum said then.

In December, a jury found Mangum guilty of child abuse in the case but could not agree on a first-degree felony arson charge, which could have resulted in a seven-year sentence, WTVD reported.

InSession's Jessica Thill contributed to this report.
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New Black Panthers to protest ‘non-blacks’

Caroline May | Published: 12:01 AM 04/19/2011 | Updated: 9:52 AM 04/19/2011

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The New Black Panther Party — an organization known largely for their intimidation of voters outside a Philadelphia precinct — has announced plans for a “National Day of Action and Unity” — ironically urging followers (on their day of unity) to boycott all “non-black business” on April 23.

The New Black Panthers plan to protest non-black establishments and entities via “rallies, marches, demonstrations, programs, and confrontations” in over 60 cities.

“Because blacks worldwide are dissatisfied at their current condition,” the Panther’s announcement explains.

The group urges the authorities to leave them be, not to worry about the late April protests.

“This is organized by a new younger leadership un-approved by our former slave or colonial master,” they explain.
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http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/19/new-black-panthers-to-protest-non-blacks/#ixzz1Jz5spksV
Edited by jewelcove, Apr 19 2011, 10:49 AM.
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Duke Lacrosse Accuser Facing New Charges
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