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Ho, ho, ho. PPS… what a joke! My major is serious. My major involves theoretical wrangling. My major requires me to sit in Rodinesque contemplation while arcane equations fill my thought bubble.
Back when I was University Editor of The Chronicle, my co-editor Cindy Yee and I met regularly with most major administrators. Some were smart, some were savvy, some were strange. But no one ever matched Dining Services Director Jim Wulforst.
A couple of years ago, Jessica Simpson was a somewhat statuesque chanteuse with jaw-dropping pipes who seemed cut from the pre-nutjob Whitney Houston mold. At best, she’d churn out some adult contemporary hits for a few years; at worst, she’d disappear into B-movie obscurity or the $2.99 bin at Wal-Mart.
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. My new movie, Exorcist: The Beginning, is nearly unwatchable—and I know it.
Two city planners sit in a cozy office one autumn morning, surrounded by maps and blueprints. They have shared this office for some 20 years, working as steady custodians of a burgeoning city.
You can take your pick. There's The Manchurian Candidate, Dawn of the Dead, Man on Fire, or how about The Stepford Wives? No, this isn't the Spectravision selection at a Saskatchewan Hilton. These venerable quasi-classics have been rethought, rehashed and remade into slick modern spectacles and are revisiting theaters this summer.
You can take your pick. There's The Manchurian Candidate, Dawn of the Dead, Man on Fire, or how about The Stepford Wives? No, this isn't the Spectravision selection at a Saskatchewan Hilton. These venerable quasi-classics have been rethought, rehashed and remade into slick modern spectacles and are revisiting theaters this summer.
Forget Iraq, forget the economy. Some of the biggest threats to President George W. Bush this political season can be found in a theater near you.
Put your seersuckers back in the closet and unlace your boat shoes. Bust out your beakers and navy blues. The exhilarating and sometimes gawky years of Duke's dramatic ascent to national prominence have concluded, and we now brace for the first year of the New Era.
As William Chafe packs up his belongings and prepares to vacate his comfortable 104 Allen Building office, he will doubtless look back on his tenure as the top man in Arts and Sciences. Perhaps sitting alone amongst boxes, perhaps with a picture frame or a vase in hand, Chafe will gaze out his window onto a dusky Chapel Quadrangle and think about all he has done, and all he did not do. And, if he reminisces with clarity and balance, and goes through all the years of his deanship, a smile will probably creep across his face.
Funnyman Paul Downs will inject a dose of his Duke University Improv humor into this year's commencement, as Duke has tapped the DUI veteran and senior to be the student speaker at the May 9 ceremony. He will warm up the audience for the keynote speaker, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright.
After a lengthy and ambitious search, the University has tapped Kimerly Rorschach, director of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, to lead the new Nasher Museum of Art.
A student in Maxwell House who has been active in educating her peers about sexual assault received a threatening note from an unknown person Thursday night. The note, written on the back of an anti-sexual assault poster she had designed and painted, read: "Your signs will not stop this me."
A fire broke out at the Perkins Library addition construction site Wednesday, causing the evacuation of the Old Chem building but only minor damage to the site and no injuries.
When President Nan Keohane called on the University to conduct a "ruthless analysis" of its academic offerings in an October address to the faculty, other high-level administrators--those who would be around to conduct such an analysis--took notice. The officers who will assume the reins of the University after Keohane steps down July 1, including President-elect Richard Brodhead, said they will follow through on Keohane's call to "reconceptualize the enterprise" through specialization and cross-institutional collaboration, though perhaps not in as dramatic a fashion as some anticipate.
The 2005 U.S. News and World Report graduate rankings brought good news for the School of Law, as it returned to the top 10 in the law school rankings after a two-year hiatus.
After three years of leadership at the University and elsewhere, juniors Philip Kurian and Anthony Vitarelli will advance to professional school $26,000 richer and with one of the most highly coveted undergraduate awards in the country to their names. The students have been designated 2004 Truman Scholars, along with 77 other undergraduates from 67 schools.
At 7 o'clock tonight, nervous high school seniors from across the world will check online to see if they are among the 3,183 lucky students admitted regular-decision to Duke for Fall 2004. Chances are, they are going to be disappointed.
As the rooster crowed Friday morning, juniors across campus awoke to register online for their senior fall courses. While the 7 a.m. wake-up call was accepted as a necessary evil for those seeking to get a headstart on their peers, these brave souls soon realized that their efforts were, in fact, for naught. Registration hub ACES was down, juniors became annoyed and course registration would have to wait at least another day.
Dwindling undergraduate enrollments have put further financial stress on the perennially money-losing Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C., causing concern among administrators.
