NEWS
The leadership gap
By Emily Vernon | March 8, 2003Kate Hansen is a little frazzled, and rightly so.
Kate Hansen is a little frazzled, and rightly so.
"Rash of car break-ins." "Man charged for carrying gun." "Pizza pilfered.
The number of opportunities at Duke to be "involved" is astounding. From student government to service, juggling to chess, there seems to be an organization to fit every student's interests.
Last summer, like many students, senior Peter Fleming decided to stay at Duke to take physics.
For Scott Silliman, dealing with the media is almost a daily occurrence. He appears on CNN with Paula Zahn and on CNN International. He is interviewed on National Public Radio and quoted in USA Today.
Balance. Call it objectivity, call it fairness if you prefer, it 's every journalist's mantra.
On a cold Saturday afternoon in early January, two Duke basketball recruits played in Cameron Indoor Stadium--the arena they will call home during their college years--for the first time.
Barely had I felt so safe as on a recent trip to Israel, but rarely had I felt so threatened as on the last day of the same visit.
"Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end.".
Though the late August sun blankets the entire Houston metropolitan area, no one feels the heat quite like the grim figure making his way down the courthouse steps.
In the year 2024, while most present Duke students will be defending their clients in court, performing heart surgery or sitting behind their CEO nameplates, Adam Katz plans to be doing something...
Every now and then, usually during timeouts or while one of his teammates is at the foul line, junior point guard Chris Duhon will walk over to the end of the Duke bench to get advice.
At 3:45 the buses roll in. From Club Boulevard, from Powe, from all over Durham, they move down Gregson and Green and Watts streets, at each block stopping to loose their cargo of white children.
Let's put ourselves in the chair of the chief executive officer of pharmaceutical company 'ABC,'" says Dr. Charles Hicks, associate director of the Duke AIDS Research and Treatment Center.
Work hard, play hard--the unofficial motto of Duke University.