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(09/04/97 4:00am)
Spectrum organization has fired the opening salvo in this year's upperclass residential discussion: Insisting that the current system is rife with inequity, it maintains that the situation can only be remedied by abolishing selective living.
(08/29/97 4:00am)
Despite a significant decrease in the number of violations of the alcohol policy since its installation two years ago, administrators are raising the concern that violations of the policy's spirit have not slackened.
(07/23/97 4:00am)
Keeping pace with its academic counterpart, the Medical Center rose from number five to number four this year in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of American hospitals.
(07/23/97 4:00am)
Rarely does an entire town pick up and move 50 yards to the right.
(07/23/97 4:00am)
I should not be writing a column on abortion for the same reason I would not write one on capital punishment: People have already hashed out their thoughts on the topic, most spent too much time on it in their high school debate class, and now they'd rather read about cloning.
(07/23/97 4:00am)
In response to a June 4 complaint filed by the National Women's Law Center, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has begun an investigation of the University's Title IX compliance.
(06/26/97 4:00am)
Four years after its implementation, the University Honor Code has had little effect on the number of plagiarism and cheating cases brought before the Undergraduate Judicial Board each year.
(06/19/97 4:00am)
"Contract law trumps tort" is the concept driving the law school's new Center for Global Information Technologies in its unprecedented approach to a perplexing area of international law: intellectual property rights.
(06/19/97 4:00am)
President Bill Clinton has chosen one of the University's finest scholars-John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke professor emeritus of history-to play an integral part in his new initiative on race relations, naming him chair of his presidential advisory board.
(06/05/97 4:00am)
In the hopes of jump starting enrollment in the summer session program, the provost's office has launched a three-year pilot program that will shorten each summer term from six to five weeks.
(05/29/97 4:00am)
The day summer session students were given four hours to move from their dormitories to Central Campus apartments was not a good one for Trinity junior Heather Wheeler.
(05/22/97 4:00am)
Acting on widespread community and council support, Durham City Council unanimously agreed to appointed P. Lamont Ewell, currently assistant city manager of Oakland, Calif., to the position of Durham city manager at its May 19 meeting.
(05/22/97 4:00am)
The Angier B. Duke Scholarship program extended 25 offers to prospective freshman before receiving enough acceptances to fill this year's 15 available slots.
(03/14/97 5:00am)
By a margin of five votes, the Arts and Sciences Council rejected the Achievement Index proposal during Thursday afternoon's two-hour general body meeting.
(03/11/97 5:00am)
This is the second installment in a four-part series examining the Achievement Index proposal. Tomorrow's story will focus on faculty response to the proposal.
(02/13/97 5:00am)
With Duke Student Government elections a few weeks away, DSG President Takcus Nesbit speaks on the role of student government and its place in the University community.
(11/04/96 5:00am)
Six expert panelists debated affirmative action before an audience of more than 175 students at the law school Friday afternoon in a discussion filled with heated exchanges between both debaters and audience members.
(10/31/96 5:00am)
In an attempt to rejuvenate the paper, R&R is pursuing a little project in cross-pollination. We've asked the editorial page staff-who happen to share an office with us-to write a review on the subject of their choice. It was a risk, because Lord knows they don't get out much, but we figured they couldn't do too much harm.
(10/11/96 4:00am)
When six-year-old Johnathan Prevette of North Carolina and his innocent kiss made national headlines two weeks ago, responsible journalists across the country did what responsible journalists are wont to do: They tried to localize the issue for their readerships.
(04/10/96 4:00am)
In a study tracking the long-term health of patients with heartdisease, Medical Center cardiologists have found that black patients are 40 percent more likely to die than white patients.