DSG to respond to Dickerson's report with one of its own
(09/07/98 4:00am)
Now it's the students' turn.
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Now it's the students' turn.
Call it administrator orientation.
President Nan Keohane and the executive committee of the Academic Council recently appointed Kathleen Smith, professor of biological anthropology and anatomy, as chair of the committee to find a successor to Provost John Strohbehn.
In response to an external review committee's scathing report, several English professors are re-airing their frustrations about the department's recent troubles. These faculty members and others also took the opportunity to comment on the best ways to revitalize the beleaguered department.
The caustic report of an external review committee sheds light on one of the more dramatic events of the summer: the decision by William Chafe, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences and dean of Trinity College, to name a six-member executive committee to revitalize the University's prominent English department.
When the University first offered Leo Charette the directorship of the Career Development Center this summer, he said thanks, but no thanks. Three weeks later, however, after a second candidate turned down the position, Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson decided to call the top choice back with an offer he found he couldn't refuse.
Durham police are investigating two alleged rapes that have occurred in the last three weeks near East Campus. The first incident occurred August 10 at a house on Swift Avenue between Campus Drive and Duke University Road; the second took place August 19 on West Knox St. between Ninth and Virgie Streets, two blocks north and three blocks west of the northwest corner of East Campus (see map, page 17).
David Gergen, a well-known journalist and presidential adviser, is leaving his annual spring teaching position at the University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy. Gergen accepted a five-year full-time position earlier this month as a public service professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Dear freshmen,
Embarking on the next step in the proposed overhaul of the upperclass residential system, a high-powered administrative committee has begun assessing the feasibility of the Upperclass Residential Planning Group's spring report.
Compounding the recent difficulties facing the University's renowned English department, one of its biggest fish has announced that, come January, he will swim with a new school.
An unexpected jump in the number of incoming freshmen has left admissions officials scratching their heads and other administrators scrambling to accommodate 100 extra students.
It's Christina Ricci again, this time as Dedee, a cocky, pregnant 16-year-old who steals her gay half-brother's boyfriend, inheritance and an urn full of ashes in this wacky dark comedy. Brimming with scorn and wit, The Opposite of Sex exposes our society's fascination with and aversion to sexuality. Normally flaky Friends star Lisa Kudrow stands out as a perpetually nervous and hopelessly virginal schoolteacher who coolly delivers the movie's most biting lines. This movie allows us to witness Ricci as an expert manipulator in action and, as the credits roll, we realize that we, with our expectations of the typical coming of age story, have been the most manipulated.
Locked-out Central Campus residents will, within two weeks, no longer be able to break into their own apartments. Fortunately, neither will would-be criminals.
Convictions for honor code infractions jumped 65 percent last year as the University set its second consecutive record for academic dishonesty violations. The volume of convictions, however, remained lower than at comparable schools.
Raucous basketball celebrations, combined with increases in alcohol violations and academic dishonesty violations, pushed student disciplinary referrals to their second-highest level ever during the last academic year.
Interviewing for a job can be a stressful, often harrowing experience. But the three finalists for the directorship of the Career Development Center should be good at it; come this fall, the center's new leader will be assisting students as they seek employment.
The lineup for the English department's newly appointed executive committee is packed with some of the University's top literary sluggers. But like all home run hitters, the committee's new members-Professors of English Stanley Fish and Karla Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English Reynolds Price and Professor of literature Jan Radway-have both fans and hecklers.
University students returning this fall will encounter something they have not seen since this year's seniors were freshman: a full-time director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.
In a highly unusual decision, William Chafe, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences and Trinity College, has created an executive committee to revitalize the University's nationally renowned English department.