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The trendy refrain about scholarship at Duke is "knowledge at the service of the world." Doctoral candidate Yektan Turkyilmaz always knew that his research would situate him amid a vivid ethnic conflict.
Rarely is there a graceful way to admit mistakes to 15,000 people, but occasionally it is necessary to stand up in front of that exceptionally large crowd, take a deep breath and start to apologize. Of course, because I am making amends in print rather than in person, I only have to stand figuratively. But I promise you the deep breath and the apology are real.
Newspapers, which almost always offer information about the past, have a strange resistance to remembering what happened before today. Even the grammar rules avoid any self-reflexivity: News writers are never supposed to reference themselves and the word "yesterday" is literally banned. There are no footnotes to acknowledge that the story on page 1 has been written before.
This is how it begins. In an empty room made of concrete panels and industrial glass. In a room made of negative space but with countless walls. With a ceiling made of glass that fades into the sky or at least into the sun. With shadows on the floor from the white steel supports and the industrial-strength air conditioning ducts. As the sun shifts overhead, the soft light shuffles across the concrete floor and oozes into corners that were never dark to begin with, and the gray imprints of all that piping shimmy across the floor.
This time, students can’t complain that police who troll for parties and answer noise complaints are merely spoilers shirking their “real” responsibilities as protectors against violent crime. The Alcohol Law Enforcement is solely devoted to enforcing the state laws governing alcohol, tobacco, controlled substances and gambling—basically, their job is to limit underage vices. The 104 sworn agents with the division are trained to handle firearms and to use deadly force. They are not police officers, but ALE agents can arrest people or take other investigatory or enforcement actions for any criminal offense.
Scotch on the rocks.
After a lengthy discussion about how to combat the rapidly increasing cost of health insurance, the University has decided to maintain its current insurance plan for next year.
The University will likely turn Epworth Residence Hall into an academic swing space that would temporarily house departments during renovations of their permanent spaces.
After months of hammering out details, the curtain is starting to rise on a theater in downtown Durham.
The moment when November 12 turned scary is still blurry.
Three undergraduates were among those injured Saturday when a porch at a professor’s house at 9 Brynhurst Ct. in Durham collapsed.
Duke has long been thought of as a “work hard-play hard” campus. This evening its new Ivy-clad president will give his first public remarks about the undergraduate climate.
Amid a lackluster reception from some students, organizers hope the band Collective Soul will “Shine” as the main attraction at Last Day of Classes April 27.
Blackwell became a reservoir Thursday as a resident accidentally set off a sprinkler at about 10:30 p.m., flooding the dormitory.
Someone out there is trying to convince people that the FBI is monitoring traffic on “illegal” websites.
The University announced Tuesday that Timothy Profeta would head a new institute in the Nicholas School, which will try to translate research into practice.
Duke plans to raise the minimum wage it pays regular Duke-hired employees to $10 an hour. Details of the raise are not yet final, but administrators expect to announce their plans within the next two weeks.
Duke University Police Department officers did not violate any policies during an Aug. 26 incident at Café Parizade in which students alleged police misconduct, according to a summary report released Wednesday.
Casting directors for The Apprentice interviewed more than 100 of Duke's graduate students, faculty and alumni Thursday morning for a chance to be a contestant on the popular reality show.
After more than three years of planning, the doors of a community health clinic opened to residents of Durham's Walltown neighborhood Monday.
