Bus fire exposes recall error
A bus that caught fire last week and three others in Duke’s fleet should have been recalled, Vice President for Campus Services Kemel Dawkins confirmed.
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A bus that caught fire last week and three others in Duke’s fleet should have been recalled, Vice President for Campus Services Kemel Dawkins confirmed.
Victor Strandberg’s desk is framed by a mosaic of newsprint. He can see it while he works.
Duke raked in just $302 million in private donations between July 2008 and June 2009, a 22 percent drop from the previous fiscal year’s total, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, confirmed.
The family of a Duke employee killed in a steam pipe explosion last May has filed suit, alleging that the University knew that work conditions were unsafe but did not do anything about it.
Admission to Shooters: $10. Riding the bull, caging your inhibitions and bathing in the sweat of your lab partner: priceless?
The Fuqua School of Business and the School of Law climbed two places each since last year in U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings of graduate and professional schools. Other prominent programs held steady in the index.
Duke stunned the club tennis world last weekend, winning it all in its first appearance at the United States Tennis Association's National Campus Championship.
Although the job market is grim, members of the Class of 2009 seem to have no problem sparing $20.09 to give back to Duke.
In a volatile economic climate, Alumni Weekend is more than a time for former Duke students to relive their college pasts-it is a chance for the University to raise funds to brighten its present and future financial outlook.
With applications mounting and the launch date fast approaching, the Fuqua School of Business has finalized two key partnerships for its revamped Cross-Continent MBA program, but several critical components of the five-site global network are still in the works.
Administrators are "aggressively" developing plans to construct a restaurant that will serve alcohol on Central Campus for students' use as soon as possible in the Fall, University officials confirmed Friday.
Words took center stage Tuesday afternoon when inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander spoke about the power of language to captivate a nation, crystallize history and forge life-long bonds between teacher and student.
The windows are boarded up. The door is padlocked. The doorbell still rings, but no one moves to answer.
Three cryptic messages spray-painted on West Campus capped a weekend marked by an unusually high incidence of vandalism.
A swastika was found painted on the northeast side of Baldwin Auditorium Saturday afternoon, at least the third offensive symbol to have defaced East Campus this academic year.
Several hundred Duke students passed on the foam at Shooters II in favor of the fanfare of Duke Royale Thursday evening. The Duke University Union-sponsored event transformed the Sarah P. Duke Gardens' Doris Duke Center into a veritable Monte Carlo with gambling, swing dancing and freely flowing libations. The weather was cold and dreary, but the tables were red-hot. Blackjack and Roulette tables were in place, but classy was the name of this game.
Nearly a year has passed since then-freshman Daniel Klufas brought forth allegations of hazing against Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, but the legal reckoning that had been expected has yet to follow suit.
Playboy photographer Kim Mizuno should be busy finding the next fresh faces to grace his employer's glossy pages.
With a series of changes to the Web site, the ACES focus group hopes it has played a royal flush.
John Hope Franklin, a founding father of the field of African-American studies, a giant in the Civil Rights movement, a boundlessly energetic teacher and a gracious friend to many, passed away at Duke Hospital Wednesday morning. He was 94.