Duke University Archives

Left: from the Charter of Trinity College, 1859 State of North Carolina, Laws of 1858-1859, Ch. 85, Pg. 81. Duke Alcohol Policy A guide to resources in the University Archives

Student papers
Posillico, Matthew.  Dueling Discourses at Duke: Why Students and Educators Become Warring Factions at the Campus Alcohol Impasse.
Duke University. Dept. of Cultural Anthropology. Records, #96-65: Archives 378.1981 P855 D852

This 1996 paper by an anthropology graduate student concerns the "symbolic role of alcohol in the lives of college students" at Duke, and the differing views of students and faculty on alcohol use. It includes students' reactions to changes in Duke's alcohol policy and the attempts to alter the residential and intellectual climate. The study is based on interviews, surveys, and journals kept by students in the author's University Writing Course.

Wilson, Robin.  The History of Alcohol at Duke University Since 1960.
Duke University. Dept. of History. Records, Course Papers: History 101N, 1990

Weinstein, Andrew.  Bourbon and Bookworms: Ten Years of Turbulence within the Duke Alcohol Policy
Duke University. Dept. of History. Records: Course Papers: History 195/196, 1991

University records
Alcohol policy, 1995
Duke University. Vice President for Student Affairs. Records, 1946-[ongoing]
Reference Collection, filed under Letters to Parents, 09-22-1995.

Willimon, William.  "We work hard, we play hard." A Report to the President, and the Provost and the Vice President for Student Life of Duke University." (1993)
University Archives, 378.198.W732.W361.

"Drinking regulations, 1958-1961" (folder)
Duke University. Division of Student Life. Vice President Herbert J. Herring Records, 1924-1964, Box 2.

"Survey of selected colleges and universities on use of alcohol in girls' dorms and girls' visitation in boys' dorms, 1967" (folder)
Duke University. Office of the Provost. Records, 1939-[ongoing]
Subject files. Subseries Cole/Hobbs, 1960-1970. Box 11.

"Drinking, 1964-1968" (folder) Duke University. President Douglas M. Knight Records, 1963-1969
Subject Files. Box 10.

"An Evaluation of the Effect of Modified Regulations Permitting On-campus Drinking." (Report, 1964)
Duke University. Office of the Provost. Records, Series I.1.1, Student-Faculty-Administration Committee.

"Drinking regulations report, 1961"
In Assistant Provost and Dean of Student Affairs. Records, #74-78, Box 4, Men's Student Government Association folder.

"Drinking regulations, 1958-1961." (folder)
Duke University. Division of Student Life. Vice President Herbert J. Herring Records, 1924-1964, #72-43. Box 2.

"Drinking regulations, 1942-1964" (folders) Duke Univeristy. Woman's College. Office of the Dean, Records.
#MGW38-70; OD 45-72

Other materials
In addition to administrators' files, the records of various student organizations contain scattered materials documenting the history and development of alcohol policies.

Student organization records in the Archives include

• Men's Student Government Association Records, 1931-1967
  
• Women's Student Government Association Records, 1919-1972
  
• Associated Students of Duke University Records, 1967-1993
  

Honoraries and other groups:

• Interfraternity Council Records, 1947-
  
• Pan-Hellenic Council Records, 1945-
  
• Order of Red Friars Records, 1916-1969 - a local men's honorary
  
• Omicron Delta Kappa Records, 1926-1971 - a national honorary
  
• White Duchy, Records 1925-1968 - a local women's honorary
  

Publications available in the Archives include the University Bulletins, student handbooks and magazines from various periods, The Chronicle, and others. An index to selected articles about alcohol in campus publications is available as well.