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The impending departure of Hillel director Frances Fischer and Jewish Campus Service Corps Fellow Brooke Frantz has prompted the religious group to initiate a search for people to fill these top positions within the organization.
Three nationally renowned journalists gathered in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy on Saturday afternoon to participate in a panel discussion that gave the approximate 60 audience members a lesson on the media's role in presidential primaries and their impact upon the American public.
Engaging in anti-establishment rhetoric once again, Texas billionaire Ross Perot has in effect set out on the 1996 presidential campaign trail, several experts at the University said Monday.
During its last meeting of the semester, the Academic Council discussed on Thursday afternoon two issues about which faculty members and administrators have recently expressed concern-the status of the Duke Managed Care Plan and the Work Progress Redesign campaign.
When Trinity senior Elizabeth Ayer travels to England next year on the prestigious Winston Churchill Scholarship, she hopes to partake in more than just the intellectual environment of Cambridge University.
Shortly after the dust had settled from the fraternity rush process this semester, Interfraternity Council officials discovered that the number of bids extended to rushees was up by 31 percent and that the number of accepted bids was up by 11 percent compared to last year's tallies. Now, IFC officials are speculating about what caused the climb and are coming to a variety of conclusions.
In a major recruiting coup for the University's political science department, Robert Keohane, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University and husband of President Nan Keohane, will join the University faculty as both a James B. Duke Professor of Political Science and as a professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment beginning July 1, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.
Trinity junior and Duke Student Government presidential candidate Randy Fink says he has "a holistic vision" for the University that he will bring to fruition by tackling issues such as off-campus safety, housing, DSG funding, bookstore pricing and tenure criteria.
According to a Chronicle poll conducted over the weekend of 1,000 University students, 56.3 percent of those surveyed said that they do not yet know which of the seven Duke Student Government presidential candidates they are going to vote for in the Feb. 29 election.
Photos by Helen Kranbuhl
As the newly established five-week fraternity rush process drew to a close this weekend, Interfraternity Council representatives said that the number of bids given this year has grown by nearly 40 percent over last year's tally.
Despite University and library officials' recent efforts to disseminate online reserve materials via a campus-wide network, impending Congressional copyright legislation threatens to impede those efforts.
In a time-honored spring semester ritual, University students descend to the bowels of Page Building to vie for coveted jobs on Wall Street. Seeking choice positions that pay an average of $35,000 a year, seniors confront recruiters and financial analysts who have come to pick and choose among a myriad of prospective investment bankers.
Despite the onslaught of the Blizzard of `96, most University services will be up and running this morning.
For the first time in the history of the University, two students were awarded Rhodes Scholarships in the same academic year. Trinity senior Eric Greitens and Adam Russell, Trinity '95, received the scholarship this weekend, marking the third consecutive year that University students have won the award.
By MISTY ALLEN and BRIAN HARRIS
Campus religious leaders Monday night voiced strong opposition to religious organizations that tend to control rather than support their members' spiritual practices.
In the wake of President Clinton's Monday night address to the American public concerning the dispatch of 20,000 American troops to Bosnia, University students and professors have expressed opinions ranging from tactful criticism to tempered approval.
The book was titled "Alternatives to the Peace Corps." She read it from cover to cover, searching for the one program that would change her life for the better, grant her the opportunity to serve her country and provide her with a beguiling experience that would prepare her for a career in international law.
This is the first installment in a three-part series focusing on graduate student issues at the University. Tomorrow's story will highlight off-campus housing and safety concerns.
