DUKE Wins National NCAA Basketball Tournament!!!!!

I have waited four years for this moment. Four years after withstanding people's jeers of Duke's "demise" and lots of hoping and cheering later, we won both UNC games, shared the ACC regular season title, won the ACC Tourney, AND clinched the NCAA title last night. I'm so proud of our boys!



YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Easter Egg Hunt for TIII

Can you find it? http://www.duke.edu/web/evp/index.html

(Hint: try mousing over the entire web page)

This is why I love Duke.

Thanks, Will!

"We Did It!"

According to this Economist article, women are set to make up over 50% of the U.S. workforce in the next few months.

Highlights from the article:

• "Motherhood, not sexism, is the issue: in America, childless women earn almost as much as men, but mothers earn significantly less."

• "In America three out of four people thrown out of work since the “mancession” began have been male."

• "And, without going to Scandinavian lengths, America could invest more in its children: it spends a lower share of its GDP on public child-care than almost any other rich country, and is the only rich country that refuses to provide mothers with paid maternity leave. Barack Obama needs to measure up to his campaign rhetoric about “real family values”."

To read the entire article, click here.

If you're interested in reading more on the "Mommy Wars" and the "opting out" phenomenon, try Pamela Stone's book Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home. (If you need extra convincing, Stone was a Duke grad!)

Duke Schedulator

The new Duke ACES program's absurd multiple-click scheme has prompted a few Duke students to come up with their own version of how ACES should be run. Duke Schedulator allows you to test out several different schedules graphically (and easily!), and also gives you price comparisons across multiple popular textbook sites for all textbooks listed for your courses. If only I had known about it before my last registration period was over...