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Duke Professors Join Cato Declaration Against Stimulus Plan

January 29, 2009

Five Duke professors signed a declaration prepared by the Cato Institute that ran in Wednesday’s New York Times . Cato is a libertarian-leaning think-tank located in Washington, D.C. A PDF version of the ad can be found here.

The five are:

John Coleman, professor in the Fuqua School of Business
Adriano Rampini, professor in the Fuqua School of [...]

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Supreme Court Justice makes his Duke debut

January 28, 2009

With relatively little pomp and fanfare,  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be coming to Duke tomorrow to speak about “his life in the law.” He will be appearing at the Law School’s Star Commons at 12:15. Oddly enough, the Law School has done little advertising for one of the most well-known conservative justices on [...]

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Lit that’s “good to think with”

January 28, 2009

Itching for a good read? Some Duke faculty members are recommending critical, eye-opening works for the Center of International Studies’ Inaugural Reading List 2009—based off the theme of works that are “good to think with.”
Some literature making the list includes Connie Rice’s “Rethinking the National Interest” (recommended by Professor of Political Science Peter Feaver), John [...]

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A Geographic Breakdown of Regular Decision Applications

January 14, 2009

Democrats made inroads in a number of Republican strongholds this election, but Duke too may be turning states blue.
California is the second-most represented state in the Class of 2012, calling the old cliche that Duke is overrun with displaced Yankees and Floridians into question. No official word yet on which states will come out on [...]

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Crunching the Application Numbers

January 14, 2009

Duke’s regular decision applications swelled by a whopping 17 percent this year. But statistics are sometimes noted for their dishonesty, and the admissions numbers can be an especially complicated calculus. How is an English major supposed to make sense of it all?! With help from Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag, of course.
The regular decision [...]

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