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A local man charged with a recent Alamance County rape is also a suspect in several other rapes in Chatham, Durham and Orange counties, including two sexual assaults that occurred earlier this year just off East Campus, police officers announced late last week.
Students got their first taste of official Duke basketball yesterday, but it will be more than three months before their first whiff of bonfire smoke. To prevent a repeat of last year's fiery confrontation between students and administrators, however, an advance official bonfire policy was publicly unveiled late last week in a series of full page advertisements in The Chronicle.
The new Undergraduate Administrative Coordinating Committee held its second meeting Monday. With previous debate about the group's mission resolved, committee members began addressing several substantive issues that have arisen during the five-week hiatus since their initial meeting.
Wachovia Bank has committed $1 million to selected projects around the University, officials announced yesterday.
Officers were summoned to Aycock Dormitory Oct. 16 in response to reports of a minor fire in a second-floor dorm room, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department.
In an unexpected reversal of its previous declaration, the North Carolina Department of Insurance said yesterday that Blue Cross/Blue Shield may offer health insurance to same-sex spousal equivalents of University graduate students. For many involved in the protracted struggle to be recognized by the University, the insurance carrier and, most recently, the state, the decision came as a welcome surprise.
The typically silent Chapel Quadrangle was transformed last night as more than 100 mourners gathered to lament the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming.
Unsightly dumpsters may soon be gone from the University, but at what cost?
Durham Police recently charged a suspect with the Sept. 18 assault and robbery of a Trinity senior at her home in the Belmont apartment complex off LaSalle Street, said Det. Tim Leathers, the Durham Police Department's investigator on the case.
The Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life announced late yesterday their plans for a Sunday night vigil in response to the recent murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming.
Charles Putman says he loves Duke so much he "bleeds blue." But after 21 years in various posts at the University, the senior vice president for research administration and policy has decided to move on. As of Feb. 1, he will become head of the University of Pennsylvania's radiology department.
Administrators have touted the upperclass residential working group's report as a jumping-off point for community-wide conversation about the future of on-campus life at the University. This week, as details of the report wound their way around campus, students took that charge to heart, leaping into a discussion of their individual conceptions for the Duke residential experience.
This weekend will be momentous for the University as it lays out plans and priorities to carry it into the next century, including the public launch of its massive Capital Campaign.
City officials have ruled out Clocktower Quadrangle as a location for bonfires, but if students carry their benches just a little bit further, the traditional celebratory blazes may again grace Main West Campus.
A committee composed of six senior administrators charged with determining the next steps in the review of the University housing system released its report Monday, a rough sketch which portrays the future of residential life in broad strokes but does not fill in many of the fine details.
You might not expect to hear fierce words in a church. But last Thursday, when residents of Trinity Heights squared off against University officials at the Asbury United Methodist Church in a battle over a proposed housing development, the building shook with tempers of almost biblical proportions.
The recent controversy surrounding the Gothic Bookshop reads more like a high-brow gothic novel than sedate negotiations on potential privatization, but, well, this is academia.
Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has said that by the time Krzyzewskiville is bustling with sleep-deprived Cameron Crazies, the University will have secured permits to bring bonfires to West Campus after five different games.
A Trinity senior reported to the Durham Police Department late Friday afternoon that she was attacked and robbed by a man impersonating a state trooper in her home at the Belmont apartment complex off LaSalle Street.
Last Friday, many of the University's most influential administrators stayed long past the traditional 5 p.m. quitting time, trading in some quality relaxation with their families for a bit of quality discussion in the first meeting of the Undergraduate Policy Committee.
