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By From Staff and Wire Reports | November 15, 2002Easley sued over transferred funds.
Easley sued over transferred funds.
Two years after a federal court jury awarded Heather Sue Mercer $2 million in punitive damages for gender discrimination on Duke's football team, the U.S.
Enduring harassment from the school bully may seem like just another undesirable experience that goes along with growing up, but some experts point to more serious impacts later in life that make...
Duke's admissions office has long attempted to sell the University to prospective students as a place where starting a club is as easy as walking into the Duke Student Government office and...
In an informal talk Wednesday, Charlotte Pierce-Baker, associate research professor of women's studies and author of Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape, stressed the importance of...
As students and administrators consider the University's capacity to support a growing number of clubs and organizations, Duke Student Government has created a task force to examine the underlying...
A former nurse has accused Duke University Hospital of firing her because of her support of unionization, just months after another nurse sued the Hospital for the same grievance.
After our sun, the nearest star is light-years away; but with five new telescopes at their disposal, undergraduates are one step closer to understanding even more distant celestial phenomena.
"Feminists--both women and men, girls and boys--are the majority, but this majority must be empowered," proclaims the website of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
The English department will be overhauling its major with what Director of Undergraduate Studies Ian Baucom called a "significant reimagination of the curriculum.".
His freshman year, Mark Boyd rushed three very different fraternities: Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Kappa Sigma.
The percentage of black and Asian or Asian-American students living on West Campus increased predictably since last year, the Office of Residential Life and Housing Services reported in annual...
Eliminating 50 faculty positions over the next five years is a worst-case scenario for dealing with a projected Arts and Sciences budget deficit, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William...
In an attempt to address long-standing concerns about weak and inconsistent advising for student organizations, administrators have established a task force to examine the current system.
As the European Union considers the addition of 10 new countries into its ranks, its chief representative--Ulrik Federspiel, the ambassador of Denmark to the United States--addressed the issue of...
Senior Dave Russell has to duck his head when he walks into his room, for fear that his tall frame will hit the low pipes running along the ceiling just an inch above him.
Two weeks ago the average American had no idea what the word ossuary meant.