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Just before 8 p.m. Saturday night, a weary but triumphant group of 21 Students Against Sweatshops members packed up their belongings and walked out of the Allen Building-their obliging home for more than 30 hours.
What do you do after you "take over" the Allen Building? For several members of Students Against Sweatshops, you attempt to take over the world.
As students cavorted on the quad and nearly a dozen benches went up in smoke Wednesday night, Duke Student Government Head Line Monitor Al Prescott did something he hadn't done much recently. He slept.
Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. has donated $1 million to Duke Children's Hospital to help fund a new children's health center, President Nan Keohane announced yesterday.
For today's match-up between two of the biggest rivals in college basketball, line monitors and University administrators hope to limit the number of people who sneak into Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Sparks may soon fly, and, with preparations complete, the administration is hoping it won't get burned.
University administrators have received detailed responses from the two national book chains interested in leasing Duke's merchandise stores and bookstores and are now analyzing the two firms proposals.
It's going to cost Duke a little more to send out those tuition bills next semester. Colleges and other non-profit organizations will be paying much higher postage fees, thanks to the rate increase imposed Jan. 10 by the United States Postal Service.
The nation's two most prominent anti-sweatshop codes may soon be joining forces to provide cost-effective monitoring of factories. Although schools have until Feb. 1 to approve or reject the Collegiate Licensing Company's code, representatives from universities across the country may borrow the factory monitoring system already established by the White House's Apparel Industry Partnership.
After informally polling various colleges and finding little enthusiasm for increased sweatshop activism, President Nan Keohane has reiterated her willingness to approve the Collegiate Licensing Company's code.
Fraternity members are looking for ways to get their benches off campus and other students are hoarding gasoline. Bonfires have dates and now a location. All they need is a basketball victory to make the sparks fly.
Exactly one week before the much-anticipated match-up with the University of North Carolina, Duke Student Government announced that the lawn in front of House P will host this season's possible bonfires.
At 5:59 p.m. students packed the Perkins Library computer cluster and frantically reloaded the University Union's webpage. They poised for flight on the Bryan Center Walkway, clutching their cell phones and sleeping bags. But in the end, technology and fleet feet were not enough. They proved no match for a good old-fashioned lucky guess.
Administrators and architects have spent the past several months attempting to picture the future of upperclass residential life at Duke. Now, with a Feb. 26 deadline looming, this sketch is slowly but surely taking shape.
The frenetic pace of University life slowed noticeably Monday as administrators, professors and students paused to remember Martin Luther King, Jr.'s profound influence on the civil rights movement and the nation as a whole.
Classes have begun, the Crazies are in K-ville and the basketball team is riding an 11-game winning streak; the first potential bonfire is less than two weeks away, and you can almost smell the smoke.
After nearly a month of searching, Durham-based DoubleTake magazine has located two substantial donors, who will permit the financially troubled magazine to continue publishing, albeit in a new location. The nation's most widely-circulated literary journal will move to Boston to be closer to its editor Robert Coles, a Harvard professor and psychiatrist.
More than three years after a search committee first convened to select a new director for the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, the position has finally been filled.
Two weeks ago, President Nan Keohane stepped outside the Allen Building to address the 75 protesters opposing the Collegiate Licensing Company's weak anti-sweatshop code, which University officials helped draft.
"What would you say" to Dave Matthews?
