Volume 90, No.1, January-February 2004
ARCHIVE EDITION

Duke Daily Duke Duke Alumni Association Address Change Magazine Staff Advertising Feedback FAQ Site Map Back Issues Subscribe Site Search On this month's cover: EXPERTS? WE'VE GOT EXPERTS! Painting the media BLUE	As curriculum director aboard a forty-three-foot sailboat, Ashley Wells is a continuing virtual presence in classrooms around the country Though they haven't achieved star status, Duke faculty members are a rapidly growing presence on everything from CNN to The Sydney Morning Herald When is a house not a house? When it's a bridge--from gown to town, as students, alumni, administrators, and other volunteers build a home on East Campus The tumultuous tenure of Douglas Knight, Duke's fifth president, was characterized by entrenched, behind-the-scenes power struggles and an emerging era of student civil disobedience Gallery Retrospective Syllabus Mini-Profiles Snapshot While the cover story documents Duke and the media, it's clear that the university's high profile in the press reflects (and furthers) its impressive trajectory--a trajectory that signals the ambitions and astuteness of Duke's leadership. Executives and lessons on leadership, British colonialism and a Nobel Prize The fortunes of football, the ways of Latin America, the sanctity of rules Questioning what's considered "normal" for women at Duke Charles McKinney: "As a historian, you analyze the past and take lessons from it" An array of honors for Keohane, a new president for Duke, an expansion for engineering; Campus Observer: novices at networking Coach on the run Big, Bold, “Buck” A seminal voyage for American science; plus Book Notes A distinguished alumnus, a teacher on the move, a Broadway preview; Career Corner: switching jobs Rapturous rapping in Cameron Web site and contents © 2004 Duke University Duke Magazine, 614 Chapel Drive, Box 90572, Durham, North Carolina, 27708-0572 Fax (919) 681-1659 Include links to Duke Magazine features on your site. Duke Magazine now offers an RSS file, updated with each new online issue. Learn more about how to link to our features.	New President: An ‘Eloquent Spokesman’ for Higher Education "I kept Coach Franks around for this year because, last year, we lost five games by a total of seventeen points. We were showing that improvement that I alluded to earlier. That's why I gave him a chance to coach this team this year. I'm disappointed for Carl. I feel bad that it didn't work out, but it just didn't work out." --Athletics director Joe Alleva at a press conference announcing the departure of head football coach Carl Franks '83 "We defeated the Flintstones, inherited Bedrock, and then allowed it to be looted." --Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, summing up the situation with Iraq during his Sanford Institute Lester Crown Lecture in Ethics "I breathe." --Duke aging study subject Duke Stevenson, age 106, on how he's lived so long, in the Brainerd Daily Dispatch "Being 'cute' trumps being smart for women in the social environment." --from the report of the Women's Initiative Steering Committee