INC NEWS - [Fwd: Re: Moneta co-chairing presidential committee???]

[kjj1 at duke.edu]

Dear Regina deLacy:

You might be interested in the following statement, which was released last 
week by the Durham Police Department. We must have missed the blanket 
e-mail Duke sent its students to clarify the unsubstantiated rumors.

Kelly Jarrett

From: Michael, Kammie
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: Response to Rumors

Several media agencies have asked about rumors that circulated over the 
weekend about possible gang retaliations against Duke students as a result 
of the Duke lacrosse rape allegations. These rumors are unsubstantiated and 
no such incidents have occurred in the area of East Campus.

There was a reported incident early Friday at Cookout restaurant on 
Hillsborough Road where a Duke student said he was assaulted, but no 
charges have been filed at this time. Other alleged incidents have been 
unsubstantiated. Duke and Durham police departments are continuing to 
cooperate and to maintain a presence in the areas near East Campus, Ninth 
Street and Trinity Park.

Kammie Michael
Public Information Officer
Durham Police Department
(919) 560-4322, ext. 259
Kammie.Michael at durhamnc.gov






--On Monday, April 10, 2006 10:12 PM -0400 Regina deLacy 
<rdelacy at hvfnorth.com> wrote:

> Dear KJJ1 -
>
>
> Larry Moneta reports directly to Richard Brodhead.  That means the CCI
> will get the president's ear without filtering.  That is a good thing.
>
> As VP for Student Affairs, he also knows the territory better than
> anyone.  He is best positioned to get information  and recommendations
> as to how to effect what will have to be a massive culture change.
>
> And wouldn't you want your own children to be warned of threats against
> their safety?  In the current hostile feelings so many local citizens
> have against the megalith of Duke, it seems that Dr. Moneta was being
> prudent.  Some Duke students have been assaulted.  The threats weren't
> all empty.
>
> Sorry to be preachy, but I think it would be better to have a little
> faith, or at least wait and see.  It takes a long time to turn an ocean
> liner around.
>
> We should watch carefully, but we should wait and see what he, and the
> other blue ribbon committees come up with.
>
> - Regina deLacy
>
> kjj1 at duke.edu wrote:
>
>> Am I the only one who is dismayed to learn that President Brodhead has
>> appointed Larry Moneta to co-chair the Campus Culture Initiative
>> committee?  The same Larry Moneta who sent out an e-mail to EVERY single
>> student,  warning them of retaliatory, drive-by shootings at the
>> lacrosse house? An  e-mail based on unsubstantiated, third-hand rumors?
>> An e-mail that  represented Durham to students as a dangerous city of
>> predatory  gang-bangers and was picked up in the New York Times and
>> other national  news outlets?
>>
>> This is the person President Brodhead has appointed to chair the
>> committee  charged "to evaluate and suggest improvements in the ways
>> Duke educates  students in the values of personal responsibility,
>> consideration for  others, and mutual respect in the face of difference
>> and disagreement."
>>
>> Are we to take it that the administration approves Moneta's e-mail and
>> considers it an appropriate example of "personal responsibility . . .
>> and  mutual respect in the face of difference and disagreement"? Or does
>> responsibility to and respect for  Durham not factor in to Duke's
>> examination of campus culture?
>>
>> Surely Moneta could have warned students to be careful and mindful in
>> these  tense and difficult times without engaging in blatant,
>> irresponsible fear-  and rumor-mongering.
>>
>>
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