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Our cover story looks at affirmative action not as a legal or policy concern but as something that students think about and live with. |
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Freshmen on Savage Inequalities, an engineering professor's best and worst advice |
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Imperial ambitions, "Face Value" fervor, museum musings |
Presidential thoughts on the ACC and the arms race in athletics |
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Merel Harmel: animating the field of anesthesiology |
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Welcoming
a new class, celebrating
fund-raising success, creating
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Observer: We are the world |
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Soulful historical fiction, Amazonian adventures |
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A new DAA president, board business |
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Rounding out the campus |
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"Characteristics of the person seeking a date or who goes online to find one are extracted from the person and promoted as 'desirable goods' that can be had. One thinks of himself or herself as a bundle of features that has value on a dating market."
--Ida Simpson, professor of sociology, on the ins and outs of Internet dating, quoted on ABCNews.com
"If you emerge from college unfamiliar with or suspicious of other kinds of people,you will not have what it takes to lead in this protean, multi-faceted world of the twenty-first century, and we will have failed you. You will have failed yourself."
--President Nannerl O. Keohane in her welcoming remarks to first-year students in Duke Chapel
"For the students that came out this summer, we've done our best to maintain the experience. The staff at the campus in Beaufort is very friendly and chatty, and we had to warn them: 'These students aren't allowed to speak any English to you. It's not that they're being standoffish.' "
--Mavis Mayer, program coordinator of the Duke Study in China Program--usually
held in Beijing--on the program's SARS-related relocation to the Marine Lab
at Beaufort, North Carolina,
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