Duke Trustee Richard Wagoner resigned today as chairman and chief executive of General Motors at the request of the Obama administration, several news outlets reported.
Wagoner served at the helm of the America’s largest automaker since 2000. His departure comes the day before President Obama is set to unveil his plan to rescue the struggling industry and appears to be “part of a broad agreement with the Obama administration to funnel more government aid to the ailing auto giant,” the New York Times reported.
Two years ago, Wagoner delivered the commencement speech before 2007 graduates, in which he reflected on his experience at Duke (Trinity ‘75) and at G.M.
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The full story will be available in tomorrow’s Chronicle.
So maybe No Doubt isn’t going to be the biggest thing to come to the Triangle in 2009. The N&O’s On the Beat blog is reporting that Irish rockers U2 might be making a stop at Duke’s Wallace Wade football stadium this fall in support of their forthcoming release No Line on the Horizon (March 3). According to MyNC, the performance to the Triangle would be Bono and co.’s first in over 25 years. The last time a band played Wallace Wade was the Rolling Stones in 2005. David Menconi’ post at the N&O makes it sound like the band is definitely trying to work out a deal, but it remains to be seen whether the University’s athletic department will agree to it.
Word from Duke’s athletic department is that the date the band wanted wouldn’t fit between football home dates.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud of the turn around Duke football has made, but U2 is a way bigger draw than any ACC football team. Cancel a game if need be.
Duke’s Campus Concert Series has been garnering some press of late, so we should have posted this calendar a while ago. It’s a mix of campus and local bands but it’s a good way to check out the local sound. All concerts begin at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays at the Armadillo Grill at Duke’s Bryan Center, unless otherwise noted.
Feb. 6 — Rat Jackson, Vodak, the Dirty Little Heathers
Feb. 13 — Fujiyama Roll, Pistil, Virgo 9
Feb. 20 — The Huguenots, the Accident That led me to the world
Feb. 27 — All Your Science, Fictional Detectives, Electric Funeral, David Eisenband
March 21 — Duke/UNC Battle of the Bands (At the Duke Coffeehouse)
March 27 — CCS and Small Town Records Release Party: Panda Force, Luego, Tauri Wind, Wigg Report (At Alivia’s on W. Main Street)
April 2 — Paleface, the Never, Lost in the Trees (at Von Der Heyn Pavilion in Perkins Library)
April 3 – Springternational: Panda Force, Sea Cow, the Fustics (on Bryan Center Plaza)
April 10 — Grappling Hook, Jason Adamo, Magic Babies
April 17 — Beloved Binge, the ExMonkies, Pink Flag, the Tender Fruit
As reported earlier by The Chronicle’s Zachary Tracer, this Thursday saw the largest single-day turnout of early voters at Duke’s West Union voting location to date. But, yesterday–Halloween Friday–topped Thursday’s 924 by over 200, when 1138 voters passed through the Old Trinity Room’s doors. See Zachary Tracer’s afternoon post for a spiffy graph of Duke and Durham’s turnout.
Today, Saturday, November 1, the voting location processed 907 voters, a number that we expected to be higher. Why? Well, today was people’s last chance to early vote, so we expected to see a high turnout from both lazy voters and those who couldn’t vote during the regular work week. Also, Durham County election officials decided to extend voting hours today by four hours, from 1PM to 5PM.
For a complete summary of Durham County’s seven early voting locations’ numbers, click here (PDF). As you can see, almost 100,000 voters voted early in Durham alone. If 2004’s presidential election results are any indication, around 70,000 of those votes will be for Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama. We tried to find Wake, Orange, and Currituck Counties’ early voting numbers online, but could not. Do any readers know if and where that information is available?
