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I spent the second half of my summer taking a Spanish class at Georgetown University to fulfill the language component of Curriculum 2000. Now that it is complete, I am not at all closer to fluency than when I first stepped into the classroom. In fact, I might even be farther away.
On his curriculum vitae, President Richard Brodhead is listed as holding two titles at Duke University: President, and Professor of English. But five years after he accepted the former of these two jobs, he has not yet officially performed the latter.
For God's sake-head to the Chapel! Now! Bill Clinton is speaking! If it's not after 1 p.m., you have no excuse to be anywhere but beneath those towering stone spires and gigantic arching buttresses, listening to the ex-POTUS pontificate about John Hope Franklin, who passed away last March after a lifetime of scholarship and dedication to his duty as an historian of African-Americans in America. Today, stuck right in the middle of the summer session doldrums that sweep through campus every June, a speaker with some serious mega-wattage is paying the Gothic Wonderland a visit. And judging by Duke's recent track record, the chance to see a former or current Leader of the Free World on campus may not come around again anytime soon.
In the hallowed halls of Oxford University, the selection of the new Professor of Poetry-a 300-year-old honor unmatched in the field-has become a tumultuous, controversy-fraught disaster that has prevented a highly acclaimed poet from winning the job.
To save you all some time, I'll distill my message into a single, concise sentence: stop reading this column. And, no, I don't mean you should mosey your eyes over to the column next to mine-I'm telling you that it is the summer, and you need to pick up a book. And don't tell me you can't think of one. We both know that there's that one novel that's sat on your shelf for years, its spine uncracked, its pages coarse and unthumbed. Or maybe you've read enough of it to B.S. your way through conversations with people who ask you about it. Well, now's the time to finish that sucker up. Seriously-go, right now, and start reading it.
Administrators have taken notice of several acts of vandalism that have occurred on East Campus since the start of the academic year.
In the lobby of the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, Director of Sales and Marketing Jim Bressler pulls out a long-rusted copper box, its warped corners showing every one of its 84 years.
Bill Pitney is Duke's most visible political activist during this election season.
When Duke Student Government President Jordan Giordano addressed the Sept. 17 DSG weekly meeting, he began his discussion of whether to cut funds from student groups with a warning: "The following," he said, "is off the record."
Last May, Campus Council leaders sent a unanimously approved recommendation to Residence Life and Housing Services urging them not to ban student-made lofts on campus.
