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The Board of Trustees had its first look at the newly reconceptualized upperclass residential life proposal last Friday, when University administrators presented the plan to redesign West Campus.
Less than 24 hours before today's much-anticipated Board of Trustees meeting, the administrators spearheading the upperclass residential life review took their newly redesigned proposal out for a test drive.
Less than a month after Charles Putman announced he was leaving the University to become chair of the Radiology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, the senior vice president for research administration and policy has changed his mind.
University students are accustomed to having their work analyzed and evaluated, but who grades the administration?
The recently released anti-sweatshop code from the Collegiate Licensing Company offered few surprises, but still managed to earn praise from administrators and vocal criticism from activist groups. At the University, the dispute over the code indicates a growing divide between the formerly-allied Duke University Stores and Students Against Sweatshops.
Residents of the Trinity Heights neighborhood adjacent to East Campus had something extra to be thankful for this year-the University's recently announced revisions to its housing development for Duke faculty and staff.
For the first time in several months there is a sense of calm in the offices of Duke University Stores.
A student in the men's rest room in Card Gym discovered a disturbing instance of vandalism Sunday afternoon: a drawing of a tree with a person hanging from a limb, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department. The sketch was accompanied by racial slurs directed toward black people.
The quest for a new director of the Mary Lou Williams Center appears to be growing more complex.
As the Dec. 4 presentation on residential life to the Board of Trustees meeting draws near, the Philadelphia-based architecture firm of Kieran, Timberlake and Harris continued its fact-finding mission Tuesday evening, meeting with Undergraduate Administrative Coordinating Committee and members of the Intercommunity Council.
Despite uncertainty about DoubleTake's long-term future, the award-winning documentary magazine will publish at least one more issue.
The 11 non-fraternal selective houses scattered around West Campus boast a slightly higher proportion of minority members than West Campus as a whole, and a significantly higher proportion than their fraternal counterparts.
For the past several months, officials hoped to complete a proposal for overhauling residential life by the December meeting of the Board of Trustees. But with the deadline less than three weeks away and work far from complete, these administrators are reorganizing to make that goal more attainable.
Alleging months of harassment, two independents living together in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity section officially complained about the behavior of their fraternity dormmates to the Black Student Alliance and representatives from the Office of Student Development earlier this week.
After years of research and failed fund-raising efforts, plans for a new University art museum have come one step closer to reality.
The Internationalist, a small, independent bookstore in Chapel Hill, announced Tuesday that it has given up its efforts to maintain any portion of the University of North Carolina's textbook business.
Constitutional scholars and historians called upon by both political parties spoke before the House Judiciary Committee Monday, warning Congress that impeaching President Bill Clinton could have a long-term effect on the stability of the presidency. Duke's William and Thomas Perkins Professor of Law William Van Alstyne was among the 18 academics asked to step up to the microphone.
It's 3 p.m. Do you know where your teenager is?
In an act that has pundits questioning the political role of historians, more than 400 professors from the country's most acclaimed history departments entered the preelection fray last week through an ad in the Oct. 30 edition of The New York Times. The full-page submission argued against pursuing the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
Grueling winds and punishing rain battered much of Central America last week as Hurricane Mitch slowly moved its way toward the Gulf of Mexico. The category-five storm continued its devastation long after the winds subsided when excessive rains caused mudslides across the hardest-hit nations of Honduras and Nicaragua. Now, a week after the storm first hit the region, millions of people are homeless, tens of thousands remain missing and an estimated 9,000 people have perished in the storm and its aftermath.
