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When pianist Roberta Piket takes the stage of Baldwin Auditorium with the Duke Jazz Ensemble Friday night at 8 pm, she will have arrived as many artists do when they play at the University: as an up-and-coming artist who has just recently begun to have her first taste of fame.
General Augusto Pinochet, former dictator of Chile, was arrested in a London hospital Oct. 16 by British authorities acting on an extradition request from Spanish officials. Spanish prosecutors hope to question Pinochet about the deaths of hundreds of Spaniards in Chile under his regime. His arrest has caused shockwaves around the world and has impacted people as close as the University.
When John Glenn flies into space at two o'clock this afternoon, he will be more than a single man on a mission to outer space. Rather, his roles as an American hero, U.S. senator, senior citizen and scientific subject have once again thrust him into the spotlight and brought generations together in awe of his accomplishments: His mission will prompt older generations to reminisce about his orbit around the Earth 36 years ago and younger generations to become acquainted with the wonder of space flight.
In 1988, Jay Faires, a freshly minted M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business, took $400,000 he had raised from private sources and started a small music company in his apartment. That company came to be known as Mammoth Records, a small but highly successful music label that has since grown to include almost fifty artists and was recently sold to the Walt Disney Company for an estimated $25 million.
Walter Turnbull began teaching junior high school in Harlem, New York, in the late 1960s, and faced a challenging task. Students were poorly motivated and schools had "a very difficult time finding teachers who were dedicated to their education," he said.
In a pile of videotapes, photographs and papers, the evidence presented by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr about President Bill Clinton's alleged sexual impropriety has come to overshadow a much smaller document which may ultimately decide Clinton's fate. As discussion turns from the details of Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky to how he should be punished, political experts are once again poring over the Constitution, which outlines the process by which the President could be removed from office.
At sundown last night, a small group of protesters gathered to picket in front of Temporary Quarters Inn to object to conditions inside the building as well as the alleged mistreatment of residents by Durham's city and county governments.
Environmental conservation organizations gained unprecedented media attention during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Groups like Greenpeace grabbed major headlines on an almost daily basis as their members chained themselves to bulldozers or challenged nuclear battleships in tiny rubber dinghies. As the media spotlight shifted to new "causes of the moment," however, these high-profile groups became less visible and their activities dwindled.
George Stetten is clearly excited about music. An assistant research professor of biomedical engineering by day, Stetten has been working nights and weekends on a project to bring original popular music by current and former students and faculty artists into the light of day. In order to structure his efforts, Stetten founded the Duke University Music Exchange.
Leslie Collins usually works on hearing implants, a product aimed, in any context, solely at helping people. So as she learned about her latest project, she grew more and more shocked; an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Collins is playing a part in the worldwide campaign against land mines as part of a government-funded study at the University.
A man passes, stops, opens his wallet and hands his small daughter a dollar bill to place in the violin case at David McKnight's feet. To any other classical violinist this would seem like an odd thing to do-an insult, even-but McKnight appreciates it as his source of income.
Three decades ago, editors of The Chronicle contemplated a decision that would have a major impact on the future of the newspaper. Alan Ray, editor of the 64th volume, decided in September 1968 that the newspaper should switch to daily publication-a massive jump from its usual three-day-a-week publication schedule. (see Ray letter p.2)
Before the age of the automobile and airplane, trains reigned supreme as the fastest, most comfortable transportation available. Both the wealthy and the poor used the new railway system to travel through the rapidly growing country.
As Stanley Fish, professor of English, prepares to turn a page in his life by assuming a deanship at the University of Illinois-Chicago, the various University organizations that depend on him are learning to adjust to life without his leadership. Among those organizations is Duke University Press.
President Bill Clinton's August 17 admission of an "inappropriate relationship" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, sent the Oval Office sex scandal snowballing into a topic of increasingly historic proportions. As the national media remains almost unanimous in its demands for more explanation from the president, University political experts are split on the issue.
The Aug. 7 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya stunned a world unused to the specter of worldwide attacks on such installations.
All true Duke basketball fans retain a treasury of memories on the infectious University pastime. But it was only the rare fan with either a superhuman memory or a large stock of video tapes who could maintain a coherent collection of all the most important moments of seasons gone by.
James B. Duke, the businessman forever memorialized in front of the Duke Chapel as a cigar-smoking, cane-wielding giant of a statue, has both won and lost a bet. The University benefactor's 75-year-old wager shapes the premise of Robert Durden's new book on Duke's philanthropic brainchild, the Duke Endowment.
As you're listening to the Squirrel Nut Zippers' newest release Perennial Favorites (available in stores Aug. 4), you have to remind yourself the music was just written. The sounds made by the Zippers are so polished and timeless they seem almost as if they come from another era.
Slightly more than a year ago, 40 state attorneys general announced a major agreement between tobacco companies and state governments that seemed destined to change tobacco regulation forever.
