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Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta may not be planning a monorail for his "student village," but he hopes that by the end of the spring, he will have a plan for enhancing, renovating and expanding student space on West Campus with a price tag to take to architects.
If the Duke University of the future looks more like The Jetsons than Dawson's Creek, with monorails zipping across campus and biometric thumb readers instead of DukeCards, Paul Davies will be the man who has engineered much of the change in student services--and ensured its profitability.
In a column in The Washington Post this week, Stuart Rojstaczer, associate professor of hydrology, denounced grade inflation as a real and present danger in higher education, and provided a link with data for Duke's average undergraduate grade point average from 1969 to 1999.
The reorganization of the Division of Auxiliary Services emphasizes the strengthening of ties among dining services, Duke University Stores and the Division of Student Affairs. And this week, administrators from both auxiliaries and student affairs expressed hope that they would work together more closely while affirming what they call already long-standing relationships.
Senior Jesse Panuccio's playful dream before graduation is to have his own show on Cable 13 - he calls the concept Totally Panuccio, which would amount to Panuccio's 30-minute rants on a variety of University issues.
Rumors of Nan's retirement have been greatly exaggerated.
In the past, bringing in an external chair meant an academic department was in serious trouble.
With the upcoming retirements of Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services Joe Pietrantoni and Director of Facilities Management Jerry Black this summer, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask has decided to reorganize the Division of Auxiliary Services and create a new position of vice president for campus services.
Amid recent discussions of cutting up to two-thirds of the faculty positions in the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, scholars across the nation agreed this week that Duke's research in the field is top-notch and they expressed shock at the planned downsizing.
While many people scurried through the snow Thursday morning, Joe Pietrantoni sat in his West Union Building basement office chatting with a reporter, interrupted only once.
Two members of the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy met with William Chafe, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and Berndt Mueller, dean of the natural sciences, Thursday morning to discuss proposed cuts to the department's faculty.
The Inter-Community Council selected the three finalists for this year's undergraduate young trustee this week, is the first group ever not to include a member of Duke Student Government.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Inc., and a member of the former Duke chapter of the fraternity are contesting a female Duke student's claim of acquaintance rape, in briefs filed with Durham County Superior Court.
Administrators in Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine announced in meetings late last week that the probable reorganization of the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy will include a drastic reduction of the department's faculty size.
Anyone looking for a sign that alcohol abuse has not worsened in recent years might only look at last semester's 22 hospitalizations for alcohol consumption-a number consistent with years past. But administrators and student leaders said this week that the same number also demonstrates that alcohol abuse has not disappeared and that it remains central to the lives of students.
Reviving a greek tradition that ended 20 years ago, the administration is shifting cases involving greek chapters from the Undergraduate Judicial Board to a newly established, student-led greek judicial board.
One of the pioneers of Duke's most recent push toward diversity has retired from the University, leaving behind a legacy of greater attention to race and employee concerns.
As a new partnership in Asia gives a different face to the Fuqua School of Business' globalization efforts, administrators are also looking to touch up an older venture in Europe.
In May, when the United States may well be engaged in war, the world's most high-profile peacekeeper will speak at Duke.
Sigma Phi Epsilon will receive official housing on West Campus next year, completing the transition from a newly reinstituted fraternity to a fully-integrated member of the University's greek community.
