Nov - Dec 2002 Issue

 

 

 

 1876. Alexander Graham Bell gives us a perfectly good telephone--and look what happens. We asked the new wireless generation: What is your official position on the cell phone?

 

 

 

 Questions on how we respond to shady accounting, conflicts of interest, and corruption were taken up by faculty at the Fuqua School of Business and by Duke graduates and supporters at an August forum. The Fuqua School teamed with the Athletics Department to produce the first Coach K/Fuqua School of Business Leadership Conference.

 Director Storer: quelling performance anxieties.

 

 Class-notes sections don't exactly provide the weightiest matter in university magazines. But they do provide a vital link among alumni, and between individual alumni and alma mater. Illustrating as they do the life stories of graduates, they also contribute to telling an institution's life story.

 On Situs Editors:I applaud Julia Connors for her heartfelt writings of the Situ family ["Under the Gargoyle," May-June 2002]. I have also been blessed by having the Situs pass through my life, and Julia caught the essence of Kevin and Helen.

 

 

 In October of 2001, Ann Miller, public documents librarian in Duke's Perkins Library, received a document that she hadn't exactly anticipated for her collection. It was a memo to depository librarians from the U.S. superintendent of documents. The memo referred to a CD-ROM that had been singled out by the U.S.

At 8:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Owen May was sitting in his car, its turn signal blinking, first in line to turn left into a parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. Gil Scharf had just finished a business lunch in London. Karen Preziosi was on a city bus headed downtown on the Avenue of the Americas. Then the minute hand moved forward, and life changed.

Changing face of the profession: some 1941 graduates, above; a current class in the new Fast Track to Nursing program, belo

Because I want to visit Afghanistan,I flippantly told history professor John Richards as he went around the class last spring asking why we were taking "Afghanistan: Warrior and Nation Building." Though this response was all I could think of at the time, it planted a seed in my head that I would toy with and eventually succumb to.

Listen to one of Duke's vocal groups, The Pitchforks, sing "Good Old A Cappella" on their 1998 CD Tastefully Done. Male harmony sings, "Shoo-bee-doo-wop, bop, bop...

 Duke trustees approved two building projects on campus at the annual fall meeting in October: one to expand the amount of teaching space for the department of Theater Studies in the Bryan Center, the other to renovate and add on to the Vivarium on Research Drive.

 We asked a few librarians which books they're planning to check out for the holidays.

 

 

 

 

 People newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS today are more likely to be female, young, heterosexual, a racial minority, and living in rural areas than in the past. They are also less likely to trust the health-care "system" or to have social support from community and family, often leading them to miss appointments or refuse treatment, says a new book.

  

    Biologist Jackson: immersed in a delicate resource.

 

 

     

   Clarence BirkheadChief of Police At Duke since 1988 Describe yourself in three words:

 

 

 

 Carol Louise Anspach Kohn.

 Charles A. Dukes Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Service to Duke were presented to fifteen young-alumni organizers, alumni admissions advisers, and other exceptional leaders. The awards are sponsored by the Duke Alumni Association. Named for the late Dukes '29, director of Alumni Affairs from 1944 to 1963, the citations honor alumni and friends of Duke who reflect his dedication to the university.