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Fourth time's the charm?
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Fourth time's the charm?
After less than a year at the University, RoseMary Watkins-Lawrence, director of the program for persons with disabilities, is returning home to Atlanta.
The annual celebration of Absolutely Fabulous Queer Family Love Week is a time when Duke's queer community is very visible. But last Thursday, someone apparently attacked the most overt symbol of this visibility-the bright pink paint on the East Campus Bridge.
With the May meeting of the Board of Trustees looming on the horizon, officials presented the scaled-back proposal for upperclass residential life yesterday to a packed Academic Council meeting. Administrators hope the council will grant preliminary approval next month, just one day before a quarterly Trustees meeting.
Twenty anti-sweatshop activists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have taken up residence in the school's administrative office building, vowing to stay there until officials agree to their list of demands.
Despite months of negotiations, the Triangle Transit Authority is preparing to shelve plans for an elevated train stop near the Medical Center. Long considered vital to the project's initial success, the stop drew University opposition because it was deemed intrusive.
For many years, Nike navigated deftly through perilous economic landscape, making the company seem immune to threats from vigilant anti-sweatshop protesters. Now, all of a sudden, Nike appears vulnerable to opponents who claim the transnational company exploits its workers.
When tackling a complex problem, the hardest step is sometimes figuring out where to begin.
Michael Hooker, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will take a medical leave, officials announced yesterday. Hooker has been undergoing chemotherapy treatments every three or four weeks since he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma three months ago. He was readmitted Friday to UNC Hospitals for pain connected to his treatment, UNC-CH officials said.
One month after the University decided to join the Fair Labor Association, support from administrators and criticism from student-activists seems as entrenched as ever.
University bus drivers have been hearing rumors for the past few weeks about renewed partnership talks between Duke Transit and the Durham Area Transit Authority. Yesterday, the University formally acknowledged that negotiations were taking place.
Director of University Relations Bobby Wayne Clark will soon resign to assume a high-level administrative post at Greensboro's Guilford College.
What happens when irresistible optimism meets an immovable bottom line?
Professor Wesley Magat, a dedicated member of the University community for more than two decades, died in his Chapel Hill home Sunday after an extended illness.
Although administrators and police were prepared for the worst Monday night, they say the aftermath of Duke's loss in the national championship game proved generally peaceful.
The final buzzer stunned West Campus into silence.
Cameron Indoor Stadium emptied slowly last night as shell-shocked Duke students turned away from the giant projection screen and the women's disappointing loss to the Purdue Boilermakers. The buzzer had sounded and the Journey had ended; it was time to go home.
After months spent discussing the merits of externally operated college stores, university administrators announced yesterday their rejection of two multi-million dollar lease offers from Barnes & Noble and Follett college stores. In the end, officials were unwilling to trade operational control for promises of a Clinique counter and coffee bar.
Two University undergraduates were seriously hurt and another suffered minor injuries following a car accident Sunday afternoon on a Florida highway.
After more than a year of discussions about codes of conduct and disclosure, the University has adopted a tool for eliminating sweatshop conditions in factories producing Duke apparel.