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With the promise of continued iciness and the potential for rain or more snow, students' weekend dinner plans might be limited by snow. Although many local restaurants will offer limited service, students might not be willing to venture off campus.
Although May seems far away, students are trudging through the snow to figure out where they will play in the sand.
Campus Police Chief Clarence Birkhead responded to long-standing student dissatisfaction with the security policy for on-campus events last week when he issued a draft of the previously unwritten guidelines. But many students had hoped the written document would include changes to the existing policy and not merely reiterate the status quo that they say discriminates against non-residential groups, especially minority organizations.
CORRECTION: A page-one article in the Jan. 24 Chronicle about Friday's pro-life rally incorrectly represented the experiences of one of the speakers, Loretta Thompson. Her abortion occurred after the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in 1973.
Although budgetary and technological limitations have delayed administrators' short-term plans for a better-looking and more convenient Bryan Center, their long-term ideas for a more space-efficient building are taking shape.
After meetings with individuals and organizations around campus, the committee seeking the University's next vice president for institutional equity is preparing to look through applications for the post that will become vacant June 30.
After the much-praised success of last year's Martin Luther King Day celebration, the planners of this year's events hope to include a broader cross-section of the University community in the programming, which starts today.
This is the fourth story in an occasional series exploring graduate student life.
As each of the University's branches begins its strategic planning initiative, the School of Law has just been given a chief strategist.
This weekend, 515 high school seniors received an invitation into Duke's Class of 2004.
A newly formed advisory task force created by Provost Peter Lange will look into the issues raised by the Graduate and Professional Student Council's report to the Board of Trustees, as well as other topics relevant to graduate and professional student life.
Will Jan. 1, 2000 be the end of the world as we know it?
Faculty and staff concerns about unaffordable on-campus recreation may soon be quelled by the $75-per semester recreation fee, $2-per use option recommended yesterday by an advisory committee.
Now that they have returned from an information-gathering trip to Singapore, a group of administrators and faculty are more concretely analyzing a possible partnership in biomedical engineering with Nanyang Technological University and Singapore General Hospital. By January, they hope to finalize a proposal for the program, which would address education, research and industrial development.
As MP3s have become popular, concerns about copyright infringement have proliferated just like the compressed, easily transferrable digital music files. Now, a 71-student bust at Carnegie Mellon University in October has put the issue in a new light: Should university administrators sacrifice students' privacy rights to enforce copyright laws?
An ordinary Friday night at Main Street's Down Under Pub turned into a confusing mess Nov. 19 when a Trinity freshman allegedly stole a beer tap and bottle of scotch, eventually spawning a scuffle. Soon afterward, Durham Police Department officers cleared out the bar with pepper spray. Three University students were arrested in the fracas.
As employees closed down the Duke Clinic branch of Wachovia Bank Friday evening, a man armed with a handgun entered and demanded cash. He escaped with an unknown amount of money.
As more and more big-name universities form research and teaching partnerships with schools and hospitals in Singapore, Duke may be getting in on the game, too.
About a year before many national fraternities are scheduled to implement dry housing initiatives, national sororities have been passing their own resolutions of support. Last night, the University's Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils met to discuss how these resolutions will operate on Duke's campus.
After being overruled by the administration, the athletic department has decided to hold a month-long trial period for late-night hours at the Wilson Recreation Center. Last night, the gym began keeping its doors open Sunday through Thursday until 2 a.m.
