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The aftermath of a downtown drive-by shooting spilled onto campus early Wednesday afternoon.
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The aftermath of a downtown drive-by shooting spilled onto campus early Wednesday afternoon.
Arnold E. "Ted" Davidson, research professor of Canadian studies, died Jan. 8 in Hillsborough, N.C. after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 62.
Early in yesterday's final debate on Curriculum 2000, Arts and Sciences Council chair Angela O'Rand called for a general discussion of the entire proposal. The usually loquacious faculty remained silent.
The Arts and Sciences Council will consider three proposed amendments to Curriculum 2000 this afternoon and then vote on the entire proposal.
Former would-be placekicker Heather Sue Mercer has filed a second lawsuit against the University and former football coach Fred Goldsmith, this one in state court.
After presenting the University's residential options to the Academic Council and the Board of Trustees, architect Steve Kieran took his road show before a group of 15 student leaders Thursday evening.
This afternoon, the Arts and Sciences Council will discuss Curriculum 2000 for the last time before the decisive Jan. 14 vote. The proposal is likely to pass; interviews with nearly half the 60 council members showed a clear majority favoring the principles of the new curriculum.
The most recent draft of the Curriculum 2000 proposal, developed in response to criticisms raised at last Tuesday's Arts and Sciences Council meeting, includes two modest structural changes and the rewording of several contested sections.
For the past several years, University officials have touted each incoming class as the strongest in Duke history. But the most recent crop of early decision applicants and the approximately 525 high school seniors who will receive acceptances next week may indicate the slowing of that trend.
Any prospective Duke football coaches who sent their resumes through the mail will receive only a polite "thank you" from Athletic Director Joe Alleva.
This story is the first in a 5-part series on the proposed Curriculum 2000. Tomorrow's story will examine how the new Trinity College curriculum might affect admissions.
A student in the men's rest room in Card Gym discovered a disturbing instance of vandalism Sunday afternoon: a drawing of a tree with a person hanging from a limb, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department. The sketch was accompanied by racial slurs directed toward black people.
After more than a year of work, the Curriculum Review Committee submitted its final version of Curriculum 2000 to the Arts and Sciences Council Friday.
Swing dancing may be in, but Swing magazine is out.
The Duke Student Government legislature Wednesday night unanimously approved a resolution favoring disclosure of the locations of factories manufacturing University-licensed products.
Last week's dismissal of a female would-be place kicker's lawsuit against the University and head football coach Fred Goldsmith was a bad call, according to a motion filed Friday by her lawyer.
This year's Duke Student Government-sponsored Halloween shuttles to Chapel Hill have a creative costume: thin air.
The proposed Curriculum 2000 reached the final stop on its campus tour Wednesday night as about 25 undergraduates critiqued the plan in the second of two student forums.
It's only appropriate that Democrat David Price's major issue in the race for North Carolina's 4th Congressional District is education. It's what he knows best.
Assistant Chief Clarence Birkhead has been named interim chief of the Duke University Police Department and may soon fill the job permanently, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.