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After weeks of open houses, section parties and interviews, Duke’s 10 selective living groups accepted approximately 170 hopeful rushees this month, selective living group officials said. Though selective houses had to make changes to housing arrangements due to scheduled renovations in Few Quadrangle—currendy home to five fraternities and selective living groups—officials said most-houses accepted similar numbers of new students as previous years. Accepted bid numbers generally varied relative to house size, from nine new members apiece in SHARE and Arts Theme House to 30 in Mirecourt. With 27 new members this
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expect this,” he said. “We expected smaller because they’re doing Few renovations so we had some of our rooms converted to triples, and more than we initially expected [were converted].” Former Mirecourt president John Perkins, a senior, said the selective house accepted more students than expected given similar housing changes such as conversions from doubles to triples and study rooms to bedrooms. Members of SHARE, a selective living group focused on academic SEE SLGS ON PAGE 4
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Alison Levine, Fuqua 'OO, holds a Duke flag at the South Pole after skiing 574 miles in minus-50-degree weather to reach the Earth's most southerlypoint
An apple a day may ordinarily keep the doctor away, but a stick of butter is the essential sustenance on a ski trip to the South Pole. Alison Levine, Fuqua ’OO, knows this trick well. As the most requested female business speaker in the country, she relishes her vacation time, opting to ski 574 miles in minus-50-degree Fahrenheit temperatures. Over the course of 38 days this winter, Levine and a group of four other polar explorers skied from the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antartica to the South Pole, a treacherous route pioneered by the renowned Italian mountain climber Reinhold Messner in 1989. Before Levine’s group, only two Norwegian teams had ever completed the route, making Levine the first American to have ever done so. “I have always been curious about whatit was like for those earlypolar explorers, and have also wondered about the modem-day
A first-year medical student draws a blood sample for the first time, while on the other end of the needle, a patient receives the only medical care accessible to him—for free. Run by students of the Duke School of Medicine’s chapter of the North Carolina Student Rural Health Coalition, the Fremont People’s Clinic was re-opened six months ago after a two-year hiatus, said third-year medical student and group Co-chair Donald Lucas. It was forced to close when the attending physician, a Duke faculty member, could
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