The Chronicle

Barbara Kingsolver

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Barbara Kingsolver, author and recipient of the National Humanities Medal, will deliver the 2008 commencement address Sunday.

Kyle Knight and Matt Zafirovski

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

When seniors Kyle Knight and Matt Zafirovski step up to the podium Sunday, they know that speaking together at graduation will be one of the most unique ways to culminate four years of friendship at Duke.

Freshman Year

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Days after President Richard Brodhead took the reins of the University, men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski was offered a position as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers

Sophomore Year

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

From the Rolling Stones' concert to the lacrosse scandal, the Duke community was rocked in more ways than one.

Junior Year

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

During the past several years, Duke students have witnessed their campus culture questioned and criticized, but rarely have Duke student interactions and relations defined a year as it did in the Class of 2008's junior year.

Senior Year

Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The Class of 2008's stint at the University was capped by a busy year that began with justice for the much-maligned Mike Nifong, ended with a disappointing finish for the basketball season and saw the tragic death of one of Duke's own along the way.

A Season of Change

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Somewhere in the two-minute walk from the season's last press conference to the locker room in the lonesome bowels of the Ford Center in Oklahoma City, Abby Waner finally felt the weight of another lost season. Three NCAA Tournaments come and gone, producing nothing more than a prolonged anguish, like failing to remember the most desirable and vivid dream, flickering between fantasy and reality for three long years-for an entire lifetime, really.

Charbroiled and Cheesy

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

If you're in search of a cheeseburger on campus, there are a number of options to choose from.

Colin Tierney

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

>>> With the official release of its first compilation album, Small Town Records has hit it big at Duke. But to the man behind the music, Duke's first student-run label has been building toward success for more than two years. Colin Tierney, the co-founder of Small Town Records, officially introduced the label's album at its CD release party at Alivia's Durham Bistro March 27.

Steamy in the 'Stock? So passe.

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Yawned your way through scaling Baldwin, driving around the circle backward and "tunneling?" Try discerning TV editor Molly McGarrett's list of souped-up stunts

The RUMOR MiLL!

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Sources tell RM that former Today host and current lightweight evening news anchor Katie Couric was spotted sipping coffee and making sweet love to her Blackberry inside the great glass box.

This is How We Do It

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Some students came to Duke with years of experience. Others arrived bright-eyed and eager.

Furnishing your place-for Free

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

On the first saturday of every month, a different sort of free market economics is practiced at Carrboro's "Really Really Free Market."

CRAVING A CULTURE

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Joan Didion is sitting across from me. One of the greatest living American writers is sitting across from me, and I have her full attention.

VISITING SAUDI ARABIA

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

While waiting for Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 20 to depart from JFK, I was handed a black abaya and matching veil. I felt a mixture of emotions as amorphous as the formless garment, pulling the abaya over my head in the neutral territory of the airplane bathroom somewhere over Egypt.

BEACH BUMMER

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Precious few traditions span generations of Duke students and remain elements of our collective college identity.

Fraternities and kegs used to litter Main West Quad. Students congregated on campus for their evening and weekend drinking at The Hideaway. Iconic artists like The Grateful Dead and Simon and Garfunkel drew droves of fans for Joe College Day.

Farewell

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

When we swooped in at the beginning of this year, this humble magazine was a relic-a testament to old media, its stapled sheaf of 32 dead-tree shavings filled with things like "photographs" and "interesting stories." Today, what you see is very different. Thirty-six pages in all, this issue-and-a-half is bursting with awesome photographs, interesting stories, clever illustrations and funny columns all presented by a lovable and close-knit staff of untrained college journalists, artists and other future consultants.

Growing Pains

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Every time someone asks me what its like to be a grad student at the same place where I went to undergrad, I give the same answer: "It's really, really depressing." I'm kidding, but only kind of. It's not that I'm unhappy that I stayed at Duke. It's just that it's hard to realize how much not being an undergrad sucks until you're not an undergrad.