Beneath West Union, barber shop clips along
(09/02/04 4:00am)
Tucked away in the basement of the West Union Building, the Duke Barber Shop has held fast for more than 90 years.
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Tucked away in the basement of the West Union Building, the Duke Barber Shop has held fast for more than 90 years.
The weekend began with a rumor. Then it became a declaration of the University’s commitment to academic freedom. Now campus groups are working to ensure that for three days this fall, Duke will become the world’s center of discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nearly three dozen of the students and administrators who shape undergraduate life on campus gathered Monday night for the first meeting of the Inter-Community Council, which many attendees said was more ceremonious than productive.
Beginning tonight, the Marketplace will open from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Wednesday, giving freshmen a late-night dining option close to home.
The Recording Industry Association of America fully supports Duke�s iPod giveaway for its educational potential and the legal downloading options it offers students, according to a report that was submitted to Congress Wednesday. Although the University does not police filesharing, students say they�ve been downloading music less.
As the University struggles to deal with the ever-present threats to safety on campus, it is looking to security cameras for help. The devices will likely be installed across campus by the end of the fall semester.
Undergraduates complain that the University�s SafeRides service is inadequate, with vans arriving slowly or dispatchers denying rides to callers. Administrators are looking for ways to improve the transportation service�s coordination and cut down on abuse of the system.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has placed the surgery residency program at Duke University Medical Center on indefinite probation after a June 2003 evaluation found numerous problems with Duke's compliance.
Over the first weekend back at school, police broke up several parties in the neighorhoods around East Campus. Residents complained of rowdy students but said police were responsive to their calls.
The Palestine Solidarity Movement is used to opposition. Its first controversial conference, in sunny California, was barely a blip on the radar screen. By its third meeting, there was a minor uproar over its location, leadership and intent. As the organization prepares for its fourth convention here at Duke, it’s getting used to the attention.
A delivery person for Satisfaction Restaurant was robbed at gunpoint near 302 Anderson St. on Central Campus at approximately 9:19 p.m. Saturday.
The Duke University Police Department began patrols this week in the neighborhoods surrounding East Campus, just in time for the first wave of off-campus parties that marks the beginning of the school year.
Duke will allow student group Hiwar to host the Palestine Solidarity Conference at the University Oct. 15-17, despite allegations that the conference condones terrorism.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Seventeen months after a botched heart-lung transplant resulted in the death of Jésica Santillán, Duke University Health System has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum of money to her mother, Magdalena Santillán.
After plowing ahead with more enthusiasm than execution, the construction of a plaza that was once hailed as the epicenter of West Campus has been stalled for at least another year.
This summer, the Duke community not only joined the nation in mourning the death of former president Ronald Reagan but also grieved the losses of an employee of the graduate school and two Duke students.
The most disturbing thing about being in a mental ward is the idea that someone else thinks you're crazy. Carolyn* struggled a lot with that during the four days she spent there. The first time I walked in to see her--after I had checked my schoolbag, sweater, purse, cell phone and the contents of my pockets at the door--she took me down the hall to her room, closed the door and whispered to me, "Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, the people here, they're crazy! Like really crazy!" Not crazy in the take-23-Tylenol-with-a-few-glasses-of-vodka way like she was, but in the schizophrenic, multiple personality, have-conversations-with-the-wall kind of way. Carolyn was just depressed. She says she knew from the moment she took the last pill, that life was now going to work itself out somehow and she was, at least for the moment, not responsible for how. But here she was, surrounded by really crazy people. When I sat on her bed that first day, she leaned in to me and whispered, "You know I'm not crazy, right?"
For the past two years, a giant space on Science Drive has been a noisy mess of collaborative vision.
RALEIGH -- "Johnny B. Goode," the unofficial song for the John Kerry and John Edwards presidential campaign, blared from the loudspeakers no fewer than three times at a July 10 rally, each time injecting some life into the wilted and sweat-soaked supporters at North Carolina State University.
Upperclassmen often claim that freshmen are as obvious on campus as off-key notes in pop songs, but this fall it will be the earphones dangling from the newbies' necks that will give them away.