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University students preparing to stay for summer session this year should ready themselves for plenty of noise, as construction crews prepare to unleash their jackhammers on the area surrounding the Bryan Center.
This is the first of a three-part series profiling this year's finalists for undergraduate young trustee.
Following a Nov. 30 armed robbery in the Bryan Center, campus security measures are at an-all time high, according to Vice President for Campus Services Kemel Dawkins and Duke University Police Department Chief Clarence Birkhead.
The Young Trustee Nominating Committee named Taylor Collison, Alex Garinger and Katie Laidlaw Monday night as the three finalists in the race to become young trustees.
Katherine Mary Schoeffler, a May 2004 doctoral candidate in the Pratt School of Engineering, died Tuesday at Duke University Medical Center from a tear in her ascending aorta. She was 44.
A rapidly spreading computer virus, which has been slowing Internet traffic around the world and infecting thousands of computers since its discovery Monday, has made its way onto the University's server.
The four-wheel drive van pulled up in front of Miranda Hunter's home Monday morning, like it did for Monte Tatum, Curtis Payne and a host of others. While the streets around their neighborhoods remained eerily quiet as the asphalt lay covered with a slippery mix of snow and ice, the uniformed workers climbed into the vehicle and began their morning commute. These essential staffers had a job to do, and one that could not wait, according to their bosses--the University's students needed dining services.
While much of the University and the local Durham area stayed off the roads Sunday amid below-freezing temperatures, snow and ice, the school's Merchant on Points food delivery program recorded the largest single-day sales in its history.
You've waited three years to throw your roommate a party for her 21st birthday. You've decorated your Central Campus apartment, invited over a few friends, and settle down to what you hope will become an enjoyable Saturday evening. Soon, a knock at the door brings not the pizza delivery man you expect but a uniformed officer.
Duke Student Government passed a resolution Wednesday night endorsing an overhaul of the University's Career Center facilities.
The Young Trustee Nominating Committee announced late Tuesday night the eight semifinalists left in the race for the undergraduate young trustee position, a three-year term on the Duke Board of Trustees.
Buses whirl past as students sport pails of paint, cans of spraypaint and paintbrushes, proclaiming in neon green "Party Friday, 10-2, at Shooters!" or "World AIDS Day" in candy-apple red. Whether raising social awareness or advertising party plans, the East Campus Bridge serves as graffiti billboard for the community.
Most students agree, Nan Keohane's presidency is a tough act to follow. However, many said they were optimistic that president-elect Richard Brodhead will prove up to the challenge.
Bright, a friend to students, community-minded, congenial.
Bright, a friend to students, community-minded, congenial.
While many students were caught off-guard during exam week by the announcement Friday of the University's next president, they remained enthusiastic that Richard Brodhead, dean of Yale College and the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University, could live up to current President Nan Keohane's legacy.
One hundred years ago, a young Trinity College would not have permitted a black man to share the stage with two fellow academics. Monday, however, a thoroughly modernized institution celebrated the centennial of the John Spencer Bassett Affair with reflections from three of its preeminent scholars.
They pressed their ears up to the grates on the roof, squirming to hear anything from the meeting below. Finally at three a.m., the chair of the Board of Trustees of the then-fledgling Trinity College gave his sign. What the 300 young men of the small Methodist institution did not know, as they danced around the bonfire on the quad now known as East Campus, was that their school's decision would put it on the map. Now, 100 years later, Duke University celebrates this week with a vigil, ceremony and lectures about the legacy of the fateful Dec. 2, 1903, refusal to accept the resignation of John Spencer Bassett and his significance to the University.
Duke Student Government voted Wednesday to approve a resolution postponing a vote on the future of ARAMARK Corp. until spring semester.
Justin Segall just couldn't do it any longer.
