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century-old black and white photograph hangs in the lobby of the only newspaper office left standing in Durham. “Eighteen people were the entire Moming-Herald organization in 1896,” the accompanying plaque Part lof 3 reads underneath the first staff photograph of what is now the The Durham HeraldSun. The picture is a reminder of the newspaper industry’s progress in the last hundred years and the uncertainty that faces print media in the next hundred. Declining 'vertising revenue exacerbated by slumping economy and the availal ity offree news on the Staff members at The (Raleigh) News & Observer gather to Internet has 1 some to question if and The (Durham) Herald- newspapers, ii iuding two staples of decide front Sun low revenues.
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Durham County elections officials have called for an investigation into possible voter registration fraud involving national liberal acdvist group ACORN. Last week, Mike Ashe, director of the Durham County Board of Elections, asked the State Board ofElections to look into roughly 80 voter registration cards submitted by ACORN over the past six weeks. “We received many duplicate registrations and many applications that were poorly filled out, missing critical fields or just not readable,” Ashe said. Canvassers for the group had registration quotas to fill, turning in fraudulent information to reach their minimums, he added. Both Duke Democrats and Duke College Republicans are also working to register students on campus, from the Marketplace to sorority chapter meetings. “We turn every form into the Durham office, even if it is incomplete,” said Duke Democrats President Ben Bergmann, a sophomore. “If a student does not provide an appropriate address, the form will be rejected and sent back to the student.” Unfortunately, not all forms are returned to voters, Ashe said.
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Tired of spending cash on cab rides or wearing your feet out to get to and from Shooters II? Some students have found creative ways to get to their favorite neighborhood saloon. Recently, the C-5 bus has been dropping students off at Shooters in addition to its scheduled stops at BrightleafSquare and Ninth Street And since last year, a liino has also been transporting students to the late-night hot spot The bus trips have spurred rumors that the C-5 will be permanendy redirected to stop at Shooters. But Assistant Director ofTransit Peter Murphy said J no changes to the bus s route have been planned or that there had been any formal rerouting. “The C-5 has had the same route for a year and a half—there are certainly no changes being made to —
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A limo and the C-5 bus have started transporting students to Shooters il, although the bus has not officially changed its route.
this schedule right now,” he said. Student accounts of the past few weekends, however, indicate otherwise. Sophomore Margaret Baughman said that last Saturday night, she asked the bus driver if he could take her and her friends to Shooters, and the driver quickly granted her request. Within minutes, all on the bus arrived promptly—and drunkenly—to the saloon. “Even if it isn’t official,” Baughman said, “it’s happening.” The 05 driver, who asked not to be named, said he has been amenable to students’ requests because the redirection is only a minor change in his route. If they are outside the loop from West Campus to downtown Durham, students may opt for a SEE SHOOTERS ON PAGE 4