Duke officials announce readiness for impending Y2K
(11/03/99 5:00am)
As countless millennium clocks fall below 60 days, confidence has never been higher that Duke's year 2000 problem has been solved.
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As countless millennium clocks fall below 60 days, confidence has never been higher that Duke's year 2000 problem has been solved.
Just as the North Carolina State Fair left the area, a new fair is coming to town. The Office of Information Technology will set up shop in the Bryan Center today for its first-ever computing carnival.
The University's divinity and nursing schools have joined forces to create three unique degree programs combining the two disciplines.
Turning attention away from his well-known role on O.J. Simpson defense team, Johnnie Cochran focused his Sunday night speech on "concentrating our energy on building bridges to unite us."
Duke Undergraduates Evaluate Teaching may be defunct, but several online course evaluation sites have risen to begin filling the gap.
Seventeen years of loyalty to the Iron Dukes may no longer guarantee basketball season tickets once the athletic department finishes a review of its ticket policy.
All is not well in academia, at least according to one University professor.
Dancing on a Saturday night in the 1930s, a few short years after the creation of Duke University, a typical student could not be happier. He had a tough time drinking, because of Prohibition, so a great deal of student entertainment centered around activities that are tame by today's standards. School-sponsored dances, debate team and Bible class were particularly popular for students around the founding of the University.
The real-life counterpart of Jodie Foster's character in Contact spoke Thursday night about her quest to find intelligent life in space.
The law school's search for a new dean, while slower than expected, is finally closing in on some candidates and should be complete by the end of the semester.
Many off-campus students have begun the year with a bang, much to the dismay of their neighbors. The student social scene in the neighborhoods off East Campus has led to numerous complaints, many of which were voiced at an off-campus housing forum September 10.
Members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 465, the facilities workers' union at the University, are apparently facing worker shortage.
Leaky roofs can now be added to the short list of complaints about the new Wilson Recreation Center.
After teasing students and faculty with its state-of-the-art facilities and sprawling weight room, the Wilson Recreation Center closed its doors this weekend for minor renovations. A few signs posted on the athletic facility's doors were the only indication that the gym would not be open, and many uninformed students made the trek to the facility only to be turned away.
The California Institute of Technology has become the best university in the country, or so says U.S. News and World Report magazine. According to the magazine's 2000 Guide to America's Best Colleges, which hit newsstands Monday, the school catapulted from a ninth-place ranking last year. Duke fell one place from last year and landed in a three-way tie for seventh place with Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania.
An exhibit commemorating the history of residential life at the University and foreshadowing its future is currently on display at Perkins Library. The display features a pictorial history of the construction of many East and West Campus buildings and includes copies of many of the original blueprints.
To kick off reunion weekend Friday morning, Alumni Affairs sponsored a particularly timely panel discussion titled, "The Changing Nature of Intercollegiate Athletics."
For months, there has been talk of leasing Duke University Stores to an independent company such as Barnes & Noble or Follett College Stores. Those rumors were finally put to rest last week, and employees are thrilled.
The University will turn 75 years old later this year, and officials have begun planning the birthday party.
The Chronicle asked the candidates for Duke Student Government president the following question: