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...educational services, Duke's women's center hosts book and film discussions, sessions on car repair and career workshops, among other programs. The center also invites women scholars and politicians to speak and lead discussions on issues facing women...
...Both Duke and Stanford, as well as other Ivy schools, provide space for womens' student groups to meet in their women's center. Other space is simply left open for socializing, studying and hanging...
What Townsend wants is to keep up the "momentum" he has built as an undergraduate by entering the accelerated medical school program at Duke in August. Rather than a traditional four-year program that includes two initial years of academic study before interning, the Duke program condenses the first two years into one, leaving the second year to intern and the third for supervised research...
Townsend acknowledges the program is more "non-traditional" than what he mighthave faced at Washington University in St. Louis,but says the demands, as well as the location, arewhat make Duke attractive. Harvard, he says, gavehim a chance to try many activities while buildinga solid academic record, and the pattern of studyshould not be broken...
Miller will spend the next year working for ahealth care policy research institute, and thenplans on applying to medical school, (Stanford,Harvard and Duke, in that order). Perhaps one dayshe will do battle with advocates of Olympic sextesting, a now common practice that Miller devotedher thesis to critiquing. She is also consideringsports medicine or orthopedic surgery. Maybe shewill vote for George W. Bush after all. For awoman who got used to assuming different roleswhile watching her mother, an English teacher,direct school plays, no play seems impossible...