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Kennedy Fin. Aid Initiative hits S3OOM mark keynotes Law week by
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the keynote address for the dedication of the School ofLaw’s new Star Commons and newly renovated Goodson Law Library Saturday, concluding a week of programming celebrating the structures that officials said will enhance the school’s national repute. Speaking in the Star Commons, a building with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, Kennedy said the open design of the Commons would allow “light to inform our work,” and the theme for the dedication ceremony was
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President Richard Brodhead announces on the Plaza Friday that Duke's Financial Aid Initative—started in Fall 2005—recently surpassed its goal of $3OO million.
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More than 500 faculty, staff, alumni and current law students filled the 4,000 sq.ft. Star Commons to hear Kennedy, who was joined onstage by President Richard Brodhead, David Levi, dean of the School of Law, Richard Danner, associate dean for library and computer services, Professor of Law Thomas Metzloff, who oversaw construction and Allyson Duncan, 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge and Law ’75. “The renovation of our building represents a commitment on the part of our alumni to the future of Duke law school,” Levi said in a statement. “We now have facilities that match the strength of our faculty and students. As spectacular as this building SEE KENNEDY ON PAGE 7
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Good things happen on the West Campus Plaza, which is perhaps why the site.was chosen for Trustees, administrators and students, alike to mingle and celebrate the Financial Aid Initiative reaching its goal. Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative, which began Fall 2005, surpassed its goal ofraising $3OO million in permanent endowments for financial aid, President Richard Brodhead announced to about 500 students Friday evening at an event hosted by the Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Council. He made an official announcement to the public Saturday. “Basically, |3OO million is forever,” Board of Trustees Chair Robert Steel, Trinity ’73, said in an interview. “I get goose bumps just thinking about it.”
With the Initiative’s goal reached, total aid monies have increased to more than |1 billion, or about a quarter of the University’s full endowment. Despite having accomplished their $3OO million goal, members of the FinancialAid Initiative Development Committee said the campaign—officially ending Dec. 31—is hardly complete. “We will try to raise $ll million more,” said Trustee Emerita Sally Robinson, Woman’s College ’55 and committee cochair. “By far the most we were raising was for undergraduates.” As of Friday, gifts and pledges to the initiative totaled $221.4 million for needbased undergraduate scholarships, which is approximately $ll million less than the $230 million goal for undergraduates. The Chronicle reported Oct. 28 that the Initiative was $l2 million short of that al-
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to the campaign. $19.2 million was raised for athletic scholarships and $60.5 million for graduate and professional student scholarships, according to a University release. These donations push the Initiative total to $301.1 million. Jack Bovender, Trinity ’67, and a member of the Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors, donated $1 million to the initiative just days earlier, bringing it over the $3OO million mark. “I didn’t know that was going to do it,” he said. But when it did, students, alumni and Trustees showed their excitement, cheering for Brodhead in gym clothes and business suits sporting buttons reading “We did it!” and nibbling on more than 400 cookies
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Curator knighted by Spanish gov’t ACES glitch by
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Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks senior curator ofThe Nasher MuseumofArt, was knighted by the Spanish government for the exhibit/'EI Greco toVelazquez."
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lets students over-register
Although Duke*s Gothic architecture has long reminded students-of castles, its aura was cemented Friday with the University’s first knighthood. The Spanish government besfowed knighthood upon Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks senior curator of The Nasher Museum of Art, for her work on the exhibit “El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III.” A vibrant assembly of art supporters packed into the Nasher’s lobby Friday to celebrate the success of the exhibit, which began Aug. 21 and ended Sunday, and to witness the recognition of its curator. Although Jorge Dezcallar, Spanish ambassador to the United States, was originally scheduled to bestow knighthood upon Schroth, he was unable to make the ceremony7 due to illness, said Wendy7 Hower Livingston, the , . . XT JNasher s manager or marketing and communications.
As ACES registration windows come to a close this week, administrators are asking that students drop courses for which they had been able to prematurely waidist. In e-mails sent to 378 students Friday, University Registrar Bruce Cunningham reminded undergraduates that Trinity School ofArts and Sciences policy allows a maximum enrollment of 4.5 credits before the drop/add period. In order to give “equal opportunity” for students to take classes, Cunningham requested that
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