Blue Devil Crossing: Alma Blount
(03/17/10 8:00am)
Alma Blount is someone who could tell you the sky was falling with a smile on her face.
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Alma Blount is someone who could tell you the sky was falling with a smile on her face.
In Durham politics, community organizations have always played a significant role in rallying support for candidates that share their organization’s principles and views.
Duke’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration continued Tuesday with a performance showcase titled, “Chaos or Community: A Mosaic of Dr. King’s Living Dream,” which featured a monologue by the Rabbi Alysa Stanton as well as student performing groups. Stanton, who became the first black female rabbi when she was ordained June 2009, performed a monologue she wrote in fall 2008 titled “Layers of Healing, Layers of Hope.” The piece detailed her journey from her Pentecostal roots to Judaism and the challenges she has faced in her lifetime. The showcase, held in Reynolds Auditorium, also included performances by In Motion, Bull City Slam Team, Purple, Center for Race Relations and United in Praise. After the showcase, an intimate reception was held in the Mary Lou Williams Center where students and members of the Duke community had the opportunity to ask Rabbi Stanton questions about her life and faith. —compiled by Cate Harding
Campus Council at its meeting Thursday endorsed a memo containing recommendations for Residence Life and Housing Services-approved loft vendors.
Campus Council began preliminary discussions on revising the University's policy on common room damage. Current school policy charges affiliated students for damages to common areas in their sections. Damages incurred on independent common rooms are absorbed by Resident Life and Housing Services.
Campus Council members elected sophomore Stephen Temple to serve as the council's president for the 2009-2010 academic year in a meeting Thursday night.
Popular 90s band Sister Hazel will headline Campus Council's annual Old Duke Party in April, the council announced at its weekly meeting Thursday.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert called for ordinary citizens to shape the America they want to see in a talk at Griffith Film Theater Wednesday.
After debating the potential merits of the Oxygen channel and Country Music Television, Campus Council members voted to replace four channels in Duke's standard cable package with programming that will cater more to the Duke international community.
With a move to Smith Warehouse, the Career Center will be distanced from the West Campus hub of student life, but officials said it may be better equipped to meet students' needs.
Come Fall 2009, students may see changes in the University's Merchants on Points program ranging from more late night delivery options to the addition and elimination of different off-campus vendors.
Although shotgunning beers and doing beer bongs may be common weekend activities at Duke, these drinking habits are less customary in most parts of the world.
Campus Council unanimously granted conditional approval to a memorandum that would allow students to have more autonomy over their living area at its general body meeting Thursday. The memo is in response to the current Residence Life and Housing Services loft policy prohibiting the construction of student-made lofts.
Facebook may no longer be a place exclusively devoted to procrastination, but instead a useful way to notify college students about possible emergency threats on their campuses.
Three DukeEngage students working in northern Tanzania this summer had a striking reminder that they were no longer in the Gothic Wonderland-literally.
The Board of Trustees honored outgoing Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson by renaming the University Writing Program after him. The announcement was made during a presentation by Provost Peter Lange in the Gothic Reading Room May 3.
One year after the largest cheating incident in the history of the Fuqua School of Business, several student-led Honor Code initiatives have been implemented to promote an academic culture of integrity.
Focusing on economic policies, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama launched his two-week "Change that works for you" tour Monday at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
Approximately 1,000 Duke undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members filled the Doris Duke Center and Sarah P. Duke Gardens Wednesday to celebrate a beautiful spring night and the imminent end of the school year at the second-annual Duke Royale.
In America, it is unimaginable for a woman to develop obstetric fistula.