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When there's no place to go

(02/14/96 5:00am)

Tasha Allen, 18, wants to be a doctor. Like most high-school juniors, she's thinking about college. She's been wanting to go to Duke for as long as she can remember, but her grades aren't too good. She goes to school everyday, and then returns to the one story house on the corner of Queen and Holloway to do her homework and take care of her three-year old daughter, Senila.




Sleepless in Hollywood

(10/04/95 4:00am)

Watching the Oscars on television wasn't enough for Dave Phillips, Trinity '85. After 10 years of hard work he's on his way to becoming a regular there. As a literary agent, Phillips, 32, who represented the creators of "Sleepless in Seattle," "While You Were Sleeping" and "Hoop Dreams," was recently featured in "The Hollywood Reporter" as one of the "50 young execs climbing to the top."


The brave new (e-mail) world

(09/20/95 4:00am)

A s residential debate came to a head last spring, an undergraduate's chances of speaking to Bill Burig dwindled. The line of students emanating from the assistant dean of student development's door stretched down the staircase. If a student called Burig, he or she was told that the dean's voice mail box was too full to take messages. Perhaps these students using these traditional modes of communication were misguided--those who sent him questions via e-mail received long detailed responses almost immediately.