University rolls out bicycle program
Duke Bikes, a new initiative to promote health and community, is now peddling bicycles below the West Campus Plaza in hopes that students might ride to class instead of drive.
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Duke Bikes, a new initiative to promote health and community, is now peddling bicycles below the West Campus Plaza in hopes that students might ride to class instead of drive.
Duke University Medical Center has been named the seventh-best hospital in the nation by U.S. News & World Report's annual Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals, tying the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center for the position.
"Welcome to the Consumer Revolution."
Forgive Allison Haltom if she has gone to Duke in her mind-she's called it home for more than four decades.
Although most Dukies returned to homesteads all over the country and world at the beginning of May, the past three months have not passed without incident. There was still lacrosse, celebrations and shufflings, investigations and even progress on the long-awaited Central Campus project.
The Board of Trustees this month unanimously selected Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects as the master designer for the comprehensive Central Campus project, which has been in discussion since 2000.
People don't often ask President Richard Brodhead what the job of a university president really entails.
"It is a great day for North Carolina," attorney Wade Smith said outside the North Carolina Court of Appeals building following Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong's disbarment Saturday.
Though Nader Baydoun, Trinity '71, said the theme of rushing to conviction in the Duke lacrosse case was central to the title selection for his book, "A Rush to Injustice," (Thomas Nelson, Inc., $25.95) the most glaring priority seems to have been a rush to publication.
Get your lemon daffodil cupcakes while you still can: The Nasher Museum of Art Cafe's caterer is on its way out.
A six-page internal report on the Durham Police Department's conduct during the lacrosse case has left some calling for an external investigation.
Instead of having to "talk about an awkward turtle," as his headband read at the Duke-Maryland basketball game, senior David Schmidt will have more than just a cheap prop to draw laughter from the audience when he delivers his commencement address Sunday.
One year and three innocent lacrosse players after 88 Duke faculty members endorsed an advertisement about a perceived "social disaster" on campus, some signatories now express relief that all charges against David Evans, Trinity '06, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were dropped April 11.
The famous snorting bull at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and a C-1 bus were only two of the numerous victims of violent winds Monday, which also broke tree limbs and shattered windows before settling down in the late evening.
Following the dismissal of all charges against three former men's lacrosse players, members of the Duke community reflected Wednesday on the conclusion of a case that has gripped the University for nearly 13 months.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is continuing its inquiry into the drug-related delivery of two suspicious packages to campus this week.
A student was arrested Tuesday morning in Craven Quadrangle and another was detained in conjunction with an ongoing drug-trafficking investigation being conducted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.
The newest bachelor is not only an "Officer and A Gentleman" as the season's title claims, he is also a former Blue Devil. recess' Chelsea Allison recently participated in an interview with Andy Baldwin, Trinity '99, star of The Bachelor.
Following criticisms that the Young Trustee selection process had been riddled with cronyism, significant changes were made this year to rebalance the distribution of power between the InterCommunity Council and Duke Student Government.
The 14 members of the Duke Summer Reading program selection committee reached a unanimous decision Wednesday, choosing "The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South" by Osha Gray Davidson for the Class of 2011 to read next August.