New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof will speak at Duke next Fall, Colleen Scott, associate director of the Baldwin Scholars program confirmed Thursday.
Kristof will give a public lecture at the University as part of a tour to promote his new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
“He’s the big voice in the world and he’s using his voice to highlight the issues the people in WISER are passionate about,” said Sheryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology and co-founder and NGO chair of the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research. “We hope it’ll kick off discussion on campus about the role gender plays in international development.”
She added that Kristof’s speech will help WISER move forward, beyond fundraising and toward more education about the pivotal role women play in global economic development. The event will be hosted by the Baldwin Scholars program, WISER and other campus organizations.
Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer prize winner and has been a New York Times columnist since November 2001. He is largely known for bringing to light human rights issues in third-world countries such as the genocide in Darfur.
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The University announced today that former president Bill Clinton will be a guest speaker at “A Celebration of the Lives of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin,” next Thursday, June 11 at the Duke Chapel. The event will begin at 11 a.m. and honors the late historian John Hope Franklin and his late wife Aurelia, who passed away in 1999.
Other speakers include Vernon Jordan, an attorney and civil rights leader and Franklin’s long-time friend, Duke President Richard Brodhead, Franklin’s niece Cynthia Gibbs Wilson and trustee emerita Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans.
“Because of the life John Hope Franklin lived, the public service he rendered, and the scholarship that was the mark of his distinguished career, we all have a richer understanding of who we are as Americans and our journey as a people,” President Barack Obama said in a statement in March. “Dr. Franklin will be deeply missed, but his legacy is one that will surely endure. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to his loved ones, as our nation mourns his loss.”
Franklin was a noted figure in the field of African-American studies and the Civil Rights movement. He and his wife were married on June 11, 1940 - next week’s event would mark the couple’s 69th anniversary.
The James B. Duke professor of history passed away March 25 of congestive heart failure at the age of 94. As per Franklin’s request, neither a funeral nor a memorial service has been held since his death.
For more information on the event, please visit http://www.duke.edu/johnhopefranklin/event.html.
The program will also be aired live on UNC-NC and a live webcast can be viewed at www.ustream.tv/dukeuniversity.
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Junior Awa Nur has won the DSG presidency, DSG Attorney General Meg Foran told The Chronicle.
The first-round vote percentages are below. DSG uses an instant runoff system to determine the winner in the event that a candidate does not receive a simple majority of the votes in the first round.
- Awa Nur: 35.11 percent
- Chelsea Goldstein: 27.7 percent
- Mike Lefevre: 20.59 percent
- Kousha Navidar: 16.59 percent
The other winners:
- Executive Vice President: Gregory Morrison
- VP for Academic Affairs: Cynthia Chen
- VP for Athletics and Campus Services: Peter Schork
- VP for Durham and Regional Affairs: Will Passo
- VP of Student Affairs: Spencer Eldred
- VP of Inter-Community Council: Andrew Brown
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A man was killed in a violent robbery in East Durham Sunday night, according to a Durham Police Department statement.
Jose Alfredo Gonzales Medrano, 29, was shot and fatally wounded during a home invasion around 9:30 p.m. at an apartment complex located at 219 South Alston Avenue, according to the statement. He died of his wounds late Sunday night.
Two other violent robberies that appear to be linked also occurred Sunday night, the statement said:
The first robbery occurred shortly before 8 p.m. in the 700 block of North Guthrie Avenue. One victim was shot and a second victim was pistol whipped.
Approximately 15 minutes later a male was beaten and robbed in the 1200 block of North Driver Street.
The robberies all occurred between 2 and 2.5 miles from Duke’s East Campus.
The statement describes the suspects as “four Hispanic males in a large burgundy or dark-colored sedan similar to a Mercury Grand Marquis.”
The statement asks people with information about the crimes to call Investigator Pate at (919)-560-4440, ext. 248 or CrimeStoppers at (919)-683-1200.
A fifteen-year-old male has been arrested and charged with common-law robbery for robbing two Duke graduate students on Morreene Road Monday, Kammie Michael, Durham Police Department Information Officer, wrote in an e-mail to The Chronicle.
The teen is being held at a juvenile center in Wake County, Michael said. The suspect’s name and background could not be disclosed because he is a minor.
The teen committed the first of two robberies Monday night with an accomplice who remains at large, Michael said. This suspect has been described as a black teen standing at about five feet nine inches tall and wearing a blue hat and a blue baseball jacket.
Tips provided to investigators led to the teen’s arrest, Michael said. Anyone with information about the second suspect has been asked to call DPD Investigator D.C. Smith at 560-1020 or the CrimeStoppers hotline at 683-1200.
Be sure to read The Chronicle online or in print Monday for more details on these crimes.
Haters may be questioning Duke’s chances of taking the title in the NCAA tournament, but the Blue Devils have already emerged victorious in at least one way.
Duke can boast the highest-paid graduates among the 65 schools in the competition, according to USA Today. The median annual salary of Duke alumni who graduated five to 15 years ago rounds in at $102,000, according to PayScale–the world’s largest salary database, edging out Cornell at $91,700.
Check out the whole bracket here.
The losers of this tournament? Sadly, Alabama State grads bank $41,800–and is the last seed in the competition. Ouch. Better luck next year, Alabama.
