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Susan told us in her final post on Caringbridge (which you must visit) that she wants her legacy “to be all of you,” “a human chain of those who have guided and influenced me, and whom I touched and influenced.”
This is it.
This is the second story in a four-part series on The Campaign for Duke. Tomorrow's will focus on why Duke needs a large campaign.
For those quoted in the following pages-and for the thousands of other participants we did not reach-Feb. 13, 1969, must seem like yesterday.
In her ongoing effort to raise the University's international profile, President Nan Keohane spent last week recruiting students and exploring business alliances in Mexico City and Panama City.
"For too long, the debate over race and admissions has consisted mainly of clashing opinions, uninformed by hard evidence," reads a passage in the highly-acclaimed book The Shape of the River.
In discussing intervention programs, officials often point out the University's decentralized nature: Institution-wide goals, they note, must be accomplished through initiatives at many levels. One player in this conglomerative effort is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Monty Reichert, who has long been interested in the challenges facing minority engineering students.
Of the 384 women who completed all five rounds of Panhellenic sorority rush last week, the number who did not receive sorority bids jumped dramatically over last year's figure.
The Duke Hospital pharmaceutical unit inadvertently overbilled third-party payers by about $10 million in fiscal year 1996-97 because it misused its new software, Business and Finance Committee Chair Roy Bostock reported to the Board of Trustees Friday.
After two years of discrete collection punctuated by striking donations from big names on the Duke alumni roster, it's official: The University has launched the five-year public phase of its $1.5-billion capital campaign with pomp, circumstance and a hefty amount of honesty about Duke's financial straits.
Thanks to a $20-million endowment gift from Bill and Melinda Gates, the University has launched a new academic program that utilizes one of its strengths-interdisciplinary studies-to help out one of its weaknesses-financial aid.
Dear Reader,
Rock and Roll has always been a game for the young," Jack Campbell, owner of the Ninth Street mainstay Poindexter Records explained. "I'm 37, and it's time to move on."
Jumpstarting Duke's efforts at internationalization, President Nan Keohane escaped Durham's early summer heat to spend 12 days in three Asian cities: Hong Kong, China; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan.
As the "Cops" theme song blared out of an astute neighbor's dormitory room, North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation officers executed a search warrant April 8 for child pornography-related materials in the room of Trinity sophomore Tom Baxter.
Editor's note (8/28/01): Josh Guttman, Trinity '98, was cleared of all charges relating to the rape case described in the following article.
Provided the stars are in alignment and the men's basketball team wins the NCAA Tournament, a bonfire, as students have insisted, will illuminate the campus. And the administration, in an abrupt about-face from its previous position, will support it.
Under the Upperclass Residential Planning Group's housing proposal, how, students have asked, would room allocation work?
Members of the Upperclass Residential Planning Group asked the campus community to think about a host of housing issues last semester, but it fixated nevertheless on the most controversial subject: selective living and the role it plays in the allocation of residential space.
Eleven months after beginning its deliberations, the Upperclass Residential Planning Group released late Thursday afternoon its housing proposal: an expanded, democratic West Campus in which housing price structures are equalized and selective groups and independents live in interspersed blocks.
