Word: duking
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Bates had previously served as Dean of Freshmen and Associate Dean of Students at Pomona College and Vice President for Administration and Planning at the Claremont Colleges in California. She was also Vice Provost for Academic Programs and Facilities at Duke University...
Marsalis began the evening with a characteristically unequivocal statement of his mission: "We came here to swing." With his irrepressibly jocular style, he described the LCJO's commitment to the music of Duke Ellington while carefully distinguishing the group from a repertory band. Though the evening was devoted to Ellington's music, Marsalis declined to term it a tribute. Rather, he explained, they just believe in playing his music. He ended his preface to the first set with some comments on the past few weeks on the road, offering a somewhat elusive remark about how this had been the "antebellum...
...trombonists today. Though he only rarely picked up his horn, Marsalis also distinguished himself, particularly in his trumpet duel with Marcus Belgrave and his balled performance. Those performance stood out from the concert together with the adventurous selection of seldom-heard Ellingtonia which constituted a fitting tribute to the Duke in itself...
...addition to comparing Scott Singer to Jefferson Davis, the Society has linked Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 to Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke and Visiting Lecturer George F. Will to SS Reichsfuchrer Heinrich Himmler...
Midnight Madness has traditionally been reserved for NCAA basketball powers like Duke and Kentucky, but Tomassoni and a host of other hockey coaches have brought the practice to the ECAC in recent years...