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Ewell leaves Durham for Calif. Dean of Chapel releases report By STEVEN WRIGHT The Chronicle

It’s official. After weeks of speculation, City Manager Lament Ewell announced Thursday that he will step down from his Durham post to accept a similar position in San Diego, Calif. “One might conclude that mine was an easy decision. I want to assure you it was not,” he said at a press conference at city hall. “I labored over this decision.” Ewell, a California native, said that the personal and professional opportunities offered in San Diego were too large for him to pass up. Ewell will leave his Durham position Dec. 25 and begin his tenure as the assistant manager of San Diego a week later. The number two San Diego position will require Ewell to help administer the nation’s sixth-largest city and a budget of over $2 billion. “When I look at it on balance, this was a good decision for me.... Professionally, the challenges of dealing with a budget literally in the billions... is one that interests me,” he said. “It is one of the things that my wife of 24 years and I have agreed on. One day we would retire in San Diego. This *

By AMBIKA KUMAR The Chronicle

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CITY MANAGER LAMONT EWELL (left) stands next to Mayor Nick Tennyson as he announced yesterday that he has accepted a job in San Diego. seemed like the perfect opportunity to do so.” Leaders from across the city and University said they were disheartened to hear of Ewell’s departure. “It was a real privilege for us

to be associated with Lamont,”

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said Mayor Pro Tempore and city council member Howard Clement. “Now we just have to find another Lamont.” Ewell arrived in Durham in July of 1997 after serving six years as the fire chief of Oakland, See EWELL on page 11

Night life nearly void of faculty but replete with uncivil behavior and sometimes irresponsible drinking, a university concerned more with producing research than developing human beings—this is the picture painted by Dean of the Chapel William Willimon in a report to President Nan Keohane released yesterday. Keohane asked Willimon in September to revisit his 1993 study of student life, in which the professor of Christian ministry criticized the University for neglecting students’ experiences outside the classroom. The new study, called “Old Duke, New Duke,” reiterates many of the same themes and comes at a crucial crossroad as Duke searches for its next vice Will Willimon president for student affairs and begins to seriously examine its alcohol policy. Alcohol Willimon’s report urges the University to take a larger role in all areas of student life, including alcohol. “Part of a university’s mission is to give talented young members of a community the means to rise above the limits of their society,” he wrote. “Duke must not be a haven for disobeying the law nor must our See WILLIMON REPORT on page 10

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Florida court backs Palm Beach recount By TODD PURDUM

N.Y. Times News Service

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that at least two predominantly Democratic counties could continue recounting ballots by hand, but a handful of pending legal challenges left it unclear whether any such votes would officially count in determining the outcome of the presidential race.

The state Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion, issued in one paragraph without comment late Thursday afternoon, upheld lower court rulings al-

lowing recounts and created some vulnerability for Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, who leads by a mere 300 votes in the state’s official tally. It paved the way for Palm Beach County to join Broward County, where a recount was already underway, in manually recounting a total of some 1 million ballots.

That could potentially give Vice President A1 Gore an unofficial lead that would instantly become public knowledge—a psychological reversal that the Bush campaign has been struggling to avoid. But the question of whether any such recounts would be included in the

state’s official results, and thus in awarding Florida’s 25 electoral votes, was not before the high court Thursday. That issue was left for Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis in Tallahassee to rule Friday on whether Florida’s secretary of state, Katherine Harris, a Republican, abused her discretion by announcing Wednesday that she would not consider any such late results, even before she received them. Lewis said he would issue a decision at 10 a.m. today. Lawyers for Bush on Thursday filed papers with a federal appeals court in AtSee ELECTION on page 8

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JAIME HERNANDEZ (left) provides information to two Chilean immigrants. El Centro Hispano, where Hernandez counsels local Latinos, offers English as a Second Language classes as well as several other educational programs.

Latinos gain political attention This is the last story in a five-part series about Latino issues at Duke and in North Carolina.

By TREY DAVIS The Chronicle

As the number of Latinos living in North Carolina continues to grow rapidly, the political institutions of the state are starting to take notice—especially on the local level. “Today the communities are more visible and represented,” said Aura Camancho Maas, a member of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Hispanic/Latino Affairs. She is also the

founder and director of the American Latino Resource Center in Raleigh, an institution that works to raise levels of communication between cultures. Aside from seeing the sheer numbers of the Latino community rise, Maas has also noticed that diversity within the communities has grown. “As immigration takes place, you will find a greater diversity within these cul-

tures,” she said. This cultural diversity also plays out along political lines. Although it has been noted that See LATINOS on page 16 >

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