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Students will be able to stand in the area directly behind the press row of Cameron Indoor Stadium during men’s basketball games, officials confirmed Thursday. A limited change in regulations and a new wristband system will also be implemented to accommodate the policy. Policies emerged earlier this month that banned undergraduates from standing in the first row behind the press during last week’s two exhibition games, due to enforced Duke Fire Safety regulations. Following the games, Duke Student Government, the Department of Athletics and University officials entered discussions to negotiate another policy change before the start of the regular season. “We were able to prove it was safe with [students] in there,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. DSG President Elliott Wolf, a junior, said the missing front row was especially pronounced and the gap would be clearly visible on national television broadcasts. “You see the Cameron Crazies restraining themselves and that’s just not acceptable,” he said. The University was able to regain the front row for student fans because ofadditional provisions made to increase the
An NCAA report released Thursday said college athletes nationwide are graduating at higher rates than before, with Duke as the leading institution for student-athlete graduation rate. Duke’s administrators said the report —which was compiled from incoming freshman athletes in the 1999-2000 academic year —only confirmed the University’s position as a leader in academics and athletics. “I am delighted with the news,” President Richard Brodhead wrote in an email. “It strongly underlines Duke’s commitment to athletic excellence within a context of academic values and SEE NCAA ON PAGE 16
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Cameron Crazies, known for their raucous ways, will be out in full force again this year thanks to a revised policy.
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Although many have come to describe Duke culture with the phrase “work hard, play hard,” a movement on campus is now proposing a new saying: “work hard, play well.” The initiative, titled DukePlays by co-founders Rachel Weeks and Haley Hoffman, both seniors, looks to include all students in the social life at Duke. “We are not an official organization,” Weeks said. “We just had this idea that we felt spoke to a middle ground of students.” Weeks and Hoffman started their group to create a forum to discuss campus culture and the social life. “We’re still trying to define ourselves,” Weeks added. Although DukePlays is not trying to suggest that certain SEE DUKEPLAYS ON PAGE 6
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David Kirp, author of “Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education,” discussed the topic of his book Thursday night in Richard White Lecture Hall in a dialogue with Provost Peter Lange. Kirp —who is a professor of public policy at the Uniof California at Berkeley—was the second speaker in the Kenan Institute for Ethics’ ongoing “Changing Institutional Cultures” lecture series. Led by moderator Noah Pickus, interim director of the Kenan Institute, Kirp and Lange discussed contemporary questions and issues that plague institutions
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Author David Kirp (center) and Provost Peter Lange (right) talk about trends in higher education Tuesday in RichardWhite Lecture Hall.