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Features

MAKING THE FOREIGN FAMILIAR by Robert Odom
In light of new international economic and political interdependencies, Curriculum 2000 places an accent on foreign-language study and on new ways of teaching.
A FAN IN FULL by Robert J. Bliwise
After sampling the unfathomable atmospherics of Cameron, a cultural chronicler ponders whether it's the players on the court or the students in the stands who have the right stuff.

SHOOTING FOR PARITY WOMEN'S BASKETBALL By Georgann Eubanks
Duke's extraordinary climb to national prominence in women's basketball is the result of a century-long revolution in sports and a cultural sea change.

ACADEMIC APPRENTICES: STILL AN IDEAL? by Barry Yeoman
With hundreds of Ph.D.s competing for every available faculty position, the apprentice model that sustained generations of silversmiths and printers seems to fall apart at the university level.

THE DEATH OF DREAMS by Meghan Cronin
On a journey to Sarajevo and Tuzla, a student learns some unexpected lessons about the meaning of friendship, the costs of survival, and the aftermath of war.

STAR PROFESSOR by Dennis Meredith
A mathematician explores gravitational lensing, a method of tracing the intricate pathways of starlight.

KEEPING NATURE'S BALANCE by Tom Patterson
The practices of a sheep rancher and farmer are consistent with his deeply held environmental convictions.


Departments

UNDER THE GARGOYLE
"We are looking for intellectual dynamism that can change the world"

ON LINE GALLERY
Images from spring reunions 1999.

GAZETTE
A provost is found, a department is revived, a Rhodes Scholarship is engineered.

BOOKS
A medical mystery that wields a sharp scalpel, a romantic thriller that makes use of a familiar setting.

QUAD QUOTES
Analyzing school violence, celebrating summer plans.


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