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http://www.heraldsun.com/news/x2042199588/Appeals-court-rules-lawsuit-can-move-forward-against-Duke-Hospital Appeals court rules lawsuit can move forward against Duke Hospital Aug. 20, 2013 @ 07:05 PM Beth Velliquette The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled against Duke University Health Systems and two doctors, saying a malpractice claim against them can go forward. The case involved a woman who went in for surgery to have a section of her small intestine removed. The surgeons were then to reattach the intestine to the rectum, but instead reattached it to her vagina. Linda and Frank Robinson filed the lawsuit against Duke University Health Systems, Christopher Mantyh and Erich S. Huang, along with several other doctors. However, the case will go forward only against Duke University Health Systems, Mantyh and Huang, based on the Court of Appeals conclusion. The Robinsons appealed a ruling by Durham County Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson, who dismissed the case against the hospital and the doctors when he granted their motion for summary judgment. The surgery occurred in March 2008 when Robinson was admitted to Duke University Medical Center and elected to undergo a surgical procedure, which was performed by Mantyh, the chief of Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery at the hospital, and was assisted by Huang, a general surgery resident at the hospital. On the day following the surgery, the patient reported problems, and it was discovered that her small intestine had been connected to her vagina rather than to her rectum. She underwent a second surgery to repair the misconnection, and later she suffered a stress-related psychiatric disorder and was hospitalized briefly for it. She and her husband filed a complaint alleging negligence against all the defendants. Duke Hospital and the doctors argued that her lawsuit did not meet the requirements for a medical negligence claim because it did not conform with a legal doctrine that says that, in certain medical malpractice cases, only an expert would be able to determine whether malpractice occurred. The reason for the doctrine comes from understanding that the majority of medical treatment involves certain inherent risks even when appropriate care is given. Plus, the scientific and technical nature of medical treatment renders an average juror unfit to determine negligence, the ruling states. The Court of Appeals, however, said that, in this case, a layperson would be able to determine negligence. "It is common knowledge and experience that intestines are meant to connect with the anus, not the vagina, even following a surgical procedure to correct a bowel problem," the Court ruled. The Court of Appeals rejected Duke Hospital's argument, which included technical and medical terminology. The Court also ruled that Hudson should not have granted summary judgment on the issues, because another judge, Robert Hobgood, already had ruled against the defendants when they previously filed a motion to dismiss. "Our case law is clear that 'one judge may not reconsider the legal conclusions of another judge,'" the Court of Appeals ruled. The ruling of the Court of Appeals allows the Robinsons to proceed with their lawsuit against Mantyh, Huang and Duke University Medical Center. The Court affirmed Hudson's order in favor of the defendants regarding punitive damages, saying there was no evidence that the defendant's conduct in this case was willful, wanton, malicious or fraudulent. |
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 04:59 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.heraldsun.com/news/x2042199384/NCCUs-Frazier-arrested-again-suspended NCCU's Frazier arrested again, suspended Aug. 20, 2013 @ 10:38 PM John McCann DURHAM — N.C. Central’s football team has taken an untimely, albeit familiar, hit. “North Carolina Central University is aware of the arrest of Henry Frazier III, head football coach, on (Monday), August 19,” NCCU spokeswoman Ayana Hernandez said in a statement released on Tuesday. “Coach Frazier has been suspended with full pay in accordance with university policies and procedures while the matter is being investigated by legal authorities. Dwayne Foster, assistant head coach, will serve as acting head football coach.” Frazier, who has been preparing for his third NCCU season, was charged with violating a domestic violence protective order, taken into custody and released on $5,000 bond. It’s a misdemeanor offense, and Frazier is scheduled to deal with it in a Wake County courtroom on Sept. 30. The situation is nothing like it sounds, said attorney Ralph Frasier, who represents Frazier. “He will be vindicated,” Frasier said. According to a police report, the protective order was violated at the Cary residence of Frazier’s ex-wife, Lanier Turner-Frazier, at around 2 p.m. on Monday. Police cited no evidence of bodily harm to Turner-Frazier, and the report noted that no weapons, alcohol or other illegal substances were involved. The offender didn’t use force to enter the residence and caused no property damage, according to the report. That’s because Frazier wasn’t there; he was on campus at NCCU, Frasier said. The police report said that a juvenile male was at Turner-Frazier’s residence. That young man is the son of Frazier and his ex-wife, and he delivered a note from his father to Turner-Frazier about a parking ticket that was generated either by her or her biological daughter that Frazier has raised as his own, Frasier said. In the note, Frazier, in a non-threatening way, explained that he’d taken care of the ticket and would deduct what he paid from Turner-Frazier’s alimony, Frasier said. The letter was hand-delivered by the son, in keeping with “the pattern of practice” that Frazier and Turner-Frazier have used since their separation to communicate about financial matters, Frasier said. The protective order appears to have been in place from a situation that reportedly was resolved about this time a year ago. Last May, police responded to Frazier’s house on Bending Branch Court in Morrisville after being notified that a domestic assault had occurred. Officers found evidence of an assault, but Frazier wasn’t there. Police later caught up with Frazier in his car not far from the house. The coach was charged with assault on a female and jailed at the Wake County Detention Center, where he was released the same day under $1,500 secured bond. Frazier, who was earning an annual salary of $225,000, was suspended with pay while Foster stepped in as NCCU’s acting head coach. The case made its way through the legal system, and Frazier ended up signing a court document in which he admitted to getting into an argument with Turner-Frazier before trying to pray for her by rubbing anointing oil on her, although he said that’s not something that she wanted to occur. Frazier pleaded guilty with the understanding that the charge against him would go away if he completed a program aimed at helping him better understand abusive behavior. In July 2012, less than two weeks from NCCU’s first day of football practice, Frazier was reinstated. During a press conference around that time, Frazier owned up to his mistakes, apologizing to his family, the university and his supporters for being a distraction. He said that he’s a public figure whose private life, consequently, is public. NCCU athletics director Ingrid Wicker-McCree at the time said that she had full confidence that Frazier had learned from an “unfortunate situation.” There was backlash from those disturbed about the message NCCU sent regarding the treatment of women by allowing Frazier to return to the sideline. Charlie Nelms was NCCU’s chancellor at the time, but his eventual abrupt departure from the post led to the arrival of the school’s new leader, Debra Saunders-White, NCCU’s first permanent female chancellor. No timetable has been given for Frazier’s return, but NCCU has a firm 4 p.m. date on Aug. 31 with Duke in the Bull City Gridiron Classic at Wallace Wade Stadium. |
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 05:00 AM Post #3 |
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http://www.heraldsun.com/news/showcase/x2042199583/Friends-of-Durham-announce-2013-council-slate Friends of Durham announce 2013 council slate Aug. 20, 2013 @ 06:48 PM Ray Gronberg Ward 2 City Council candidate Omar Beasley and Ward 3 candidate Pam Karriker each picked up another endorsement Tuesday, receiving the support of the Friends of Durham. Friends leader David Smith said the group – the most conservative and Republican-leaning of Durham’s big-three political organizations – also endorsed the re-election bids of Mayor Bill Bell and Ward 1 Councilwoman Cora Cole-McFadden. Smith added that the Friends, on the whole, are satisfied with city government. “We’re pleased with the way Durham is going right now,” he said. “It seems that it’s going in the right direction.” The Friends slate is identical to the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People’s. The remaining big-three group, the People’s Alliance, is scheduled to decide its slate on Aug. 27. Beasley is one of four candidates running for an open seat in Ward 2. The incumbent, Howard Clement, is stepping down after 30 years on the council. Smith said Beasley, a bail bondsman, got the nod over fellow candidates Eddie Davis, Franklin Hanes and Del Mattioli because his job gives him “a unique perspective” on the city’s crime problems. Friends leaders were “very impressed” with Davis, a former high school teacher, but think he’s better suited to a seat on the Durham school board, Smith said. Hanes and Mattioli “impressed” interviewers but seemed “a little green,” he said. “They need to find out a little more about what’s going on in the city,” Smith said, adding that Mattioli needs to research non-finance issues and Hanes appears to have a “narrow focus” on east Durham. Karriker got the Friends nod for Ward 3 over appointed incumbent Don Moffitt. Though the group “like(s) both” and has supported both in the past, it prefers Karriker because she’s “more solid with our philosophy on things,” such as zoning decisions, Smith said. He confirmed that the Friends had given behind-the-scenes support to Karriker’s successful attempt in 2011 to secure an appointment to the County Commissioners. The group publicly endorsed Moffitt’s unsuccessful bid for election to a County Commissioners seat in 2008. Moffitt in comparison to Karriker is “a little too far to the left” for the group, though he got credit for joining the majority that voted to establish a monthly solid-waste collection fee, Smith said. Bell faces two challengers, Sylvester Williams and Michael Valentine, and got the nod for doing “a good job” overall and for having tried over the winter to orchestrate a compromise in the long-running 751 South dispute, Smith said. Valentine skipped the Friends interview. Williams attended, but was passed over because his views and the Friends’ on city finances aren’t compatible. “He’s still wanting to go into [the city’s] fund balance to pay for programs and doesn’t care about our AAA [credit] rating,” Smith said. “That gave us concern.” Cole-McFadden, though she’s running unopposed, received an endorsement based on the Friends’ overall happiness with her and the city’s work. But Smith added that he wishes the councilwoman would change her practice of nearly always echoing the mayor’s vote. “It would be better if sometimes she voted the way she felt instead of always going along with him,” Smith said, alluding to a recent zoning decision that saw Bell and Cole-McFadden defeat an application near Bell’s south Durham home that had drawn a formal protest from his neighbors.[/s] Edited by Quasimodo, Aug 21 2013, 08:32 AM.
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 05:01 AM Post #4 |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323423804579025183880280074.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection August 20, 2013, 5:37 p.m. ET Wildcatter McClendon Bets Big on Ohio Shale Former Chesapeake Chief Lines Up $1.2 Billion in Funding for Utica Shale Deals By DANIEL GILBERT, GREGORY ZUCKERMAN and RYAN DEZEMBER Aubrey McClendon, one of America's best known wildcatters, is betting again on striking it big in Ohio as he builds a new oil and gas exploration company. Mr. McClendon's deal-making in the rustbelt echoes the wager he made as chief executive of Chesapeake Energy Corp., before being ousted by unhappy investors earlier this year. It offers the first glimpse of how he hopes his comeback will unfold after he lost control of the company he co-founded in 1989. He has lined up about $1.2 billion in equity and debt financing for deals in Ohio, much of it coming from two energy-focused private-equity firms, according to people close to the matter. Mr. McClendon is close to completing an agreement to get more than $500 million from the Energy & Minerals Group, a Houston firm run by John Raymond, son of former Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Lee Raymond, according to people close to the deal. He expects to get another $200 million from private-equity group First Reserve, of Greenwich, Conn. Others will invest smaller sums, while Mr. McClendon will contribute some of his own money, the people said. The company has raised $400 million in debt, one person familiar with the matter said. Mr. McClendon's new company, American Energy Partners LP, struck a deal earlier this month to buy drilling leases on more than 22,500 acres in southeastern Ohio for $284.3 million from closely held EnerVest Ltd. and its publicly traded unit EV Energy Partners LP, according to people familiar with the deal. Separately, American Energy has acquired some properties in Ohio from Royal Dutch Shell PLC, according to a person familiar with the matter. Representatives of EnerVest and Shell declined to comment. The moves mark Mr. McClendon's return to the Utica Shale, a dense layer of rock that many in the energy industry believe holds immense quantities of oil and natural gas and which he once dubbed the "biggest thing to hit Ohio since the plow." Companies have raced to lock up drilling rights to the most promising oil and gas deposits across the country, but that land rush is largely over. So instead of sending an army of land men to lease acreage without disclosing the ultimate owner, which had been Mr. McClendon's strategy at Chesapeake, he and other would-be drillers must buy leases from a rival company, often at a premium. Analysts and the trade publication Upstream recently linked American Energy to the EnerVest sale, and speculated that Mr. McClendon is doing a separate deal with for some of its Ohio holdings. The fortunes of the Utica shale remain in flux. Companies have drilled just over 500 wells since 2011, according to Ohio records, but a lack of pipelines there has stalled production. Chesapeake has by far the most extensive operations in the Utica, and Mr. McClendon continues to own a small stake in every well the company drills through a perquisite that survived his exit and which gives him access to company information about the wells. The scion of a legendary Oklahoma wildcatter, the 54-year-old executive is regarded by many in the industry as a visionary who was early to grasp the potential of tapping oil and natural gas from shale-rock formations. "He has access to data across the region and he chose to go here," said David Tameron, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo Securities. "I think this sends a strong signal about what he thinks the prospects are." Mr. McClendon built Chesapeake from a tiny Oklahoma City concern into the nation's second-largest producer of natural gas after Exxon Mobil, spending billions of dollars to lease drilling rights to shale fields from Texas to Pennsylvania. But his spending outpaced earnings from operations, leaving Chesapeake with a cash shortfall last year as natural-gas prices tumbled to the lowest level in more than a decade. The company's swooning stock price, coupled with corporate governance controversies that included his personal stakes in all the company's wells, irked the company's biggest shareholders and hastened his departure. In April, Mr. McClendon sent a six-page pitch letter to about a dozen private-equity firms, trying to raise as much as $3 billion of "initial equity capital" for Oklahoma City-based American Energy. The letter, which asked for an unusually large slice of profits and a high degree of control over his business, discouraged some big Wall Street firms from working with Mr. McClendon, according to private-equity executives. The financing from Energy & Minerals and First Reserve will be limited to activities in the Utica, according to a person familiar with the deals. The two funds will control a subsidiary of American Energy but will have no control of the parent, the person said. His move is likely to boost the value of nearby Utica acreage, analysts said. The EnerVest leases, in the southern part of the Utica, are near where some of the most successful wells have been drilled. Write to Daniel Gilbert at daniel.gilbert@wsj.com, Gregory Zuckerman at gregory.zuckerman@wsj.com and Ryan Dezember at ryan.dezember@dowjones.com |
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 05:06 AM Post #5 |
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I call bullshit... http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/08/20/strap-yourself Strap yourself in as i see it By Scott Briggs | August 20, 2013 Class of 2017, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Scott Briggs, and your elders here at Duke mostly likely remember me as that guy who used to write columns that almost spurred protests outside Larry Moneta’s office and (hopefully) made Joe Gonzalez cry regularly. For three semesters, I was a columnist for The Chronicle before retiring to become the Editorial Page Managing Editor last year. Since then, someone has unwittingly put me in charge of this section of the paper. The fact that I’m even allowed to write to you now, as the Editor Page Editor, is just one of the many changes I’ve implemented since my leadership (read: tyranny) of this section began at the end of last year. As a wise DG at the University of Maryland once said: “Tie yourself down to whatever chair you're sitting in, because this email semester is going to be a rough f***ing ride.” But enough about me. Let’s talk a little more about those changes I mentioned. The Chronicle strives to be the watchdog of Duke University, keeping the administrators honest and demanding transparency in their dealings. I believe that transparency requires open dialogue, whether we’re talking about President Brodhead or the members of this very newspaper. In an effort to keep the dialogue open, the editors of this section will no longer be just workhorses and figure heads, editing opinions but not contributing any. Both I and Editorial Page Managing Editor Mousa Alshanteer, also a former columnist, will offer biweekly contributions to the Opinion Pages, as part of the new, weekly “Editor’s Note” feature every Thursday. And if you don’t agree with something that we, or any of the columnists, have to say, we welcome and encourage you to send us a tweet about it. We love to hear your feedback and are more than willing to engage in healthy, respectful debate with our readers. With our revamped columnist line-up that covers the full spectrum of voices and opinions from Duke undergraduates, graduate students, professors, religious leaders and alumni, I’m sure there will be no shortage of spirited dialogue to advance the conversation about issues important to the Duke community. By now, many of you may be aware that The Chronicle has chosen to cut a day of print. This exciting transition to a digital-first model will in no way mean less editorial content. In fact, there will be appreciably more. This online-focused model will mean more letters to the editor and guest columns published through The Chronicle’s website. Columns will still run online throughout the week as they always have. Be sure to look out for columns such as political talk from Adrienne Harreveld and Duke Political Union, along with the new DSG Rotating Author Series and Gap Year Series, the sort-of-sequel to last semester’s Pre-Med Series. I’m also very excited to announce the launch of a new, yet-unnamed student discussion board presented by The Chronicle Editorial Pages, debuting in less than a month. This anonymous forum will allow students to post their thoughts about weekly topics and is sure to deliver entertaining reading material. The resurrection of The Chronicle’s Backpage Opinion Blogs is also in the works for later in the semester, which will greatly expand the scope of regular opinion content beyond traditional columns. Other highlights to look forward to this semester include a new column by Rabbi Jeremy Yoskowitz, the return of Professor Carol Apollonio following a three year hiatus from the Opinion Pages, and a brand new and provocative Monday Monday. Following her semester as the outrageous and edgy Dear Dookie, Lillie Reed anchors the return of “The Socialites” feature, pairing up with rookie columnist Chelsea Sawicki. All told, this semester promises to be an exciting one for the Editorial Pages, filled with challenges, surprises and a wide range of opinions that collectively form the voice of the Duke community. I’m looking forward to returning to my role as a columnist, discussing important campus issues and making the administrators sweat. And I’m looking forward to sharing this important time in The Chronicle’s history with all of you, too. Here’s how I see it: This semester really is going to be a wild ride. I hope you’ll join us in the Editorial Pages on it. Scott Briggs is a Trinity senior and the Editorial Page Editor. His biweekly column is part of the weekly Editor’s Note feature and will run on alternate Thursdays. Send Scott a message on Twitter @SBriggsChron. |
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 05:08 AM Post #6 |
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http://dukecheck.com/?p=15493 Busy busy Posted on August 20, 2013 by DukeCheck 1 man crime wave The American Tobacco Trail runs for 23 miles, from downtown Durham on out to New Hill. It’s for joggers mainly, and walkers, who follow a path originally cut so tobacco could be moved in from the farms to processing mills in Durham. Some areas are pretty nice, like downtown where the trail runs right past the offices of Duke Corporate Education, a unit of Fuqua that pays its executives some of the University’s highest salaries. And then it runs through the worst part of town. Wells Derrick american trial robbgerThat’s where there’s been trouble. With armed robbery after armed robbery, police finally did make an arrest for a June 18th crime. And now they’ve tied the same thug to stickups on July 5 and 16. The busy suspect: 22 year old Derrick Wells, neighbor of the trail, now held in Durham County jail with his bond upped to $600,000. |
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 05:09 AM Post #7 |
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http://dukecheck.com/?p=15485 ✓ Whoops Posted on August 20, 2013 by DukeCheck Imagine this: you need surgery on your little intestine, perhaps because of a cyst or a cancerous condition. The procedure is to snip out the bad part of the intestine, and then reconnect it to the anus. Whoops. Two Duke surgeons missed. They connected the intestine to the woman’s vagina instead. The next day the woman reported problems as you can imagine, and she was brought back to the operating room for the surgeons to try again. Malpractice! Well not in the opinion of the trial court judge, Durham’s Orlando Hudson, who dismissed a case brought by Linda and Frank Robinson. Not surprisingly, they appealed, and they’ve just gotten their case back. Lawyers for Good Ole Duke tried to wiggle in any way they could. For example, they said the Robinsons needed an expert witness to say the vagina connection was malpractice. The appeals court brought some sense into play, saying “It is common knowledge and experience that intestines are meant to connect with the anus, not the vagina, even following a surgical procedure to correct a bowel problem.” Mantyh, Christopher surgeonAnd so more than five years after the operations, and after a bout with a stress related psychic disorder, the Robinsons can procede against Duke; Dr. Christopher Mantyh, who was and still is chief of gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery, shown on the left; and Dr. Erich Huang, then a resident and now operating in Seattle but clinging to an adjunct position at Duke. DukeCheck gets really upset when situations like this come into the news. Duke should bend over backward to settle with these plaintiffs, to come clean, instead of interposing absurd arguments to drag the proceedings on by suggesting ordinary people don’t know a vagina from an anus. Just like in the negligence cases involving Dr. Anil Potti, these people have suffered enough without Duke’s adding now to their misery. |
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 05:10 AM Post #8 |
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http://dukecheck.com/?p=15474 More cops? Or more PR Posted on August 20, 2013 by DukeCheck Duke Police sought today to reassure the university community that it is safe from Durham’s thugs –and at the same time, in what seems like a contradiction, outlined some extraordinary measures that are being taken because of this summer’s crime wave. One of the most dramatic is changing the face, literally, of Central Campus, where many of the crimes have occurred. All tree limbs below eight feet are being removed, and all bushes restricted to three feet in height. The theory is that with no place for him or her to hide, you’ll see your attacker and be able to get a head start running away. Yes, him or her. One of the people arrested for the armed robberies in the Sarah P Duke Gardens is a woman, who was teamed with her male cousin. latchDuke Police announced that maintenance crews have finished installing new locks on Central Campus apartments, which has been plagued by break-ins and invasions. These automatically lock whenever a door is closed, rather than leaving it up to the occupant to activate. And all sliding glass doors have gotten a second lock (see picture on left), so that a latch at the top of the door automatically closes any time a glass door is shut, in addition to the lock on the door’s handle. Presumably this means that someone wanting to open the door must manually unlatch the top lock, although this is not clear from available information. And now the spin: instead of telling us that more cops have been hired, Duke Police say “adjustments” have been made to patrols on Central and East Campus, and in a new previously not disclosed location, the Al Buehler Trail for runners. The way this is worded leaves open the distinct possibility that there are no new officers, but merely reassignments, so some areas have got to be getting fewer patrols. Or as we put it in our headline, More Patrols? Or More PR? We do not believe Duke has hired more cops. There have been no ads that we have spotted, and checks have failed to reveal that any were sworn in as provided by North Carolina Law. That means that any additional staffing comes not from armed professionals, but from unarmed security guards hired from an outside vendor by the hour. We asked Vice President for Public Relations and Obfuscation Michael Schoenfeld for information about staffing — and did not receive the courtesy of any acknowledgement much less a reply. So it’s good to see that the flack is starting the new academic year right where he ended the last. Just as a citizen can find out the numbers of cops on the city force, it is our opinion that we should be able to find out the strength of Duke Police. They exist, after all under public laws and we are dependent upon them no less than city police, and they should be transparent and accountable to those whom they serve. We note that North Carolina has recently made private police departments like Duke’s provide the same information about crimes from police reports as city departments do. Duke once listed the strength of the department in its annual Clery Report, required by federal law to disclose campus crimes. But once the number became a hot potato, it disappeared from the Reports. When the fiscal crisis struck in 2009, and the Administration decided to reduce headcount by offering early retirement incentives. Duke Police lost many of its most experienced officers. Stupidly, there was no consideration given in the incentives to control the number of people from one area of the university or one department who might leave. No one would ever say how many cops departed, but at a ceremony in the Nasher Museum marking the retirements, President Brodhead said together the officers had a total of 372 years on the job. This loss, coupled with turmoil in the leadership and charges about favoritism in hiring supervisors, have left Duke Police reeling. |
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| abb | Aug 21 2013, 05:14 AM Post #9 |
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Dorm residency issue is settled NC law Published: August 20, 2013 Updated 2 hours ago By Gerry Cohen The decision of the Pasquotank County Board of Elections to reject the city council candidacy of an Elizabeth City State University student because he lives in a dorm raises again the issue of student voting in college towns. His candidacy in a primarily black ward was challenged by a white political party chairman. It has been settled law in North Carolina that students could vote where they go to school, specifically including a dorm, as long as they do not intend to return to their parents’ home to live after graduation. That was the unanimous N.C. Supreme Court holding in the 1979 Lloyd v. Babb case in which petitioners challenged 7,000 Orange County voters and in the 1972 case of Hall v. Wake County concerning Meredith freshman Kathy Hall, who lived in a dorm. The General Assembly in the 1980s wrote the holding of the Lloyd case into a statute. I’ve been following this issue for over 40 years after working with Kathy Hall as she prepared for her 1971 Board of Elections hearing, and I was an intervening defendant in the Lloyd case. I pored through the several-foot-tall stack of challenges of all dorm and apartment residents in 1977 and discovered that even Dean Smith’s residence was challenged. Although the census since 1950 (on which political representation and many state and federal funding formulas are based) has counted all dorm residents as residents where they attend school, the issue really meant nothing until the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971. Since the local option sales tax was enacted in 1974, students pay local sales taxes, and those in apartments pay property tax through their rent. They are affected by local regulations, and in many cases their presence is the only reason the town is more than a stoplight and gas station. Montravias King went to Elizabeth City State University in 2009 as a freshman and has lived year-round there since then, spending academic years in the same dorm and summer sessions in other university housing. He has voted six times in Pasquotank County, volunteered in the community and has held several jobs there. His driver’s license address is his dorm room. Post-graduation in 2014, King plans to attend Regent University Law School in Virginia Beach and to commute from Elizabeth City. What a model citizen. On July 19, he filed to run for a city council seat. Yet by a 2-1 vote, the county board of elections last week tossed him off the ballot, saying a dorm room could not be a permanent residence, flying totally in the face of the law. The decision was shameful. It’s as if the clock is being turned back by decades. There have been just four students elected to local office in North Carolina in more than 40 years: me (Chapel Hill, 1973), Mark Chilton (Chapel Hill, 1991), Andy Ball (Boone, 2009) and Derwin Montgomery (a Winston-Salem State University dorm resident elected to the Winston-Salem city council in 2009), hardly a threat to the Republic. While students have been voting in college towns since the ’70s, never more than half actually did, and they were disproportionally graduate students. Statistics I have looked at seem to indicate that black HBCU students are more likely to vote in their college towns. My son’s fiancée is in the UNC-Chapel Hill eight-year M.D./Ph.D. program. Should she be voting at her parents’ Charlotte address where she hasn’t lived for six years? Gerry Cohen of Raleigh is a Special Counsel at the N.C. General Assembly. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/20/3122658/dorm-residency-issue-is-settled.html#storylink=cpy |
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| Quasimodo | Aug 21 2013, 08:45 AM Post #10 |
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This is really an issue for the trustees to handle; they need a better policy. Penn State attempted to "come clean" and pay off the plaintiffs as soon as possible--not five or ten years later. Penn State admitted wrongdoing and commissioned an outside investigation. Some of Penn State's officials are facing criminal charges. Perhaps Duke is too big an entity--the one industry in a one-industry town--to be challenged. But Duke's reputation is suffering (universities--especially tax-exempt ones-- should act like bullying corporations). (MOO) |
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| chatham | Aug 21 2013, 09:05 AM Post #11 |
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http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/is-sidney-harrs-crusade-for-crystal-mangum-backfiring/Content?oid=3700005 Is Sidney Harr's crusade for Crystal Mangum backfiring? by John H. Tucker 
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| Quasimodo | Aug 21 2013, 09:21 AM Post #12 |
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The Indy version: (The Indy never did cover the lax case, or expose the underside of Durham it exposed; and it later hired Samiha Khanna--of "Dancer gives details of ordeal" fame.)
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| Quasimodo | Aug 21 2013, 09:30 AM Post #13 |
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Does it seem Wahneema always perceives everything through the lens of the narrative? That plain and simple facts -- like a false accusation of rape -- have always to be bent to serve the agenda? (MOO) Edited by Quasimodo, Aug 21 2013, 09:30 AM.
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| Quasimodo | Aug 21 2013, 09:36 AM Post #14 |
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more:
If pursuing a false prosecution against innocent persons is "fighting injustice", then Prosecutor Knight, who tried the Scottsboro boys, ought to be listed in the same category. (sarc/off) |
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| Jack Wade | Aug 21 2013, 09:59 AM Post #15 |
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Try reading the Indy piece to do more than confirm your own biases about the paper. Lots of useful information is there. To wit:
Edited by Jack Wade, Aug 21 2013, 09:59 AM.
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