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The Chronicle T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016
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ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 98
STUDENTS OCCUPY ALLEN BUILDING Protestors were granted amnesty Sunday night—talks to resume Monday at 11 a.m.
Jesús Hidalgo, Carolyn Chang, Darbi Griffith and Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle The Allen Building sit-in began Friday afternoom and continued through Sunday night, with several protests outside the building occuring throughout the weekend.
Rachel Chason, Gautam Hathi, Neelesh Moorthy and Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Nine students staging a sit-in inside the Allen Building since Friday afternoon were granted amnesty from disciplinary action after a meeting with administrators late Sunday night. The students have stated that their sit-in will continue until their demands—which include the termination of Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh and Parking and Transportation Services Director Carl DePinto—are met. Provost Sally Kornbluth said after the meeting that she looked forward to a “serious conversation” about the protestors’ demands, and confirmed that the students would not be removed from Allen for the time being. The Allen Building will be closed Monday as the sit-in continues. “In order to facilitate productive dialogue and move towards a peaceful resolution, the nine students will not be subject to student
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conduct sanctions and legal penalties for their actions,” administrators wrote in an email to students, faculty and staff early Monday morning. “In addition, it is university policy to prohibit retaliation against students, faculty and staff who express their views.” The sit-in participants said administrators asked students who were protesting outside Allen to take down the approximately 15 tents they had erected. The protestors did not appear to immediately accept the request and were prepared to stay the night outside of Allen as of midnight. “The reason we’re being listened to is because we’re loud, we’re visible and we’re here,” sophomore Mohamad Chamas told the assembled protestors. “We’re going to stay that way.” Talks between the sit-in participants—who planned to remain in Allen overnight—and administrators will resume Monday morning at 11 a.m. Students inside Allen participated in extensive conversations with administrators throughout the weekend—including Kornbluth, Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president
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for student affairs and dean of students, President Richard Brodhead and Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. Administrators reversed a position they had previously stated that students would be asked to leave the building Sunday. Administrators had also added that if the students did not leave they would be in violation of university policies and subject to disciplinary action. “They don’t scare me,” said junior Lara Haft, one of the students in the building, earlier Sunday. “They’re going to have to come in and physically arrest me.” In its Saturday response to the students’ demands, the administration said that because the incident involving Trask—who allegedly used a racial slur after hitting contract parking employee Shelvia Underwood with his car—is going through civil litigation, the University cannot comment on it. “We’re calling for them to do their jobs and do an actual investigation like they should have the first time,” said Haft said. “If they take two months, we’ll be in their office for two months.” The students said that during a meeting
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with President Richard Brodhead Sunday afternoon, he said they would be issued misdemeanor charges for trespassing, could be subject to the student disciplinary conduct process and forcibly removed from the building, although a timeline for these events was not given. A recap of the weekend’s events with most recent updates at the top can be viewed below. For full coverage with tweets, videos and pictures from the weekend, visit dukechronicle.com. Sunday 8:45 p.m. Wasiolek and Moneta entered the Allen Building to speak with students conducting the sit-in. Outside the building, students on the quad set up tents and prepared to stay on the quad for the night. Student on the quad also held an interfaith prayer session. Sunday, 2:20 p.m. Students inside Allen met with Wasiolek and Brodhead, who explained the punishments
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