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(12/01/04 5:00am)
Keith Brodie, all 64 years of him, laughs like a 10-year-old. Always has. He sits here, on the same couch where a frustrated Duke faculty member might have asked him—told him, really—how to run the University any day sometime in the 1980s from the Allen Building. He contemplates and often whispers here, resting on the same piece of furniture where a depressed member of the Board of Trustees just begs for a Zoloft prescription when in town for a session. And then, with the same burst of uncontrollable and unadulterated surprise that almost derailed the presidency after he was forced into it in 1985, comes this giddy, almost awkward howl. Hee hoo!
(11/30/04 5:00am)
This time last year, the men’s basketball team pulled into East Lansing, Mich., its deep roster showcasing a newly modeled lineup led by a veteran point guard with an engine full of steam. Forty minutes and a few thousand jaw drops later, Duke had driven circles around Michigan State and was rolling out of town with a 22-point win. The Blue Devils would not lose for another two months.
(11/17/04 5:00am)
With another probable lashing of ARAMARK Corp. on the tip of Duke Student Government's tongue, employees at the East Campus Marketplace are already crying foul over bullying, firing and benefit cutting from managers working for the company.
(10/14/04 4:00am)
Duke was hot with political fever Wednesday night, as the voices of President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., boomed out of dorm room windows and through campus gathering points. The third and final presidential debate sparked opinions, cheers and even laughs from subjective students and pundit professors alike.
(10/04/04 4:00am)
The Chronicle celebrated its 100th birthday this weekend with the requisite panels and cocktail parties, all of which relished in reminiscence. But one thing none of the alumni in town could remember was the actual birth of Duke’s student newspaper—they were just too young.
(09/20/04 4:00am)
Reynolds Price, John Hope Franklin, Dr. Nancy Allen, Stanley Hauerwas and Mike Krzyzewski reflect on Duke�s unique character.
(09/15/04 4:00am)
James David Barber, the political scientist who revolutionized America�s perception of its presidents and challenged Duke�s attitude toward its faculty, died at his Durham home Sunday. He was 74.
(09/13/04 4:00am)
I remember sitting there slumped and ineffective, as only an advanced calculus problem can do to a sleepy New Yorker early on a golden Tuesday morning. Our math teacher had given us first period alone to combat a problem set, and it must have been around 8:48 or so when the two-dozen of us boys all looked up at the clock in the front of the room, frustrated and lazy and clamoring to get out of there rather than help each other get through the next integral. Some 18 minutes later I remained there at a desk in a classroom, unaware of most everything just then except the book in front of me—much like another prep-schooler spending the morning down in Florida. And then, finally, we were allowed to make our way out of that quiet little space. It was 9:11 on 9/11, and all I wanted was to take it easy.
(09/08/04 4:00am)
Durham’s brief interim era got off to a relatively quiet start Tuesday night, as acting City Manager Patrick Baker helped preside over his first City Council meeting. Mayor Bill Bell still ran the show, but for the first time in three years the seat to his right was not set aside for the much maligned former City Manager Marcia Conner, who stepped down last month.
(09/06/04 4:00am)
Ten years ago, East Campus went from a mix-and-match zoo of men and women of all classes to a codified home for zany freshmen who didn’t realize that their Giles or Wilson Dormitories were named after women.
(08/24/04 4:00am)
A new computer I.D. verification system will allow bartenders to check patrons� age via their DukeCards, in an effort to cut down on underage drinking.
(08/23/04 4:00am)
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(08/23/04 4:00am)
When Duke officials announced earlier this month that the University would permit a pro-Palestinian conference to rumble onto campus in the fall, they did so with a vigor that reached from the First Amendment to a modern moral conflict, that swept through the history of the institution and invoked the moral gravitas of higher education and that reestablished Duke’s bedrock of academic freedom.
(07/21/04 4:00am)
William Preston Few, with a frail build and a thin mustache, was by no means a physical force. If anything stood out about the looks of him, it was his great round ears and the probing brown eyes. When he spoke to his English students at Trinity College, Few did so with gentleness and in general terms, hardly ever brashly or in any overanalytical manner. And he had no love for public speaking or the dramatic; in his presidential inauguration speech in 1910, he unobtrusively proposed: "The greatness of a college depends not upon the size of its plant or the number of its students, but upon the quality of the men who teach and the quality of the men who learn, upon its ideals and its influence."
(07/21/04 4:00am)
July 3, 2004, 5:30 p.m.
(07/21/04 4:00am)
Concerned about safety and vandalism at football tailgating after a fall season of rousing Saturdays for undergraduates in the Blue Zone parking lot, student affairs administrators sat down with officials from the athletic department this summer for a "comprehensive discussion" of the pre-game brouhahas.
(07/21/04 4:00am)
RALEIGH -- Beaming with wishful grins as bright as the sweltering North Carolina sun, Senators John Kerry and John Edwards looked down on about 15,000 supporters at a July 10 rally, giving the thumbs-up on stage at North Carolina State University in a state that gave Al Gore and Joe Lieberman a big thumbs-down in 2000. The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate removed his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and told his brand-new running mate to do the same. Then Kerry set the homecoming king to work.
(07/21/04 4:00am)
LOS ANGELES, July 6 -- Throughout Mike Krzyzewski's flirtation with the NBA last week, the Lakers certainly reciprocated the crush, but team officials indicated here today that it was by no means a Hollywood love affair.
(06/17/04 4:00am)
Micah Harris, a senior with an infectious smile to match his standout play as a defensive lineman on the football team, died Friday when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel driving through Virginia to visit his girlfriend. He was 21.
(05/27/04 4:00am)
Walking up Science Drive these days, it's difficult to find the once-brazen sign on the corner of Towerview Road reading "school of law." Instead, one of nearly a dozen white pickup trucks blocks the signifier, the "C.C. Woods Construction Company" emblem on its passenger-side door carving its own space this summer in the dusty makeshift loading zone.
