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(09/24/99 4:00am)
As a high school marching band member, I sometimes had the distinct pleasure of attending other local schools' homecoming football games, and at halftime, the homecoming court would parade around the field. Each couple had a sports car they drove around the track, and there were sequins and fancy clothing. These people seemed to care, and they seemed to be having fun. I bet they even thought it was crucial that they secure a date for the Big Dance.
(09/24/99 4:00am)
For Elizabeth Roberts Cannon, Few isn't a quad, Gross isn't a building and Flowers isn't a road.
(09/22/99 4:00am)
Students enjoyed an impromptu, hurricane-induced vacation last Thursday, but those missed classes are going back on the academic calendar, Provost Peter Lange announced Tuesday evening.
(09/21/99 4:00am)
Margaret Ball, former dean of the Woman's College and a renowned scholar on international politics, died in her Durham home Sept. 14. She was 90.
(09/15/99 4:00am)
As the enormous, foreboding Hurricane Floyd closed in on the East Coast Tuesday, Durham residents flocked to supermarkets and hardware stores, stocking up for what might become a major disaster Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
(09/14/99 4:00am)
Universities usually champion openness and access to information, but Duke and other research institutions have spent the last few months fighting increased public access to data produced in federally funded research.
(09/09/99 4:00am)
Three days after portions of the campus were flooded during a furious rainstorm, University officials are still catching up with a small flood of weather-related problems.
(09/02/99 4:00am)
Paul Baerman, the new special assistant to President Nan Keohane, has all the tools of the speechwriting trade sitting on the floor of his Allen Building office.
(09/02/99 4:00am)
Dr. Jay Binder, a scuba diver, rock climber and sky diver who had just started his residency in Duke's radiology department, died in a car accident August 1. He was 28.
(09/01/99 4:00am)
City officials trying to solve the mystery of Durham's disappearing water will soon have another clue-statistics from internal meters at Duke.
(08/27/99 4:00am)
Freshman move-in started Wednesday morning under a dreary sky, with hundreds of soggy students and parents trudging through the rain. But by mid-afternoon, the sun had come out, and the annual repopulation of East Campus was flowing smoothly.
(08/27/99 4:00am)
For the past three years, Pete Mather has introduced thousands of new students to Duke as coordinator of the University's orientation program. But in a few weeks, Mather, an assistant dean of student development, will be on the receiving side of an orientation, learning about his new employer: East Carolina University.
(08/27/99 4:00am)
Avid outdoorsman Andrew Baldyga, an engineering sophomore from Voorhees, N.J., died July 18 in a mountain climbing accident in Grand Teton National Park. He was 19.
(07/21/99 4:00am)
Propelled by the momentum of The Campaign for Duke and the humming national economy, Duke's fund-raisers surpassed the $300 million mark in 1998-99 for the first time ever, pulling in a staggering $330.9 million.
(06/24/99 4:00am)
Several housekeepers from across campus say favoritism and mistreatment by supervisors are common facets of their daily work environment.
(06/24/99 4:00am)
Until two weeks ago, I didn't know what a keg stand was. Last Friday night, I found out first-hand.
(06/24/99 4:00am)
The English department's planned hiring binge has fizzled; only one of the five top professors it sought accepted the department's offer.
(06/17/99 4:00am)
Until last week, I thought a keg stand was that little table you put a keg on.
(06/17/99 4:00am)
A housekeeping supervisor is facing criminal charges after an employee alleged that he grabbed her on the arm during an argument in late May. The employee, 10-year veteran Loretta Wright, claims that since the incident, housekeeping administrators have stepped up their routine harassment of her and continue to unfairly single her out for criticism.
(06/17/99 4:00am)
Dean of Faculty Development Jim Siedow is returning to his roots.
