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You have in your hands the first issue of the fourth volume of TowerView. That, by a strange quirk in the intricacies of our counting system, makes the magazine three years old today. So how do you celebrate a magazine's birthday?
Last week, the City of Durham released statistics showing that more than 10 traffic accidents occurred at each of three separate campus intersections in the year 2000.
Duke is a campus of contradictions.
Years of discussions culminated late last week in the University's purchase of a tobacco warehouse from Liggett Group Inc., Executive Vice President Tallman Trask announced Monday. The building, currently used by Liggett to print cigarette cartons, will likely be used by Duke for an arts complex and for office space.
Less than a month after a task force on the programs in dance, drama, and film and video reported that the University should consider creating an arts complex to house all three programs, it looks like the committee's suggestion may materialize.
When my parents told me our family's winter vacation plan, I groaned. The prospect of heading to the West Coast sounded entertaining. But renting a car to drive from San Fransisco to Los Angeles? With my family? Mom, Dad, you've got to be kidding.
For years, students have complained about the University's lack of social space. But a list of existing campus space shows more than 100 venues available for student programming-so why aren't these spots being used?
From the file of odd things people do to show their devotion to an animal, I bring you www.cat-scan.com. Just when you thought things couldn't get stranger than a website dedicated to mullets of all shapes and sizes, Cliff Bleszinski gives us a site where alleged cat lovers can see their feline fetishes realized on a computer screen-by placing their cats onto scanner flatbeds and posting the resulting images online.
The Chapel hovered both literally and figuratively over students, faculty, employees and alumni speaking passionately about whether same-sex unions should take place in the University's famed edifice.
In the world of student affairs, word travels fast. Although Duke's search committee has not yet issued an advertisement announcing the vacancy of one of the school's top positions, administrators around the nation realize that Duke is starting to look for its new vice president for student affairs.
When Duke pioneered across-the-board use of college identification cards in 1985, many observers touted the move as the wave of the future for similar security-concerned institutions.
Remember the good old days of Duke?
A year after senior administrators announced a mission statement that pledged to suffuse Duke's workplace culture with the values of trustworthiness, learning, teamwork, respect and diversity, several new training opportunities have sprouted. But as expected, a complete culture change is still years down the road.
"Have they already deleted seniors from the phone directory?"
After a year-long national search, Sally Dickson of Stanford University has been named the University's next vice president for institutional equity, President Nan Keohane announced late last week.
After incorporating the feedback of about 20 students, a set of suggested changes to the University's event planning policies was submitted last week to Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson.
The case involving a student arrested for violating a restraining order was dismissed last week due to First Amendment concerns.
President Nan Keohane announced Monday that Jim Clack, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, will serve as interim vice president for student affairs.
It looks like Duke is losing one to the Ivies.
A fraction of the law school's student body voted Thursday to support a national moratorium on executions-a move that makes it one of the first to support such a statement. But attention has shifted from the outcome itself to whether the Duke Bar Association, which oversaw the vote, should hold votes on controversial political issues.
