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One year after the adoption of the Community Standard, members of the Duke community are still unsure about how the ideals of integrity will become woven into the University culture.
Debbie Palacios has learned the value of staying in one place. The senior is beginning her third year as a resident in Kilgo Quadrangle, and has recently set up shop—along with her roommate, Kimberly Buehring—in the largest room on West Campus, colloquially known as “the barn.” The approximately 405-square-foot room stands out amongst other campus digs, but it is also an improvement over years past in Kilgo.
The move-in schedule for Duke students was slightly tweaked from previous years, but the spectacle of students, parents and First-Year Advisory Counselors moving boxes and baskets into East Campus dormitories was par for the course Wednesday.
For many of Duke’s newest students, the first night on campus was marked by an abundance of enthusiasm and a dearth of direction, but most freshmen eventually found some introductions to Duke’s nightlife. After a hectic day of moving in, meeting neighbors and getting acclimated, many members of the Class of 2008 spent Wednesday evening—their first at Duke—milling about East Campus before heading off campus to parties thrown by upperclassmen.
On the evening of July 1, Richard Brodhead was standing in a tentless Krzyzewskiville as a small mob of Duke students chanted his name adoringly. The 19th-century literary scholar had been scrutinized months ago by a search committee. The Dean of Yale College had been selected by the Board of Trustees in December. And in a grassy plot sprinkled with beer cans, the ninth president of Duke University was confirmed by the popular acclamation of a few dozen college students.
During the most recent academic year, financial woes caused Arts and Sciences to cut its faculty searches by more than a third and cap financial aid expenses. A summary of the Arts and Sciences budget indicates a deficit of approximately $1.4 million, but administrators are optimistic about removing the shortfall in the near future and remain pleased with the state of the faculty and curriculum.
Anyone who appreciates both a pre-Columbian earthenware bowl and a Pyrex Erlenmeyer flask will be enthusiastic about George McLendon's investment in developing interdisciplinary studies at Duke. The incoming Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who is both an award-winning chemist and a collector of Native American artifacts, hopes to create opportunities that straddle traditional academic boundaries.
Nearly five years after the adoption of the University's strategic plan, "Building on Excellence," Duke continues to make good on that promise--literally--with several campus buildings progressing through various stages of development over the summer.
North Carolina has a rich Republican history marked by such powerful figures as Senators Lauch Faircloth, Elizabeth Dole and Jesse Helms. With the presidential convention season approaching, state Republicans are ready to go again, visible and vocal about their support for President George W. Bush's re-election bid.
In a relationship as nuanced and intricate as that of the University and its host city, even a $150,000 grant can be ambiguous.
A Duke University Medical Center employee was in serious condition Wednesday after a campus bus ran over her left arm and both legs Tuesday morning on Trent Drive.
Nearly four out of every five high school seniors who applied to be a member of Duke's Class of 2008 had to make other plans for the fall. But preliminary numbers describing the 81st class to matriculate at the University reveal a handful of interesting trends--many of them continuations of patterns observed in years past.
Police officers arrested Durham resident Thomas Pitt Friday and charged him with the murder of Duke employee Curt Blackman, whose body was found May 20 in his Hilton Avenue apartment. Pitt confessed to Blackman's murder, a Durham County prosecutor said at a bail hearing Monday.
According to preliminary data, the number of academic integrity violations handled by the Office of the Dean of Students surged during this past spring semester, breaking a three-semester decline in such cases.
For Duke and the YMCA, the reason for disagreement is all in the family.
Few assignments in a Duke student's life are more worrisome--or talked about--than housing assignments. But for the immediate future, an administrator unfamiliar to students will take charge of the familiar process.
The body of Curt Blackman, a coordinator for recruitment and minority programs at the Graduate School, was discovered by Duke University Police Department officers May 20 in his apartment in the Forest Hills area of Durham. The death has been classified as a homicide, but Durham Police Department investigators have not yet released any details of the apparent stabbing.
After a semester of temporary measures in response to incidents of assault and robbery, the University is taking steps to make its safety provisions as permanent and prevalent on campus as Gothic architecture.
It may be fun to stay at the YMCA, but the University will soon decide whether to stay with an agreement with the community group after a disagreement about the YMCA's policy for same-sex partners.
