Duke's 5th president leaves mixed legacy
(01/24/05 5:00am)
Before Douglas Knight came to Duke, he wanted to make it a place “of high civilization and great service.”
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Before Douglas Knight came to Duke, he wanted to make it a place “of high civilization and great service.”
After years of waiting and wishing, Duke has finally snagged its first Nobel laureate.
After three years of housing all sophomores on West Campus, the future of linked housing is up for review. Campus Council will seriously consider next week whether encouraging students to choose housing with their freshman dorm-mates has tangibly benefitted the residential experience.
Two students—one Trinity senior and one medical student—have won Marshall Scholarships, which pay for two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.
Discussions about the undergraduate experience served as bookends for a Board of Trustees meeting that included brainstorming about the future of Central Campus and the benefits of a residential-based education.
Several aspects of financial aid will likely change next year as a result of a University study about the experiences of students receiving aid.
Amid the stress of pre-finals and dip in energy that hit mid-afternoon Tuesday, senior Paul Baldensperger needed a cup of coffee.
After stretching on for almost a year, the search for the first executive director of the Student Health Center is back to its first stages.
As discussions about how to reconstruct Central Campus take shape, graduate and professional students are taking steps to ensure the newly designed space accommodates an expanded graduate student population.
our topics in newswriting are taboo: guns, gays, God and gynecology. Any time one of them is printed in the black ink that never dries, the paper’s mailbox overflows with comments and criticism. Some days, that’s a welcome thing, but too often we fear the response and avoid those issues. Newspapers are a daily business run by deadlines and caffeine, and there just isn’t time for the crises of conscience that those four Gs inspire. College journalists get away with copping out of those topics most of the time because it’s rare that a religious war is the most pressing issue in an Ivory Tower world where walls surround the campus.
Freshman Elliot Wolf plans to challenge the Motion Picture Association of America's claims that he has illegally downloaded television shows.
The University is plotting more than $100 million worth of construction on Central--the beginning of a decades-long, $1 billion project that could increase the square footage of campus by 50 percent.
The men’s basketball team was swinging the ball around the perimeter, nailing threes and exerting unrelenting defensive pressure, and it all added up to a 98-44 win Saturday night.
After 14 months of discussions that engaged all segments of the Duke community, a University committee will formally unveil its proposed changes to the harassment policy that governs both the University and Duke University Health System.
In an effort to improve safety on campus, the University is instituting changes that will shift the burden of large-scale campus security to the University infrastructure, freeing the Duke University Police Department to concentrate on crime-related matters.
Community groups are working to thwart a developer's plan to build a new subdivision on a plot of land adjacent to the Duke Forest. The groups claim that building on the land will be harmful to their neighborhoods and to the environment.
After reports of two recent on-campus assaults were invalidated, the campus struggled last week to cope with fact that two situations that created a culture of fear throughout the University had never happened.
A graduate student reported that a man assaulted her during an attempted robbery in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens early Tuesday morning.