Party monitors return for 2nd year
Tennis ball green has replaced basketball orange, but the work of party monitors--and their T-shirts--continues a year after the role was created.
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Tennis ball green has replaced basketball orange, but the work of party monitors--and their T-shirts--continues a year after the role was created.
Duke leads the nation's top-tier universities in integrating black students and faculty, according to a new report in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. The study used 13 quantitative factors on racial diversity to determine the rankings of 28 of the nation's most prestigious universities.
As the Black Faculty Strategic Initiative heads toward its final months, a new task force is meeting next week to begin shaping a new University effort to increase faculty diversity over the next decade.
Sunday's flooding of the West-Edens Link left over 30 students homeless the last two nights, but most of the new building's 350 residents were able to return early Monday morning.
Just two weeks after opening its doors, the West-Edens Link closed them Sunday night for almost three hours after suffering severe flood damage from Building B's fire sprinkler system.
To accommodate students who do not live on West Campus, but who still like to hang out there on the weekends, the University will give those students weekend card access to two Towerview Drive parking lots.
Even as a scandal rages about Princeton University's unauthorized access to Yale University's online admissions information, Duke plans to post its acceptance decisions online for early admissions applicants this year.
As all sophomores settle into West Campus and quads begin to see the first of their facelifts, one component remains more in the minds than in the concrete plans of those polishing the new quad-based residential system: the academics.
As the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, the University has announced its plan to commemorate the day with what it calls a somber and respectful tone.
As students and professors learn their new class schedules, they also are adapting to a new bus schedule that utilizes fewer buses but more frequent cycles.
Although the Nasher Museum of Art is almost two years behind schedule, the plans for the upcoming West Campus attraction are nearing their final stage with an even larger budget.
All underclassmen will likely be able to park in the Blue Zone this year, administrators said, tentatively banishing earlier fears that commuters would have to park in the remote lots on Duke University Road.
As off-campus safety concerns grow, the University is responding with a website to increase students' awareness of crime in their area.
Even seniors will feel the freshman rush of excitement this year as they return to campus. Why? Many of them will be finding their way in a new world too.
North Carolina in the middle of August is not the most ideal environment for lugging boxes, but at least air conditioning makes the process a little less hellish. Just ask the new residents of buildings K, L and part of M in Kilgo Quadrangle.
The University received $264,580,049 in charitable gifts in the 2001-02 fiscal year, a small increase over last year, despite the economic downturn. The philanthropic cash gifts total was the second largest in the school's history.
The University is repaying almost $700,000 in federal grant money after discovering that two former University employees had been swindling a prominent researcher for over three years, administrators acknowledged this week.
Athletes are often easy to identify in a crowd--whether because their heads giraffe eight inches over everyone else or because they are dressed in drag at a tailgate. Their differences are more internal than what is obvious, however.
The food at the new Mad Hatter's right off East Campus is a lot like a UNC girl. It looks a lot better than most of its peers in Durham, but while it is so close to extraordinary, it just can't be called first-tier.
Between the evening of March 13 and the morning of March 14, eight Duke University Medical School applicants received the news they had been waiting for -- they had been accepted.