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Three years ago, a group of former Young Trustee Nominating Committee members publicly announced that the Young Trustee selection process was broken. They claimed that undergraduate YT candidates were advanced or eliminated not by virtue of their ideas, but because of personal friendships and grudges that tied them to YTNC members.
Jan. 9, 2008, will go down as a pivotal date in the history of faculty recruiting at Duke.
"A Jubilee for Reynolds Price" continued Friday and Saturday with distinguished panels, a keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison and a dramatic reading of "Private Contentment," a television play written by Price, Trinity '55 and a James B. Duke professor of English.
Reynolds Price received his first job offer from Duke in his final year as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. The contract-to teach freshman English-read, "You must understand: the appointment is for three years and will not be extended."
LONDON - It's a drizzly Sunday afternoon, and 25 prosperous young Londoners are chatting in a wood-panelled gastropub in West Brompton.
Colin Curvey graduated from Duke in 1993, and since 1999 has worked in London for the private equity firm Duke Street Capital, becoming a partner in the firm last year.
WASHINGTON - Four months ago, Duke's Kenan Institute for Ethics held an afternoon conference addressing "Knowledge In The Service of Society." I covered the event for my work-study job, and it was pretty much everything you'd expect: blue ribbon panels, malfunctioning microphones and several tons of gourmet cheese. (I try to get a dinner's worth of hors d'ouvres out of these things.)
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - What is there to say about Monday's lacrosse game? It's Tuesday evening as I write this, and the loss is still too painful to delve into. Let's talk about the Cornell game instead. If I live to be a thousand, I doubt I'll ever be more gratified by a sporting event.
We're lucky to have Bill Bell as mayor. A former IBM engineer, Bell is smart, calm and disdainful of the loony identity politics that often sidetrack Durham's government. (Impressively, he has also learned to stay awake when Howard Clement speaks at City Council meetings. If you have ever heard Clement-a 1,700-year-old relic of the civil rights movement-wend his way through a rambling, impromptu soliloquy, you know our mayor possesses a rare gift.)
CARY, N.C. - The SAS Institute is not an average high-flying software company.
Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., spoke Wednesday about the failures of the Republican Party at a small ceremony in the Social Sciences Building to present the Walter B. Jones Campus Defender award.
Two seniors have received prestigious postgraduate scholarships to study in the British Isles.
The 2006 congressional election is very competitive nationwide, but experts say the race for Rep. David Price's post in the House of Representatives is shaping up to be a cake walk for the incumbent Democrat.
William Styron, Trinity '47 and a star among a generation of gifted novelists that emerged from Duke following World War II, died of pneumonia Wednesday at his home in Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
The co-captains of the men's lacrosse team were sprawled on couches in their Trinity Park house at 8:30 p.m. last night, half-watching "Mr. Deeds" on TBS.
Durham Police Department Sergeant Mark Gottlieb--a lead investigator in the rape case against members of the 2005-06 men's lacrosse team--has a checkered past with Duke students.
It's another week, another meeting in the Duke administration's effort to gain community support for plans for the new Central Campus.
Jim Black, the Democratic speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, had a rough August.
President Richard Brodhead did the Cha Cha and the crowd answered baseball trivia to pass the time, but at NCCU-Duke NITE at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park Wednesday, a violent thunderstorm meant there was no ball game.
Provost Peter Lange and Durham community leaders were upbeat but noncommittal Wednesday night after leaving a closed-door meeting held to discuss the new Central Campus.
