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 A fall 1969 issue of the Duke Alumni Register, the predecessor to Duke Magazine, asked, "Can Duke University Put Down the Legend?" The headline referred to the opening of a new "Art Center"--later
the Duke University Museum of Art--on East Campus. |
 Mastering the challenges of freshman life |
 Celebrating
the military, disputing a takeover, lamenting legal awards, matters
of life and death |
 Surgical procedures and a medical-center controversy, HIV/AIDS and the search for a vaccine, graduate-student research and an international incident; Campus
Observer: the art of matching roommates; Syllabus: ENG 196CS-The Art of Suspicion |
 High success, if low visibility, in men's lacrosse and women's golf |
 Assessing immigration trends: Kathy Rudy, noted ethicist and associate professor of women's studies discusses immigration trends, the meaning of borders, and the concept of feminism within a population working to define its place and identity.
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 Celebrating a garden, in words and images |
 Honoring
an accomplished physician-humanitarian,
recognizing a dedicated teacher,
amending the workings of the
alumni association;
Career Corner: the ins and
outs of outplacement;
Retrospective: construction
consumes the campus; mini-profiles: a
lifetime of intellectual curiosity, a
career steeped in storytelling, a
record of advocacy for death-row inmates |
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"We are spending a disproportional amount of homeland-security dollars on aviation, and rail has been given a lower priority. That's something that needs to change."
--David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, headquartered at Duke, on the London terrorist attacks
"Gene doping, the non-therapeutic use of DNA and/or cells to enhance athletic performance, has the potential to offer cheaters a souped-up body that can run faster and jump higher with modifications that are virtually undetectable."
--Huntington Willard, director of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, in the Orlando Sentinel
"We should be concerned about the silence of our political leaders on these issues, and, more important, we should be frightened by the absence of ideas about how to change the situation."
--Kevin Schulman, professor of medicine and director of Duke's Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, on findings that health-care costs are growing at five to six times the rate of inflation and approaching 16 percent of the gross domestic product, in the Raleigh News & Observer
"Like adults, kids have food fads that come in and out, and sometimes they may be 'on a diet' simply to imitate something they see on TV or in the home."
--Terry Bravender, assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke Medical Center, on a recent study indicating that 40 percent of nine- and ten-year-old girls claimed to be on a diet, on abcnews.com |
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