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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
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016
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ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 100
‘WE ARE STAYING INDEFINITELY’ No end in sight to Allen Building sit-in after day five
Carolyn Chang | The Chronicle The fifth day of the Allen Building protest featured even more tents outside the building and a visit from the Rev. William Barber II, president of the N.C. Chapter of the NAACP.
Amrith Ramkumar, Gautam Hathi and Rachel Chason The Chronicle Editor’s Note: A full timeline of the sit-in can be viewed on page 5. No progress was made Tuesday on the demands issued by students holding an Allen Building sit-in and the building will remain closed for regular business Wednesday. Administrators refused to continue negotiations with the protestors Monday until they vacated the building voluntarily, and protestors said they would not continue negotiations until Duke workers were part of the talks. The administration announced in an email late Tuesday night that limited access to Allen will be allowed Wednesday for Duke employees who work in the building. The protestors told The Chronicle Tuesday afternoon that they will continue the sit-in indefinitely until their demands are met. One sitin participant left the Allen Building to attend a national poetry slam competition Tuesday night.
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During the day, protestors camped on the quad outside Allen Building played music, talked with professors and met with the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP. Protestors also argued that administrators should not have closed the Allen Building even as the sit-in continued despite safety and security concerns voiced by the administration. “We are only staying in one hallway of the Allen Building where classes are not conducted,” junior Carolyn Yao, one of the nine students participating the sit-in, wrote in an email. “If the building reopens, students can enter and act out of their own volition, but we have repeatedly emphasized the peaceful and nonviolent nature of protesting for this cause.”
Building will be closed again for regular business Wednesday, but will be accessible for those who work in the building from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. via a side door. No visitors will be allowed, the second-floor administrative suite will be closed and classes in the building will continue to be rescheduled.
A recap of Tuesday’s events with most recent updates at the top can be viewed below. For full coverage with tweets, videos and pictures from Tuesday, visit dukechronicle.com.
9 p.m. One of the nine sit-in students, senior Amy Wang, announces she is leaving to go to a national poetry slam contest at the University of Texas at Austin. Wang says she plans to rejoin those inside the Allen Building if they are still there when she returns Sunday. The announcement came after the sit-in students read a poem in honor of the 100th hour of the sit-in. The “love poem” to the protestors outside Allen stated multiple times that, “We have already won.” The protestors hugged Wang as she exited the building. “This is what community looks like,” they chanted as she left.
11:50 p.m. Administrators announce that the Allen
4:45 p.m. Junior Carolyn Yao, a sit-in student, says
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the students are staying in the Allen Building indefinitely in a Q&A with The Chronicle, which can be fully viewed on page 2. Yao noted that students had not been in contact with administrators Tuesday and that the sitin students should not be the ones deciding what a good deal between the two parties would be. Rather, the workers personally affected by the negotiations should be the ones deciding, she noted. Administrators previously stated they would not reopen the Allen Building with the students inside for safety and security reasons, but Yao reiterated that the sit-in students do not prevent regular business from going on. 4:15 p.m. Barber attempted to enter the Allen Building but was denied access. Speaking with protestors outside the building, Barber said, “It does concern me that administration would not let two preachers in to pray.” After asking student leaders why they
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