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Business Schools Expect Boom as Economy Sags
By Alison Go -
Education
- September 26, 2008
Applicants are anxious over increased competition, but admissions officers say the rules are the same.
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Duke Announces Bold Overseas Business School Expansion
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 16, 2008
Fuqua will have extensive centers in St. Petersburg, London, Shanghai, Dubai, and New Delhi.
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Duke Study Says Legacy Students Underachieve
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 9, 2008
Report claims they have lower-than-expected grades and shy away from natural sciences and engineering.
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North Carolina Schools Brace for Hanna
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 5, 2008
Louisiana State continues to clean up and restore power after Gustav.
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Joe Who? Students, Apathy, and Opinion Over Obama VP Choice
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 25, 2008
Some students care; others don't.
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13 People Get Food Poisoning at Duke
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 25, 2008
At least 3 hospitalized; school officials think many of the cases are unrelated.
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Duke Chinese Student Threatened After Rally
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- April 14, 2008
As a result of the highly contentious pro-Tibet demonstration at Duke last week, at least one student who attended the rally has been targeted for harassment.
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Tibet Tops This Week's Protesting Schedule
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- April 11, 2008
Duke, NYU, Columbia, East Carolina, and Southern Mississippi all chimed in.
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Abilene Christian Gives Students iPhones
By Kenneth Terrell -
The Paper Trail
- February 28, 2008
The giveaway is part of the university's connected campus program.
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Ex-Lacrosse Players File Suit Against Duke
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- February 21, 2008
They're suing for "emotional distress and other injuries" caused by the 2006 rape allegations.
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Duke’s White Bronco Moment and Then Some
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- January 24, 2008
Duke University students are keeping the Durham police busy this week.
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Integrative Medicine
Health
- January 11, 2008
More people than ever before are looking for alternatives to the conventional healthcare model.
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Clinton Beats Rove in Popularity Contest
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- December 4, 2007
Bush's "Boy Genius" gets jeers while the former president gets hardy cheers from the respective Duke and Brandeis crowds.
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Duke Blog Causes a Stir, but It’s Still No <i>Gossip Girl</i>
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 9, 2007
A "repulsive," "offensive," and "disgusting" gossip blog at Duke University is under attack.
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Wildfires Shutter UC-San Diego Campus
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- October 22, 2007
Raging fires force UC-San Diego to cancel class, while out east, Duke and UNC continue to water nongrassy field hockey fields.
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 20, 2007
In response to the infamous lacrosse case, the Duke law school is opening a $1.25 million program devoted to "expanding education against wrongful conviction and promoting justice in the criminal justice system.
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Timber! Down Goes Duke’s Losing Streak, Goal Posts, Student
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 17, 2007
After Duke's football team snapped a 22-game losing streak (the longest in the country) with a 20-14 win over Northwestern, hundreds of fans stormed Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, tearing down the goal posts in "a visceral reaction to a moment of pure fanatic jubilation.
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The Roof, the Roof, the (Dorm) Roof Is On Fire
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 7, 2007
ontinuing the nation's War on Smokers, North Carolina is pushing for a law that would require smokers to puff only fire-safe cigarettes.
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Summer Book Review
By Michael Barone -
Michael Barone
- September 4, 2007
Europe's clash of religion and politics, the outrageous Duke rape case, and the partition of India and Pakistan.
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- July 23, 2007
Daily roundup from campuses nationwide.
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Trail Mix
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- July 19, 2007
* An influx of iPhones has crashed Duke University's wireless network, Inside Higher Ed writes. Questions: Is this Apple's fault? But why only at Duke? And lastly, how come so many Duke students can afford an iPhone?.
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John McCain on Iraq
Michael Barone
- April 12, 2007
John McCain spoke eloquently at Virginia Military Institute. Here are his concluding paragraphs:.
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The Duke Lacrosse Players Case
Michael Barone
- April 11, 2007
With news that the charges against the Duke lacrosse players will be dropped, bloggers LaShawn Barber and K.C.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- January 25, 2007
Students at American University are protesting a conference, scheduled to be held at the school, by a group they say has promoted ecoterrorism, destruction of property, and harassment of students on AU's campus, the Eagle reports.
Boston College announced it has eliminated all freshman students' predeclared majors; even those declared during the fall semester will disappear from the records, the B.
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Duke Provost Defines 'Condition of Our Era': Too Much Free Speech--Or, Uh, Too Much Bad Free Speech; Meanwhile, Another Lax Lawsuit!
The Paper Trail
- January 12, 2007
The lacrosse controversy that began last spring got very ugly--with "merciless, distorted," even racist attacks in E-mails and blogs--because of the "condition of our era," Duke Provost Peter Lange said yesterday in a speech. Blogs and E-mails have let faculty and untenured outsiders alike take liberties with their liberties, saying mean things rather than smart, thoughtful ones.
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