339 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
(10/19/01 4:00am)
Anthrax--a disease that seemed more hypothetical than realistic two months ago--has become an actual threat. Two weeks ago, Bob Stevens--who visited the University just as he developed symptoms of inhalation anthrax--died shortly after returning home; three other incidents have prompted investigation at Duke. National figures and major media outlets have also had the substance sent to them, with over 30 people exposed to the bacterium in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office.
(10/19/01 4:00am)
The state House of Representatives approved Thursday a measure that would make it illegal to use a fake identification card to get into an establishment that sells alcohol.
(10/08/01 4:00am)
The United States made a timely and seemingly appropriate response when it launched air attacks against the Taliban, Afghanistan's ruling regime 26 days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Nonetheless, caution and continual re-evaluation of these strikes is critical if the Bush administration is to achieve its stated goal of bringing terrorists to justice.
(10/08/01 4:00am)
An employee reported that between 5:10 p.m. Oct. 5 and 12 noon Oct. 6, someone entered a room on the second floor of the Medical Science Research Building and stole $500 worth of silver Mettler flat-top scales, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department. Police believe that the room was secured and there were no signs of forced entry.
(10/05/01 4:00am)
Erskine Bowles, former White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, officially announced Wednesday that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jesse Helms in 2002.
(10/05/01 4:00am)
Additional attacks upon the basic freedoms and rights that Americans hold dear took place last week, and hardly anyone batted an eye. Although these acts did not kill thousands of Americans, they nonetheless struck deeply at a fundamental American right--freedom of speech--and even emanated from the White House.
(10/01/01 4:00am)
In response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Bush administration has proposed broad security measures to fight terrorism. The new legislation would make it easier for the government to track communication and detain immigrants suspected of terrorism, something officials say may have prevented the attacks. But lawmakers should be careful not to approve the policy as a knee-jerk reaction to fear but rather scrutinize the proposal before passing judgment.
(10/01/01 4:00am)
In other ACC action:
(09/28/01 4:00am)
ROLLING VIEW MARINA -- This week, the Grid Pickers decided that it was no longer appropriate to continue their hero-worship of athletes.
(09/21/01 4:00am)
BRYAN CENTER, SATURDAY 6:47 p.m. -- After more than a year of pretending to try to see the worst losing streak in the country increase, the Grid Pickers were finally on their way to an actual football game. But, they of course got sidetracked and eventually decided the Bryan Center was much more compelling than the football team.
(09/07/01 4:00am)
EAST CAMPUS TURF FIELD--The combination of the sports department trying to cut costs, coupled with the staff's (and the entire school's) desire to see a fall sports team that could actually win a game, the grid pickers made their way to the East Campus Turf Field to watch the undefeated field hockey team. Of course, due to another error by Sports Information, the grid pickers found the field empty because the team was playing in Louisville.
(05/11/01 4:00am)
Friday, May 11
(05/11/01 4:00am)
In what many University leaders are calling Duke's most significant moment since James B. Duke endowed the school, the Board of Trustees approved the long-range academic plan at its February meeting. "Building on Excellence," which maps each school's and the entire institution's academic future gained even more importance after it became clear that the five-year-old Campaign for Duke would exceed its goal, bringing in extra money for the plan to allocate.
(05/11/01 4:00am)
Weather started the year off with high drama and anxious nerves as Hurricane Floyd devastated eastern North Carolina, and then surprised students when a n unusual blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow on the Triangle.
(05/11/01 4:00am)
The campus may have been basketball-centric in 1997-98, but the hoops craze reached an even higher level in the Class of 2001's sophomore year, as Duke became the first school ever to place both its men's and women's basketball teams in the national championship game.
(05/11/01 4:00am)
Both on and off the court, basketball dominated campus life in 1997-98.
(11/03/00 5:00am)
DURHAM - With only three more games remaining of heart-pounding Airborne football and a full season of crazy basketball closing in on the horizon the GridPickers decided to be the lazy and irresponsible students that they are and take the week off to relax.
(11/04/98 5:00am)
Tonight, Duke Student Government will vote on a by-law that would open the undergraduate Young Trustee process after 10 semi-finalists are chosen. This proposal is an exceptionally important improvement to the process governing what is quite clearly undergraduates' most important position.
(11/02/98 5:00am)
All of the negative advertisements, inaccurate claims and incivilities that have dominated North Carolina's 1998 Senate race between incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth and Democratic challenger John Edwards can, at times, be frustrating. But what truly makes this campaign disheartening is to think that millions of dollars are actually being spent to achieve this effect.
