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Speaking to you today as a columnist, I resent the new burden that comes with using this paper as a receptacle for my own words, instead of for my facts’ and my sources’ words, which I’ve merely clipped and juxtaposed as clever moderator since my first year here.
In one tower of an nondescript, nine-story white building on Fulton Street, just across from Duke University Hospital, operates the world’s largest academic clinical research institute, generating more than $125 million in revenue per year from the research grants and contracts it receives from both government sources and from industry. Its more than 218 clients in the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors include corporate giants Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and GE Healthcare. The Duke Clinical Research Institute, composed of more than 1,000 employees supporting the worldwide clinical research projects directed by 220 Duke faculty, has evolved from a small cardiological research outfit in 1996 into an enterprise capable of conducting large-scale Phase I through Phase IV clinical trials across 20 therapeutic areas.
You’re class shopping, the night before you realize you’re about to miss the 7 a.m. draft the next day for ACES registration. You’ll casually poll friends, try your hand at what new evaluation gizmo Duke Student Government is peddling this semester and key one professor’s name into RateMyProfessor, or maybe Google. Google considers it for a second—or 0.16 of a second—and hands you a Duke.edu page where your potential professor is profiled in all his academic glory.
I ambled down the labyrinthine, Jesus-adorned hallways of the Gray building early this semester—a structure that until recently existed in my mind only as a foul-weather shelter for the Refectory route—seeking a bathroom. Up two steep flights lies a thick wooden door I muscled open with puny biceps, turning the lock behind me as I entered. Inside, I was greeted by Shooters-style saloon doors that might make any unreasonable person stride, revolver-slinging, toward the toilet nook. I welcomed its tomb-like privacy.
In neighborhoods just off East campus, groups of undergraduates live in houses whose bedroom doors have rotted off, whose stairs have fallen through and whose cracks birth cockroaches. But for the students living in these houses, it isn’t the conditions that bother them as much as the prices. Many pay between $600 and $900 per person per month, excluding utilities, to lease large, older homes within walking distance to campus and owned by local rental agency Bob Schmitz Properties.
Aaron Patzer has never pulled an all-nighter—not in graduating with a triple major in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering from Duke in 2002, and not in founding a start-up personal finance company at age 25 that just sold for $170 million.
On a sleepy Friday afternoon in the Nasher Museum of Art’s main gallery, two Duke students ambled casually through oil paintings and ink drawings along the first wall of “Picasso and the Allure of Language,” a leading-edge exhibition that displays a lifetime of Picasso works underscoring his relationship with the literary community. Looking at the captions before the artwork as if they were cheat-sheets, one of the pair glanced nervously at a cell phone, mumbling, “It’s 4:26. We should go.” And like that, they were gone. A moment later, my BlackBerry vibrated in my back pocket and I paused to attend to it, breaking my concentration on “Dog and Cock,” a pre-war oil Cubist painting of a dog straining for a dead bird lying on a table.
Come springtime last year, Duke students flocked to Devine's-that faded, familiar Main Street bar-in greater numbers, angling for tall-boys of Bud Light and crushing cigarettes into the low wooden banquette tables. On an average night, scruffy locals linger at the bar over half-empty beers, college boys glance at the game on any of 24 TVs, and student bands play to drunken cliques congregated on the patio. On a special night-some may remember St. Patrick's Day last year-the bar is four deep, you just got too close to that guy next to you, and not even the dry-cleaner can wring the cigarette smoke from your jeans.
Sarah Cohen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, will join Duke's faculty next year as the Knight professor of the practice of journalism and public policy studies, administrators announced Thursday.
John Dailey, hired as Duke's new chief of police, began his term last Wednesday. Dailey was assistant police chief at North Carolina State University and a former Duke University Police Department patrol officer. The Chronicle's Caroline McGeough and Toni Wei sat down with the new chief Tuesday to discuss his new role, the challenges he faces and his goals for the department in the coming year.
Earlier this month, an executive committee member of Duke Student Government disclosed what could be perceived as a conflict of interest in DSG presidential elections, although senators interviewed for this story said they did not consider the situation problematic.
Two graduate students who were threatened with weapons last year are challenging the University's disclosure policy for crimes that take place off campus and target members of the graduate community.
Several graduate students have been approached in a series of scams targeting off-campus residences spanning the past few months, some graduate students said.
South African Supreme Court Justice Albie Sachs spoke to a crowd at the Nasher Museum of Art Wednesday on the innovative design and the symbolic art collection inside the African nation's new courthouse. The building, erected in 2004 on the site of a former jailhouse used during the Apartheid era, symbolizes a new age of justice and healing for the South African people.
Imam Abdullah Antepli has brought formerly itinerant Muslim students together, seemingly drawing them out of the woodwork to settle into a new home.
The renovations for Wallace Wade Stadium have been delayed because of difficulty in obtaining a permit from the city of Durham for the University's $5 million project, administrators confirmed this week.
Attorneys for the three wrongly indicted former lacrosse players filed a complaint Tuesday asking a bankruptcy court to lift the measure that bars the plaintiffs from collecting payments from former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong.
What secrets would you confess to the Duke public if no one could find out it was you?
Alumnus and blogger Tucker Max, Law '01, returned to campus Monday night to discuss his infamous stories of drunken exploits and newfound celebrity and to offer advice to a crowd of undergraduates.
The lawsuit filed by a Duke graduate last week against the University and six administrators on charges including violation of due process rights, fraud and negligent infliction of emotional distress is the first case involving academic dishonesty to be brought against the University, sources said.
