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The University has stepped up its efforts over the last decade to create an internationally diverse student body, but safety concerns and financial constraints continue to keep admissions officers out of the Middle East and Africa.
Durham police issued five citations to students early Sunday morning for violating the City Noise Ordinance at their residences off East Campus. The citations, which came with a $150 fine for each recipient, left hosts and partygoers alike bewildered by what they said was an unfair blanket policy from the Durham Police Department.
Effective this fall, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has designated a liaison between its office and the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life. The liaison will handle prospective students' inquiries regarding the University's LGBT community and broader campus climate.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, many people have expressed support for "patriotic correctness" in higher education--a concept that discourages teachers from expressing dissent from American foreign policy in the classroom.
With only several months at the University under his belt, Ari Dubin has already made himself at home as the new director of the Freeman Center for Jewish Life.
With a University-backed promise from the Durham Police Department to crack down on off-campus parties, many students say Duke's neighbors may not have much to complain about over the next few weeks.
The provost's Task Force on Course Scheduling has zeroed in on a new scheduling model it believes will address student and faculty concerns surrounding the current system. Now, members of the task force continue to fine-tune the model, hoping to have it ready for implementation by fall 2004.
While the prospect of wider Duke police patrols has left many students apprehensive about the future of off-campus parties, Durham residents living off East Campus say they hope the Duke University Police Department can help students become more responsible neighbors.
Many students enjoyed the first weekend of the new semester with a few laughs, and more than a few beers, at houses off of East Campus. Many of Duke's neighbors, however, spent the weekend trying to avoid drunken wanderers and stray beer cans and trying to sleep despite music pounding through their windows from a few doors down. In other words, they were less than amused.
The news that Duke police may soon be patrolling around East Campus has elicited a sigh of relief from some students--but consternation among those who fear the Duke badge will frequent off-campus parties.
The computer worm that caused a brief network outage Friday is only one of a number of viruses the Office of Information Technology is trying to remedy as students return to campus and bring thousands of new computers onto Duke's network. Friday's culprit, the Nachi worm--also known as Welchia or Blaster-D--overloaded Duke's routers by sending out echo requests, or pings, to find active computers to infect. Chris Cramer, the University's information technology security officer, said OIT has temporarily blocked all external ping requests in order to keep the network running.
The University withdrew an offer to buy Erwin Field on Oregon Street after local soccer groups and parks advocates opposed the sale earlier this summer.
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The Office of Information Technology recently unleashed ePrint, which University officials say should make printing in OIT computer labs quicker, easier and more eco-friendly.
As students funneled out of the Chapel Thursday afternoon, they were asked, per tradition, to pledge to uphold honor at the University. This year, however, marks the first year the incoming class put their names to the new Duke Community Standard, which replaces the former undergraduate honor code this fall.
Starting this fall, residents in Kilgo Quadrangle on West Campus and Southgate Dormitory on East Campus will need DukeCards to enter their bathrooms. DukeCard readers were installed this summer and should be functional by the time students return to campus.
Prompted by continued financial woes and the University's need for multicultural space, the Oak Room closed its doors for good in May.
Administrators are putting the finishing touches on a report they hope will help combat attrition among graduate students and encourage directors of graduate studies to reevaluate the experience of graduate students at various phases of the doctoral program.
Duke police officers may soon be faced with a heretofore unheard-of challenge: the off-campus beat.
Summer session enrollments increased again this year with administrators crediting the rise to such factors as students' strategic planning for their academic programs, additional financial aid from the University and a weak national economy.
