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Representatives from the Durham Area Transit Authority may not have been standing in the yellow zone, but University officials have asked them to get off the bus.
If you lost the key to your room, the University would charge $46 to replace the lock on your door. But what if you lost the key to half of East Campus?
In addition to the racial harassment incidents in Braxton dormitory that were reported to police early this month, a third alleged dorm-based incident was handled through less public administrative channels: In late August, a black Divinity student and residential advisor reported to the Divinity School that he was verbally harassed by a Facilities Management employee.
Sitting on an empty, overturned bucket near the freshly painted East Campus bridge Saturday, University bus driver Louise Davis sought refuge from the oppressive afternoon heat in the shade of a magnolia tree and reflected on her 18 years of service to the Duke community.
The Duke University Police Department has requested arrest warrants for three University students wanted in conjunction with an explosive device that caused slight injuries to a Trinity sophomore outside her Wannamaker 1 dormitory room Sept. 8, Maj. Robert Dean of Campus Police announced Thursday.
A contract signed Tuesday will bring Cattleman's Steakhouse and Saloon-the Hillsborough Road restaurant that offers both Italian cuisine and traditional steakhouse fare-to the previously dormant Devil's Den.
Looking for lunch? Just go past the centrifuge and make a right.
Most students called it a celebration, but some officials considered it a riot.
The report on communication issued last week by Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson unexpectedly called for the creation of the Undergraduate Policy Committee and this small portion of the report has garnered more attention than any other.
Thursday night, after months of meetings, planning sessions and an administrative retreat, Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson announced the formation of the Undergraduate Policy Committee, a high-powered group she hopes will create the much-needed link between administrators.
A woman reported to the Durham Police Department Thursday that on Aug. 12 she was dragged from Markham Avenue onto East Campus and raped, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department.
Following last spring's bonfire fiasco-during which students clashed violently with police, flouted the University policy forbidding bench burnings and chanted anti-administrator epithets with anarchic glee-many officials decided to make "communication" one of their highest priorities.
If you're like most students, you probably rolled nonchalantly into the Gothic Wonderland sometime around August 26. And, like most Duke students, once you'd moved in, dodged the hurricane, reminisced with a few friends and answered "How was your summer" approximately 6,287 times, you probably got around to hooking up your cable.
The Office of Information Technology considered it an "improvement," but many students said OIT's inclusion of voicemail in this year's basic telephone package was more of an inconvenience.
"Why would they want to do that?" responded Trinity junior Joyce Lee when she learned the University might allow a national corporation to lease two University bookstores and oversee Duke merchandising.
Freshmen may have been allowed to move in early, but move-in for students attending the Duke University Marine Lab at Beaufort, N.C., has been delayed until next Monday-one week later than scheduled-as a result of the high winds and relentless rains of Hurricane Bonnie.
For years, the University has rebuffed national companies interested in overseeing Duke merchandising and running the two University bookstores. But money talks, and after extremely generous offers from Barnes & Noble and Follet College Stores-offers said to be in the eight-figure range-the University finally appears ready to listen.
Although their product is better known as "the burger that says bite me," representatives from Mean Gene's Burgers and Duke Dining Services are hoping Duke students will also hear the burgers say "buy me."
Although Hurricane Bonnie's torrential rains and powerful winds spared the Gothic Wonderland, not all University facilities were so lucky. At least one building at the Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort sustained substantial damage Wednesday as the hurricane battered much of North Carolina's east coast.
It wasn't Fran, but for employees and administrators scrambling to prepare for Hurricane Bonnie, it wasn't fun either.