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(06/16/05 4:00am)
Jackhammers and dynamite were absent Wednesday afternoon, but a cake-cutting ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time marked the end of the Bryan Center walkway, symbolically speaking. The demolition has been a long time in the planning, and in the next few days actual bulldozers will descend upon the vast, narrow cement walkway that connects West Campus and the Bryan Center and finally knock it down. In its place will be 18 months of construction followed by the much-touted West Campus plaza.
(06/09/05 4:00am)
Eighteen long months after the search began, the Student Health Center announced this week that it has chosen a new executive director. Dr. Bill Purdy will officially take over the helm of the health center July 1. But it won’t exactly be his first day on the job. Purdy has been a physician at Duke since 1998. A favorite doctor of many students, he has been interim medical director at Student Health and has experience with the medicine, the education and the insurance concerns that are particular to a university population.
(06/09/05 4:00am)
It’s been two weeks now since several cross burnings took place in Durham. In the wake of this iconographic symbol of racial hatred, the community has come together at unity rallies and vigils that have drawn up to 700 people. In fact, this event has peaked public discussion about racially charged issues in Durham, the city’s crime rates and race relations in general. But still, FBI special agent Lou Velasco, who is involved in the investigation of the cross burnings, said Wednesday that no new developments have occurred in the case. Rewards for information that could lead to a conviction in the case are now up to more than $22,000. But the horror of the crime should be motivation enough for people to come forward.
(06/02/05 4:00am)
It’s not quite the rankings of U.S. News and World Report, but the latest group of additions to the University faculty suggest that at last, Duke has arrived. Among the 34 professors who have committed to join the School of Arts and Sciences next year are a chemist from Princeton, a biologist from Yale and an ethnomusicologist from Northwestern. In short, Duke is professor stealing—a hiring game that a few years ago Duke couldn’t even think about playing.
(06/02/05 4:00am)
After more than three decades of being anonymously cloaked by the vaguely pornographic pseudonym “Deep Throat,” the most famous unnamed source revealed his identity Tuesday. Former FBI official W. Mark Felt came clean as the informant who helped steer Washington Post reporters on the path for the Watergate coverage. Public fascination with the identity of Deep Throat was initially sparked by the impact of the story, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, Law ’37, but book and movie depictions of the Watergate investigation have continued to fuel curiosity. Several years ago a professor at Northwestern University even devoted a full research project to guessing Deep Throat’s identity.
(05/26/05 4:00am)
Thanksgiving break—and the fall semester—just got a little bit longer. After multiple years of students skipping their Wednesday classes and ducking out of Durham on the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving, the University extended break for that extra day. Of course, Duke is not merely bestowing extra days off. In fact, it’s sneaking extra hours of class in. The Wednesday classes will be made up on the last day before finals. Instead of starting reading period Friday, undergraduates will trudge through a full day of classes, and the pre-finals study period will officially begin Saturday.
(05/26/05 4:00am)
Move over, basketball. Duke has built a new sports dynasty: women’s golf. With last week’s top finish at the NCAA Championships, the team earned its third national title in seven years, bringing Duke’s total championships to seven.
(05/19/05 4:00am)
University officials announced this week their decision to postpone the opening of the new Central Campus until Fall 2008. Given the sometimes languid pace of development plans and the still-sketchy details about what exactly will happen with the revamped campus, the delay comes as no surprise. President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange have acknowledged from the beginning that in order for Central to become a legitimate hub, students, faculty and staff alike have to buy into the space from day one. When the ribbon is cut on the first building, Central has to be more than just better dorms.
(05/19/05 4:00am)
Several residents of Durham breathed a collective sigh of relief May 5 when Duke officially declared its plans to seek University College District zoning for Central Campus. Until then, a handful of neighbors were fearful that Duke would create a retail mecca when it rebuilt the campus. Their worries sprung from Duke’s 2004 decision to rezone East and West Campuses as UC District, which limits retail facilities to those related to the University mission, but to wait before acting on Central. The anxieties often sounded like paranoia, especially because it was the same few people who kept crying out.
(05/02/05 4:00am)
This is goodbye. It’s been a goodrun, but 100 years is enough. So as we finish this last issue of the 100th volume of The Chronicle, we are putting down our notebooks, packing away the computers and abandoning the presses. We quit.
(04/27/05 4:00am)
Today undergraduates will trash the grass on the Main West Quadrangle as they celebrate the Last Day of Classes. But it won't matter, because the grass is already in pretty sorry shape. But the administration can't blame the damage on students. The culprits: tents, and the administration itself.
(04/26/05 4:00am)
According to the latest survey of faculty salaries, Duke is doing a great job of maintaining equitable pay among faculty of different races. Data presented to the Academic Council Thursday showed that when Duke factors in rank, department and experience, tenured and tenure-track professors of minority groups and Caucasians are paid equally.
(04/25/05 4:00am)
Once upon a time, an education used to simply consist of the three Rs: reading, ’riting and ’rithmatic. But that was decades ago and long before the advent of Curriculum 2000. Since C2K, Duke students have been struggling to fill the boxes marked CZ and EI and SS. The letter that students have been having the most difficulty checking off, though, is M. Math.
(04/21/05 4:00am)
This hasn’t been the best year for the Duke baseball team. There’s no quick fix, but there is an obvious first step: Baseball head coach Bill Hillier should be fired at the end of this season.
(04/20/05 4:00am)
When officials from Duke University Medical Center signed an agreement with the National University of Singapore and officially established the country’s second medical school, they did more than increase opportunities for medical education in that island country.
(04/19/05 4:00am)
The Chronicle is pleased to see that the referendum for a student activities fee increase that will increase the Last Day of Classes budget passed.
(04/18/05 4:00am)
Students should have access to nutrition facts and ingredient lists for the food they eat on campus—two things that are currently either unavailable or difficult to come by.
(04/15/05 4:00am)
We are pleased to see that Dean George McLendon is considering a reassessment of the University’s sabbatical policy. Changing the policy may have a positive impact on students’ academic experience.
(04/14/05 4:00am)
The $3 million lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of American that junior Jordan Greene is facing for sharing music files on the Internet is nothing groundbreaking—the central issues of the downloading battle have no changed much in the past couple of years. This lawsuit is just the most recent in a wave of lawsuits filed by the RIAA in an attempt to curtail file-sharing.
(04/13/05 4:00am)
President Richard Brodhead and Dean Robert Thompson’s latest project—a website listing community and research service opportunities available to Duke students—will be a valuable resource for the University.
