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A rash of criminal activity in University parking lots this weekend has left three drivers car-less and many others with broken windows and lost valuables, a situation that has left police seeking solutions and officials offering precautionary advice for drivers.
The number of reported emergency room admissions for alcohol-related problems thus far this year is nearly double the number at the same point last year, a fact which has University officials hypothesizing about its cause and the Duke University Police Department using the data to dispute some student criticism of its role.
Aiming to draw attention to ongoing gender inequities at the University and beyond, the Women's Center is hosting a series of consciousness-raising events as part of today's National Young Women's Day of Action.
Stressing that the upcoming legislative session will be crucial for reproductive rights supporters, two advocates and one state senator spoke Wednesday night in the Women's Center on the current status of North Carolina's abortion rights laws.
There are three things, real estate agents say, that home buyers care about: location, location and location.
Trinity junior Nick Register, a study-abroad student at the University of El Salvador, received a surprise invitation earlier this month: a seat at President Clinton's town hall meeting for youth last Thursday held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In the interest of accruing more University community opinion, the Upperclass Residential Planning Group will delay presenting its interim report to Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson until the end of November.
In a decision that has angered many students who live off-campus, the University has closed the unofficial gravel parking lot located at the intersection of Chapel Drive and Duke University Road.
Mounting tension over Duke Student Government President and Trinity senior Lino Marrero's delegation of his organization's power has led to cries of protest and calls for corrective legislation from both legislators and executive council members.
In an effort to funnel the evolving campus-wide discussion about the residential system into the conceptual framework it developed this summer, the Upperclass Residential Planning Group has released five models for the reconfiguration of West Campus and Edens Quadrangle.
Having billed last Friday afternoon's race relations speak-out as an inclusive event, Race Day organizers urged all University community members-particularly, they said, the portion that believes no race problem exists on campus-to attend and share their thoughts at its open microphone.
The initial discord generated by the Inter-Community Council's request that President Nan Keohane cancel Friday classes has dissipated, but the energy surrounding the planning of Race Day has not. With four days remaining before the unprecedented event, the student leaders spearheading it are working hard to bill the event as inclusive.
By all accounts, John Hope Franklin's greatest academic legacy will be his ground-breaking book "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans." But his writing process was not a labor of love. Initially cajoled by his publishers into writing the book in 1946, Franklin, 82, never considered it a pleasurable endeavor; it "grew because of diligence," he said, "not deep affection."
Responding to mounting tension over campus race relations, 15 prominent student leaders convened at President Nan Keohane's office yesterday afternoon to present a letter asserting a course of action and soliciting her support: Declaring next Friday "Race Day," they requested that Keohane cancel classes so that all students and faculty could attend an open mike forum on the Chapel steps.
The three Intercommunity Council members recommended last week for appointment to the Upperclass Residential Planning Group will need to clear out their schedules; barring an unexpected turn of events, they will soon join the group's massive undertaking-crafting a new upperclass residential system.
President Nan Keohane spent Monday as she spends most of her days-grappling with the problems of education. But yesterday's activities were a little unusual.
Does Congress' negative image stem from unwarranted public cynicism, from corruption within the institution or from media middlemen fomenting the problem? That was the three-pronged question posed by moderators during Saturday's conference at the law school about Congress' poor public reputation.
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After having served for the past year as interim harassment prevention program officer, C.T. Woods-Powell has assumed a two-part role as acting director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and as an assistant to the Provost.
Waiting for a better foundation before speculating on construction projects or structural upheavals, the Upperclass Residential Planning Group has, thus far, stuck to exploring the real nuts and bolts of the issue: The concepts, terms and presuppositions that underlie the Duke community's understandings of what residential life is all about.
