INC NEWS - Duke party busted (today's Herald-Sun)

[John Schelp]

Article from today's Herald-Sun is FYI.

~John Schelp
Old West Durham

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Duke party busted
Herald-Sun, 25 January 2005

What do you get when you cross a fraternity house, a
kiddie pool, a few hundred students and several
bottles of baby oil?

Complaints from your neighbors, a ticket from police
and several bikini-clad Duke University students
running for the hills in freezing temperatures.

It happened Saturday night, when Durham police were
called to 508 N. Buchanan Blvd. around midnight to
check a report of loud noises. When officers arrived,
they found the house filled with about 200 students.

While officers were inside breaking up the party,
several oil-soaked, bikini-clad women ran out of a
room, police said. The room turned out to be a
basement, where police found a square inflatable pool
filled with baby oil.

"Inside were several of America's future, re-enacting
a scene from the movie 'Old School,' where females
wrestle in a pool of lubricants," said Durham Police
Sgt. D. Gunter.

Police said they immediately sent everyone out of the
house, including a few of the women who had no other
clothing besides the bikinis they were wearing.

Officers also charged Nicholas Hunter Roberts, who
lives at the Buchanan Boulevard address, with
violating the city's noise ordinance. The charge is a
misdemeanor punishable by a $150 fine, Gunter said.

The boisterous, often drunken behavior of Duke
students, long a topic of concern in communities
neighboring East Campus, has taken center stage the
past two school years. On several community listservs,
computer e-mail forums, residents have complained
about loud parties, yards littered with cups and beer
cans, students urinating and cursing loudly in public,
and front porches decorated with couches, recliners
and other items normally found in living rooms.

In response to other 911 calls Saturday night and
early Sunday morning, police shut down other parties
in and around Duke's campus, Gunter said.

Duke police called Durham police about a large crowd
in the yard at 704 N. Buchanan Blvd. Officers arrived
and ended the party without making arrests after the
crowd cooperated and left, Gunter said.

But at a party on West Trinity Avenue, police cited
several students for disturbing their neighbors.

John Newman, 21, of 1026 W. Trinity Ave.; Neil
Bharucha, 21, of 1026 W. Trinity Ave.; Peter Volsky,
21, of 1026 W. Trinity Ave.; Marco Gonzalez, 22, of
1026 W. Trinity Ave.; and Logan Smith, 22, of 814
Lancaster St., all face the $150 fine for violating
the city's noise ordinance.

Gunter said he also followed up on neighborhood
complaints on Onslow Street near the Trinity Heights
neighborhood just north of Duke's East Campus. When he
knocked on the door of 903 Onslow St., he said, he was
greeted by the resident and a cloud of marijuana
smoke.

Gunter charged Tyson Martin Johnson, 21, with
possession of marijuana and possession of drug
paraphernalia.

Police will share the charges and the students' names
with Duke University, Gunter said.