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A Host of Internet Snafus Stall Students’ Studies During Midterm Week

March 3, 2009

At the peak of midterm season, problems with a storage array sidelined wireless Internet access and kept students from accessing Duke Web sites Tuesday evening.
Technological assistants are typically on call in Perkins at the OIT Help Desk until midnight. But due to Tuesday’s snow, no employees were present to assist students with the glitches.
OIT officials [...]

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Bomb threat at UNC

February 15, 2009

Update: As of 5 a.m., UNC police decided that the bomb threat called in around 9 p.m. Sunday was not valid and issued an all-clear, according to the AlertCarolina Web site.
Updated 11:26 p.m.

A man called in to Orange County police and made a bomb threat against The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [...]

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Student Injured in Minor K-Ville Accident

February 12, 2009

A student sustained minor injuries when he was run over by a car while sleeping in the walk-up line for tonight’s matchup with UNC, ABC Eyewitness News reported Wednesday.
Witnesses told ABC that driver severely bruised the student’s knees while attempting to steer around the crossbar to enter the parking lot. The driver drove away from [...]

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Site bills itself as an alternative to JuicyCampus

February 6, 2009

JuicyCampus shut down today, but another Web site claims it has emerged to fill the void. All traffic directed to JuicyCampus.com is now forwarded to The Anonyous Confession Board, which is hosted at CollegeACB.com. The site was founded by students at Wesleyan University and is currently managed by Peter Frank, a freshman at the school. [...]

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Arrest Made in Connection with Residential Burglaries

February 1, 2009

The Duke University Police Department arrested a man for an attempted burglary in a West Campus residence hall Saturday morning, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an e-mail to students Saturday.
Police suspect that the individual was responsible for the “recent rash of student residence burglaries” and plan to charge him for these [...]

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Duke in Israel study abroad put on hold

January 16, 2009

The study abroad program Duke in Israel has been cancelled for the summer because of a number of factors, according to program directors and the Office of Study Abroad. In an e-mail yesterday to students who had shown interest in the program, the Office of Study Abroad cites security as the sole reason for [...]

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Airplane crashes on way to Charlotte

January 15, 2009

US Airways flight 1549 from New York’s LaGuardia airport crashed into the Hudson River approximately 20 minutes after taking off at 3:26 EST. The Airbus A320 plane, on it’s way to Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, hit a flock of birds and experienced engine trouble soon after take-off. U.S. Coast Guard crews began rescue operations to remove [...]

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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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