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After touting 1998-99 as a record year for minority recruitment, the University may not have as much to brag about. Although the number of early applicants has hit a new high at 1,367, minority students comprise only 15 percent of the pool-about a 5 percent drop from last year.
The U.S. Supreme Court's pending decision on whether state universities can use mandatory student fees to finance politically minded organizations will not have any direct effect on private institutions, but it does have the higher education community considering the ethical implications of mandatory students fees.
This is the second story in a five-part series on the potential effects of Curriculum 2000. Tomorrow's story will examine the impact on summer school.
This is the second story in an occasional series exploring graduate student life.
Little more than two years after the Interfraternity Council set up its remarkably stringent-and controversial-anti-alcohol distribution policy, the 17-fraternity governing body Thursday toned down its sanctions to make them more enforceable and to ensure they mesh with national organizations' standards.
At a late-October presidents' meeting of the Association of American Universities, Duke President Nan Keohane recommended that the organization's committee on intellectual property examine the questions raised by companies that post lecture notes online.
This is the first story in an occasional series exploring graduate student life.
On Nov. 17, 1980, exactly one year and two weeks after the shootings of five Communist Workers Party members in Greensboro, N.C. at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally, the trial of those accused of the murders ended. Several Klan members and self-proclaimed Nazis had been charged with the murders of Cesar Cause, Dr. Mike Nathan, Bill Sampson, Sandi Smith and Jim Waller.
The fastest portion of the Internet is getting even faster: Universities have begun improving their capacity for high-speed data transmission, a process that will help researchers share information via Internet2.
A student reported that he was robbed at gunpoint as he and a friend sat at the West Campus bus stop at 3:02 a.m. Sunday waiting for a SafeRides van, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department.
After the College Board made changes to a commonly used financial aid eligibility formula last spring and many of Duke's peer institutions revamped their financial aid systems, students and administrators are trying to determine what about Duke's system works-and what doesn't.
Duke University Police Department obtained warrants yesterday against the suspect in a Sept. 26 armed robbery on East Campus.
As the number of web sites boasting online lecture notes continues to proliferate, professors and university officials around the country are starting a battle against a practice they say is both illegal and unethical.
About eight months after 55 percent of Campus Police officers voted to pursue collective bargaining rights through the Durham Police Officers Association, officers and police administrators remain locked in a debate about whether officers' concerns have been sufficiently addressed.
In 2001, the Nicholas School of the Environment will celebrate its 10th birthday and say goodbye to its father: Dean Norm Christensen announced Thursday that he will step down from his post at the end of his second term.
The combination of an ever-expanding Health System and a constant amount of available on-campus space is pushing many University offices and centers to off-campus locations around Durham and North Carolina. But instead of building from scratch, the University and Medical Center often opt to rent space to accommodate these growth spurts.
The Duke University Police Department has brought charges against a man suspected of breaking into four cars Oct. 4. near Duke Forest gate 23. The most recent group of break-ins followed 12 similar reports between Sept. 17 and Oct. 2, said Maj. Robert Dean of DUPD, and Campus Police will continue to investigate 30-year-old John Christopher Farmer, of 3148 Fayetteville St., as a suspect in the other thefts.
In 1995, a 10-person task force developed a series of recommendations for modifying the University's alcohol policy. Almost five years later, Duke is considering hiring another consultant to revisit many of the same topics with the hope of establishing a comprehensive alcohol program that covers more than rules and regulations.
An angry e-mail describing grievances against several selective groups and detailing acts of retaliation has spawned University judicial proceedings and the removal of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity's president.
The suspect in a Sept. 26 armed robbery on East Campus was confronted by police in Northgate Mall early Wednesday afternoon. During the attempted arrest, he got into an altercation with police and was shot in the throat. It is not clear who fired the shot. The suspect remains in critical condition at Duke Hospital.
