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(08/30/99 4:00am)
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What is the only entity on campus that may be expanding faster than the Health System?
For the past four years, Mark Makhuli and his friends have been playing basketball once or twice a week at East Campus' Brodie Recreation Center. Makhuli, a resident in urologic surgery, said he intends to keep up his workout pattern-but he'll pay a $200 recreation fee to do it.
In a one-sentence statement issued July 28, the National Labor Relations Board denied the Durham Police Officers' Association's petition to review a regional NLRB decision. The decision marks another victory for the University in its efforts to keep police officers from winning the right to collective bargaining.
The trek from far-away parking lots to student dormitories will become significantly easier-and safer-this fall: Administrators are spending $157,000 to upgrade the surveillance systems and provide a 24-hour patrol and shuttle system for the more distant lots.
O n Sunday mornings, the small metal cartridges littering the ground behind the residential quads are the only evidence left by the weekend's whippets users. Usually consumed by small groups of students, nitrous oxide-the colorless, sweet-tasting laughing gas stored in the whippet cartridges-is used by transferring the gas to a balloon and then inhaling to achieve a buzz that one Trinity sophomore described as "an up thing, not a chill thing."
The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit by Heather Sue Mercer, the female football player who is suing the University and its former football coach for discrimination under Title IX.
University administrators won the first legal battle in their fight to prevent Duke University Police Department officers from obtaining the right to collective bargaining.
The office of Campus Community Development has seen a lot of new faces lately.
It will take several million dollars to upgrade the first floor of Perkins Library in order to improve the lighting and create group study space. But on another level, Perkins' age and design have created a problem that is even more difficult to solve: Its stacks are notoriously difficult to organize.
Two years after the director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy stepped down, the center's search committee has finally settled on a new leader. Administrative formality is the only thing remaining between Bruce Jentleson, director of the University of California at Davis' Washington Center, and the Sanford directorship, Interim Director Philip Cook announced Tuesday.
June 3, 1973.
This is the first story in a two-part series about the obstacles facing Perkins Library. Next week's article will address the library's lack of storage space.
Jeannette Johnson-Licon has been an anchor during waves of change at the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life. From the controversial renaming of Gothic Queers in the fall of 1997 to the departure of the center's first full-time director last winter, Johnson-Licon, the center's program coordinator and acting director, has been there.
After more than a year of exploration and planning, the University has followed the lead of many major companies, issuing a value statement to reshape its workplace culture.
Members of a chatty 1999 graduating class half-listened Sunday as Cokie Roberts, ABC News' chief congressional analyst, encouraged them to "come on into the fray" by actively participating in government.
University students have been dreaming of a late-night, on-campus, Tex-Mex restaurant for years. Now that McDonald's may be coming without its Texican counterpart, Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst has reawakened discussions with the Carrboro-based Armadillo Grill.
As if crunch time wasn't bad enough.
Each incoming class of freshmen hears the legends of Duke's good old days: Monday nights of wild keg parties with beer flowing like water and diverse students flowing in and out of fraternity sections, freely mingling against a background of blaring music and keg stands.
A group of about 20 students gathered after a prayer session Sunday night, sidewalk chalk in hand and a mission in mind: to encourage campus-wide discussion and reflection about Easter. Their efforts were strikingly apparent Monday morning when students woke up to find campus sidewalks blanketed in chalk writing stating, "Jesus is risen."
Audience members peered over the Sanford Institute of Public Policy's balconies yesterday evening, hoping to see Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen as he discussed critiques of human rights theory. Unfortunately, most members of the standing-room-only crowd could only listen as Sen countered assertions that "human rights" are not viable outside of formal institutions.