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Sexual assault reported in Durham (Blog & Media Roundup - Monday, April 28, 2008)
Raleigh News & Observer ^ | April 28, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 04/28/2008 2:01:20 AM PDT by abb

Published: Apr 28, 2008 12:30 AM Modified: Apr 28, 2008 01:44 AM

Sexual assault reported in Durham From Staff Reports Durham Police are investigating a reported sexual assault in the 900 block of Gilbert Street at 7:51 a.m. Sunday.

The victim was taken to Durham Regional Hospital for treatment.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; durham; nifong
Today's roundup thread.
1 posted on 04/28/2008 2:01:20 AM PDT by abb
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http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-946324.cfm

CRIME LOG
The Herald-Sun
Apr 28, 2008

Man is jailed on heroin count

DURHAM — Durham police jailed a man on heroin-trafficking charges Saturday.

Roderick Demain Gatling, 33, of 7000 Canaan Lane, Apartment 16, Raleigh, faces two counts of trafficking heroin and one count of possessing heroin with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver.

An arrest warrant on file at the county magistrate’s office Sunday said the possession charge involves 4.2 ounces of the drug. Gatling was ordered held in the Durham County Jail pending a $300,000 secured bond on the possession charge and separate $100,000 secured bonds on the trafficking counts.

Durham Police officers made the arrest off a Sept. 20 arrest warrant sworn by police Cpl. Melissa Kennedy.

Warrants issued for 2 in stabbing

DURHAM — Durham police have identified two suspects in a stabbing Saturday at No. 6 Atka Court.

Warrants have been issued for Walter Lamont Thorn-Price, 19, and Kenneth Lamont Reams, 35, and both should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.

Police said a 34-year-old man was stabbed repeatedly and beaten at about 6 a.m. Saturday and is in serious but stable condition at Duke Hospital. Police have not released his name.

Sexual assault is reported

DURHAM — Durham police are investigating a possible sexual assault at about 7:50 a.m. Sunday in the 900 block of Gilbert Street.

The victim was taken to Durham Regional Hospital for treatment.

Anyone with information is asked to call Durham Crimestoppers at 683-1200 or detective A.M. Cristaldi at 560-4450, extension 255.


2 posted on 04/28/2008 2:02:19 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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3 posted on 04/28/2008 2:03:05 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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http://cornellsun.com/section/news/content/2008/04/28/alleged-assault-incites-controversy

Alleged Assault Incites Controversy
By Ben Eisen and Emily Cohn
Created Apr 28 2008 - 12:00am

* News Story

“Hey ho! These sexist assholes have to go!”

The chants heard on Ho Plaza last Wednesday reverberated throughout campus, within earshot of the University’s administrators tucked behind the walls of Day Hall. The student activist group, Sexual Violence Resistance Network, touted pickets and distributed pamphlets, inciting inflammatory statements such as, “one in four women at Cornell will have experienced rape and/or attempted rape.”

“Our campus is rife with rape culture,” said Marlena Fontes ’10, in front of a few dozen noisy protestors on Ho Plaza. “I tell you this not to bring you down, but to bring you out to fight.”

Since July, the Cornell Police Department has reported six sexual assaults on campus, four of which were classified as rape. Though the Ithaca Police department handled four of the assaults, Kathy Zoner, deputy chief of the CUPD, could only confirm that one had resulted in arrest.

SVRN’s mobilization and the protest that ensued over the last few weeks has attacked President David Skorton, the entire Cornell administration and the University’s crisis management team for their supposed inability to help and respond to rape victims.

The impetus for the protest began three weeks ago with the alleged rape of a sophomore named Alex (named changed for victim’s confidentiality). According to Alex, it was her friendship with a drug dealer formerly in a West Campus fraternity that spurred the incident. While on ecstasy, she believes she was forced to perform oral sex on him, and possibly engage in vaginal intercourse.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines rape as, “carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her consent.” Since Alex was under the influence of drugs, U.S. law dictates that her claims can be classified as rape.

When Alex’s Spanish professor saw her in class the day after the incident, she had what she described as bruises and scratches on her face, at which point the professor told her to go to Gannett Health Services. After being assessed, Alex claims that the nurse verified she had been sexually assaulted.

“I went to the hospital the next day. My mouth was really fucked up,” Alex said. “Inside my mouth was all swollen and it looked like second degree burns. [It was actually from] forced oral … At first I was just like ‘what happened to me?’”

Alex was called to a meeting with an assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, where she says she was told she “looked like a junkie from the ’70s” and that she needed to seek help.

“I get there and instead of it being just me and her, there’s a bunch of people there,” Alex recounted.

She said that the assistant dean had also been worried that Alex had a potential drug problem because she had done a project on legalizing heroin, and that when she attempted to say who committed the sexual assault, the dean did not seem to care.

The assistant dean was unavailable for comment.

“I told them what happened and they did not take me seriously,” she said.

Alex maintains that she and Alice Green, another assistant dean of students, agreed that her parents would not be involved in the case.

A week after the incident, Alex said that Green came into her off-campus apartment and told her that her parents were waiting to talk to her in her office.

In a letter she wrote to administration members a few days ago, she stated, “I was basically told, ‘if you don’t pack up and leave now, for your safety you cannot come back to Cornell in the fall’ … Why am I the last one to be informed of my parents coming up? That is such an invasion of privacy.”

Alex told The Sun that she made an agreement with Green that if she were to tell her mother anything, it would be that she “got beat up and that’s why [she] had to go home.”

According to Prof. Andrea Parrot, policy analysis and management, chair of the Cornell Advocates for Rape Education, confidentiality plays a crucial role in dealing with rape victims.

“If you are not a minor, we can’t release that kind of information to your family,” Parrot said.

However, Simeon Moss ’73, director of Cornell Press Relations, said that in extreme cases, “it is a policy to contact parents when someone is in danger to oneself or others, and cases that question the student’s continued enrollment in the University.”

He said that it is the Office of the Dean of Students, along with a support team, that decides when to release a student’s case to his or her parents. However, there are no hard and fast rules for when parents must be contacted.

Alex claimed that the University told her it was “best to get the parents involved.”

Currently, according to the Ithaca Police Department, a case is pending in Alex’s name. Though it is not a criminal complaint, there is a second-hand investigation underway. Moss encouraged anyone with information regarding the incident to come forth and help the authorities.

“[The] case is under investigation,” said Officer Don Hoyt of the IPD, adding that when the case was first opened, “the victim refused to cooperate” with authorities. Often times, Hoyt acknowledged, a “victim is scared and upset and refuses to cooperate, but eventually they come around.”

Now at home, Alex claims that the University has changed its decision daily on how to deal with her situation. After writing the letter to the administration, Alex says that Cornell has told her she will be able to go abroad next fall, as she had planned to do before the incident. She currently has a lawyer, but has yet to press charges against the University.

“Cornell is wrongly making this into a ‘drug problem’ and forcing me to get evaluated when the real problem here is that I got sexually assaulted and nothing is being done about it,” Alex stated. “I am being treated like the problem.”

Parrot said that the services Cornell provides to victims of sexual assault depends on what the individual wants to pursue, specifying that the police, Gannett, the judicial administrator and Victims Advocate Nina Cummings are all available to help.

Triggered by the incident, Alex’s friend Kristin Herbeck ’10 began a campus-wide campaign through SVRN in response to Alex’s case, and what she believes to be the University’s sub par response to rape victims. In a statement distributed at the rally, she wrote, “There is no way we will let Cornell get away with this to maintain a system of impunity for sexual violence against women [sic].”

Others stood up at the rally to speak out against what they believe to be an injustice. The protestors’ impassioned voices rang loud last Wednesday, bringing up concerns about Cornell’s response to sexual assault cases on campus. Their remarks uncovered past dissatisfaction with action taken by the Judicial Administrator.

“We are informed [by Cornell] when someone’s iPod is stolen, but we’re not informed when someone is harassed and assaulted,” one protestor lamented. “President Skorton is responsible. This is unacceptable.”

Four years ago, The Sun reported a rape that occurred on Labor Day of 2004 on University property. Relatives of the victim claimed that the Judicial Administrator silenced the case.

However, Parrot emphasized to The Sun yesterday that the J.A. can only prosecute students on sexual assault charges if there is evidence. Often — especially when a victim waits a long time to report the incident — there is insufficient evidence to implicate rape. Furthermore, the J.A. will not press charges if the victim does not want to.

Judicial Administrator Mary-Beth Grant was unavailable for comment.

The larger issue of rape on college campuses has raised much concern over the last few years. Rape charges filed against members of the Duke University Lacrosse Team fell into the national spotlight in 2006, eliciting criticism regarding assault on college campuses.

Today’s university culture, largely described as involving “casual hook-ups,” has also raised concerns about student safety. According to the Brown University Health Education website, 90 percent of campus rapes occur when alcohol is involved.

Though Alex’s case has drawn attention on campus, many more rapes go unreported. The University Rochester’s 1992 Sexual Assault Statistics report that only 16 percent of rapes are reported to the police. This means that about 650,000 rapes actually occurred in 1992.

For now, Alex is waiting for confirmation regarding her academic status at Cornell. Though she claims otherwise, Moss said that Alex is currently a full-time student, and he expects that she will finish the semester.


4 posted on 04/28/2008 2:15:19 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/1052540.html

Published: Apr 28, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: Apr 28, 2008 01:43 AM

Duke men win lacrosse title
Danowski scores three goals; Loftus helps Devils hold off Cavaliers to take ACC

The Associated Press

Dan Loftus recorded a season-high 17 saves to help the top-seeded Duke men’s lacrosse team to an 11-9 victory over third-seeded Virginia and its second straight ACC tournament championship on Sunday in Charlottesville, Va.

The Blue Devils (15-1) held an 11-3 lead with six minutes left in the third period and held off the Cavaliers (12-3) over the last 21-plus minutes to claim the program’s sixth ACC title, including the second straight league crown and the fourth in the last eight years.

Matt Danowski led Duke with three goals and an assist, and Ned Crotty and Zack Greer each scored two goals.

Duke opened the third period with four straight goals to take an 11-3 lead at the 6:36 mark. Danowski scored three of the four goals during that span, two of which came in man-up situations.


5 posted on 04/28/2008 2:17:11 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080428/SPORTS/617163906/1005

Duke tops UVa, claims second straight title

April 28, 2008

By Patrick Stevens - CHARLOTTESVILLE — It won’t take a perfect game for No. 3 Virginia to upend top-ranked Duke in next month’s NCAA tournament.

A complete game, though, wouldn’t hurt.

The Cavaliers stumbled through three quarters before scoring the final six goals in an 11-9 loss to the Blue Devils in the ACC tournament final at Klockner Stadium.

It was Virginia’s second loss in 16 days to a formidable Duke team and left the Cavaliers (12-3) flustered with their early sloppy play.

“We only played one quarter of lacrosse and lost by two,” said goalie Bud Petit, who made a career-high 18 saves. “We figured something out in that second half that I think most teams haven’t figured out. Honestly, I don’t know what it was, but we just started playing. If we play four quarters [that] way, we’ll have a lot better shot.”

Tournament MVP Dan Loftus, one of four fifth-year seniors that made the all-tournament team this season, made 17 saves as the Duke Blue Devils (15-1) won their second straight ACC title.

With Petit matching Loftus save for save, the more opportunistic team figured to thrive. For much of the day, that was Duke.

The Blue Devils built a 7-3 lead and extended it to 11-3 behind three extra-man goals in the third quarter. Through it all, it seemed the Cavaliers might endure an avalanche similar to the 19-9 loss to Duke on April 12, when the Blue Devils scored the final 10 goals.

“We just looked a little bit in awe in the first 20 minutes,” Virginia coach Dom Starsia said. “All this talk about Duke and all the circumstances and everything else — I thought we stood around and gave them too many second-chance opportunities in the first half.”

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6 posted on 04/28/2008 2:18:43 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/sports.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-04-28-0258.html

U.Va. men beaten; women win in OT
Cavs launch 6-goal scoring barrage, but Blue Devils prevail

http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/sports/cavalier_insider/ci_lacrosse/article/ratcliffe_on_for_cavs_the_best_is_yet_to_come/20984/

RATCLIFFE ON: For Cavs, the best is yet to come

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702357.html

Duke Beats Virginia To Win ACC Tourney


7 posted on 04/28/2008 2:21:48 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/18323314.html?showAll=y&c=y

LSU A.D. expects plenty of victories

* By JORDAN BLUM
* Advocate Capitol news bureau
* Published: Apr 28, 2008 - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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Tucked in a cramped, windowless storage room serving as his transition office, Joe Alleva is flanked by stacks of LSU national championship Coca-Cola cans.

The lack of stellar décor holds little significance to LSU’s new athletic director. He’s too busy to notice his surroundings as he prepares to succeed Skip Bertman.

Alleva, 54, is preparing for the official move to LSU from basketball powerhouse Duke University on July 1. He describes the last few weeks as a “whirlwind.”

He was first contacted about the LSU job on a Friday —March 28 — and he accepted the job offer one week later.

Then he flew to the Final Four in San Antonio, where he interviewed and quickly helped hire new men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson of Stanford University.

“I’m glad it happened fast, because I didn’t have a lot of time to think about it,” Alleva said about leaving Duke after 32 years.

Now, Alleva is ready to meet the LSU community and fans.

“I’d like them to get to know me as a good person — as a good leader and a person who is passionate about the kids,” Alleva said.

“And I want to win,” he said.

“One of the big reasons why I came here is I believe LSU has the opportunity to win in anything they put their mind to.”

Alleva has a background in business and finance, but he doesn’t like to pigeonhole his areas of expertise that way. He touts his fundraising abilities, his administrative acumen and his ability to gauge people’s strengths and best utilize their strong points.

But Alleva doesn’t intend to bask much in the limelight of LSU sports. That isn’t his style.

“I believe my job is to help our coaches win championships and help our student athletes,” he said, “and make sure we do all that with integrity and within the rules.”

Chris Kennedy, Duke’s new interim athletic director, has worked with Alleva for about 30 years. Kennedy said Alleva is a relaxed, friendly guy and a man of great integrity.

“His philosophy is to hire good people and get out of their way,” Kennedy said. “Don’t micromanage. Let people exercise their talents.”

Alleva grew up in Suffern, N.Y., a village about an hour north of New York City’s Wall Street. He went to play football and baseball at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

He worked as graduate assistant football coach at Lehigh to pay for his master’s of business administration degree — an experience he said taught him he did not want to coach football for a living.

When it came time to finding a job, Alleva went to the Lehigh placement office and came across a Duke opening for a business job on the academic side of campus.

Alleva was actually planning for a career in hospital administration. But he was summoned to help with financial problems in the athletic department.

“That really proved to be a perfect situation,” Alleva said.

He ended up as the department’s finance director in 1980 and he became athletic director in 1998.

Jack Winters, director of Iron Dukes — the equivalent of the Tiger Athletic Foundation — said Alleva was great for Duke and he “hates” to see him leave.

A “great deal” of Duke’s fundraising and facilities growth happened because of Alleva, Winters said.

Not everyone at Duke is upset to see him leave.

Upon news of Alleva’s departure, Duke’s The Chronicle student newspaper wrote, “Goodbyes are never easy — well, except for this one.”

Author and Washington Post columnist John Feinstein said, “I’m grateful to LSU, speaking as a Duke alumnus.

“I just thought he was overmatched in the Duke job,” said Feinstein, a frequent Alleva critic.

Those criticisms are a combination of frustration over Duke’s football failures — two wins in the last three years — and the 2006 coverage surrounding the rape allegations against three lacrosse players, all of whom were eventually cleared. The local district attorney was disbarred.

Feinstein even admits that Alleva only deserves “minimal” blame for the lacrosse issue. But Feinstein said Alleva was never the right person for the job.

“He’s just not a leader in any way, shape or form,” Feinstein said.

LSU could be a better fit for him though, Feinstein said, because LSU has a strong department that Alleva only has to manage.

Alleva can only discuss lacrosse so much because of pending lawsuits. He said he is not being sued but may have to testify.

But Alleva does argue the right decisions were made to cancel the lacrosse season given the limited information available at the time.

“You just can’t believe everything you read,” Alleva said.

Kennedy said a lot of people even in the Duke community still have the wrong impression of how things played out.

“His (Alleva’s) role was not to make decisions,” Kennedy said. “It was to carry out.”

A bad 2006 for Alleva got worse when he needed 42 stitches after a boating accident. His son J.D. Alleva plead guilty to operating the boat recklessly in exchange for an alcohol-related charge being dropped, according to reports.

Alleva admitted they made the mistake of speeding, but they were hurrying to get to shore during a thunderstorm.

“There was no alcohol involved,” he said.

Alleva said he thinks LSU can win national championships in all of its 20 sports.

“I want to do everything I can to help those Olympic sports coaches win,” he said, “but not to the detriment of football, because I know football is king, and I want it to stay king.”

Alleva said he is eager to attend his first game in Tiger Stadium, joking that LSU’s spring game attendance exceeded Duke’s best-attended game all year.

It was “frustrating” that Duke lacked the “university commitment” for football, he said. That changed with the recent hiring of former Ole Miss coach David Cutcliffe, he said.

“At Duke, without that being a university priority, there’s only so much an athletic director can do,” Alleva said.

But now, Alleva wants to focus all his attention on improving LSU.

“That’s my goal — to try to make this place a little bit better every day,” he said.


8 posted on 04/28/2008 2:25:36 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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According to the Brown University Health Education website, 90 percent of campus rapes regrettable sex occur when alcohol is involved.

Fixed it.

9 posted on 04/28/2008 2:27:20 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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10 posted on 04/28/2008 3:07:16 AM PDT by abb (Organized Journalism: Marxist-style collectivism applied to information sharing)
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While on ecstasy, she believes she was forced to perform oral sex on him, and possibly engage in vaginal intercourse.

She doesn't know? The intercourse should be easy to test for and she should have gotten this test immediately.

11 posted on 04/28/2008 3:26:04 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Our campus is rife with rape culture,” said Marlena Fontes ’10, in front of a few dozen noisy protestors on Ho Plaza.

As the man say..."You can't make this sh!t up."

12 posted on 04/28/2008 4:53:47 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Durham, where bottom feeders go to die.)
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“But Alleva does argue the right decisions were made to cancel the lacrosse season given the limited information available at the time.”

What other team, under any circumstances, has ever had their season canceled?

And if the university wanted more information, why didn’t it wait a couple of days until the DNA results came back?


13 posted on 04/28/2008 5:07:21 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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Alleva is the biggest jerk of the hoax. (They are all evil)

Too bad they didn’t suspend him for allowing his son to get behind the wheel of a boat after drinking (given our limited knowledge, of course)


14 posted on 04/28/2008 5:36:11 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Durham, where bottom feeders go to die.)
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To: SeaHawkFan

Yes, you did fix it. To classify what “Alex” says happened to her as rape is to diminish the genuine suffering true rape victims suffer. She may have been the victim of some sort of sexual assault (even though she doesn’t really know) but it was not rape. Sad, when are laws become so bastardized.


15 posted on 04/28/2008 6:32:21 AM PDT by TXreader
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