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Some students are mourning the loss of their Thursday night revelry because they have Friday classes, and others love the fact that 8 a.m. courses are now obsolete. They can all thank one source—the new course scheduling policy that went into effect last fall.
It is no surprise that the price of a Duke education can be a little steep—and students often wonder whether it will return dividends. For those students who are residents of North Carolina, however, the state provides a little bit of help.
While attending Black Student Alliance Invitational weekend, prospective freshman Kandace Jones was introduced to the wealth of opportunities Duke offers minority students.
When students arrive on campus in August, there will be iPods for all—well, sort of.
After nearly two weeks of anticipation, Duke Student Government’s election day has finally arrived. This year’s ballot features 10 rising juniors and seniors vying for positions as DSG officials for 2005-2006. Three candidates seek the DSG presidency; candidates in three of the six executive offices are running unopposed.
The Sudan Coalition held a fundraiser dinner and lecture Monday night in the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture to raise money for the adoption of a Sudanese refugee camp. An estimated 80 Duke students and community members attended the dinner, which included a raffle and silent auction.
Like most research professors at Duke, Stephen Nowicki is deeply involved in his work.
People aren’t always what they seem.
More than 100 students gathered to discuss strategies to take action and help stop the Sudanese genocide in an auditorium at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy Tuesday night.
Mimicking a national trend, the matriculation of African-American and black, Hispanic and Latino, Asian-American and Native American students at Duke has increased by 26.5 percent over the last four years alone.
The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation gave a $1 million gift to the Nasher Museum of Art, which is set to open Oct 2. The museum will name one of its gallery pavilions after the late Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle in honor of the benefactor’s family.
In accordance with the second annual Reginaldo Howard Day Celebration schedule of events, a diverse group students, administrators and faculty members engaged in an intellectual discussion focusing on ethnic politics within the black community at Duke Monday night.
“Steps are being taken, but we’ve still got a ways to go.” These words, or a variation thereof, seem to accompany any explanation for the efforts of University officials to tackle campus safety, but residents of Central Campus who question Duke’s commitment to their safety hope the University will carry out a full implementation of its plans—soon.
Remember anything from AP physics? The College Board announced plans to change the Advanced Placement program in high schools nationwide in order to ensure that more students will be able to answer “yes”—and generally retain more of what they learn in the fast-tracked classes.
In a move administrators, faculty and students alike first described as unprecedented and uncalled for, the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty decided last week to discontinue Hispanic and Latino students’ eligibility for the Duke Endowment Fellowship, the largest single-funded program at the Graduate School.
A recent change to the formulas used to determine eligibility for the awarding of Pell Grant aid to college students was signed into effect as part of the omnibus spending bill last month. Although lawmakers claim that more money is available for Pell Grants, financial aid experts said fewer students will qualify for the funding.
A bill that passed Congress last week may cut government funding of Pell Grants, the primary source of federal grant aid for undergraduate students, by more than $300 million.
For all those upperclassmen who have tried to coerce unsuspecting freshmen to give up their iPods to no avail, there's another way to get the goods without shelling out the dough.
A group of students recently formed an organization to gather information and work with administrators to deal with allegations of race-based mistreatment.
More than 50,000 Durham County residents have already made their voices heard this election season. When traditional Election Day voting begins today, many more will certainly join their fellow citizens and cast their ballots, likely making this the largest voter turnout in county history.
