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In some ways, I don't have nearly as much nerve as I should. When I was younger my brother and I used to pay one another to tell the McDonald's counter attendant when our hamburgers were made wrong. We also used to beg our parents to sell our little league candy for us, or any other item that we were forced to peddle in order to play a sport we were only tangentially interested in.
Looking at the number of students jogging down Campus Drive during the day, it is hard to imagine that many of those same health-conscious people will be downing toxic amounts of alcoholic beverages come Friday and Saturday night.
With the help of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the International Anesthesia Research Society, Duke is now home to one of only two research centers with a primary focus on anesthesiology.
For many of the faithful, Sundays begin with a search of the soul. But for a host of clergymen, scholars and health care workers, this Sunday will be a time to search for faith-based answers to caring for the nation's aging population.
For all the baby boomers who contributed to U.S. economic growth in the past few decades, payback time is coming. By 2010, an estimated 76 million baby boomers will join the already ballooning retired population.
Statistics show that more than 100 people are exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus every day in the United States. In the past year, 477 new cases were reported in North Carolina alone.
Sophomore Brady Beecham was elected Wednesday night to serve as president of the Duke University Union for the 2000-2001 school year. The Union, Duke's largest programming body, supervises 10 committees, including those that oversee WXDU, Broadway at Duke, Cable 13 and Major Attractions.
As of Jan. 1, long-time employees on the biweekly payroll will receive an addition to their retirement packages. Those employees who have worked over 20 years at Duke and choose to retire early will get a noticeable increase in their retirement checks.
Bothered by high phone bills across campus, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has begun an investigation into local and long-distance phone rates and the way other technology costs affect those rates.
Nancy Staudenmayer, a dedicated academic and innovative teacher, died this week at her home in Durham. She was 36.
Struggling to keep quorum throughout a four-and-a-half-hour meeting, Duke Student Government tackled an ambitious agenda Wednesday night. In addition to discussing new requirements for cabinet members, debating two contentious resolutions and repeated arguments and questions concerning house rules, the legislative body approved the ballot for the Nov. 6 referendum vote.
Far away from the Gothic wonderland, Duke juniors Marissa Miller, Marc Eida and Ann Elliot are studying in Israel this semester, a nation currently plagued by violence.
GREENSBORO - After words from Judge James Beaty, the tenth and final day of the Heather Sue Mercer trial commenced with closing remarks.
GREENSBORO - In what could have been the end of a three-year legal battle between Duke University and Heather Sue Mercer, Trinity '98, the verdict came yesterday in favor of the anguished ex-football player.
GREENSBORO - When you play sports you expect to get hurt, Heather Sue Mercer said in court Thursday, but she said the emotional pain she experienced as a result of allegedly discriminatory actions by Duke football officials hurt her irreparably.
Despite a Duke Student Government report that suggested that financial aid recipients must choose housing based upon their economic constraints, students and administrators indicate that this is only one small factor in student housing decisions.
Scheduled to coincide with the joint meeting between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a rally attended by about 30 nurses, community leaders and union supporters was held yesterday in support of some Duke University nurses' effort to unionize.
HILLSBOROUGH - In a court hearing Monday, junior Thomas Jones was convicted of a class-one misdemeanor of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The ruling was a result of an April 26 sexual encounter with a 14-year-old Orange county female.
They say he was "geographically vulnerable."
Correction: The Duke graduation requirement is 34 classes.
