Academic Council OKs new theater department
(04/20/01 4:00am)
A funny thing happened on the way to Thursday's Academic Council meeting-faculty decided it was time to promote the Program in Drama to departmental status.
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A funny thing happened on the way to Thursday's Academic Council meeting-faculty decided it was time to promote the Program in Drama to departmental status.
Following years of negative stereotypes and high liability, three national fraternities with Duke chapters have spent the last year trying to reduce the presence of alcohol in fraternity housing. But the effort to go dry has had mixed success with several obstacles standing in the way.
The debate over the undergraduate honor code took a significant step forward yesterday, when two faculty committees approved the creation of a new Academic Integrity Council to focus discussion of student cheating and plagiarism.
Locating a parking space on West Campus might be tough, but finding someone to direct the campus parking system may prove just as difficult.
A new course evaluation system has arrived just in time for fall class registration, but the new online form-independent of the University-is not the one anticipated by student leaders and administrators.
Over the next few weeks, members of the University's Insurance Advisory Committee will be considering several changes to the student health insurance plan. The committee will distribute a survey this week to help decide on possible changes to prescription drug coverage and the family premium structure.
Duke Student Government is gearing up for another round of debate on ARAMARK after last week's veto of a resolution supporting the company's proposed management of four campus eateries.
The Academic Council examined the efficiency and fairness of the University's tenure policies Thursday, considering the suggestions of a recent report from the ad hoc Committee on the Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Process.
In their efforts to enrich campus social life, cultural groups continually face challenges like securing space and raising student awareness. The possibility of establishing a multicultural center has been raised to help solve such issues, but missing from the discussion is the study of ethnicity as an academic discipline-a situation some students and professors are looking to change.
As dining officials consider ARAMARK's proposal to assume management of four eateries on campus, members of the Duke community are scrutinizing the company's history. Pointing to complaints at other universities, some students-led by juniors Jonathan Harris and Snehal Patel-contend that the company serves poor-quality food and mistreats its employees.
In a rare semi-public meeting of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, students, University dining officials and representatives of the Local 77 union-which represents dining services, housekeeping, groundskeeping and sanitation employees-met with officials from food-service giant ARAMARK Wednesday night to gather information on the company's potential management of four campus eateries.
Although the Duke Student Government academic affairs committee nears the end of a busy year, few of the issues it has worked on have been resolved. As a result, next year's vice president is likely to have a pivotal role in issues including course evaluations, technology, Perkins Library renovations and bookstore privatization.
Provost Peter Lange presented the final draft of the University's long-range plan to the Academic Council Thursday, restating the plan's major themes before presenting it to the Board of Trustees next week. Titled "Building on Excellence," the document is the result of two years of effort and, pending the Trustees' approval, will guide University planning for the next five years.
An Arts and Sciences Development Office idea to find potential donors to the FOCUS program is not working out as hoped, and for some professors has raised questions about how active they should be in the fundraising process.
As undergraduates prepare to choose their housing for next year, campus-wide attention is focusing on the construction of the West-Edens Link, the approaching overhaul of West Campus and how the two projects will affect student life.
Signaling a step away from free file-sharing over the Internet, the head of media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG affirmed last week his company's plans to turn the popular Napster service into a fee-based system as early as this summer.
Just weeks after renovations finished on the Faculty Commons, the Oak Room is set to play catch-up.
Duke's parking headaches may be getting a little worse next week, as construction begins on two new buildings that will displace over 200 spots.
Along with Ralph Nader's disappointing show in the presidential election last year, the Green Party candidate lost another battle-at the hands of the state of North Carolina.
In a promising display of cooperation betweenusual rivals, the Academic Council warmly welcomed new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser at its meeting Thursday. Stressing the positive impact of the two schools' historically close relationship, Moeser reaffirmed that connection and committed to its strengthening.