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Christopher Ross THE CHRONICLE
The Duke University Police Department has released its annual Clery Campus Security Report, which few changes from the 2007 report on campus crime. According to the document’s crime statistics, the totals for forcible sex offenses, assault, aggravated drug law arrests and drug law violations remained the same or decreased while burglaries, motor vehicle Gloria Graham
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violations and arrests for the possession of illegal weapons all increased slightly. Burglaries had the highest increase: 53 in 2006 to 63 in 2007. There were 301 alcohol consumption violations in 2007, with 463 in 2005 and 294 in 2006. The neighboring North Carolina Central University has a similar-sized undergraduate population but only nine liquor law violations. North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported 533 and 202 liquor law violations respectively, but their undergraduate populations are three to four times larger than Duke’s. “Alcohol consumption [violations]
were very high and have fluctuated over the years,” said sophomore Andrew Brown, a member of the DUPD Student Advisory Council. The report is issued in compliance with the jeanne Clery Disclosure ofCampus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, part of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which requires colleges and universities to publish a report about crime on and near their campuses by Oct. 1 of each year. The report contains campus crime statistics from the past three years, and statistics must reflect crimes from on-campus, unobstructed public SEE REPORT ON PAGE 7
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