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As the University and other schools nationwide use the leverage of their merchandising to try to change manufacturers' labor practices, activists and economists continue to disagree about whether such pressure is effective.
The long-discussed renovations to the Bryan Center and West Union Building may soon become a reality, but not before a little more planning.
As the University attempts to become a national leader in campus technology, it has found a captain it hopes will lead the charge.
The tradition of celebratory bonfires may be a little more common after basketball games this year.
As administrators prepare to implement a residential life plan they hope will transform upperclass housing and social life, many of their efforts are intended to extend academics further into residence halls. But as they flesh out the details of that process, they are also examining how to include a group that traditionally has had a minor role outside of class: faculty members.
The University of Wisconsin at Madison joined Duke in its decision earlier this month not to renew its contract with New Era Cap Company, but most universities have taken a more hesitant approach to the corporation's ongoing labor dispute.
Although much campus discussion this semester has focused on undergraduate residential life, attention centered on the other student constituency Monday night as Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, met with the Graduate and Professional Student Council. Moneta emphasized the importance of graduate and professional student life and discussed issues ranging from space to child care.
The search for the University's next chief information officer has reached its final stage, just as administrators are trying to finalize a vision for the future of technology on campus.
This year's process for deciding faculty appointments, promotion and tenure is well underway, and as faculty evaluate their colleagues they will follow several new guidelines. The new APT process is the result of recommendations from a committee established last year to study the process for appointment, promotion and tenure. The recommendations were endorsed April 19 by the Academic Council, and are the first changes to the process in five years.
Signaling a different approach to monitoring factories that manufacture Duke-licensed products, the University announced Wednesday that it intends to join the Worker Rights Consortium, a non-profit group of colleges, universities and labor activists that inspects companies' labor practices. In addition, the University has decided to let its contract expire with New Era Cap Company, which owns a factory in Derby, N.Y., that is currently entangled in a labor dispute.
Future Duke retirees will be paying more in medical costs if a health care plan currently under consideration is passed.
After discussions earlier this year about requiring each incoming undergraduate to own a laptop computer by fall 2002, University administrators are now suggesting such a proposal may be unnecessary.
The concept of the Trinity is usually reserved for religious contexts, but some hope that one recently completed project will similarly help unify three distinct Durham communities.
Norman Finkelstein, controversial scholar of Zionism and professor of political science at DePaul University, lectured on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a packed lecture hall in the Sociology-Psychology Building last night. Over 200 students, faculty and community members attended, many of them sitting in aisles or standing against walls.
A speech tonight by a controversial critic of Israel is causing a stir among some in Duke's Jewish community who say that the speaker, a Jew, discounts the importance of the Holocaust. The organization sponsoring the event, however, defends the speaker as a valid critic of Israeli actions against Palestinians.
It's dinnertime on a weekday evening, and undergraduates around campus are scrambling for food. Freshmen head to the Marketplace, while most upperclassmen choose from a variety of options on West Campus.
There were no riots and there was no shouting--the reactions of representatives for the 26 undergraduate selective living groups were mixed at a Thursday night meeting, where administrators announced the future location of each house.
The University's initiative in genomics is getting a major boost with the announcement of a $7.5 million grant to study the relationship between genetics and the environment.
The natural sciences are preparing to enter the fray of campus construction projects, as administrators and faculty map out a new building to be located somewhere between the Physics, Biological Sciences and Gross Chemistry buildings. With research, teaching and office space, the new building is planned as a major improvement over its future neighbors, none of which have undergone major renovations since they were built.
Tom Wolfe is renowned for his incisive observations of American life and his penchant for white suits. When he speaks to graduating seniors this spring, he may have to trade in his suits for a commencement gown, but students will still not miss his flare.
