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Officials look to students for ideas

The University's recently released Women's Initiative highlights many of the issues facing undergraduate women--the Bryan Center "catwalk-way," pressure to carry the latest handbag and social...


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Off-campus forum held

For those students who are making the transition from on-campus dormitories to off-campus apartments, the Duke Community Housing office sponsored Sunday an information session that broached the...


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Keohane addresses Academic Council

At Thursday's University faculty meeting, President Nan Keohane cast an eye to the future and noted three critical issues that the University must address in coming years--rising costs, challenges...


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N.C. State Fair begins today

There are very few events in North Carolina, let alone the world, that feature both a tractor pull and a wine-making competition. But the North Carolina State Fair, which Gov.


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Nobel winner Coetzee reads from new book

Author J. M. Coetzee gave a reading from his latest novel at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Thursday, just two weeks after the South African was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.


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Kozol discusses inequality

Standing on the bricks of Harvard Square one day in 1964, Jonathan Kozol was just a few yards away from graduate school and a nice, safe career as a tenured professor of English.


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Schools deal with teacher misconduct

Amidst recent positive reports of improved SAT scores and increased student achievement, there is one statistic in the North Carolina public schools system that is a cause for alarm: The number of...