Students 'roll out' to buy Ludacris tickets
Sales were robust for the Sept. 24 Ludacris concert in Cameron Indoor Stadium, as about 1,200 tickets were sold to students within the first two hours last week and 1,998 in three days. Duke University Union President Jonathon Bigelow said the speed of sales set a new box office record.
"There was a lot of skepticism surrounding the choice of Ludacris, so it's encouraging to see the amount of student interest that we've seen," Bigelow said. He added that he thought sales to the rest of the University community and to outsiders will be equally robust. Tickets are on sale at the University Box Office in the Bryan Center.
Military support policy extended
The University announced Aug. 28 that it would extend a policy providing temporary financial support for employees called to military duty until the end of the calendar year.
A policy during the first six months of 2003 provided supplemental pay and waived dependent health care premiums for employees serving actively in the military. With the continued presence of U.S. troops abroad, however, administrators found it appropriate to extend the policy through December.
"We recognize the difficulty this prolonged call to service can have on families by extending our continued financial and emotional support during these extsaid inary times," Vice President for Human Resources Clint Davidson said in a statement.
Franzoni in as Pratt associate dean
Linda Franzoni was named associate dean for student affairs at the Pratt School of Engineering, Dean Kristina Johnson announced.
The position includes oversight of course scheduling, responsibility for academic policy documentation, liaison with accrediting agencies and oversight of school-wide student organizations, including the Engineering Student Government and Society of Women Engineers.
Franzoni, who joined Duke in 1998 after spending five years as an assistant professor at North Carolina State University, succeeds Phillip Jones, who is returning to full-time teaching and research as associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science.
PPS professors celebrated
Three public policy studies professors--Joel Fleishman, Helen Ladd and Anirudh Krishna--have recently been honored for their work.
Fleishman, a professor of public policy studies and law and director of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy and the Professions, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has honored distinguished scientists, scholars and leaders for 223 years.
Ladd, an Edgar T. Thompson professor of public policy studies and professor of economics, received the 2003 Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in Public Budgeting. The award has been given annually since 1993 by the American Society for Public Administration's Association for Budgeting and Financial Management and will be presented to Ladd Sept. 19 in Washington, D.C.
Krishna, an assistant professor of public policy studies and political science, won an award for best journal article from The Comparative Democratization Section of American Political Science Association for his essay, "Enhancing Political Participation in Democracies: What is the Role of Social Capital."
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