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(05/16/07 4:00am)
Duke put its money where its service-learning mouth is with the debut of DukeEngage, which will provide funding for every undergraduate's summer service projects. That initiative only became possible with the largess of Duke alum Melinda French Gates' (and her somewhat illustrious husband's) Gates Foundation. Over the past academic year, the Foundation has donated $71.5 million to the University-add that to the $30 committed in 2002 toward the construction of the French Science Center. Pretty good for a former Duke sorority girl (French is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta).
(05/16/07 4:00am)
It's Thursday night at the Searle Center, a conference space just off Research Drive, and the guests of honor are anxious. Around 100 of them, all high school students, all dressed in suits or skirts or dresses and heels, sit around tables with champagne-colored tablecloths and hope they don't reach for the wrong fork. They're visiting Duke-many for the first time-and at least three people have probably advised each of them to treat this entire weekend as an admissions interview. So they laugh at stiff jokes, hold eye contact, extend strong handshakes. Then Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag rises to the microphone. "You can all be confident," he says, "that you will get the thick envelope." And the p-froshes cheer.
(05/16/07 4:00am)
"Work hard, play well": The little idea that could grew from a discussion at a beach retreat into the year's most extravagant party-in the libraries. Through DukePlays, Weeks and Hoffman urged students to socialize in a manner they could be proud of the next morning. Positive responses to free t-shirts and PB&J on the Quad grew into Board of Trustee approval of the most succesful social-life renovation movement that nobody really understands.
(05/16/07 4:00am)
He built it and they came-tablers, lunch daters, guitar players, frisbee throwers and mister enthusiasts populated Moneta's pet Plaza throughout the year, disproving naysayers and people who wondered whether anyone would actually hang out on the real estate formerly known as the BC Walkway. And don't forget, his office supported some of the biggest social events of the year.
(05/16/07 4:00am)
Duke's most infamous sons were the targets of scorn-and worse-through more than a year as suspected criminals. In his statement dismissing all charges, N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper called the case a "tragic result of a rush to accuse" and pointedly referred to the defendants as "innocent."
(05/16/07 4:00am)
A typical day of class for the 350 students in Tyson's (brown jacket) "The South in Black and White" opens with a gospel song. From there, discussion proceeds to literature, history, music and civil rights. Acclaimed author Tyson's interdisciplinary course unifies students from Duke, UNC, N.C. Central University and the Durham community for a weekly session of literature, poetry and discussions about race that might be just what the racial harmony doctor ordered.
(04/24/07 4:00am)
Some places are only truly themselves in moments of exception. London is alive on December evenings, when the glow of open pub doors somehow warms the raw slush and draws in thawing drinkers. On late fall nights, when subway exhaust mingles with burnt pretzel smell, the color of the sky matches that of the skyscrapers, and New York is silver. In Tel Aviv, it's the peach-toned hour spent at cafes between the close of business and dinner on quiet August evenings. Florence is best after a rainfall, when people burst out of markets and stores to smell the clean streets.
(03/08/07 5:00am)
The Chapel may grace official University promotional materials, but for a few months last spring, one building associated with Duke dominated the national imagination on a scale typically reserved for celebrity murder trials.
(03/08/07 5:00am)
Between filling the matrix and fulfilling major requirements, it can be easy to lose sight of all those other classes-ones that require 18 holes instead of 18 pages, or massaging shoulders instead of graduate students' egos. But these classes will definitely make you sweat.
(02/09/07 5:00am)
Since 1928, joining Hope Valley Country Club was a natural step on the social ladder for Durham's most prominent citizens. Businessmen made deals on the links, local politicians' wives chatted over tennis, and everyone enjoyed life at the top-everyone who was white, that is. The club, like most similar institutions throughout the South, remained segregated into the 1960s.
(02/09/07 5:00am)
Age: 20 | Hometown: Houston
(12/06/06 5:00am)
The Vande Berg family doesn't go out for ice cream. When Andrew, Caroline and Gracie dress up for Halloween, it's not to trick-or-treat in the regular sense-they wouldn't be able to bring the candy back to the house. The children know to decline the birthday cake and Rice Krispie treats in their classroom celebrations. And Chinese food? Forget about it.
(10/27/06 4:00am)
Two afternoons each week, Richard White Lecture Hall buzzes with the sounds of a late-night jazz club. * Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald's musical stylings echo through the auditorium. Saxophones and trombones wail, drums roll, and pianos jam. Rhythm reigns. * No, this isn't Durham's freshest jazz joint. Nor is it a reincarnation of Jazz at the Mary Lou, with a marked absence of the laughter and alcohol-lubricated social exchanges that characterize that weekly soiree. * What goes on in White Lecture Hall is strictly academic. * Welcome to Music 74, "Introduction to Jazz," one of the most famous-and infamous-classes at Duke.
(09/27/06 4:00am)
It's a long journey from the Chapel Quad to the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
(07/19/06 4:00am)
Besides the requisite Target run, the one trip every student takes is to the bookstore. Just think of the joy: glossy, uncreased books you think you'll actually read. So grab your syllabi and pile into your roommate's friend's car--it's time to go book shopping!
(07/19/06 4:00am)
Welcome to the Parking Lot Circus, folks, step right up.
(05/01/06 4:00am)
CREEDMOOR, N.C. - The exotic dancer who said she was raped by three members of the Duke men's lacrosse team made similar accusations in 1996, officials confirmed Friday.
(04/26/06 4:00am)
CREEDMOOR, N.C.-The exotic dancer who brought allegations of gang rape against three members of the Duke men's lacrosse team made similar accusations ten years ago, officials confirmed Friday.
(04/26/06 4:00am)
SUMMER READING
(04/17/06 4:00am)
Durham Police Department officers gained access to an Edens Quadrangle residence hall without executing a search warrant late Thursday night and attempted to interview lacrosse players, defense attorney Robert Ekstrand said Sunday.
