[AnAmericanMother]

Ping to 18. You got numbers?

[jdm]

Oops -- looks like they removed it from their server. How convenient.

The following members of the Duke faculty have signed the Open Letter to the Duke Community, posted here. <<<<< Open Letter Dead Link Alert!

However, you can get some names [without the open letter] here:

http://www.melloweb.com/concernedDuke/signatures.html

[gcruse]

When the Undergraduate Admissions Office revealed last month that early applications for spaces in the Class of 2011 had fallen 20 percent from the previous year, many in the University community, and many outside its confines, gasped at the seemingly gaudy statistic while fretting over the potential ramifications it would hold for dear old Duke.

President Brodhead on Sixty Minutes ==

RB: Our early decision applications went down in the middle of the fall. But I think yesterday and today we now know the count for our regular applications. We have the second highest number of applicants in the history of this university.

[jdm]

Sorry, I thought you said members, not numbers. If I can find numbers, I'll post another reply to this thread.