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Tailgate to include events on Main West
Blue Zone festivities to remain unchanged
by Julia Love in News
This Saturday, administrators hope students will congregate on Main West Quadrangle for the football team's march to Wallace Wade Stadium-but they know they'll probably do so in Spice Girls garb and gorilla suits.
The Department of Athletics and University administrators are kicking off the first football game of the season with a host of alternatives to the student-led revelry that has traditionally taken place in the Blue Zone.
Error leads to housing shuffles
Room snafu caused by double-booking
by David Graham
The end of the school year did not signal the end of a troubled room assignment process on West Campus.
Residence Life and Housing Services discovered in mid-July that three rooms in Crowell Quadrangle had been double-booked, forcing two pairs of students to relocate elsewhere on West.
After 1st year, DukeEngage looks to expand
by Ally Helmers
More than 5 percent of Duke undergraduate students spent their summers traveling across the nation and the world on the University's tab.
But DukeEngage-a civic engagement program for undergraduates-officially launched this past summer with a broader vision than just a cheaper study abroad.
First alcohol assoc. dean starts tenure
Szigethy to focus on substance abuse policy
by Emmeline Zhao
Just days into the semester-as the University has garnered attention for its affiliation with the Amethyst Initiative-Tom Szigethy, recently appointed Duke's first associate dean and director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center, is beginning to take an internal look at instances of alcohol and substance abuse.
N.C. preps for Nov. 4 as swing state
by Naureen Khan
With less than 70 days left until the general election, the stakes are high for both candidates as they wrangle over a newly crowned swing state: North Carolina.
"It's a must win for the [Sen. John] McCain campaign. Republicans in today's politics look to the South as an essential base of their national coalition," said Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
DUU proposes initiative to utilize Plaza space
by Tina Mao
Thanks to the Duke University Union, students may be able to enjoy their Loop burgers with a side of student musician or a cappella group on the West Campus Plaza.
One new initiative that DUU discussed at its first meeting of the year is Plaza Entertainment-an effort to bring talent and discussion to the Plaza spearheaded by seniors Bryant Moquist and Brett Aresco.
