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KING: We're going to go back to Durham now, spend a few moments with John Dagenhart, president of the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association. Trinity Park is the area in which this alleged rape occurred. He has lived in Durham since 1978.

Describe the neighborhood, John.

JOHN DAGENHART, PRESIDENT, TRINITY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, DURHAM, NC: Good evening, Larry. The neighborhood is roughly a 40- block area comprising roughly 1,200 addresses and around 700 single family homes.

KING: Have you had problems with students in that neighborhood?

DAGENHART: Yes, Larry, we have. We have had problems for years. This is one episode amongst many years of problems that we have had with a small number of students causing a large problem. And it's -- although it's a small number of students, not representative of the university as a whole, it's caused a lot of problems in the neighborhood.

KING: Is there a close relationship between Duke University and Trinity Park?

DAGENHART: There is a close proximity physically. The neighborhood is next door; they're to the west and we're to the east. And there are quite a few employees of Duke University, both professors and other employees that work at the university, amongst other neighbors of -- and it's a very diverse neighborhood.

KING: What about the response generally of the local police to student partying?

DAGENHART: The local police have been very helpful to us in the past. We've worked with them diligently to try to get a handle on things. We thought we were turning the corner with both the Durham Police Department and the university security. We're starting to patrol outside the neighborhood, and we thought we were turning the corner on some of these issues, and with the university purchasing the property and the judicial department working on some of the problems just recently. We really thought we had turned the corner, and this unfortunate situation happened.

KING: Now, you know -- you think, rather, that the vast majority of Duke students are good kids, right?

DAGENHART: Absolutely, Larry. They work hard. Many of them go out into the community and help in community events. 99.9 percent of them are upstanding citizens, and we're proud to have them as neighbors. It's just a small segment of the community that has caused a large part of the problem.

KING: Thanks, John. John Dagenhart, president of the Trinity Park Neighborhood Association. We'd all agree that Duke University is one of the great schools in the world, right?

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The Buchanan Boulevard house lies in the Trinity Park neighborhood near East Campus. Neighborhood association president John Dagenhart said the arrests highlighted for many residents of his neighborhoods a sense that they, Duke officials and the city had missed chances to address a festering problem.

"It's sad that it had to come to this," Dagenhart said. "I wish there had been a way we could have gotten a handle on past situations in some way [so] we could have avoided this. I think we were doing all we could do. It's sad that this situation had to develop the way it did. Now it's going to have to play out."

Dagenhart echoed Brown in saying that the incident will do lasting damage, especially to the people most directly involved.

"If these young men fight this and they win it, they'll forever have this hanging over their heads," he said. "And the young lady, however this turns out, she has things to deal with the rest of her life also. There are no winners in this."

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http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=117854

Group prays for healing in Duke case
4/16/2006 7:29 PM

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Activists, leaders welcome Duke arrests (barf alert)

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SUBJECT: DURHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY - MAYOR'S NOMINEE FOR RE-
APPOINTMENT
MOTION by Council Member McKissick seconded by Mayor Pro Tempore
Clement to approve the Mayor's nomination of John Dagenhart for
re-appointment to the Durham Housing Authority--term will expire
September 28, 2003 was approved at 7:27 p.m. by the following
vote: Ayes: Mayor Tennyson, Mayor Pro Tempore Clement and Council
Members Blyth, Burnette, Cheek, Edwards, Hill, Jacobs, Langley,
Larson, McKissick, Stith and Wagstaff. Noes: None. Absent: None

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