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This morning, President Barack Obama nominated Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by retiring Justice David Souter. Her critics, in trying to conceive of the type of justice Sotomayor would be, are pointing to comments she made at Duke during a panel discussion at the School of Law in 2005.
The University's International Travel Oversight Committee, a body comprising faculty and administrators to set travel policy, voted Friday to remove Mexico from the Restricted Regions list.
Duke parents bookend the Associated Press's list of the top 10 highest-paid CEOs in the S&P 500 for 2008. The list is based on filings and estimates from Jan. 1 to April 20.
In December, Duke University Press will publish a dissertation by Ann Dunham, President Barack Obama's late mother, DukeNews announced.
Toward the end of an interview with President Richard Brodhead last week, after he'd told me what books he read over break (for the record, among them were a biography of Obama and The Tender Bar) he confessed something:
John Hope Franklin, professor emeritus of history, called the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States "one of the most historic moments—if not the most historic moment—in the history of the country."
Mike Munger, the Libertarian candidate for governor and chair of Duke’s political science department, reflected on his bid in a DukeNews YouTube clip Wednesday, calling it “one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever been so glad is finished.”
There are certain events that make the act of leaving deliberate: the submission of theses, Senior Week, LDOC, Beer Trucks. These are the rituals that gently remind us that it is nearly time to go.
Duke’s Chapel Tower is the first thing one notices about this place. It’s fitting, then, that a view from the top should be among seniors’ last perspectives.
Let’s talk about the landscape of higher education. What are its values? How do you think higher education is likely to be changed and influenced by its challenges?
In the waning days of the semester, we’ve found ourselves getting overly sentimental about every last. This issue—themed Year in Review—the last time we’ll walk through the doors of TOWERVIEW magazine, the last time we go to Shooter’s, even the last student election we’ll vote in.
Coming back from Spring Break, a heightened sense of immediacy permeates everything we do. Last Day of Classes looms six weeks away, and Commencement lurks just two weeks behind it. We graduating seniors are increasingly nostalgic. The time after spring recess becomes a never-ending series of lasts. The last time we sleep late for a Monday class, for example, or the last time we make an impulsive decision to picnic in the Gardens. But there are a whole lot more lasts, and in some ways, this issue is about embracing them before it’s too late.
Hey, look: it’s almost Valentine’s Day! Hallmark’s holiday, like New Year’s Eve and Christmas Day, is overrated and often depressing. (There are, of course, those that don’t disappoint: Thanksgiving is clearly the best holiday, and Halloween isn’t far behind.)
At two minutes to 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25 at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, in the high-ceilinged Presidents Gallery, a glass sang out, struck by a knife playing pitch wand.
Some people say that the best gifts are the gifts of self. Or that it’s the thought that counts. We’d like to respectfully disagree.
One ring of people to rule the world; one issue to find them, one school to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
1. Dan Abrams: The 1988 alumnus and former NBC talk host just launched Mediaite.com and Abrams Research to expand his reach in media circles.
To see a room at the Washington Duke Inn being cleaned is to see the room undress.
IT'S HARD TO APPRECIATE Duke when you're so finely entangled with University life, when walking through the Gothic campus in sweltering humidity becomes routine and when you've forgotten how a college campus, bustling with energy in sunlight, becomes so dark and quiet when the lampposts flicker. There's something refreshing about coming back to Duke each year, something entirely invigorating in doing it for the first time, and it's hard to remember that feeling of return during the throes of another long semester.
Dan Blue will likely be named chair of the Board of Trustees at the body's May meeting, according to an official with knowledge of the situation who wished to remain anonymous. Blue, Law '73, would be the Board's first black chair.
