Swiss Hotel Blues

Our stay at the Swissotel is to come to an end next Friday, Oct. 24, as faculty and students will pack up and move to the Conference Center at the DKU campus.  The first session of the undergraduate semester finishes this week and the next session begins Oct. 27.  It's a bittersweet time for all of us as the faculty who came to DKU to teach for just the first seven week session are packing their bags and
are making their plans to leave.  Brian Hare and his family are going on to a sabbatical in Australia.  Vicki Russell, Jeff Moe, and Hippo Tan will return to Duke.  Haiyan Zhou has been given medical clearance to fly back to the US and leaves on Monday.  Our DKU family will move on to a new adventure on campus.

Duke's Liberal Arts in China Committee visited us this week to talk about plans for a four-year undergraduate curriculum for DKU.  We had a reception to honor them on Thursday night.  The reception was held in the bar of the Swissotel so we also took the opportunity to celebrate the end of this academic session.  Jeff Moe, Alan Burn, and Don Snow performed their "Swiss Hotel Blues" and you will see the library is featured in one of the verses.  The video is posted on YouTube.  I hope you enjoy it as much as we did, http://youtu.be/Vj366qQfM1I