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Last January, members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity shocked the greek community when they announced their decision to disaffiliate from their national organization. Almost a year later, even though the Interfraternity Council and the University no longer formally recognize SAE, members now say they are confident they made the right decision in dissolving.
The percentage of black and Asian or Asian-American students living on West Campus increased predictably since last year, the Office of Residential Life and Housing Services reported in annual housing statistics released this month.
As Kappa Sigma fraternity dissolved its Duke chapter this weekend, another fraternity, Theta Chi, is facing similar administrative pressures and could follow the same track in the upcoming months, members said this weekend.
For the first time in three years, the Interfraternity Council is expanding its membership to a group once wary of the greek scene at Duke.
As the Interfraternity Council prepares to make changes in the recruitment process next week, it seems the days of "dorm storming"--when upperclassmen fraternity brothers swarmed East Campus to hand out personal invites for upcoming events during recruitment--are numbered.
In a speech preceding the men's basketball Blue-White Scrimmage that attracted thousands of fans, former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky spoke in a smaller but still filled Page Auditorium, saying Americans value larger-than-life performance arts such as college basketball.
Campus Council passed a resolution last week recommending potential uses for the unfinished floors of McClendon Tower in the West-Edens Link--most notable among them a bar-type space that students have been asking for since the Hideaway closed two years ago.
When administrators decided to equip bathrooms on East and West campuses with gender-specific locks last week, they overlooked one part of the student body--those students who live in selective houses with coed bathrooms.
Many students would gasp in disbelief at the possibility of being denied the right to order and savor a slice of Papa Johns Pizza during "late night" hours. But administrators are warning that this nightmare could become reality if students continue to harass delivery people, as they did in the Wannamaker fire lane two weeks ago.
The benefits might not be readily apparent to current residents, but the Wannamaker fire lane is set to undergo construction that will serve as the basis of future West Campus dorm renovations.
Michael Curry, hailed as one of the "current giants" among black preachers, extended his arms to the sky and thundered in a booming voice about the importance of "preach[ing] so well, cockroaches get saved" in York Chapel Tuesday afternoon.
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When all 35 greek chapters convened at a retreat Sept. 15, they were shocked when their knowledge of each other did not extend beyond their own chapters.
At noon Monday, off-campus students got a green light from housing officials, who reinstituted their access to West Campus dormitories.
As selective houses pack their bags and move to the perimeter of West Campus this year and as other selective groups request housing, University officials are seeking a broader reevaluation of issues relating to residential selective groups.
Despite promises that Subway will open soon in the West Union Building, students who walk past the old Breyers ice cream stand are still greeted with the dust and clutter of unfinished construction.
When customers savored each morsel from the Breyers ice cream stand last year, they believed they were eating Breyers ice cream. University officials now say, however, other kinds were substituted in place of Breyers, and that they may do so again in the future.
It's all in a name.
Duke University Police Department officers and their guests gathered at police headquarters Wednesday morning to dedicate their new flagpole to the victims of Sept. 11.
Administrators and student leaders alike are taking steps this year to align more closely all elements of the greek community.
