Rep. David Price, D-N.C., came to Duke last Tuesday to talk about healthcare reform with students and answer their questions. Watch the video above, shot and narrated by The Chronicle’s Allie Prater, to see Price speak and hear an interview with one of the event’s planners.
As the year begins, before work piles up, Duke students have a lot of free time on their hands. Different Dukies do different things to fill the hours, most of which don’t make it on to a police blotter.
But sometimes, Duke students get drunk. And when they do, they don’t always make the best choices.
In the latest instance of drunk Duke student shenanigans, Duke Police found an intoxicated student sans clothing (yes, naked) in McClendon Commons around 9 a.m. Friday. According to the police report summary, an officer escorted the student back to his room.
Ten days earlier, Duke Police discovered a naked intoxicated student passed out near the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences, which students know as CIEMAS, at 2:12 a.m. No word on what the student was doing over there so early on a Tuesday morning. The student was taken to the hospital.
Sometimes, however, drunk naked Dukies are a bit more active. Have a look at this police report from April:
“I witnessed two subjects running from the Kilgo Quad area towards the Bus Stop. The male subject was completely naked with the exception of his hat and holding his boxers in his hand. The female subject was wearing only underclothes. The two stated that they had been at an unknown room in Kilgo Quad playing beer pong and had lost the game and as a result had been asked to run to the bus stop naked.”
When the officer encountered the students, he “asked the male subject to please put on his boxers,” the report states. After getting the students’ information, the officer let them go and get dressed.
The two did not get off scot-free. The students were not arrested, but a Dean was advised of the incident, the report notes.
At last night’s Raleigh screening of the Tucker Max film, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Chronicle multimedia editor Chase Olivieri captured a brief interview with writer/screenwriter/Duke Law “alumnus,” getting him to weigh in on GQ’s list of America’s 25 Douchiest Colleges. Max notes that Duke at the number two spot is appropriate, but says that Notre Dame (whose library is curiously without a copy of his book) deserves the top spot.
In an act illustrating exactly why Duke ranked so high on GQ’s list of America’s Douchiest Colleges, what we can only imagine to be a group of Duke students has issued an online petition against the Conde Nast publication’s for its “biased selection process.” It says:
We, the undersigned members of the Duke University community, demand the following:
- More transparency in GQ’s douchiest school selection process.
- More rigor in the aforementioned process, reflecting the rigor in Duke University’s renowned douche-nurturing environment.
- An explanation of why Duke could win numerous honorable mentions in diverse categories of douchiness, reflecting the world-class breadth and depth of Duke’s douchetastic excellence, yet still only earn second place.
- A ranking correction. Duke University must be selected for first place to reflect the reality of Duke all-surpassing performance in fine douche education.
- Free dry cleaning for my Polo shirts, brah. Don’t you know who my dad is?
Douchiest (if funny) indeed.
Sen. Ted Kaufman, Engineering ’60 and a senior lecturing fellow in the School of Law, wrote a letter urging Security and Exchange Commission chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro to undertake an in-depth review of the mechanisms in place to oversee a wide range of issues under the agency’s jurisdiction, according to The New York Times DealBook blog.
“What I am doing right now is standing in the middle of the road waving a red lantern saying, ‘There’s a problem,’” Kaufman said in an interview with DealBook Monday. “Before we careen into another problem, we have to take a hard look at these things — and looking at them in piecemeal is not going to do it.”
The Delaware Democrat has been highly critical of the S.E.C. since taking his Senate seat in January, Replacing then-Sen. Joe Biden, who resigned his seat to become vice president of the United States. Many have blamed lax financial oversight by the S.E.C. as a principle cause of the financial collapse in September 2008.
Read Sen. Kaufman’s letter to S.E.C. Chairwoman Mary Schapiro here.