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Duke University Union is bringing a little bit of Deutchland to Durham today with Oktoberfest, Duke’s annual version of the famed Munich festival. This year, Oktoberfest will have several features beyond those of its German counterpart, most notably a former star of MTV’s The Real World and a musical group featuring Duke alumni.
In Thursday’s Founder’s Day Convocation, University leaders honored members of the Duke community and likened the boldness required to found a university to the audacity needed to direct that same school into an uncertain future.
As the University bolsters its security programs in an effort to increase campus safety, additional police officers are noticeable all over campus. Officers from both the Duke University and Durham Police Departments cite this visibility as a key element of any strategy to decrease crime at Duke, but many students see the increased security efforts as misdirected.
Campus Council mulled an impending campus-wide survey to assess residential life at its meeting Thursday. The survey, coordinated by Nicole Manley, assistant dean of students, will collect data to help Campus Council form policy.
Ellen Medearis will assume the role of executive director of University development, becoming the University's primary fundraising coordinator. Medearis will coordinate fundraising for some of the goals President Richard Brodhead outlined in his inaugural address.
Wilco is either the most popular avant-garde band in the world or it’s just an avant-garde, popular band.
In the middle of a Duke-centered inauguration weekend, a small crowd of panelists and spectators gathered in the Bryan Center Saturday morning maintained a distinctly global focus. Five faculty members and scores of observers convened in the Von Canon Room at 9:30 a.m. for the “Global Challenges” panel, which focused on globalization and its impact on many diverse fields, ranging from economics to the environment.
Inaugural festivities will occur all weekend, leading up to the official installation of Duke's ninth president Saturday afternoon.
RALEIGH — The prolonged boycott of the Mt. Olive Pickle Company officially came to a close Thursday when representatives of the North Carolina-based firm and officials from the North Carolina Growers Association and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee signed agreements to improve farmworker conditions, restructure product pricing and provide for union recognition.
President Richard Brodhead's inauguration will take place in the Chapel instead of outside Saturday because of the threat of inclement weather from Hurricane Ivan.
As November’s presidential contest looms, campus political organizations are not the only groups doing election-related programming. Cultural groups are also entering the political fray—although without advocating any particular candidate—by organizing an assortment of events.
Katherine McClary, Trinity '01, died Saturday night after being hit by a Durham Area Transit Authority bus. The bus struck McClary at the corner of Markham and Broad streets between 10 and 11 p.m., and she was pronounced dead at Duke University Hospital shortly thereafter.
A week after the Durham Police Department arrested a Duke alumna and detained a sophomore at Café Parizade in an event an observer called a display of “police brutality,” none of the involved parties or any other patron has filed a complaint with the DPD.
Thanks to hundreds of frosted plastic cups with “Sam’s Quik Shop” emblazoned in blue letters across the side, some students have heard of Duke’s premier beer vendor before they’ve read their first course syllabus. The cups—often accompanied by kegs—were of course sold at Sam’s, the Erwin Road gas station and convenience store that has served as a provider for parties since the early 1970s.
Sophomore Andrew Thaler, holding a paper coffee cup like a microphone, stood at the center of the circular lawn in front of the Marketplace and gathered a deep breath. “Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday! It’s the cole slaw main event of the week!” he bellowed. “Let’s get ready to rumble!”
With an eye to decreasing the size of the Arts and Sciences faculty, the University has authorized 24 faculty searches in a roughly even distribution across the three divisions of Trinity College. If the searches progress at their current success rate, Arts and Sciences will see a faculty reduction of two or three members as professors’ attrition—the rate at which they leave the University—takes its toll.
Expressing concern and outrage at the allegedly offensive behavior of a �huge� police unit outside Caf� Parizade late Thursday night, a group of students filed a formal complaint Monday with the Duke University Police Department.
Tobacco money may have paid for the stone, but faith was always the bedrock.
This semester marks the debut of a revised class schedule meant to reduce overcrowded classrooms and make popular classes available to more students, but the result has been more early classes and busier Friday afternoons.
Anyone seeking a concentration of religious experts on the University’s campus might look first in the Duke Chapel, the Freeman Center for Jewish Life or the Gray Building. But thanks to a surprising number of Divinity School graduate students serving as graduate assistants, Duke residence halls are home to several of the University’s spiritual scholars.
