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Demonstrating that rivalries do not extend much past the athletic arena, President Nan Keohane spent the past few months engaged in a successful campaign to help ensure approval of the largest bond issue in the history of North Carolina; the bonds will support the state's university system.
In what may well turn out to be a nail-biting, down-to-the-wire finale of this election season, some voters have more to hope for from the next president than just reduced taxes and a salvaged social security system. Should Al Gore prevail come tonight, Walter Dellinger, Duke law professor, may receive a nomination to the nation's highest court of law, according to reports from various national news sources.
The Nobel Prize winners of 2000 have been announced, and the white-tie banquets and night-long dancing will begin Dec. 10. When the week of celebration is over, the revelers will disperse to labs and lecture halls across the world, with fond, indelible memories of their time in Sweden.
Your driver's license says you're 21? The Hideaway will see about that. With the help of a DukeCard reader, the on-campus bar can now verify your age with just a swipe of your DukeCard. And, if they're at all suspicious about your I.D., they won't hesitate to do so.
The trek to and from Edens Quadrangle has never been heralded as a fun one to make. The walk is long, the path is steep and uneven pavement does not allow for easy traversal. And now, with the construction of the West-Edens Link, students are worried about their safety.
There's good news for those planning to pitch tents in Krzyzewskiville this basketball season. Duke Student Government has passed a policy hailed as one of the best in history. "My tent policy is the most popularly received thing at Duke since beer-on-points came to the 'Dillo," Head Line Monitor and Chronicle Senior Associate Sports Editor Norm Bradley told the DSG legislature at their second meeting of the year last night. Apparently equally as pleased with the proposal, DSG unanimously voted to enact the senior's policies.
In the database at the office of the University's institutional research analyst, Nan Keohane is listed as both as University president and faculty member in the political science department. Dozens of other administrators, who, like Keohane, hold tenured faculty positions, are listed in the same fashion. However, many are listed as faculty members first, even though most of their time is taken up by administrative duties.
With 52 new faculty coming to Trinity College of Arts and Sciences this year, the University's gain is not just one of quality, but of quantity as well.
Administrators' increased efforts to keep faculty happy are continuing to pay off. This year the University lost only nine of the 40 professors who were offered positions at peer institutions, a number comparable to that of the last three years.
What's in a name? A lot, according to representatives from seven of Duke's nine selective houses, who last night debated, among other things, whether to establish a named umbrella organization.
Walking the delicate line between a welcoming and a warning, administrators in charge of planning and presenting this year's international student orientation introduced the University's Honor Code to a group of about 60 first-year international students last week.
With the early-morning beeping of trucks in reverse, who needs an alarm clock? Not the residents of Wannamaker Dormitory or Edens Quadrangle, they say.
In an age when technological advancements are outmoded faster than you can say "Microsoft," it can often be difficult to foresee the challenges ahead.
In a recent campaign ad, Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker stands against the backdrop of a sludge-filled hog-waste lagoon and declares, "It smells bad."
Early one Saturday morning about eight years ago, after Christoph Guttentag gave his usual spiel to a crowd of prospective students and their families, one student approached the director of undergraduate admissions: "Because of my grandfather, I have had a lot of opportunities to travel and do things that other students might not have had a chance to do." The boy said he wanted to write an essay about his experiences but feared sounding elitist.
The University's now-pervasive alcohol discussion spilled over into an unlikely setting yesterday as members of the Academic Council shared their thoughts on the topic.
Rob Leonard relishes the chance to become the first Community Service Center leader in recent memory to switch to Duke Student Government.
When it comes to tackling Duke-Durham relations, Carrie Johnson thinks it's all about first impressions.
The Triangle Transit Authority's plan for a regional rail system has hit another bump in the road.
The botany and zoology departments came one step closer to extinction yesterday when the Academic Council voted unanimously to merge the two into a Department of Biology.
