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The Blue Devils took a 32-point halftime lead and cruised to an easy win against Virginia Saturday afternoon. See sportswrap, page 3

Community Upstart freshmen found K-ville 2000 gathers for rededication By GREG PESSIN The Chronicle

� Knox Street Grocery, once a hangout for dealers and thieves, is now a center for Walltown’s

religious community. By SARABETH REES The Chronicle

Bent over, wearing a tie and furiously shoveling snow, Rev. Mel Williams didn’t seem too concerned that his nice suit might get dirty. His mind was on something else:

the Sunday afternoon rededication service marking the transformation of the old Knox Street Grocery into the home of Walltown Neighborhood Ministries.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was about to begin, and Williams didn’t want his congregation to have to stand in the snow. The freshly painted brick building at 1307 W. Knox St., about halfway between East Campus and Northgate Mall, didn’t always look

so good. For years, the store was a hangout for drug dealers, gangs and prostitutes. But last year, when a man using a public phone outside the building was shot and nearly

bled to death, the community decided it was time to put an end to the violence and crime—it was time to close down the grocery. See KNOX

ST. GROCERY on page 5

For Cameron Crazies expecting a difficult tenting season, this year has been anything but. Wary of taking on this year’s stricter line policy, hard-core tenters remained inside until last Thursday night, when Trinity freshman Kat Townes and nine of her freshman friends, mostly from Brown Dormitory, set up camp. “We actually thought about setting up a week earlier,” Townes said Friday afternoon. “We . were front row last week for Clemson. I can’t imagine what [UNCI will be 1ike....” For fun and practice, Townes and a few buddies erected her heavy-duty tent in the middle of the late-January blizzard. She proudly showed pictures ofher tent buried in the snow, her head popping up from the whiteness around her. “I figure if we can handle that, we can do this,” she said. By Sunday night, the eight groups that had pitched tents decided to ease the policy’s bite while they still had control, requiring only one tent member in each tent and allowing severe weather grace periods. Until the tenth tent goes up, the official policy’s mandate that seven out of 10 occupants man the tent in the evenings does not go into effect. Pre-registration will end Feb. 24, two days before the St. John’s game. On Feb. 28, students will be able to register at a designated campus location and the traditional tent policy—one member in K-ville at all times—will go into effect. In the meantime, the current policy,

PRATIK PAI

IRONICLE

TRINITY FRESHMAN SAM HUMMEL anoints his tent “number one” Friday. Over the weekend, seven more structures sprang up, beginning the tenting rush.

which is posted in the new Krzyzewskiville along Cameron Indoor Stadium’s grass plaza, declares a grace period between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. any time the National Weather Service predicts sub-freezing temperatures for the night. The tenters

employed that condition on both Saturday and Sunday. “We don’t really have any interest in making it overly difficult, particularly during the day...,” said tent three capSee K-VILLE on page

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Police investigate 2 nearby rapes By RICHARD RUBIN The Chronicle

The Trinity Park neighborhood offEast Campus is on alert following two rapes in less than a week. Local leaders have distributed fliers and emails warning residents to be cautious in and around their homes, and police are actively in-

Justin Fairfax

Trinity senior

Brian Stempel Pratt senior

Lisa Zeidner

Trinity senior “I don’t know that “I think... [the most “I’m excited to there’s necessarily a important issue] is the address the buildings huge glaring problem master plan and how and grounds issues, facing the University.... that fits in with a lot of There’s a lot going on 1see them more as things coming up, like with the master plan challenges and oppor- the Bryan Center ren- and the new dorm tunities.... if we take ovations and the new being built on West care of [Duke’s finan- dorm—it is going to Campus. There are a cial situation], we’ll be lead the future of this lot of areas for growth • n flood shape....” and potential.” campus.”

Schedule

for Trustee selection:

l3: Finalists meet with Duke Student Government committees Feb 16: Speeches, question session, then final vote by the DSG legislature MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER/THE CHRONICLE

vestigating the crime. The first rape occurred last Monday when a woman came back to her Gregson Street home and found a man inside, according to published reports. The second happened last Thursday evening, when a woman on Green Street went to take her garbage outside and was confronted by a man who said he had a gun. After the second rape, the Durham Police Department released the information to the community. Police are not saying whether the cases are related, but they have released only one composite drawing. The suspect in the Gregson Street case is described as a 6T” black man weighing 180 lbs. with short hair and possibly some facial hair. He is between 20 and 30 years old and has a medium build and dark complexion.

The description of the Green Street suspect is a 30-year-old, 5’10” man with no facial hair, ac-

cording to published reports. On Friday and Saturday, the Trinity Park Association distributed fliers to all of the 1,200 households in the area, said TPA President Julia Borbely-Brown. TPA is advising residents to lock doors and windows and to keep curtains and shades drawn. “You don’t want anyone to be able to look into the house and know you live alone or are alone at this time,” Borbely-Brown said. Borbely-Brown also advised residents to think in advance about how they would fend off a possible attack. Also, she said, residents are being encouraged not to walk alone late at night and to notify police of anyone suspicious. Duke Student Government also sent e-mails about the rapes to all off-campus students, said DSG President and Trinity senior Lisa Zeidner, herself a Trinity Park resident. DSG used a list it created for its constituency system, but Zeidner added that not all off-campus students may have received the message. See

ATTACKS on page 5


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