While some students were attending the men's soccer game or the WISER benefit concert last night, many of Duke's more politically active students attended a debate between the two major candidates in Durham's 2007 mayoral race.
Thankfully for Duke students, past and present, the infamous 37th president of the United States and 1937 graduate of the School of Law is not the only alumnus to have shaken things up on Capitol Hill.
Most Duke students don't pursue careers dependent upon their looks, but Daniel Schuman, Trinity '97, is one graduate who has combined his brains and brawn in his post-graduate pursuits.
It was a matter of life and death in the Wake County Superior Courthouse earlier this year as state officials and the North Carolina Medical Board clashed over the role of physicians in administering executions.
Duke University Union representatives solidified plans for upcoming events and considered proposals for the future at an administrative meeting Tuesday night.