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The Board of Trustees approved three key changes to residential life last weekend at a meeting that also addressed the new budget, the men's NCAA basketball championship and recent math team wins. The residential changes include moving all sophomores to West Campus by 2006, initiating links between East and West Campus dormitories and creating an independent corridor on Main West Campus.
Timothy "Russ" Allen, a public policy master's student scheduled to graduate last Sunday and enter the School of Law this fall, drowned May 8 while vacationing on the Outer Banks. He was 24.
The first black woman to be admitted to the University of Georgia, Charlayne Hunter-Gault has crossed many boundaries in her life. And this weekend, she hopes to share with Duke's class of 2001 some of the lessons she has learned along the way.
University officials are investigating an alleged hate crime following a student's report that on April 1, someone vandalized his room, stole about $100 cash and left a note bearing a racial epithet.
More than 50 student governments across the nation have protested the George W. Bush administration's recent decision to enforce a law that denies financial aid to students with prior substance abuse convictions, but debate at Duke has remained relatively quiet.
Over a year after her son Raheem died of aspiration pneumonia following a binge drinking incident, Catherine Bath is returning to Duke.
President Nan Keohane released a report yesterday addressing minority student concerns in response to the five March 29 demands made by the Duke Student Movement. Among other things, Keohane promised to strengthen recruitment of minority senior-level administrators, to better support cultural groups and to beef up the African and African-American Studies Program.
After searching for over a year, the University has finally found an alcohol specialist. Currently a staff psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, Jeff Kulley will join Counseling and Psychological Services this summer to focus on alcohol treatment and education.
Formal revisions to the alcohol policy are almost completely in line with recommendations released last month by a review committee. They include a general emphasis on holding living groups accountable for what takes place in their sections, notifying parents of alcohol abuse and allowing more administrative discretion in determining sanctions.
A nationally renowned cardiologist who can research, teach, treat patients and bleed Duke blue all at once-who could ask for more? That's what University officials said yesterday when they announced the appointment of Dr. Sanders "Sandy" Williams, Medicine '74, as the next dean of the medical school.
After 10 years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 yesterday that the 1997 drawing of North Carolina's 12th Congressional District was legal. The court reversed a three-judge panel's opinion that legislators drew the district according to race-not politics.
Although a committee recently undertook a large-scale study of space on campus, one issue continues to loom over administrators and students alike: office space.
Construction on the West-Edens Link was delayed two months after building crews this winter discovered a large pit of debris underneath the building site.
Several Duke students who vacationed at the Casa Linda Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico over spring break may have contracted a respiratory disease that has affected more than 200 college students nationwide. Doctors say the illness-preliminarily identified as the fungal infection histoplasmosis-is generally easy to treat and not serious. "In its acute form, it's usually a self-limited illness that does not require treatment," said Dr. Christopher Woods, a Duke infectious diseases and medical microbiology fellow. "In more severe cases, with persons who have a compromised immune system, those people may... require anti-fungal therapy."
Walking across campus, you may have noticed the absence of the Phi Psi bench. But in addition to symbolically confiscating that property, administrators placed further sanctions on the group after they did severe damage to their section and threatened students during the men's NCAA basketball championship celebration.
The history department will sponsor a teach-in about slavery reparations at 8 p.m. today in an attempt to foster dialogue about issues raised in a March 19 advertisement opposing reparations. The ad, written by conservative author David Horowitz, has sparked debate about free speech nationwide but has not yet elicited much discussion about reparations, either here at the University or in the national media.
Only weeks after protests over The Chronicle's decision to run a March 19 advertisement listing 10 reasons against slavery reparations, the printing of those arguments in The Daily Tar Heel has elicited similar response at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For nearly five months, a committee of faculty and students has met behind closed doors to discuss the future of cultural and multicultural centers at Duke. It will release a report later this month, but one key decision has already been made: to separate a potential new multicultural center from the expansion of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.
As Duke celebrated its NCAA men's basketball championship, admissions officials were busy shelling out more good news to over 3,000 high school seniors. University officials said they are pleased with this year's admitted students, who number 3,583 including early decision admittees.
If you woke up slightly woozy yesterday and decided to just go back to sleep, you were not alone. Despite the official continuation of classes, many students said they skipped their courses, and professors said they noticed.
