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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, NOVEMBER 9, 2015
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ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 46
‘This campus is not yet safe for queer students’ ORI report clear: Students protest Friday following death threat, homophobic slur
Potti engaged in misconduct Abigail Xie The Chronicle More than five years after investigations into cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti began, the Office of Research Integrity is providing some measure of closure to the widely publicized scandal. In a report published in the Federal Register Monday, the federal government’s Office of Research Integrity—which oversees scientific misconduct investigations of government-funded research—included in its findings that Potti had “engaged in research misconduct” by falsifying data sets that subsequent clinical trials were based on. As part of the ORI’s sanctions, Potti has agreed to have supervision for any NIH-funded research he conducts in the next five years. “I think the important thing about this is not so much the sanction—the
Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle About 250 students gathered Friday after the discovery of a death threat against freshman Jack Donahue in East Residence Hall containing a homophobic slur.
Samantha Neal The Chronicle On Friday afternoon, approximately 250 students gathered on the Chapel steps to show support for the LGBTQ community on campus following a death threat in East Residence Hall containing a homophobic slur. Freshman Jack Donahue—a resident of the dormitory who was singled out in the graffiti—spoke at the event as well as Bernadette Brown, director of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, and Tyler Nelson, president of Blue Devils United. The graffiti was written in sharpie on the wall of a first floor hallway and was found at approximately 3 a.m. Thursday morning. It
was removed Thursday afternoon. The speeches given Friday urged the community to consider the incident not as an isolated event, but rather as part of a systematic problem that needs to be addressed. “What happened on our elite and progressive campus was a death threat, a hate crime, an assault on the LGBTQ community and a threat to contaminate our campus,” Donahue said. Nelson urged Duke to assume a zero tolerance policy against similar acts of violence, enforce mandatory cultural competency training for all students and create a sexuality studies major. The need for cultural competency training was brought up recently following the defacement of a Black Lives Matter flyer Oct. 23 and the discovery of a
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noose on the Bryan Center Plaza April 1. In his speech, Nelson used last year’s exhibit in the Rubenstein Library, “Queering Duke History,” as an example of how the University has remembered past intolerance on campus but has yet to help rectify the situation for current LGBTQ students. “Today is a reminder that those events are not all in the past,” Nelson said. “It is a reminder that this campus is not yet safe for queer students. While this may appear to stand alone as an isolated incident, it is not.” Nelson further implored the administration to take note of this incident and not let it disappear from memory. Brown’s speech addressed the topic of allies of the LGBTQ community and See PROTEST on Page 6
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Chronicle File Photo The Office of Research Integrity has officially ruled that former Duke researcher Anil Potti “engaged in research misconduct.”
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